Tripcevich Papers & Presentations
ACADEMIC
N. Tripcevich curriculum vitae
Ph.D. Dissertation: Quarries, Caravans, and Routes to Complexity: Prehispanic Obsidian in the South-Central Andes. University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Anthropology, 2007.
Viewshed Analysis of the Ilave River Valley. Masters Thesis, UCSB Anthropology, September 2002
PAPERS
Quarrying, production and regional circulation of obsidian from the Chivay Obsidian Source, Arequipa, Peru. Report-length article submitted to a regional journal (in review).
Spatial and Temporal Variation in Stone Raw Material Provisioning in the Chivay Obsidian Source area. By N. Tripcevich and A. Mackay submitted to Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology, vol. 2, C. Stanish and E. Klarich, eds., Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles, CA (in review).
Exotic goods and socio-political change in the south-central Andes. Chapter submitted to volume from the 2007 SAA symposium “Xenophile: The allure of the exotic” edited by C. Dillian and C. White (in review).
La fuente de obsidiana “Chivay” y su posición en los Andes Sur Centrales. By N. Tripcevich and W. Yepez Alvarez. In Actas del Simposio Internacional de Arqueología del Área Centro Sur Andina, edited by Augusto Belén Franco, Mariusz Ziolkowski, and Justin Jennings, Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Lima (in press).
Flexibility by Design: How mobile GIS meets the needs of archaeological survey. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2004. Vol. 31, no 3, pp. 137-151.
Interfaces: Mobile GIS in archaeological survey. The SAA Archaeological Record, May 2004. Vol. 4, no. 3, pp 17-22.
PRESENTATIONS
Llama Caravan Transport: A study of mobility with a contemporary Andean salt caravan. Paper presented in the “Nomads Anew” symposium at the 73th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 2008.
Digging Digitally: GIS in Archaeological Fieldwork. Invited speaker at the University of California, Los Angeles Cotsen Institute for Archaeology, 25 January 2008.
Llama caravans and obsidian circulation in the south-central Andes. Paper presented in the "Xenophile: Lure of the exotic" symposium at the 72th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, March 2007.
Mobility and exchange in the south-central Andean preceramic: Insights from obsidian studies. Paper presented at the 71th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2006.
Production and Exchange of Obsidian from the Colca Valley, Arequipa Perú. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Andean Studies, Berkeley, CA, January 2006.
Tripcevich, Nicholas and Willy Yepez Alvarez. Fuente de Obsidiana "Chivay" y su posición en los Andes Sur Centrales. Por Simposio Internacional sobre Arequeologia del Area Centro Sur Andina, Arequipa, Perú, Julio 2005.
Tripcevich, Nicholas and Alex Mackay. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Stone Raw Material Provisioning Around the Chivay Obsidian Source. Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2005.
Mobile GIS on Archaeological Survey. Paper presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, September 2004.
Research summary, the 2003 field season. Presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Canada, March 2004.