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Shady, Ruth - Jefa de Zona Arqueológica Caral. (20 minutos, 8 de junio 2012)
Shady, Ruth (April 11, 2013)
Ursula Wagner ( - 3 Nov 2021) . We deeply regret to inform our Andean archaeology colleagues of the recent passing of the internationally renowned archaeometry and Mössbauer spectroscopy specialist, Dr. Ursula ("Ursel") Wagner. She was trained as a chemist and did her Diploma and Ph.D. theses at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. She also completed post-doctorate research under Garman Harbottle at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Along with her husband, Friedrich ("Fritz") Wagner, Professor of Physics at the TUM Physics Department, much of her long and highly productive career was devoted to the application and promotion of Mössbauer spectroscopy, particularly in illuminating the characteristics and technologies of ancient ceramics and metals and their roles in the Central Andes (Montegrande, Chavín, Sicán, Chimú, and Inca) and Central Europe (Celtic). Her archaeometric study of the ceramics found inside the Galerías de Ofrendas at Chavín de Huántar confirmed that they were produced at diverse locations in Peru and brought to the site. Similarly, her comprehensive analysis was critical in unlocking the secret of Sicán blackware production.
While her devotion to Mössbauer spectroscopy was widely known, she passionately advocated interdisciplinary collaboration. More importantly, she practiced it until late in her career. Together with Fritz, she led the Munich Archaeometry Group. She eagerly participated in archaeological fieldwork to firmly grasp the physical and cultural contexts of the objects and material she analyzed and collected samples in close consultation with archaeologists to maximize the depth and breadth of information to be gained. She also advocated and practiced a stepwise and multi-technique approach to archaeometric problems. Thus Mössbauer spectroscopy was commonly combined with neutron activation analysis, X-ray diffraction, thin-section microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray radiography. To investigate the production technology of ancient ceramics, laboratory and field experiments also formed an integral methodological component.
She was truly a model scientist and an ideal collaborator - cautious, empirically rigorous, systematic, intellectually curious, constantly seeking to refine her understanding of issues at hand through many question-answer sessions, and very generous with her time and knowledge. She will be greatly missed in the profession and by those who knew and worked with her.
Jürgen Golte (09/03/1943 Gdansk - 07/29/2021 Lima) . Jürgen Golte held the chair of Anthropology of the Americas at the Institute for Latin American Studies from 1980 to 2009. During this nearly three-decade tenure at the Freie Universität Berlin, he shaped teaching and research on the Americas as well as the regional focus on the Andean Area by innovatively and consistently applying a perspective of long historical duration, spanning the pre-colonial period to the present. His internationally acclaimed research addresses the economic and social history of Peru's peasants from the time of the Inca state to the present, the "andinization" of Peru's capital in the wake of 20th-century migration from the highlands, and the iconography of pre-Inca Moche, Nazca, and Tiahuanaco cultures; he has pioneeringly examined collections housed at the Ethnological Museum Berlin and the National Museum of Anthropology, Archaeology and History in Lima.
Jürgen Golte studied Anthropology of the Americas in Bonn, Lima and Berlin, among others with Herrmann Trimborn, John Murra, José Matos Mar and Gerdt Kutscher; under Jürgen Golte, in turn, numerous Ancient Americanists earned their doctorates and habilitations (advanced post-doctoral studies), who today work at universities and research institutions in Germany and Peru. During his studies he had already built an academic bridge between Europe and the countries of the Andean region. His long-standing cooperation with the Universidad Nacional de San Marcos in Lima, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011, as well as with the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos internationalized German Latin American research. To this day, this forms a basis of close binational cooperation and joint research projects. In recent years, as a public intellectual, he has continued to generate lively and fruitful debates not only within the discipline, but also among a broad Spanish-speaking public, among other contributions, with the new edition of his ethnohistorical study on the Túpac Amaru II rebellion and ethnological field research (together with Doris León) on "Aymara liberalism."
We remember Jürgen Golte at the Institute for Latin American Studies because of this rich academic work and the friendly exchange in our daily work. For this we remain attached to him as a colleague and friend with great gratitude and will honor his memory.
We extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.
Julie Jones (August 26th, 1935 - June 22nd, 2021) .The Trustees and staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art mourn the passing of Julie Jones, Curator Emerita and preeminent scholar of Precolumbian art. Julie was a beloved member of the staff for 38 years, serving 21 years as the head of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, including six years as Andrall E. Pearson Curator in Charge. She began her career at the Museum of Primitive Art, and after that museum’s collection was gifted to The Met, she became Curator of Precolumbian art in the newly-established Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Julie’s leadership and scholarship were integral to the success of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing from its founding until her retirement in 2013. She organized a number of exhibitions at the Museum of Primitive Art and at the Met showcasing the art of the ancient Andes, beginning with “Art of Empire: The Inca of Peru” (1964), and “Desert Valley: Early Works from Ica, Peru” (1983) and continuing on through “Andean Four-Cornered Hats” (1990) and “Ancient Peruvian Mantles” (1995). Julie’s passion and dedication for her field of study – and her ever-lively personality – were treasured by all who knew her, and she will be greatly missed. We send our condolences to her family for this loss. Candace Beinecke, Co-Chair; Hamilton E. James, Co-Chair; Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO; Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director.
Billie Jean Isbell (1937 - June 26, 2021) . With a heavy heart I write with news that Billie Jean Isbell passed away on June 26 in Casa Real Nursing Home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her son Cid was with her. She was 84.
Professor Emerita at Cornell University, Billie Jean Isbell was a consummate ethnographer and preeminent figure in Andean studies. Her book To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village – a study of ritual life, kinship, sociopolitical organization, urban migration and political conflict in the community of Chuschi, Peru – has become a classic of Andeanist literature. Her work on Andean gender identity – which, she argued, goes through a series of transformations throughout the life cycle – placed traditional studies of Andean gender complementarity in a new, more sophisticated framework. Deeply affected by the devastation visited on Chuschi during the Shining Path insurgency, she worked extensively with human rights organizations and victim associations to record the testimonials of refugees from the war. Her novel Finding Cholita, a fictionalized ethnography exploring the long-term effects of chronic violence in the Ayacucho region, was awarded honorable mention for the Victor Turner prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology in 2009.
Billie Jean possessed tremendous joie de vivre which enabled her to surmount childhood poverty and lifelong ill health with grace and good humor. She lived life expansively with style and a great sense of fun. Her friends will long cherish memories of her spectacular garden, delicious cooking and evenings spent deep in conversation.
Pieter Muysken (1950-2021) . We deeply mourn the loss of our esteemed friend and colleague Pieter Muysken, who passed away the night of April 6, 2021 after a months-long battle with an aggressive, incurable form of cancer.
Pieter Muysken was born in 1950 in Oruro, in the highlands of Bolivia. The altitude of Oruro, at over 3,700 meters, symbolizes for us his elevatedly profound and many-leveled contribution to linguistics. He contributed to fields as diverse as generative grammar, theoretical morphology, South American Indigenous languages, historical linguistics, codeswitching, areal linguistics, language description, minority languages, typology and, of course, the study of pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages. Having learned Spanish, Quechua and Dutch as a child, he added a significant number of other languages to his repertoire of spoken languages, including Papiamentu. He was instrumental in the establishment of at least two journals devoted to creolistics: Amsterdam Creole Studies in the 1970s and the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages in the 1980s.
His work in the realm of pidgins and creoles was groundbreaking in several areas: the study of creole languages from a generative perspective, the syntax of Papiamentu, the study of older texts in the Dutch creole from the Virgin Islands and the languages of Suriname, the establishment of the existence of mixed languages through his work on the mixed Quechua-Spanish language Media Lengua, and its embedding in a model of language contact in general. His productivity as a scholar was exceptional, with a book every year or two, and hundreds of articles, generating fresh ideas and insights up to just weeks before the diagnosis.
Through the (co-)organization of numerous workshops and conferences in Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen (the three places where he worked as a professor) and elsewhere, he brought many people together, leading to all forms of collaboration. At the 1986 conference on substrates versus universals in Amsterdam, he and his colleagues laid the groundwork for the creation of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics and the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.
His energy and ability to obtain grants—probably more than anyone else in his home country—supported many dozens of young linguists who were able to pursue their dreams thanks to his helping hand. And he may be the only person who at a conference on language contact could boast of having supervised the PhD dissertations of all but one of the conference participants.
As a human being, he was universally well liked, incredibly warm, and diplomatic yet honest. He was exceptionally generous with his knowledge, with his local and global networks, and with his time and his humanity, always ready to help others. Hundreds of linguists the world over continue to develop the intellectual and human legacy he created. The world of creolistics, contact linguistics, and the world at large, have lost one of their exemplary human beings and scholars.
Jeffrey R. Parsons (1940 - March 19, 2021) . Jeff Parsons died last night at the University of Michigan hospital. He was first diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and then found to have cardiac issues. His wife, Mary, was with him. He was an unusually kind colleague and a fine scholar.
Alina Wong ( - January 15, 2021) .It´s with deep sadness that I have to communicate the pass away of Alina Wong, an IFEA archaeologist, from a disease derived from sars-cov-2 yesterday, January 15, 2021.
Alina graduated in San Marcos University, Lima, and was from the very begin of her career attached to the French projects on Central Highland´s Peru conducted by Elizabeth Bonnier and Daniele Lavallee. She specialized in Late-Intermediate pottery and further in bioarcheology. She also worked for the EPAF (Forensic Anthropology Peruvian Team) in Peru and overseas. Everyone who dropped by the IFEA Library in Lima could probably remember her kind welcome and ability to find papers and provide solutions to any query in bibliography.
We all will miss Alina.
John P. Protzen (1934- January 10, 2021)
It deeply saddens me to report that Jean-Pierre Protzen, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley died in Switzerland on Sunday, January 10, 2021. His beloved wife and companion Elsbeth had passed on a few days before. While his death was attributed to Covid-19, it was surely hastened by a broken heart. Jean-Pierre made enormous contributions to Andean archaeology, especially in his studies of stone and adobe architecture in the Inca sites of Sacsayhuaman, Ollantaytambo, and Tambo Colorado, as well as at Tiahuanaco. His understanding of quarrying and construction led to both detailed and broad conclusions about the general nature of these sites and the cultures that produced them. He was Chair of the College of Environmental Design as an architect with particular interests in the logic of design, and in mid-career became fascinated with the architecture of powerful Andean states, particularly monumental works in stone. His studies provide the basis for understanding the stone-fitting techniques of the Inca and Tiahuanaco builders, a field previously plagued by speculation. He was long a Director of the Institute of Andean Studies, and he served as Vice President, then President, for twelve years, providing much-appreciated, thoughtful leadership to his colleagues, together with Elsbeth, who was Treasurer for a decade. Those of us privileged with his presence in our own field investigations found our understanding of our architectural issues illuminated by his logical, insightful perceptions and uplifted by his friendship. He will be greatly and broadly missed.
Ricardo Valderrama Fernández (1945-2020) .
Jorge Flores Ochoa (1935 - August 21, 2020) . eminent Cuzqueño anthropologist, died yesterday after a week-long struggle with corona virus. He was 85 years old. Flores Ochoa was well known for his ethnographic work among llama and alpaca herders (Pastores de Paratia) but he also wrote prolifically about the culture of Cusco and its transformation from Inca times to the present. His work on colonial ritual drinking vessels (keros) and mystical tourism were also major contributions to the field. He was an influential professor at the University of Cusco (UNSAAC) and served as the Rector of this institution. He also served as director of the Museo Inka and Cuzco's office of the National Institute of Culture. HIs accomplishments were recognized internationally with a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award and in Peru where he was honored with the Orden al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos en el Grado de Gran Cruz.
Miguel Pazos ( - July ?, 2020 . was an archaeologist trained at the San Marcos University (UNMSM). A native of Ica, he specialized in the prehistory of the south coast and carried out pioneering research on the Nasca culture. Among his many projects, he excavated with Helaine Silverman at Cahuachi and surveyed the Upper Ingenio Valley with Carlos Williams. He taught at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal as well as holding various positions in archaeological administration. He was married to archaeologist Carmen Gabe until her recent death. Miguel will long be remembered as a kind, gentle and generous person with a deep knowledge of south coast prehistory.
Paul Ossa (September 22, 1943 - May 31, 2020) . best known to most of us for his work at La Cumbre, a Paleoindian site in the Moche Valley in the 1970s, died May 31, 2020, in Berkeley, CA. Paul had a very mixed career, although he always focused on early human cultures. A native of Chile, he immigrated to the United States with his family at age 10. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and then spent 2 years at Cambridge University on a fellowship. While at Cambridge he spent a number of vacations in Bordeaux with François Bordes’ group, although he never joined a formal program there. He then got his PhD. at Harvard, working in Peru on the Chanchan-Moche Valley Project, which culminated in his dissertation in 1973 (“La Cumbre. A Survey of the Lithic Preceramic Occupation of the Moche Valley, North Coastal Peru, Harvard University, 1973), although the gist of his research was published in an article in 1971 in Ñawpa Pacha. The South American Paleoindian period was just beginning to attract serious attention and Paul brought to it expertise and knowledge of the advances in study and classification of lithic technologies that had been developed in France.
Robert L. Carneiro (1927-2020) . Bob Carneiro died peacefully on the morning of June 24, listening to Beethoven with his son, Brett.
Eduardo Pareja Siñani (1957 - June 23, 2020) . He was a great colleague, mentor, friend, and a renown Bolivian archaeologist who for many decades was the head of archaeological conservation in the Department of La Paz. His main contributions lie in field and laboratory conservation and restauration projects for many decades, including Tiwanaku, Copacabana, Samaipata, Pasto Grande, Chiripa, Khonko Wankane, and Conchamarka. Eduardo Pareja was a pioneer in the field of sub-aquatic archaeology in the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. He also aided and participated in many international projects in Bolivia. He is leaving us a path to follow, and a cultural legacy which should never be forgotten. He will be missed for his incisive intellect, concern for the future of the past, sense of humor, and his generosity of spirit. Eduardo is survived by his wife Virginia and his children Ariel, Noemi, and Ivar. We will miss him greatly, and ask those who knew him to remember and honor him in their own way for now.
Warren DeBoer ( - May 24, 2020) .
Gerald Taylor (1933 - April 1, 2020 .
Colin McEwan (1951 - March 28, 2020) .Colin McEwan passed away Saturday morning, March 28th, after a year-long battle with leukemia. His wife Norma Rosso was with him when he left us to join the Pachamama. Born in Scotland in 1951, but raised in New Zealand, he became a citizen of the world at an early age when he embarked on a continuous journey of exploration and discovery. Colin was always driven and on a perpetual search for deeper meaning and truth in all he examined. His professional life took him throughout Latin America and to positions in London and the United States. Colin loved and enjoyed life fully and his work passionately. He fought his illness to the very end and continued to write contributions for his publication projects into March of this year. Colin is survived by his wife Norma, his sister Margaret, and his father Robin McEwan.
Patrick Carmichael (November 23, 1952 - March 12, 2020) . I am passing along the sad news of Patrick Carmichael's recent passing. I received the notice below from one of his family members. Patrick was a great friend and an excellent colleague and mentor. It is with great sadness that we receive this news. He was frequently in our thoughts in recent weeks as he was undergoing treatment. We will miss him greatly.
John W. Janusek (1963-2019) photo
Dwight Wallace . Dwight received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1954 under John Rowe. After a stint at the University of Oregon, he spent most of his career at SUNY Albany. After his dissertation on Tiwanaku pottery, Dwight worked on the south coast of Peru, notably carrying out a survey of Chincha and Pisco under the Fulbright program in the late 1950s and then working in Ica, particularly at Cerillos. After some decades researching in Mesoamerica, Dwight returned to the south coast of Peru in publications drawn on his earlier field work and in renewed field work in Ica.
Dwight was a good friend to many of us and will be missed. Submitted by Dan Sandweiss
John Cohen (1932-2019) . I am sad to report the passing of John Cohen, perhaps best known for his recording and photography of numerous musicians from Appalachia as well as the New York art and music scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition he was part of the performing group, the New Lost City Ramblers (recordings issued by Smithsonian Folkways). He also taught visual arts at SUNY, Purchase, between 1972 and 1997.
Bernard White Bell, Jr. (11/11/1948 - 08/07/2019) . Dr. Bernard Bell was killed Thursday morning in an auto accident en route
from Denver to Cortez, Colorado. He had a PhD in optical science and had specialized in lasers
prior to his retirement a few years ago, whereupon he pursued his longtime interest in archaeoastronomy.
Like me, he had a special interest in Vilcabamba and we shared many expeditions over the years.
Much of his work there centered on alignments and shadow casting among the many enigmatically carved
stones at Vitcos and nearby Ñusta Ispanan. His work determined the purpose of the remote but closely
related Punkuyoc complex, showing that observances from the near perfectly-preserved Inkahuasi
there marked both solstices and the equinox passage, establishing the structure as the only
surviving Inka “observatory” yet identified. He and I together found two rare, surviving skyline
pylons bracketing the Inti Raymi sunrise and he discovered that the Capac Raymi sunrise shines
directly through the building’s centerline via its doorways and an aligned interior window.
He was working on possible lunar and stellar observations from the site during a trip there we
shared there just this June. He was a member of the Institute of Andean Studies at Berkeley and
the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest. We go way back. I miss him.
Patricia Escola ( - 2019). Con profundo dolor comparto la noticia del fallecimiento de la Dra. Patricia Escola. Investigadora Independiente del CONICET y Profesora Titular en la Escuela de Arqueología de la Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, dirigió gran cantidad de proyectos de investigación y fue autora de una extensa y valiosa producción académica, destacándose su aportes sobre el material lítico de las sociedades agropastoriles andinas. Asimismo tuvo un gran desempeño como formadora de recursos humanos, siendo directora y co-directora de numerosos Investigadores, Becarios y Doctorandos. Lo más importante fue una excelente persona, querida y respetada por todos aquellos que tuvimos la fortuna de conocerla. La recordaremos y extrañaremos por siempre. Daniel Olivera
With deep pain I share the news of the death of Dr. Patricia Escola. Independent Researcher of CONICET and Full Professor at the School of Archeology of the National University of Catamarca, she directed a large number of research projects and was the author of an extensive and valuable academic production, highlighting her contributions on the lytic material of the Andean agro-pastoral societies. She also had a great performance as a human resources trainer, being director and co-director of numerous Researchers, Fellows and PhD students. The most important thing was an excellent person, loved and respected by all those who had the fortune to meet her. We will remember it and miss it forever.
Dennis Stanford ( ). Sadly, Dennis Stanford, Curator of First Americans collections at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, passed away yesterday morning. Dennis was a strong supporter of early people and other research in Latin America, having visited and/or worked with several colleagues in several countries, including Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and Argentina. Perhaps, above all, over the past forty-five years he helped many Latin American scholars to obtain research grants and fellowships from the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian. In addition, Dennis carried out numerous research projects in Alaska, various areas of the United States, and western Europe. In recent years, he (and his co-author Bruce Bradley) is perhaps best known for his Solutrean model of the peopling of the western coast of the United States. He will be missed for his experience, insight, good humor, and friendship.
Lamentablemente, Dennis Stanford, curador de colecciones de los Primeros Americanos en el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de la Institución Smithsonian, falleció ayer. Dennis fue un firme partidario de las investigaciones sobre los primeros pobladores de América Latina. Dennis ha visitado y/o trabajado con varios colegas en varios países, incluidos México, Panamá, Ecuador, Perú, Chile y Argentina. Quizás, sobre todo, durante los últimos cuarenta y cinco años ayudó a muchos académicos latinoamericanos a obtener becas de investigación de la National Geographic Society y del Smithsonian. Además, Dennis llevó a cabo numerosos proyectos de investigación en Alaska, varias áreas de los Estados Unidos y Europa occidental. En los últimos años, él (y su coautor Bruce Bradley) es quizás mejor conocido por su modelo de Solutrean de la población de la costa oriental de los Estados Unidos. Se lo extrañará por su experiencia, perspicacia, buen humor y amistad.
Thomas A. Abercrombie (22 January 1951 – 11 April 2019).Tom was Professor of Anthropology at NYU and author of
Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People (U. of Wisconsin, 1998). He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Penry, daughter Chloe, and grandchildren.
Ann Kendall (1/6/ - 2/23/2019).Ann completed an MA in Interdisciplinary Archaeology in 1970 at the University of California, Los Angeles
and then studied for her PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London with Prof. Warwick Bray, culminating in an influential
thesis on Inca Architecture. In 1977 she established the Cusichaca Archaeological Project which became one of the largest multi-disciplinary
projects in the Peruvian Andes. The Cusichaca Archaeological Project provided a formative experience for many who have gone on to lead
commercial archaeology, research and heritage work in Peru, the UK, USA and beyond. Ann continued to work in Peru, through sometimes
turbulent periods, for over 40 years establishing and directing the Cusichaca Trust. With Ann’s enthusiasm and guidance, the Cusichaca
Trust undertook archaeology, ecology, ethnography and rural development work with innovative forms of community engagement. Rural development
work became the main focus of the Cusichaca Trust which continued an inspirational range of activities particularly focusing on the
investigation and rehabilitation of ancient agricultural systems. This work benefited from, and contributed to, many communities in Peru
(particularly in the areas around the departments of Cuzco, Apurimac and Ayacucho). Ann was most proud and passionate about her rural
development initiatives and she published about these as well as her archaeological research. The Cusichaca Archive, incorporating the
papers, photographs, plans etc. from the work of both the Cusichaca Archaeological Project and the Cusichaca Trust, is now being catalogued
and made accessible through the Senate House Library, University of London where it will be available for future researchers. Ann was an
Honorary Research Associate of the UCL Institute of Archaeology; was awarded the Order of Merit by the Peruvian Government in 1980 and in
1994 received an O.B.E. for her contribution to overseas development work. In recent years Ann was living in Spain with developing dementia,
supported by her son Paul.