Dear All, The next South American Archaeology Seminar (London) will be held at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, on Saturday 6th December 2014 - see program and abstracts below.
Anyone wishing to attend is welcome, but please email Bill Sillar (
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) to reserve a place. You are asked to pay £7.50 towards the cost of coffee, tea, lunch & administration (this can be paid on the day, as long as you have made a reservation)
Best wishes, Bill
6th December 2014 6th Floor Seminar Room The Institute of Archaeology, UCL 34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY
Co. Sponsored by: UCL, Institute of Archaeology
10.00 am Coffee/ Registration
10.30: Bill Sillar (Institute of Archaeology, UCL), Melissa Chatfield, Rob Ixer, Sara Lunt, Gordon McEwan and Dennis Ogburn Becoming Empire: Social, Economic and Material changes at the start of Inka Imperial Expansion.
11.10: Patrice Lecoq (Université Paris 1-CNRS) Choqek'iraw, ten years on. A new look at the Inca site of the Cordillera Vilcabamba (Peru).
11.50: Isabel Yaya (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, EHESS, CdF) A topography of memory: looking at Inca divine kingship and ancestor cult in Cuzco.
Lunch
1.30 pm Michael Fradley (University of Exeter) One Mound, Many Rites: exploring diversity among the Je groups of the southern Brazilian highlands.
2.10: Jonas Gregorio De Souza (University of Exeter) Pathways to Power in the Southern Brazilian Highlands: Taquara/Itarare settlement systems in Campo Belo do Sul, Santa Catarina state
2.50: Tatiana Vlémincq Mendieta (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Moche frogs, toads and fertility: It's Raining Frogs?
Tea
3.50: María Teresa Plaza and Marcos Martinón-Torres (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) Metallurgical Traditions Under Inka Rule: A Technological Study Of Metals And Technical Ceramics From The Aconcagua Valley In Central Chile.
4.20: William Brooks (Geologist, Reston) Luisa Vetter Parodi, Armando V. Farfán, and David Dykstra Lopez Industrial Lead in Ancient Perú: the Curamba Smelter and Lead Sling Bullets.
We usually go for a drink at the bar of The Tavistock Hotel, after the seminar.
To give a talk at a future seminar please contact Bill Sillar:
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Dr. Bill Sillar Senior Lecturer Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY ENGLAND Ph: (0)20 7679 1538 Fax: (0)20 7383 2572
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