Dr. Thomas Pozorski
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
(956) 665- 2865
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, The University of Texas - Austin, 1976
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Caballo Muerto: A Complex of Early Ceramic Sites in the Moche
Valley, Peru
BA, Harvard University, 1971
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Survey and Excavation of Burial Platforms, Chan Chan, Peru
EMPLOYMENT
Academic - Post-Secondary
Professor, Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas-Pan American ( 1994)
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas-Pan
American (1989 - 1994)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Anthropology, Pan American University (1986 1989)
Associate Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver (1983 - 1986)
Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin (1975 - 1976)
Instructor, University of Texas, Austin (1971 - 1973)
Professional
Assistant Curator, Section of Man, Carnegie Museum of Natural History (1978 - 1982)
Field Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History (1976 - 1978)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Preceramic and Initial Period Monumentality within the
Casma Valley, Peru. Robert Rosenwig and Richard Burger (Ed.) In R. Rosenwig and R. Burger :
Early New World Monumentality. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. (364-398).
Shelia Pozorski, Jonathan Haas, and Thomas Pozorski. The Origins and Development of the Andean
State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru.
University of Iowa Press, 2006.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.
Shelia Pozorski, Jonathan Haas, and Thomas Pozorski. The Origins and Development of the Andean
State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Book Chapters
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "La evolucion Período Inicial en el valle de Casma del Perú:
Una historia de dos rivales." In I. Ghezzi and M. Giersz: Arqueología de la Costa de Ancash. Ivan
Ghezzi and M. Giersz (Ed.) Andes, Boletín del Centro de Estudios Precolombinos de la Universidid
de Varsovia, 2011: vol. 8, 7-57.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Early Cultural Complexity on the Coast of Peru." Handbook
of South American Archaeology. Helaine Silverman and William Isbell (Ed.) New York: Springer,
2008: 607-631.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Changing Subsistence, Settlement and Administrative
Strategies during the Late Preceramic and Initial Period in the Casma Valley of Peru." Kay Pacha:
Cultivating Earth and Water in the Andes. P. Dransart (Ed.) Oxford: BAR International Series 1478,
2006: 157-169.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Prehistoric Chimu Irrigation Strategies on the Peruvian
North Coast." Kay Pacha: Cultivating Earth and Water in the Andes. P. Dransart (Ed.) Oxford: BAR
International Series 1478, 2006: 171-183.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "La Arquitectura Residencial y la Subsistencia de los
Habitantes del Sitio de Moche: Evidencia Recuperada por el Proyecto Chan Chan-Valle de Moche."
Moche: Hacia el Final del Milenio, Tomo I. S. Uceda and E. Mujica (Ed.) Lima: Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Peru and Trujillo: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, 2003: 119-150.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Paleoenvironment at Almejas: Early Exploitation of
Estuarine Fauna on the North Coast of Peru." El Niño in Peru: Biology and Culture over 10,000
Years, Fieldiana, Botany, New Series, No. 43. J. Haas and M. Dillon (Ed.) Chicago: Field Museum
of Natural History, 2003: 52-70.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "The Impact of the El Niño Phenomenon on Prehistoric
Chimu Irrigation Systems of the Peruvian Coast." El Niño in Peru: Biology and Culture over 10,000
Years, Fieldiana, Botany, New Series, No. 43. J. Haas and M. Dillon (Ed.) Chicago, IL: Field
Museum of Natural History, 2003: 70-89.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Sechin Alto Complex and its Place within Casma Valley
Initial Period Development." Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization of the
Central Andes. H. Silverman and W. Isbell (Ed.) New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
2002: 21-51.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Almejas. Un entierro precerámico en el valle de Casma." La
Memoria de los Ancestros. L. Millones and W. Kapsoli (Ed.) Lima: Editorial Universitaria, 2001:
63-80.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Temple, palais ou entrepôt? La centralisation du pouvoir
dans le Perou prehistorique." La Ville et le Pouvoir en Amerique. J. Monnet (Ed.) Paris:
L’Harmattan , 1999: 87-110.
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Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Multidimensional Planning at Pampa de las
Llamas-Moxeke." Meaningful Architecture. M. Locock (Ed.) Avebury: Aldershot 1994: 45-65.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Sociedades Complejas Tempranas y el Universo Ceremonial
en la Costa NorPeruana." El Mundo Ceremonial Andino. L. Millones and Y. Onuki (Ed.) Lima:
Editorial Horizonte, 1994: 47-70.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Early Complex Society and Ceremonialism on the Peruvian
North Coast." El Mundo Ceremonial Andino. L. Millones and Y. Onuki (Ed.) Osaka: National
Museum of Ethnology, 1993: 45-68.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Late Preceramic through Early Horizon Subsistence in the
Casma Valley." Economic Prehistory of the Central Andes. E. S. Wing and J. C. Wheeler (Ed.)
Oxford: BAR International Series 427, 1988: 95-98.
Thomas Pozorski. "Changing Priorities within the Chimu State: The Role of Irrigation Agriculture."
The Origins and Development of the Andean State. J. Haas, S. Pozorski, and T. Pozorski (Ed.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987: 111-120.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Chavin, the Early Horizon and the Initial Period." The
Origins and Development of the Andean State. J. Haas, S. Pozorski, and T. Pozorski (Ed.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987: 36-46.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Introduction: Chronology." The Origins and Development of
the Andean State. J. Haas, S. Pozorski, and T. Pozorski (Ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1987: 4-8.
Thomas Pozorski. "Early Social Stratification and Subsistence Systems: The Caballo Muerto
Complex." Chan Chan: Andean Desert City. M. E. Moseley and K. C. Day (Ed.) Santa Fe, NM:
University of New Mexico Press, 1982: 225-253.
J. Kus, M. Moseley, Shelia Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski, and E. Deeds. "Estudio de Irrigación
Prehispánico de Pampa Esperanza, Valle de Moche: Metodología y Resultados Preliminarios." III
Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina. R. Matos M. (Ed.) 1978: vol. 1, 217-234.
Conference Proceedings
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Engaging Citizens in the Archaeological Past: A Case Study
from Northern Peru. Proceedings of the 13th Annual conference of the National Association of
Hispanic and Latino Studies. 1, (2005): 613-624.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Prehistoric and Historic Transportation along the Coast of
Peru. Proceedings of the 13th Annual conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino
Studies. 1, (2005): 625-637.
Shelia Pozorski, Mark Gunthrie, Thomas Pozorski, and Tommy Fulgham. Pinon Canyon
Archaeological Project: First Season. New Mexico Archaeological Council Proceedings. 6, (1984):
313-346.
Journal Articles
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Exploring Access Control at Taukachi Tardío: A Late Casma
Culture Site within the Casma Valley of Peru. Ñawpa Pacha . 32, (2012): 207-230.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. The Square-room Unit as an Emblem of Power and Authority
within the Initial Period Sechín Alto Polity, Casma Valley, Peru. Latin American Antiquity. 22, no. 4
(2011): 427-451.
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C. Chauchat, J. Guffroy, and Thomas Pozorski. Excavations at Huaca Herederos Chica, Moche
Valley, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 31, (2006): 233-250.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Las Haldas: An Expanding Initial Period Polity of Coastal
Peru. Journal of Anthropological Research. 62, (2006): 27-52.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Recent Discoveries of Moche Ceramics in the Casma Valley,
Peru. Ñawpa Pacha. 28, (2006): 129-140.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Architecture and Chronology at the Site of Sechín Alto,
Casma Valley, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 30, (2005): 143-161.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. El Desarrollo de la Sociedad Compleja en el Valle de Casma.
Lima: Arqueología y Sociedad. 13, (2000): 79-98.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. La Centralización del Poder en el Perú Prehispánico
Temprano. Revista del Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia. 7, (2000): 87-109.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. La Dinámica del Valle de Casma durante el Período Inicial.
Boletín de Arqueología PUC. 2, (1999): 83-100.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Ceramica de la Cultura Moche en el Valle de Casma, Peru.
Trujillo: Revista del Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia. 6, (1998): 103-122.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Cherimoya and Guanabana in the Archaeological Record of
Peru. Journal of Ethnobiology. 17, no. 2 (1997): 235-248.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Ventilated Hearth Structures in the Casma Valley, Peru. Latin
American Antiquity. 7, (1996): 341-353.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. An I-Shaped 'Ballcourt' Form at Pampa de las
Llamas-Moxeke, Peru. Latin American Antiquity. 6, (1995): 274-280.
Thomas Pozorski. Huaca de los Reyes Revisited: Clarification of the Archaeological Evidence. Latin
American Antiquity. 6, (1995): 335-339.
Thomas Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski, and John Rick. A Bird Geoglyph near Casma, Peru. Andean Past.
3, (1992): 187-192.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Early Civilization in the Casma Valley, Peru. Antiquity. 66,
(1992): 845-870.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Early Stone Bowls and Mortars from Northern Peru. Andean
Past. 3, (1992): 165-186.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Resultados Preliminares del Reconocimiento y Excavacion de
Sitios Tempranos en el Valle de Casma. Boletín de Lima. 80, (1992): 33-45.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Storage, Access Control, and Bureaucratic Proliferation:
Understanding the Initial Period (1800-900 B.C.) Economy at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, Casma
Valley, Peru. Research in Economic Anthropology. 13, (1991): 341-371.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dates on the Maritime
Hypothesis: Response to Quilter. American Anthropologist. 93, (1991): 454-455.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Huaynuná, a Late Cotton Preceramic Site on the North Coast
of Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 17, (1990): 17-26.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Reexamining the Critical Preceramic/Ceramic Period
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Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Reexamining the Critical Preceramic/Ceramic Period
Transition: New Data from Coastal Peru. American Anthropologist. 92, (1990): 481-491.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Reply to 'The Pre-Chavin Stone Sculpture of Casma and
Pacopampa. Journal of Field Archaeology. 17, (1990): 110-111.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. An Early Stone Carving from Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke,
Casma Valley, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology . 15, (1988): 114-119.
D. Ugent, Shelia Pozorski, and Thomas Pozorski. Archaeological Manioc (Manihot) from Coastal
Peru. Economic Botany. 40, (1986): 78-102.
Thomas Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski, C. Beck, and E. Deeds. Pajatambo: Una Estructura del Siglo
XVIII al Borde de la Carretera. Boletín de Lima. 46, no. 4 (1986): 27-34.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Recent Excavations at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke, a
Complex Initial Period Site in Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 13, (1986): 381-401.
Thomas Pozorski, Shelia Pozorski, C. Mackey, and U. Klymyshyn. Campos Agricolas Elevados
Prehispánicos en el Valle de Casma, Peru. Boletín de Lima. 36, (1984): 38-48.
D. Ugent, Shelia Pozorski, and Thomas Pozorski. New Evidence for the Ancient Cultivation of
Canna edulis in Peru. Economic Botany. 38, (1984): 417-432.
Shelia Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski, Colleen Beck, and Eric Deeds. Pajatambo: An Eighteenth
Century Roadside Structure in Peru. Historical Archaeology. 17, (1983): 54-68.
Shelia Pozorski, Thomas Pozorski, Carol Mackey, and Ulana Klymyshyn. Prehispanic Ridged Fields
of the Casma Valley, Peru. The Geographical Review. 73, (1983): 407-416.
Shelia Pozorski, D. Ugent, and Thomas Pozorski. Restos Arqueológicos de Tubérculos de Papas y
Camotes del Valle de Casma en el Peru. Boletín de Lima. 27, (1983): 1-17.
D. Ugent, Shelia Pozorski, and Thomas Pozorski. Archaeological Potato Tuber Remains from the
Casma Valley of Peru. Economic Botany. 36, no. 2 (1982): 182-192.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Reassessing the Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal:
Comments on 'Hydraulic Engineering Aspects of the Chimu Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal.
American Antiquity. 47, (1982): 851-868.
Thomas Pozorski. The Caballo Muerto Complex: An Investigation of Cupisnique Culture. National
Geographic Society Research Reports . 14, (1982): 523-532.
D. Ugent, Shelia Pozorski, and Thomas Pozorski. Prehistoric Remains of the Sweet Potato.
Phytologia. 49, no. 5 (1981): 401-415.
Thomas Pozorski. The Early Horizon Site of Huaca de los Reyes: Societal Implications. American
Antiquity. 45, (1980): 100-110.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Alto Salaverry: A Peruvian Coastal Preceramic Site. Annals
of Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 48, (1979): 337-375.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. An Early Subsistence Exchange System in the Moche Valley,
Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 6, (1979): 413-432.
Thomas Pozorski. The Las Avispas Burial Platform, Chan Chan, Peru . Annals of Carnegie Museum
of Natural History . 48, (1979): 119-137.
Shelia Pozorski, James Kus, Michael Moseley, Thomas Pozorski, and Eric Deeds. Factores
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Ecológicos en el Desarrollo y Mantenimiento de Riego Antiguo en la Costa Norte del Peru.
Publicentro, Trujillo: Investigación Arqueológica. 1, 17-21, 2, 3-7, (1978)
Periodicals
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Ice Age Art. Carnegie Magazine. 55, no. 9 (1981): 2-9.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Alto Salaverry: Un Sitio Precerámico de la Costa Peruana.
Revista del Museo Nacional. 43, (1977): 27-60.
Other
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Caral. Neil Silberman (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. no. 2nd Edition (2012): 142-143.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Chavin Culture. Neil Silberman (Ed.) The Oxford Companion
to Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. no. 2nd Edition (2012): 159-160.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Chavin de Huantar. Neil Silberman (Ed.) The Oxford
Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. no. 2nd Edition (2012): 160-161.
Thomas Pozorski. Review of: New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization. J. Quilter and L.J.
Castillo (Ed.) Latin American Antiquity. 23, (2012): 122-123.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Sechin Alto. Neil Silberman (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. no. 2nd Edition (2012): 100-101.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Early Coastal Andean Formative. P. Peregrine and M. Ember
(Ed.) Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 7: South America. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers. (2002): 78-97.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Late Coastal Andean Formative. P. Peregrine and M. Ember
(Ed.) Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 7: South America. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers. (2002): 217-227.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Caballo Muerto. B. Tenenbaum (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Latin
American History and Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster MacMillan. 1, (1996): 497.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Chavin Culture. B. Fagan (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1996): 131-132.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Chavin de Huantar. B. Fagan (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1996): 132-133.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke. B. Tenenbaum (Ed.)
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster MacMillan. 4,
(1996): 269.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Sechin Alto. B. Tenenbaum (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Latin
American History and Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster MacMillan. 5, (1996): 86.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Sechin Alto. B. Fagan (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to
Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1996): 632.
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. South America, Prehistory and Early History of: Rise of
Complex Societies in South America. B. Fagan (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Archaeology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1996): 668-670.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. Review of Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization by
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Richard L. Burger. Latin American Antiquity. 4, (1993): 389-390.
Thomas Pozorski. Review of Cuzco: Aguas y Poder by Horacio Villanueva and Jeanette Sherbondy.
Ethnohistory. 33, no. 1 (1986): 103-104.
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. A Descriptive Report on Sites Tested during Phase I of the
Fort Carson-Pinon Canyon Archaeological Project. National Park Service. (1984)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. A Proposed Research Design for Phase II of the Fort
Carson-Pinon Canyon Project. National Park Service. (1984)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Cultural Content of Site Types Defined during Phase I of the
Fort Carson-Pinon Canyon Project. National Park Service. (1984)
Thomas Pozorski. The Fort Carson-Pinon Canyon Project: Interim Management Report. National
Park Service. (1984)
Shelia Pozorski, James Kus, Michael Moseley, Thomas Pozorski, Eric Deeds, Fred Nials, and Lonnie
Pippin. El Niño: The Catastrophic Flooding of Coastal Peru. Field Museum of Natural History
Bulletin. 50, no. 7 & 8 (1979): 4-14 and 4-10.
Thomas Pozorski. The Technology and Strategy of Indigenous Irrigation Agriculture. Field Museum
of Natural History. (1977)
Thomas Pozorski. Caballo Muerto: A Complex of Early Ceramic Sites in the Moche Valley, Peru.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms. (1976)
Thomas Pozorski. Survey and Excavation of Burial Platforms, Chan Chan, Peru. Anthropology
Department, Harvard University. (1971)
AWARDS AND HONORS
UTPA Undergraduate Research Award, Universtity of Texas Pan American (2010)
UTPA Undergraduate Research Award, Universtity of Texas Pan American (2009)
Provost’s Award for Latin American Studies. (2008)
UTPA Undergraduate Research Award, Universtity of Texas Pan American (2008)
UTPA Undergraduate Research Award, Universtity of Texas Pan American (2007)
UTPA Undergraduate Research Award, Universtity of Texas Pan American (2006)
UTPA Undergraduate Research Scholar award, Universtity of Texas Pan American (2003)
Arnulfo Martinez Award, Center for International Studies, UTPA (2002)
Student Organization Advisor of the Year, UTPA (1999)
Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award. (1998)
Minnie Stevens Piper Award nominee. (1998)
Minnie Stevens Piper Award nominee. (1997)
UTPA Outstanding Faculty Award for research excellence, Universtity of Texas Pan American
(1994)
Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award. (1992)
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Minnie Stevens Piper Award nominee. (1992)
Minnie Stevens Piper Award nominee. (1991)
UTPA Outstanding Faculty Award for research excellence. (1989)
PRESENTATIONS
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Role of the Initial Period Site of Huerequeque within
the Sechin Alto Polity of the Casma Valley of Peru." 111th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. (2012)
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Exploring Multiphase Construction within the Monumental
Architecture at the Initial Period Site of Huerequeque in the Casma Valley of Peru." 77th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, (2012)
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Taukachi Tardío: A Late Site of the Casma Culture within
the Casma Valley of Peru," From the Ciudadelas of Chan Chan to the Platforms of Farfan: Papers in
Honor of Carol J. Mackey, 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Sacramento, CA. (2011)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Últimas investigaciones en Huerequeue, valle medio del Río
Sechín." Primero Ciclo Internacional de Conferencias Investigaciones en la Costa de Ancash, Casma,
Peru. (2011)
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "The Role of the Casma Valley in the Development of Early
Andean Civilization." The Dawn of Andean Civilization. Pre-Columbian Society of Washington,
D.C., (2011)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Las Haldas: Emergence and Expansion of Unique Early
Coastal-Based Polity in Peru." 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
New Orleans, LA. (2010)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Monumental Architecture at Huerequeque in the Casma
Valley, Peru." 28th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Madison, NJ. (2010)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Insult to Reverence: the Evolution of Prehistoric
Intrusiveness within the Casma Valley of Peru," Archaeology of Intrusiveness, 75th Annual Meeting
of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. (2010)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Power Symbolism in the Early Art and Architecture of
Prehistoric Peru," Distinguished Lecture, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
(2010)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "New World Bureaucracy at 1500 B.C.; Evidence from the
Casma Valley of Peru," Storerooms, Tokens and Administrative Devices in Early Complex Societies,
75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO. (2010)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Early Prehistoric Plant Use in the Casma Valley of Peru,"
108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, American Anthropological
Association, Philadelphia, PA. (2009)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Pre-Moche Warfare Depicted in the Carved-Stone Facade of
Cerro Sechin in the Casma Valley of Peru," New Perspectives on Moche Warfare, 74th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA. (2009)
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Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Our Lord of Sechin or GI Joe? Exploring the Function of
Early Ceramic Figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru," 107th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. (2008)
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Initial Period Figurines from the Casma Valley of Peru."
27th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Orono, ME. (2008)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Cottage Industry, Household Ritual, and Subsistence
Exchange at 1500 B.C. on the North Coast of Peru," 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. (2008)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Finding Meaning in Architecture: The Square-Room-Unit as
a Power Symbol in the Casma Valley." 26th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology
and Ethnohistory, Ithaca, NY. (2007)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Square-Room-Unit Architectural Form as an Emblem of
Authority in the Casma Valley, Peru," 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. (2007)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Prehistoric Adaptations to the Desert Coast of Peru."
Department of Geoscience Colloquium, University of Arkansas–Fayetteville, Fayetteville, AR.
(2007)
Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski. "Archaeology of Andean Civilizations," Robert L. Stigler, Jr.
Lecture in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas–Fayetteville,
Fayetteville, AR. (2007)
Thomas Pozorski. "Moving Towards a Learner-Centered Research Approach: combining Teach with
Research," 1st Annual Conference on Research and Teaching in the Social and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX. (February 2007)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Domestic Architecture at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke,
Casma Valley, Peru." 25th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Philadelphia, PA. (2006)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Initial Period Monumentality and Sociopolitical
Organization in the Casma Valley, Peru." 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto, Rico. (2006)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Residential Architecture and Associated Activities at the
Initial Period Site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the Casma Valley." 71st Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto, Rico. (2006)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Central Andean Social Organization from the Perspective of
the Casma Valley," International Andean Roundtable on the Peruvian Formative, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California. (2006)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Engaging Citizens in the Archaeological Past: A Case Study
from Northern Peru." 13th Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino
Studies, Houston, Texas. (2005)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Prehistoric and Historic Transportation along the Coast of
Peru," 13th Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, 13th
Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Houston, Texas.
(2005)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Role of Las Haldas in the Prehistory of the Casma
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Valley, Peru," 33rd Annual Midwest Conference of Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and
Ethnohistory, 33rd Annual Midwest Conference of Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and
Ethnohistory, Columbia, Missouri. (2005)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Changing Views on the Site of Las Haldas, Casma Valley,
Peru." 23rd Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, New Haven,
Connecticut. (2004)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Early Maize in the Casma Valley, Peru," The Stories of
Maize III: Central and South America, 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Montreal, Canada. (2004)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Midden Excavations at the Sechin Alto Site, Casma Valley,
Peru." 22nd Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Cambridge,
MA. (2003)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Consolidation of Power as Reflected in the Monumental
Architecture of the Casma Valley, Peru (2100-1000 B.C.)," 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, WI. (2003)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Multifunctional Monumental Architecture in the Casma
Valley, Peru (2100-1000 B.C.)." 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, New Orleans, LA. (2002)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Architecture in the Periphery of the Sechin Alto Site, Casma
Valley, Peru." 21th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Pittsburgh, PA. (2002)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Early Horizon Occupation in the Lower Casma Valley,
Peru," Diversity within Andean Societies and Polities: Reconsidering Peripheries, Cores, Spheres of
Influence and Boundaries, 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver,
CO. (2002)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Preceramic vs. Aceramic: An Overview of the Late
Preceramic Period on the North and Central Coasts of Peru," Emergent Complexity in the Peruvian
Preceramic, 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO. (2002)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Sechin Alto Site: Review and Retrospective of the
1995-2001 Field Seasons," 20th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and
Ethnohistory, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. (2001)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Initial Period Cultural Dynamics in the Casma Valley, Peru,"
Social Dynamics of Early Andean Cultures, 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, New Orleans, LA. (2001)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Arquitectura y Cronologia del Sitio de Sechin Alto, Valle de
Casma, Peru." XIII Congreso del Hombre y la Cultura Andina, Lima, Peru. (2001)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Chronological Refinement of the Initial Period in the Casma
Valley, Peru." 19th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory,
Hanover, New Hampshire. (2000)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Exploring the Meaning and Significance of Monumental
Architecture: A Case from Prehistoric Peru," Monuments in Intermediate-Scale Societies: New
World and Old World Perspectives, 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (2000)
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Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Excavations at Sechin Alto: The 1999 Field Season." 18th
Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Amherst, Massachusetts.
(1999)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Paleoenvironment at the Mid-Holocene Site of Almejas,
Casma Valley, Peru," El Niño in Peru: Biology and Culture over 10,000 Years, Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. (1999)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Prehistoric Chimu Irrigation Systems and the El Niño
Phenomenon: A Cast Study from the Moche Valley, Peru," El Niño in Peru: Biology and Culture
over 10,000 Years, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois. (1999)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "La Arquitectura Residencial y la Subsistencia de los
Habitantes de las Huacas del Sol y la Luna: Evidencia Recuperada por el Proyecto Moche-Chan
Chan." II Coloquio de Arqueologia sobre la Cultura Moche, Trujillo, Peru. (1999)
Thomas Pozorski. "Investigacion y Proteccion del Legado Cultural, Balance y Perspectivas,"
Peruvian north coast at the international syposium, United States Information Service of the United
States Embassy and the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima, Peru. (1999)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Place of the Sechin Alto Complex in Early Casma
Valley Polity Development," The Foundations of Coastal Andean Civilization: Preceramic through
the Early Horizon, 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois.
(1999)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Archaeological Investigations at the Sechin Alto Site,
Casma Valley, Peru." 17th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology
and Ethnohistory, Binghamton, New York. (1998)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "El Precerámico Tardío en el Valle de Casma y las
Implicancias de los Fechados Radiocarbónicos el el Estudio del Precerámico Tardío." El Período
Arcaíco en el Perú--Hacia una Definición de los Origenes, Lima, Peru. (1998)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Changing Settlement, Subsistence and Economic Strategies
from 2000 to 900 B.C. in the Casma Valley of Peru." Kay Pacha Symposium: Earth, Land, Water
and Culture in the Andes, Lampeter, Wales. (1998)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Prehistoric Chimu Irrigation Systems on the Peruvian Coast:
Challenges, Successes, Failures and Alternative Strategies." Kay Pacha Symposium: Earth, Land,
Water and Culture in the Andes, Lampeter, Wales. (1998)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Sociedad Compleja en el Valle de Casma." Los Origenes de
la Ciudad en el Perú Prehispánico, Lima, Peru. (1998)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Sechin Alto Complex: Excavations at the Site of Sechin
Alto, 1995-1997." 26th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology,
Anthropology, and Ethnohistory, Champaign, Illinois. (1997)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Sechin Alto Complex: Excavations at the Site of
Taukachi-Konkán, 1992-1994." 26th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian
Archaeology, Anthropology, and Ethnohistory, Champaign, Illinois. (1997)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Recent Research at Sechin Alto, a Complex Initial Period
Site in the Casma Valley, Peru," 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Society for American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee. (1997)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Sechin Alto Site: 1995-1996 Fieldwork in the Casma
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Valley." 14th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and
Ethnohistory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (1996)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Figurines and Intersite Unity: A Case for the Casma Valley
of Peru." 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
(1996)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Initial Period Site of Taukachi-Konkan in the Casma
Valley, Peru." 23rd Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and
Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois. (1995)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Emergence of Secular Power in the Casma Valley,
Peru." 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(1995)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Paleoenvironment at Almejas, a Mid-Holocene Site in the
Casma Valley, Peru," Climate and Culture in the Mid-Holocene of Andean South America, 60th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (1995)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Power Centralization in Early Prehistoric Peru."
International colloquium "Places of Power and Powers of Place in the Americas", Toulouse, France.
(1995)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "A Possible Palace Structure at Taukachi-Konkán, Casma
Valley, Peru." 13th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and
Ethnohistory, Ithaca, New York. (1994)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "The Sechin Alto Complex: the Variations and
Interrelationships of Early Monumental Architecture." 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, Anaheim, California. (1994)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Recent Investigations at Taukachi-Konkán, Sechin Alto
Complex, in the Casma Valley, Peru." 12th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Andean
Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (1993)
Shelia Pozorski, D. Banks, Thomas Pozorski, and C. C. Donnan. "Origin and Evolution of Peanut
from Archaeological Evidence." American Peanut Research and Education Society, Huntsville,
Alabama. (1993)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Formative Social Complexity on the North Central Coast of
Peru." Early Complex Societies in the Central Andes, Dumbarton Oaks. (1993)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Early Complex Society and Ceremonialism on the Peruvian
North Coast," 16th International Symposium of the Division of Ethnology, National Museum of
Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. (1992)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "A Ballcourt in Peru? Mid-sized Architecture at the Initial
Period Site of Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke," 57th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (1992)
Thomas Pozorski. "Culture: Theme and Variations--Historical Archaeology," 6th International
Symposium on Hispanic Culture, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas. (1992)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Initial Period Social Inequality in the Casma Valley, Peru,"
From Egalitarian to Authoritarian: the Evolution of Social Inequality in the Andes, 56th Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. (1991)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Economic Variables Affecting Emerging Monumentalism
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Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Economic Variables Affecting Emerging Monumentalism
on the North-Central Coast of Peru," Social Forms and Linkages Producing Andean
Monumentalism, 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans,
Louisiana. (1991)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Excavations at Bahia Seca, Casma Valley, Peru: Results of
the 1989 Field Season," 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Society for
American Archaeology, Las Vegas, Nevada. (1990)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Administration of Intersite Commodity Flow: Evidence from
Bahia Seca and Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke in the Casma Valley, Peru." Northeastern Conference
on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Binghamton, New York. (1990)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Late Preceramic Sociopolitical Organization in the Casma
Valley, Peru," 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Society for American
Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia. (1989)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Unequal Development on the North Coast: The Cotton
Preceramic/Initial Period Emergence of the Casma Valley as a Core Area," 88th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, American Anthropological Association, Washington,
D.C.. (1989)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Recent Excavations at Pampa de las Llamas-Moxeke,
Casma Valley," 28th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Institute of Andean Studies,
Berkeley, CA. (1988)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Prehistoric State Organization in the Casma Valley, Peru,"
53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology,
Phoenix, Arizona. (1988)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Early Complex Society in the Casma Valley, Peru." 7th
Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Amherst,
Massachusetts. (1988)
Shelia Pozorski, M. Guthrie, and Thomas Pozorski. "An Adaptive Strategy Model for the Late
Prehistoric Period in Southeastern Colorado," 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO. (1985)
Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. "Late Preceramic through Early Horizon Subsistence in the
Casma Valley," 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Society for
American Archaeology, Denver, CO. (1985)
Thomas Pozorski. "Research Objectives for the Pinon Canyon Archaeological Project," 6th Annual
Meeting of the Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Colorado Council of Professional
Archaeologists, Boulder, CO. (1984)
Thomas Pozorski. "Changing Priorities within the Chimu State: The Role of Irrigation Agriculture,"
81st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, American Anthropological
Association, Washington, D.C.. (1982)
Thomas Pozorski. "The Friezes of Huaca de los Reyes, Caballo Muerto, Moche Valley, Peru," 19th
Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, CA.
(1979)
Shelia Pozorski, J. Kus, M. Moseley, Thomas Pozorski, and E. Deeds. "Ecological Factors in the
Development and Maintenance of Irrigated Agriculture on the North Coast of Peru," 42nd Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Society for American Archaeology, New
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Orleans. (1977)
Thomas Pozorski. "Huaca de los Reyes: An Early Horizon Site in the Moche Valley, Peru," 74th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, American Anthropological
Association, San Francisco, CA. (1975)
Thomas Pozorski. "El Complejo Caballo Muerto, Valley de Moche, Peru." II Congreso Peruano del
Hombre y la Cultura Andina, Trujillo, Peru. (1974)
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Arch Mexico & Cent Amer
Arch Mexico & Cent Amer
Arch Mexico/Central Am
Arch Mexico/Central Amer
Arch So America
Arch of Ancient Egypt
Arch of South America
Archaeology-So America
Archive Studies
Directed Studies
Fieldwork Anthropology
Intro to Archaeology
Museum Studies
Thesis
Topic-GPR South Texas Studies
Topics in Anthropology
SERVICE
College Service
Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Club. ( 1996)
Professional Service
Program Coordinator , Anthropology Program ( 1998)
Committee Chair , Library Acquisition Committee ( 1987)
Committee Chair , Anthropology Tenure and Promotion Committee (2013 - 2013)
Committee Co-Chair , CSBS Tenure and Promotion Committee (2013 - 2013)
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Committee Member , International Oversight Committee (2013 - 2013)
Committee Chair , Anthropology Search Committee (2009 - 2010)
Committee Member , Anthropology Search Committee (2008 - 2009)
Committee Member , Academic Calendar Committee (2006 - 2009)
Committee Member , Scheduling Committee (2005 - 2007)
Committee Member , Student Financial Aid Committee (2003 - 2006)
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Institute of Andean Studies
Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
South Texas Archaeological Association (STAA)
Texas Archaeological Society (TAS)
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