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Modeling Human Ecodynamics in
Mid-Holocene Northern Peru

By Tom D. Dillehay
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Professor Extraordinaire and Honorary Doctorate at the Universidad Austral de Chile.
Department Chair of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University

Debates continue regarding the environmental, economic, and social factors accounting for early Andean civilization. Interdisciplinary data for early crop production, irrigation technology, and landscapes of settlement aggregation in northern Peru are discussed for the mid-Holocene period. Several paradigmatic options are evaluated to understand the data and the importance of early agriculture in the study area.

Room TUR L005 for,
Friday, November 9 at 4:05pm

Conference sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of F.A.S.A and the Department of Anthropology.

Save the date for future conferences in “The Origins of Agriculture in Latin America and Development” Stephen Rostain, Professor, La Maison René Ginouvès d'Archéologie et d'Ethnologie, University of Paris X at Nanterre. PRECOLUMBIAN AGRICULTURE ON THE GUIANAS COAST. Room Rinker 110.  Friday 11/16, 4pm.

Any questions please contact Dr. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo (Caycedo@ufl.edu).