Research in Central Peru

Charles M. Hastings
Central Michigan University

Central Sierra & Ceja de Montaña

Updated 27 June 2006.

View northeast down the Río Tarma
canyon toward Chanchamayo.

     

 


 

Hastings Research Areas in Central Peru

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Departments of Junín and Pasco

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Area A:

  • Systematic archaeological survey and reconnaissance 

  • Zones:  Puna, Qichwa, and Ceja de Montaña

  • Where:  around Tarma, Acobamba, Palcamayo, and Huasahuasi

  • With:  Jeffrey Parsons and Ramiro Matos

  • When:  1975-1976, 1980

 
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Area B:

  • Reconnaissance, systematic archaeological survey, mapping, small-scale excavation, and ethnographic study
  • Zones:  Ceja de Montaña and Montaña
  • Where:  between Huasahuasi and La Merced in the Huasahuasi, lower Tarma, lower Ulcumayo, Oxabamba, lower Tulumayo, and Chanchamayo valleys
  • When:  1976, 1979-1980, 1984, 1988, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004

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Area C:

  • Brief archaeological reconnaissance
  • Zone:  Ceja de Montaña and Montaña
  • Where:  around Vitoc, Monobamba, Uchubamba, and (off the map) Comas, all in the R. Tulumayo drainage
  • With:  Enrique Mayer (Uchubamba)
  • When:  1980, 1984, 2003
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Area D:

  • Brief archaeological reconnaissance
  • Zone:  Qichwa
  • Where:  above Ulcumayo
  • With:  Christine Hastorf
  • When:  1980
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Area E:

  • Brief archaeological reconnaissance
  • Zone:  Puna and Qichwa
  • Where:  between Ninacaca and Huachón
  • With:  Richard Smith and Manuel Perales
  • When:  1999
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Other, not shown:

  • Systematic archaeological survey
  • Zone:  Qichwa
  • Where:  between Jauja and Huancayo in Yanamarca and Upper Mantaro valleys
  • With:  Jeffrey Parsons and Ramiro Matos
  • When:  1975
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Hastings Field Activity in Central Peru

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  • 2004.  Project:  Eastern Outposts in the Chanchamayo Frontier.  Supported in part by a grant from the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust.  The second of a two-season project, concentrating on excavations within the Pichita Site, some additional survey in the Pichita - La Lora area, and processing of excavation and survey collections.
     
  • 2003.  Project:  Eastern Outposts in the Chanchamayo Frontier.  Supported in part by a grant from the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust and three grants from Central Michigan University (a College Development fund, Friends of Anthropology Fund, and the Physical Anthropology Laboratory Fund).  The first of a two-season program of intensive survey, mapping, excavation, and analysis.
  • 2001.  Return visits to known archaeological sites in the upper Chanchamayo montaña; brief journey up the Oxabamba and lower Ulcumayo valleys; consultations regarding ethnographic interests, amateur archaeology, recent mining developments, and ongoing efforts to establish the Pampa Hermosa national park.  Expanded public relations efforts, including television and university speaking engagements.
  • 1999.  Examination of archaeological sites and artifact collections in multiple environmental zones in the Departments of Pasco and Junín, in collaboration with others from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, the University of St. Petersburg, the University of Michigan, and the National Museum of the American Indian.
  • 1998.  Consultations with mining personnel, university archaeologists, and local villagers regarding the resumption of field work in the eastern Andes of the Department of Junín.
  • 1995.  Preliminary reconnaissance for the resumption of field work in the eastern Andes of the Department of Junín, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
  • 1988-1989.  Project:  Prehispanic Colonization of the Montaña Margin in Eastern Junín, Peru. Survey and analysis funded by the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust, discontinued due to increasing political violence.  Position:  principal investigator.
  • 1984.  Brief return visits to selected lowland sites in the Department of Junín.
  • 1979-1980.  Project:  Prehistoric Vertical Economy in the Eastern Andes: the Tarama of Central Peru.  Survey and excavation funded by the National Science Foundation and Rackham School of Graduate Studies.  Position: principal investigator.
  • 1975-1976.  Project:  Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro, Peru.  Archaeological survey in the central highlands, Department of Junín, conducted by the University of Michigan and Universidad de San Marcos, and supported by the National Science Foundation.  Directors:  Jeffrey R. Parsons and Ramiro Matos M.  Positions:  field assistant and assistant field director.
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Relevant Publications, Unpublished Reports, and Other Manuscripts

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  • n.d.  [Spanish translation of Rebuilding the State in Highland Peru..., to appear in Revista Andina, Cuzco, Peru].
  • 1997.  Rebuilding the State in Highland Peru:  Herder-Cultivator Interaction during the Late Intermediate Period in the Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region.  Latin American Antiquity 8(4): 317-341, (co-author with J. R. Parsons and R. Matos M.).
  • 1989.   Interim Report on the 1988 Field Season, Prehispanic Colonization of the Montaña Margin in Eastern Junín, Peru.  Submitted to the H. John Heinz III Charitable Trust.
  • 1988. The Late Intermediate Period.  In An Overview of Peruvian Prehistory, pp. 190-229, edited by R. W. Keatinge, New York: Cambridge University Press (co-author with J. R. Parsons).
  • 1987. Implications of Andean Verticality in the Evolution of Political Complexity:  A View from the Margins.  In The Origins and Development of the Andean State, pp. 145-157, edited by J. Haas, S. Pozorski, and T. Pozorski, Cambridge University Press.
  • 1985. The Eastern Frontier:  Settlement and Subsistence in the Andean Margins of Central Peru.  903 pp., doctoral dissertation of the Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.
  • 1981.  Economía Vertical Prehispánica en los Andes Orientales:  Los Taruma del Perú Central.  Progress report on fieldwork conducted in 1979-1980, 72 pp., submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima.
  • 1981.  Prehistoric Vertical Economy in the Eastern Andes:  The Taruma of Central Peru.  Progress report on fieldwork conducted in 1979-1980, 64 pp., submitted to the National Science Foundation.
  • 1977.  Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro, Peru.  A Progress Report on the 1976 Field Season.  79 pp., submitted to the National Science Foundation and Instituto Nacional de Cultura (co-author with J.R. Parsons).
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Relevant Presentations at Professional Conferences

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  • 2005.  Archaeology and Sustainable Development in the Eastern Andes of Peru.  24th Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, American University, Washington, DC.  ABSTRACT
     
  • 2002.  East of Pumpu:  New Evidence of Inka Control of the Puna-Valley Connection.  Co-authored with Carmen Arellano Hoffmann, Richard Chase Smith, and Manuel F. Perales Munguía.  To be presented at the symposium Domination and Resistance in the Inka Empire, organized by Sonia Alconini and Axel Nielsen in the Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 20-24, Denver, Colorado.  ABSTRACT
  • 2001.  Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Andes:  An Update on the Oxabamba Valley.  Presented at the Twentieth Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Brescia College and the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.  ABSTRACT
  • 2001.  Investigaciones Arqueológicas de la Prehistoria Tardía en la Montaña Central del Perú.  Special colloquium held at the Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión in La Merced, Chanchamayo Province, Peru.
  • 2001.  Perspectives on Changing Highland-lowland Relationships from the Ulcumayo Valley of Central Peru.  Presented in the symposium The Andean-Amazonian Connection:  Diachronic Relationships, in the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.  ABSTRACT
  • 2001.  Puna-Valley Relationships in the Huachón Valley, Central Peru.  Co-authored with Manuel Perales Munguía.  Presented at the Twenty-ninth Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Ann Arbor, Michigan.  ABSTRACT
  • 1999. Changing Concepts of Fortification in the Eastern Andes of Central Peru.  Presented in the symposium Warfare and Regional Conflict in the Andes:  Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives, in the Sixty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois.  ABSTRACT
  • 1997.  Frontier Fortress Functions in the Eastern Andes:  Fact or Fiction?  Paper presented to the International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador.  ABSTRACT
  • 1995.  Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Ceja de Montaña de JunÍn, Peru, en Relación a los Andes Orientales de Jujuy.  Presented in the Anthropology Colloquium of the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.  
  • 1993.  Asháninka Settlement in the Upper Montaña of Peru.  Presented at the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri.  ABSTRACT
  • 1991. Small Sites in Late Intermediate Settlement Patterns of the Eastern Peruvian Andes.  Presented at the Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.  ABSTRACT
  • 1991. An Update and Prognosis for Chanchamayo Archaeology, Eastern Peru.  Presented at the Nineteenth Annual Midwest Conference of Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
  • 1990. Archaeological Research in the Eastern Andes of Peru.  Presented to the Saginaw Valley Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society, Saginaw, Michigan.
  • 1989. Patrones de Asentamiento Prehispánicas en la Ceja de Montaña.  Colloquium presentation at the Museo Nacional de Antropología y Arqueología, Lima, Peru.
  • 1989. Intensified Archaeological Survey in the Central Peruvian Montaña.  Presented at the Fifty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 1989. Prehistoric Occupations of the Eastern Andes of Peru.  Presented to the Little Forks Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society, Midland, Michigan.
  • 1988. Reconocimiento Arqueológico en los Andes Orientales del Perú Central.  Presented at the Primera Convención Peruana de Arqueología Andina, Asociación Peruana de Arqueología, Villa La Paz, Ricardo Palma, Peru.
  • 1988. Stylisitic Variability in the Central Peruvian Ceja de Montaña.  Presented at the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, California.
  • 1987. Prehispanic Ethnicity in the Eastern Andes of Central Peru: Wading through the Quagmire.  Presented at the Sixth Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
  • 1987. Pre-Contact Campa Occupation of the Upper Chanchamayo Valley, Eastern Peru.  Presented at the Fifteenth Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • 1986. Herders in the Jungle: Ethnic Continuity across Ecological Boundaries in Central Peru.  Presented at the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • 1985. Research Prospects for the Tulumayo, an Eastern Valley of Central Peru.  Presented at the Thirteenth Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1982. Implications of Andean Verticality in the Evolution of Political Complexity:  A View from the Margins.  Presented in the symposium "The Origins and Development of the Andean State," at the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
  • 1982. Highland Settlements in Eastern Forests:  Late Intermediate Colonization of the Central Peruvian Ceja de Montaña.  Presented at the Tenth Annual Midwest Conference on Andean And Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • 1981. Territorial Verticality in the Eastern Andes of Central Peru.  Presented at the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, California.
  • 1981. Regional Survey in the Eastern Andes of Central Peru.  Presented at the Ninth Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Columbia, Missouri.
  • 1978. Prehistoric and Early Colonial Connections Between the Sierra and Montaña of Tarma, Peru.  Presented at the Sixth Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.
  • 1977.   Prehispanic Subsistence Strategies and Settlement Patterns in Tarma Province, Peru.  Presented at the Fifth Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Bloomington, Indiana.
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A Few Relevant Links Concerning the Department of Junín

Mainly Highlands / Sierra & Ceja de Montaña
Mainly Lowlands / Montaña & Selva
More on the Eastern Andes, Montaña, and Selva beyond Junín
  • Oxapampa - Overview of the province and its districts (Department of Pasco)

  • ENVIPE - Danish study of human impact on eastern humid montane forests, especially Chachapoyas

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