South American Archaeology Seminar

The next South American Archaeology Seminar will be held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on 18 May 2024.

Landscape picture of an archaeological excavation taking place on a hillside

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South American Archaeology Seminar

18 May 2024, 09:30 – 17:00

Room 612
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY
United Kingdom

Programme

9.30 am Coffee/ Registration

10.00 Ayelen Delgado Orellana (UCL), The chilihueques of Southern Chile: Archaeological considerations in relation to the camelid domestication in the Araucania, Southern Chile
10.35 David Beresford-Jones (Cambridge), Trajectories Towards Permanent Communities on the Pacific Coast of South America Between 12°S and 20°S: New Perspectives on the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition

11.10-11.40am Coffee

11.40: Sarah Martini (Yale University) & Dennis Nicolas Lorenzo (Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque), A View from the Border: New Excavations at Cerro La Plaza and Las Pampas de Panecillo, Department of Piura, Peru
12.15: Andrés Troncoso (Universidad de Chile) A. Escudero, D. Pascual, F. Moya, F. Armstrong, M. Pino, P. Larach & R. Gutierrez: Historical Landscape and Permanent Places of North-Central Chile Hunter-Gatherers (12,000 cal b.p. –500 cal b.p.)

12.50-2pm Lunch

2.00: Jo Osborn (University of Exeter), The Topará Tradition and the Paracas-Nasca Transition: New Chronological Perspectives from the Peruvian South Coast
2.35: Jan Kłaput & Alexei Vranich (University of Warsaw), Jason Yaeger (University of Texas, San Antonio) Animal use in the Pumapunku Complex, Tiwanaku. Preliminary results of the zooarchaeological analysis

3.10-3.40pm Tea

3.40: Eduardo Herrera Malatesta (Aarhus University) New Horizons: Assessing Previous Hypotheses of Carib and Arawak Migration from the Amazon to the Caribbean
4.15: Jose Oliver (UCL) & Phil Riris (Bournemouth University) Monumental rock in the Middle and Upper Orinoco River

The programme and abstracts are available to download here

Attendees (including speakers) will be asked to pay £10.00 towards the cost of coffee, tea & lunch. To book a place, please email: andrea.carrasco.19@ucl.ac.uk

The next meeting date is likely to be: Saturday 23 November 2024. If you would like to give a talk at a future South American Archaeology Seminar or for further information please contact Bill Sillar (b.sillar@ucl.ac.uk)

Organisers: Bill Sillar, Andrea Martinez Carrasco, & Cristian Gonzalez Rodriguez

Image: courtesy of Sarah Martini, Yale University