How Did Looting Affect Excavations? Watch This Video!

Oct 12, 2015

How Did Looting Affect Excavations? Watch This Video!Organized looting activity made it very difficult to understand how the individuals and artifacts we excavated were related to each other. With support of the Curb Center for Arts Policy of Vanderbilt University and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, we made this 10 minute video to describe how looting impacted our interpretations of the site. Eventually, we hope to incorporate more sites and more archaeologists across the Andes into this video, and translate it into Spanish to share with museums and schools in our area. Video by Gamma Wave Media. 

 

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Wari Invaders or Local "Frenemies": Geographic Origins of Peruvian Trophy Skulls

Vanderbilt University

Human trophy taking was common in Southern Peru around 500-800 AD, but was it caused by environmental stress or the rise of the militaristic Wari Empire? Did Wari attack communities in Arequipa (S. Peru), or did Wari influence reach the area through trade? Sr and Pb isotope analysis will allow us to determine whether trophy victims from Uraca were locals or foreigners answering whether Wari was in the region, and who Uraca’s enemies were- local neighbors, Wari conquerors, or other tribes from afar?