64th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Andean Studies
January 12-13th, 2024
145 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley
FRIDAY MORNING 9:15-11:45
Session chair: Cathy Costin, California State University, Northridge
President’s Welcome, Christine Hastorf
Sarah Massey, Independent Researcher
Monumental Architecture on the South Summit of Cerro Tajahuana, Ica Valley
Arianna garvin, University of California San Diego
Preliminary Findings from Viru Household Excavations at Puerto Malabrigo, Chicama Valley, Peru
Break 10:30-10:45am
Emanuela Rudnicka, University of Warsaw
Threads of history: Revealing the Craft, Aesthetics, and Cultural Significance of Pre-Hispanic Cane Baskets
Meghan Tierney, Ursinus College and Shelley Burian, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Textile Arts of the Americas at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Nasca Figural Representations and a Reexamination of the “Harvest Festival” Textile
FRIDAY MIDDAY 12:00-1:30pm
Return of the Commensal Feast, Howard Room, The Faculty Club, ground floor (all are welcome; no signup or schedule; purchase cafeteria lunch and enter the room down the hall from the cafeteria)
FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:30-5:40
1:30-2:30pm
Poster session
Karla Gaspar, University of California San Diego
Exploring Coexistence and Lithic Production in Tiwanaku Colonies
Kelly Moss, University of California San Diego
Domestic Organization at Río Muerto M70 in Moquegua Valley, Perú: A Spatial Examination of a Provincial Tiwanaku Household Unit
Elliot Summers, University of California Santa Cruz
Shifting Identities: Flexibility in Age Identities and the Development of Gender in Chiribaya Juveniles at Chiribaya Alta
2:30-5:00pm
Session chair: Patricia Knobloch, Institute of Andean Studies
Aleksa Alaica, University of British Columbia and Luis Manuel Gonzalez, University of British Columbia & University of Toronto
Returning Home: First Millennium CE Domestic Foodways and Exchange at Cocahuischo, Nasca, Peru
James Davenport, University of Missouri and Marie-Claude Boileau, University of Pennsylvania
Examining Forming Techniques for Inka Urpus using X-Radiography: Tawantinsuyu and Pachacamac
Break 3:30-3:45pm
Ivan Ghezzi, Universidad de Piura and Manuel Medrano, Harvard University
Refining khipu chronology via Bayesian modeling: new radiocarbon evidence from the “Santa Valley Archive”
Dagmar Bachraty (IAS 2024 Travel Grantee), Universidad de Chile
El poder de las wak'as. Función y significado. Las estatuillas antropomorfas presentes en el sacrificio llamado Capacocha
Break 5:00-5:15pm
FRIDAY EVENING 5:00pm
Annual Business Meeting (IAS members only)
SATURDAY MORNING 9:30-11:45
Session chair: Maria Bruno, University of Nevada, Reno
Amelia Pérez Trujillo, Ministerio de Cultura Cusco
Qotakalli, un poblado de "mitmas" en el valle del Cusco
Hubert Quispe Bustamante, Zuayer Consultores y Ejecutores S.A.C.
El Culto al Agua y a los Ancestros en la Escultura Monumental Inka de Chinkana Grande de Saqsaywaman, Cusco
Break 10:30–10:45am
Wilber Bolívar, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Lucy Salazar, Yale University, and Luis Guevara, Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura-Cusco
Alimento de los Dioses (Apukunaq Mihunanpaq)
R. Alexander Hunter, Brown University
Dating the Construction and Collapse of Ollantaytambo’s Inka Ecology
SATURDAY MIDDAY 12:00-1:30pm
Lunch
SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1:30-4:45pm
1:30-2:30pm
Poster session
Thomas Snyder, University of California Davis and Elizabeth Arkush, University of Pittsburgh
Political Complexity and Gendered Violence in the Andes – A Bayesian Approach
M. Elizabeth Grávalos, Standford University
What was Huarás? A Compositional Approach to the Post-Chavín “White-on-Red” Ceramic Style in Highland Ancash, Peru
Jan Kłaput, University of Warsaw and Gonzalo Presbítero Rodríguez, Universidad Católica de Santa María
The Inca site of Muyu Muyu (dep. Arequipa, Peru) as a probable oracle of apu Solimana
Gabriel Silva Collins, University of California Los Angeles
Growing Histories: Plants, Tourism, and Inka Heritage in Chinchero, Peru
2:30-4:45pm
Session chair: Nicole Slovak, Santa Rosa Junior College
Rocio Ferreira, DePaul University
Mujeres combatientes, disidencia y resistencia en la literatura y cine del post-conflicto peruano
Diana Rivas Gutierrez, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Re – Construyendo Identidad: Arquitectura y Memoria en el Paisaje Urbano del Cusco
Break 3:30-3:45
IAS Leadership
IAS Past and Future Forum
SATURDAY DINNER BREAK 4:45-7:00pm
SATURDAY EVENING 7:00pm (Open to the public)
Christopher Heaney, Pennsylvania State University
The Three Burials of Julio César Tello
SATURDAY EVENING 8:00pm
President’s reception, Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Building