Editorial Team
General Editor
Maria del Carmen Vega Dulanto, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Assistant Editor
Carol Rodríguez Romero, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
International Editorial Board
Richard L. Burger
Yale University, United States
richard.burger@yale.edu
Archaeologist, PhD. in Anthropology for the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Burger teaches in the Anthropology Department of Yale University, United States. His research has focused on the rise of civilisation in Peru’s Central Andes, particularly at Chavín de Huántar, in Áncash, where he has been excavating for over twenty years.
Ari Caramanica
Vanderbilt University, United States
ari.a.caramanica@vanderbilt.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Harvard University, United States. Her research focuses on the rise of pre-Hispanic and modern-day agricultural systems and their adaption to climate change and natural disasters on the north coast of Peru. At present, Caramanica is a teacher in the Anthropology Department of Vanderbilt University, United States.
Alejandro Chu
National University of San Marcos, Peru
alejandrochu@gmail.com
Archaeologist, Ph.D in Anthropology for the University of Pittsburgh, United States. Chu teaches at the Professional School of Archaeology in the National University of San Marcos, Peru. His research has focused on the study of complex pre-Hispanic societies particularly at the site of Incahuasi, Cañete, where he is currently exploring the relationship between local elites and the Inca.
Daniel Contreras
University of Florida, United States
daniel.contreras@ufl.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Stanford University, United States. His research studies how human groups in Peru, the United States, Jordan, France and Greece have adapted to their environment and transformed it throughout time. Contreras teaches in the Anthropology Department at Florida University, United States.
Francesca Fernandini
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru
ffernandini@pucp.edu.pe
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Stanford University, United States. Fernandini is a teacher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where she heads the Archaeology Department. Her research has focused on Cerro de Oro, Cañete, where she is exploring daily life in pre-Hispanic times, as well as the relations between the archaeological site and the surrounding settlement from a sustainable perspective aimed at living communities.
Carla Hernández
University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
chernandezg@ucsc.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Vanderbilt University, United States. Hernández focuses her research on the Inca and Colonial periods, particularly in Huarochirí, Lima, where she is exploring the relations between gender, the origin of communities and ceramic output. Hernández is currently a teacher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.
Carla Jaimes
University of Bonn, Germany
cjaimes@uni-bonn.de
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for the University of Bonn, Germany, and a teacher in the Department for the Anthropology of the Americas in this same university. Her research focuses on social complexity in the South-Western Amazon, South American expansive processes, processes of ethnogenesis, and cultural heritage. Jaimes likewise promotes a collaborative archaeology with local indigenous peoples.
Peter Kaulicke
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru
pkaulic@pucp.edu.pe
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for the University of Bonn, Germany. Kaulicke established the Department of Archaeology in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and founded the Boletín de Arqueología PUCP. His research has focused on the origins of complex societies, comparative archaeology and the historiography of archaeology, as well as on Peru’s pre-Hispanic world view and art.
Linda Manzanilla
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
lmanza@unam.mx
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Egyptology for the París IV-Sorbonne University, France. Her research focuses on the rise and transformation of complex societies in Mesoamerica, Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Andes. She teaches at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is a researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research at this same university.
Lynn Meskell
Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania, United States
lmeskell@upenn.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Meskell teaches in the University of Pennsylvania, United States, and is the curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at the Penn Museum. Her research comprises subjects such as socio-politics, the ethics of archaeology, cultural heritage and materiality, as well as global feminist and postcolonial theory.
Lautaro Núñez
Institute of Archaeological Research and Museum, Catholic University of the North, Chile
lautaro.nunez@hotmail.com
Archaeologist, Doctor in Anthropology for Tokyo University, Japan. Núñez teaches at the Institute of Archaeological Research of the Catholic University of the North, Chile, and is a member of this university’s museum. His research has focused above all on the origins and development of the first groups of humans in the Atacama Desert, Chile, throughout the Archaic Period.
José Ochatoma
National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Peru
jose.ochatoma@unsch.edu.pe
Archaeologist, Doctor in Anthropology for the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Ochatoma teaches at the Professional School of Archaeology and History in the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga, Peru. His research focuses on the origins, development and expansion of the Wari Empire in the south-central highlands of Peru, and specifically on Wari, Ayacucho, where he has been excavating for over twenty years.
Joanne Pillsbury
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
joanne.pillsbury@metmuseum.org
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology for Columbia University, United States. Pillsbury has focused her research on the meaning of materials in the pre-Hispanic Andes, as well as on the historiography of archaeology and the formation of collections. She is curator of ancient American art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States, where she has held exhibits on the art and culture of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and the Andes.
Jeffrey Quilter
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, United States
quilter@fas.harvard.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States. Quilter is curator of the Department of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, United States. His research has focused on the archaeology of Costa Rica and Peru, where he is currently heading a study on the identification of Moche royal lineages through genetic analysis.
Markus Reindel
German Archaeological Institute [DAI], University of Bonn, Germany
markus.reindel@dainst.de
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for the University of Bonn, Germany. Reindel has focused his research on Palpa, Ica, where he is co-heading an interdisciplinary research project studying the cultural and landscape history of the region from the beginning of human occupation to the end of the pre-Hispanic period. He teaches at the German Archaeological Institute in the University of Bonn, Germany.
Daniel Sandweiss
University of Maine, United States
daniels@maine.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Cornell University, Ithaca, United States. Sandweiss has focused his research on climate change and the maritime adaptations of ancient American societies, particularly in Peru, Honduras, Guatemala and Cuba. He currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine, United States, and is the curator of Hudson Museum at this same university.
Ryan Williams
The Field Museum of Natural History & Arizona State University, United States
prwill@asu.edu
Archaeologist, Ph.D. in Anthropology for Florida University, United States. Williams teaches and heads the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, United States. His research has focused on Cerro Baúl, Moquegua, where he is exploring the political interaction between this Wari administrative centre located deep within Tiwanaku territory, as well as the relations between ancient populations and their environment.
Verónica Williams
Institute of Cultures (IDECU), University of Buenos Aires - CONICET
veronicaw33@yahoo.com
Archaeologist, Doctor in Anthropology for the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Williams has focused her research on the agropastoral societies of north-western Argentina in the second millennium A.D., where she has studied landscape archaeology, technology and archaeometry. Williams heads the Institute of Cultures of the University of Buenos Aires, and is a teacher at the Department of Anthropological Sciences at this same university.
Guest Editors
The Boletín de Arqueología PUCP also publishes thematic issues with guest editors.
Translations
Javier Flores Espinoza, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
