Technology: Ideology, Economics and Power in the Andes
Organizers: Bill Sillar, Viviana Siveroni and Miguel Fuentes
UCL, Institute of Archaeology
15th- 18th June 2015
REVISED PROGRAM (as of March 2015)
DAY 1 – MONDAY 15 t h June
REGISTRATION, Lunch and poster set-up - From 11.30 am
Session 1: 1.00 - 5.30 pm
Chair: Bill Sillar
Introduction
Bill Sillar, Viviana Siveroni and Miguel Fuentes
TECHNOLOGY of, and in, the LANDSCAPE
Lessons from the cultural landscape of the Andes
Gerard den Ouden
---------------------------------------------------Tinkuqchaka: a suspension bridge over the upper Pampas River
Lidio M. Valdez and Cirilo Vivanco
---------------------------------------------------Inca Technology and Ideology in the offerings dedicated on top of the highest Andean mountains
Constanza Ceruti
---------------------------------------------------Building techniques for the ancestors: an analysis of the choice of techniques used in the architecture
of chullpas, between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Puna de Jujuy (Argentina)
María Carolina Rivet
---------------------------------------------------Metal Production, Power and Religiosity in the Southern Andean Highlands (Bolivia XV to XVI
centuries)
Pablo José Cruz
5.30 pm Pisco Sour reception (Sponsored by the Peruvian Embassy in London)
7.00 pm – pub meal (for those who wish)
DAY 2 – TUESDAY 16 t h June
Session 2: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Chair: Heather Lechtman
COSMOLGIES of PRODUCTION: MAKING and MEANING
The ‘material essence’ of Muisca metalwork (Colombia)
María Alicia Uribe-Villegas and Marcos Martinón-Torres
---------------------------------------------------The ideology and technology invested in the extraction, processing and consumption of spondylus
princeps
Colin McEwan
---------------------------------------------------The Scale of Production: Chimú Reduced Scale Textile Tools
Andrew James Hamilton
---------------------------------------------------Ceramic technology on the Peruvian North Coast: stability and change over the long durée and its
socio-political implications.
Cathy Lynne Costin
---------------------------------------------------Rock Art technology, ontology and political power: a discussion from North Central Chile
Andrés Troncoso, Felipe Armstrong and Francisco Vergara
---------------------------------------------------Poster Presenters to explain poster highlights with brief (2 minute) presentation and a single image.
1.00 – 2.00 pm LUNCH and poster viewing
POSTER SESSION 1
---------------------------------------------------Pink, not yellow: depletion gilding and colour in Nahuange metalwork (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,
Colombia)
Juanita Sáenz Samper, Marcos Martinón-Torres
---------------------------------------------------Gold technology and the Tiwanaku culture in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile (AD 400-1000).
María Teresa Plaza, Marcos Martinón-Torres, Valentina Figueroa-Larre
---------------------------------------------------Reviving Traditional Andean Agricultural Technology – The Work of the Cusichaca Trust
Ann Kendall, David Drew and Sara Lunt
---------------------------------------------------Techné and logos in the study of Andean hydraulic technologies
Alexander Herrera Wassilowsky
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The Phenomenon of Early Valdivia Pottery (Ecuador): quest for the ritual and utilitarian origins of
technology
Andrey V. Tabarev; Alexander N. Popov; Jorge G. Marcos; Yoshitaka Kanomata
---------------------------------------------------Inca-Diaguita Ceramics Design: Cognitive Technologies and Social Change
Paola González
---------------------------------------------------Prime Material
Lois Martin
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Session 3: 2.00 - 5.20 pm
Chair: Viviana Siveroni
Short Questions/Answers and Discussion of Posters
RE-THINKING FIBERS: textiles in context
Why Fibers? The use of fibers as engineering materials
Heather Lechtman and Linn Hobbs
---------------------------------------------------The Cotton Revolution in Andean Prehistory: Revisiting the Maritime Foundations of Andean
Archaeology: new investigations at La Yerba, Peru.
David Beresford-Jones et al.
---------------------------------------------------The Development of Andean Textile Dying Technology
Hans Barnard, Ran Boytner
---------------------------------------------------'It can't be cut, it's alive!' Textile production in San Pablo de Incahuasi (Lambayeque), Peru.
Luz Martínez Santamaría
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5.20 – 5.40 pm Tea/Coffee and poster viewing
6.00 pm
Izumi Shimada: The Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies (IAMS) Annual
Beno Rothenberg lecture. Provisional title: Obsessed with Metal: Manufacture, Use and
Significance of Metals in the Thousand Year-Old Sicán Culture of South America
7.00 pm Wine Reception (Sponsored by IAMS, UCL)
Free evening – potential venues for evening meals will be suggested
DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY 17 t h June
Session 4: 9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Chair: Cathy Costin
ORGANISATION and ECONOMICS of PRODUCTION
Small-Scale Metallurgical Technology and the Value of Silver at Porco, Bolivia
Mary Van Buren
---------------------------------------------------The organization of copper mining production before and after the Inkas in the Atacama Desert
Diego Salazar
---------------------------------------------------Andean households as a locus of technological innovation and economic organisation
Bill Sillar and Christine Hastorf
---------------------------------------------------Mining communities and domestic metallurgy in the highlands of Arica and Parinacota
Daniella Jofré, Valentina Figueroa and Thibault Saintenoy
---------------------------------------------------Bridging the Gap between Elite and Non-elite: Identifying the Artisan in the Archaeological Record
Trisha M. Biers and Guillermo A. Cock Carrasco
---------------------------------------------------Poster Presenters to explain poster highlights with brief (2 minute) presentation and a single image.
1.00 – 2.00 pm LUNCH and poster viewing
POSTER SESSION 2
Identifying inter-household cooperation as intertwined chaînes opératoires: The case of Prehispanic
Huayuri, Nasca region
Viviana Siveroni
---------------------------------------------------{Metallurgy in the Andes and in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparison
David Killick}
---------------------------------------------------Ceramic in the Pampa: Early Pottery Technology in the Atacama Desert (Tarapacá-Chile)
Mauricio Uribe and Estefanía Vidal
---------------------------------------------------Destandardization of Shell Bead Production among the Manteño (A.D. 700- 1532) as a Social and
Economic Process.
Benjamin P. Carter
---------------------------------------------------An Exploration of the Integration of Stylistic, Mineral and Elemental Approaches in Ceramic Studies in
the Context of Andean Research: A Consideration of Interregional Interactions.
Catherine Bland, Amy Roberts, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, Calogero Santoro, John Bennett
---------------------------------------------------Lexicon and toolkits: comparing pottery and weaving in Southern Cajamarca, Peru
Luis Andrade & Gabriel Ramón
---------------------------------------------------Technology, resilience and ritual symbolism in Ventarrón: multiple perspectives to understand the
emergence of social complexity
Marcia Arcuri, Ignácio Alva Meneses, Fabíola Andrea Silva, and Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta
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Session 5: 2.00 – 6.00 pm
Chair: Miguel Fuentes
Questions/Answers and Discussion of Posters
CONTROL of PRODUCTION and VALUE (5 x max. 30 minute presentations)
Colcas, Colcas Everywhere: Storage, Resources and Power in the Inca Expansion
Larry Coben
---------------------------------------------------Feeding Empires: Perspectives from the North Coast of Peru and the Atacama Desert in Chile
Frances Hayashida, César Parcero-Oubiña, Diego Salazar, Andrés Troncoso
---------------------------------------------------Sicán Alloys: A Holistic Vision
Izumi Shimada and John Merkel
---------------------------------------------------The Khipu as a Technology of Power
Gary Urton
---------------------------------------------------Technologies of popular sovereignty: new data from the Curacal archive of Macha (Aransaya).
Tristan Platt
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6.00 pm Wine Reception
7.30 pm Conference Dinner