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René Lara Quiroz (?-2024) . El Visionario Legado de René Lara Quiroz† en la Fundación del Departamento de Antropología, la Revista Chungara y el Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa
The Visionary Legacy of René Lara Quiroz† in the Founding of the Department of Anthropology, the Chungara Journal and the Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa
Jorge Hidalgo, Julia Córdova-González, Patricia Soto-Heim, Liliana Ulloa, Lautaro Núñez y Calogero M. Santoro
Michael E. Moseley (3/29/1941 - 7/8/2024) . With a heavy heart I am writing to let you know that Dr. Michael E. Moseley passed away on July 8 at our Moquegua home. Mike suffered complications from a fall. I was with Mike at the time.
As per his wishes, Mike was cremated here in Peru. Some of Mike’s ashes will be scattered at some of the sites where Mike worked or where he inspired others to work in and around Moquegua.
Mike did not want a formal service. But I will host an open house at our Gainesville home in August (10th).
Mike was a mentor and inspiration to many archaeologists in the United States, Peru, and Bolivia.
You can find details regarding Mike’s career here in this profile published in PNAS after Mike was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001: Profile of Michael E. Moseley | PNAS
Mike retired from the University of Florida in 2016 but returned yearly to Moquegua during the austral summers. He greatly enjoyed seeing archaeology projects continue in the region in association with the Contisuyo Museum. In recent years Mike enjoyed the lovely climate of Moquegua, reading, sunsets, and feeding hummingbirds and doves.
Mike will be greatly missed by many friends, relatives, and particularly by his daughters Sedna and Maya, three grandchildren, and a young grandson.
Vincent Lee (11/7/1938 - 4/17/2024) . I have received the sad news that our friend and colleague Vincent Lee passed away on Wed. April 17. Vincent led a long and adventurous life, filled with friends in many countries and occupations. He is especially known to the Andean community for his work on Inca architecture and his relentless work in the remote Vilcabamba (Cusco) region. A celebration of his life is currently being planned.
Tristan Platt (1944-1924) . Tristan Platt, emeritus professor at the University of St Andrews, was the master ethnographer
of Macha Province in southwestern Bolivia for half a century. In "Espejos y Maíz" (1976) he introduced fundamental terms of
Andean studies such as tinkuy and yanantin. Soon afterward he created a pioneering political-economic ethnohistory of the rural
19th century (Estado boliviano y ayllu andino [1982]) illuminating what had been an anthropological dark age. He formed a
powerful franco-british research triad with Olivia Harris and Thierry Saignes, both now lost to us, which yielded
Qaraqara-Charka (2006). This vast work revealed the colonial and republican trajectory of large-scale Andean formations,
showing that not all Andean polity retreated to village level. In his last years Tristan lived to finish a project of
brotherly ethnography with his equally aged friend and interlocutor, the curaca of Macha Gregorio Carbajal. Defendiendo el
techo fiscal (2020) reproduces the entire inner corpus of the Macha Alasaa archive, and interprets it with rare
illustrations – even an album of the rubber stamps that sealed Macha authority. Tristan died from amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis ("Lou Gehrig's disease"). His last emails expressed tenacious love of all his homes: England,
Bolivia, Scotland and Spain.
The Instituto de Investigaciones Sociológicas - IDIS posted a remembrance on Facebook that includes this link to a bibliography of Tristan's work.
Antoinette Molinié (? - 3/2024) . Geoffrey Bodenhausen, her husband, communicates the passing of Antoinette Molinié, Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, due to cancer , at age 78, in Paris.
Antoinette will be remembered for her groundbreaking ethnographic and ethnohistoric work in Yucay (Calca, Cusco), anthropology of religion in Spain, and lately neo shamanism and new Inca identity in Cusco.
Also her warmth and generosity as a friend
Funeral will take place at the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise, 71, rue des Rondeaux à Paris 20e, on Friday 22 march 2024 at 3:30 pm
Lidia García (? - 2/9/2024) . On the evening of February 9th, Argentine archaeologist Lidia García suffered a fatal heart attack at her home on february 9th which was totally unexpected and shocking since she was in very good health. The news of her passing and funeral was delayed until her younger sister, who lives in Paris, was able to travel to Buenos Aires.
Last week we held an homage at the Instituto de Arqueología where several of us spoke about her contributions to the archaeological community, her work and career at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, her role as a docent to several generations of students, and lastly I spoke about her as a friend and contemporary. Many other people joined in and also spoke of many shared life experiences. It was really moving, spontaneous and did some justice to what she represented as a community to several generations of archaeologists. We then unveiled a small plaque to commemorate her presence at the Instituto.
There are several posts on the Instituto's Facebook fanpage /and instagram): https://www.facebook.com/IArqueoUBA and on the Department's facebook: https://www.facebook.com/depantropologia. The Tilcara unit of the UBA also posted a brief announcement: http://tilcara.filo.uba.ar/novedades/pesar-por-el-fallecimiento-dra-lidia-clara-garcia
Dorothy Menzel (1924-2/5/2024) .
This notice is to inform the Andean list of the sad loss one of our most valued colleagues, Dorothy (Dolly) Menzel. Born in 1924, she had not in fact reached her 100th birthday. Although in truth we already lost her when she had to move away from California in the mid-1970s.
She is remembered most of all for her seminal articles on the Middle Horizon, published in 1964 with a sequel in 1968, which provided style analysis and seriation of the many styles current during that time, which yielded a reconstruction of some of what had happened as a result of Huari dominance. She had based it on thorough research in many museums in the US and Peru to see the excavated collections as well as on a search of the literature and visits to the relevant sites. What she wrote mostly still stands, despite a few proposed revisions by other scholars since then, which would not have been possible without her lead.
She also seriated the Ica style of the Late Intermediate Period, the later portions of which she first wrote about for her dissertation at UC Berkeley in 1954, subsequently published in 1976 by the University of California Press. These works showed the Inca impact on the valley and how the people of Ica revived their own style after the Incas had been removed by the Spanish. An article comparing the Inca conquest of several south coast valleys published in 1959 was also ground breaking. Her article on the late ceramics of the Chincha valley preserved in the Uhle collection at Berkeley was published in 1966.
She had done her graduate work under John Rowe at UC Berkeley, and was the key scholar involved in his project of creating a chronology for pre-Hispanic Peru that was far more fine-grained than had ever been done before. In addition to her own research, she also wrote up Larry Dawson's seriation of the Early Horizon ceramics of the south coast since he could not be persuaded to write it himself. It was our loss that she never managed to write up the late Nasca materials, especially since she had excavated a stratified Nasca 7 site in Ica, that caused her to divide it into three subphases, which also showed increasing drought conditions.
Her final publication was an exhibition catalogue of the collection made for the UCB anthropology museum by the pioneering German archaeologist Max Uhle, funded by the museum's founder Phoebe Apperson Hearst. For this purpose, she had gone through his entire collection, checking all the documented associations, and attempting to integrate them with Rowe's chronological system. Her goal was to make the information accessible to non-specialists, and to discuss not only the ceramics but also other materials such as textiles, metalwork, and woodwork. It has still not been superseded.
She also worked with Francis (Fritz) A. Riddell on Late Horizon sites in the Acarí and Chala valleys in 1954, under the auspices of Victor von Hagen's Inca road project. She felt she and Fritz made a good team since he was better at excavation, and she was better at interpretation. Although they were married only briefly, she remained fond of him. He published her report on their excavations in 1986 under the auspices of the California Institute of Peruvian Studies, which he had founded after his retirement to support his ongoing research in Acarí.
Menzel was also a founding member of the Institute of Andean Studies, and its first Secretary-Treasurer. She was a lively and friendly person by nature, although in her later years she distanced herself from the field for various reasons.