Science: Archaeology: Regional: South America: Peru

Picture gallery of archaeological ceramics. Selections from archaeological research papers by Bruce Owen, Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA. Full browse able text, abstracts, references, and selected graphics presented at academic conferences.

Pictures, text excerpts, and advertisement by Keith Muscutt, author of a book on the ancient Chachapoya of Peru.

Located in the lower to mid valley, on the left bank of the Moche river on a plain below the imposing Cerro Blanco.

National Geographic's interactive expedition up Mount Ampato, Peru, with Johan Reinhard.

Moche ruins are located in river valleys of Northern Peru. These centers flourished until c.1000 C.E., when the Moche abruptly vanished.

The famous Inca settlement of Ollantaytambo, Peru, is in imminent danger from a new highway project that would destroy Inca agricultural terraces.

NOVA Online presents an expedition to Peru in search of Incan mummies on Mt. Sara Sara.

A virtual tour of the Inca Trail, complete with photographs and an interactive map.

From Smithsonian Magazine, excavations at Peru's Caral site suggest cities appeared in the Americas 1,000 years earlier than experts believed.

Paper by Matthew S. Bandy which reevaluates existing models of the early ceramic periods of Moquegua.

Paper by Bruce Owen which reports on systematic site survey in two early ceramic domestic and mortuary sites to clarify patterns of subsistence, settlement, mortuary practices, regional cultural affiliations, and chronology in the coastal Osmore valley.

An archaeology excavation aimed at recovering human skeletal remains and the associated cultural material so we may better understand the health status and lifeways of this valley's past inhabitants.

A theory on how the Incas could have efficiently cut a stone (still on the ground) to fit perfectlty in a hole in a wall under construction

From National Geographic, images, articles, and links.

From the New Scientist, ancient sacrificed remains of 200 fishermen have been excavated from a beach in Peru.

From BBC, archaeologists discover thousands of mummies in a Lima shanty town dating from the last decades of the Inca civilization.