UPPER COLCA ARCHAEOLOGICAL
RESEARCH PROJECT
Arequipa, Peru
N. Tripcevich curriculum vitae
Caravan Research Project, 2007: Transport in the Ancient Andes
Ph.D. Dissertation based on this research: Quarries, Caravans, and Routes to Complexity: Prehispanic Obsidian in the South-Central Andes. University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology, 2007.
Please see Papers and Talks for presentations of recent work
OBSIDIAN RESEARCH IN THE SOUTH-CENTRAL ANDES
Regional Obsidian Distributions Study, 2005
Compiling a GIS of obsidian sourcing efforts in the AndesResearch Project Description, 2003
Overview, Theory, Methods, NSF SummaryThis project was funded by NSF award #0331181.
RELATED MATERIALS
Klink, C., & Aldenderfer, M., 2005. A Projectile Point Chronology for the South-Central Andean Highlands. In Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology - 1, edited by C. Stanish, A. Cohen, and M. Aldenderfer. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles, California.
Projectile Point chronology for the South-Central Andes used to assign projectile points to a chronological framework.Chart for the Projectile Point Chronology for the South-Central Andes
A graphic showing Projectile Point Chronological Types on the uncal BP and cal BCE date grids.
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OBSIDIAN SOURCE
Notes from a visit to Chivay / Cotallaulli Source, Oct 2001
Maps and Spatial Data from the Source and the larger Chivay region.
