The Chavín Phenomenon and Its Regional Manifestation
Iconography and material culture associated with the first-millennium BCE ceremonial center of Chavín de Huántar are readily identifiable and widespread in the Central Andes. Their …
Daniel A. Contreras
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Daniel Contreras is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He is an anthropological archaeologist whose research interests focus on past human-environment interactions over long timescales.
Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the development of durable sociopolitical inequality in …
John W. Rick
Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece)
This article provides the first detailed overview of Middle Paleolithic activity at the Naxian chert source of Stelida, based on an analysis of 780 artifacts collected from the …
Tristan Carter
Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas
Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean history
As anthropogenic climate change threatens to destabilize global societies and ecosystems, anticipating likely human responses becomes ever more urgent. A key global initiative is …
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Landscape taphonomy in the Bonneville Basin
Integrating archaeological and geomorphic data to improve reconstruction of past population dynamics by accounting for landscape taphonomy. PIs: Daniel Contreras (U Florida), Brian …
Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas
The South Coast of Peru, the location where Peru's widely used period/horizon relative ceramic chronology was established and where archaeological samples were obtained for the …
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Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece)
Since 2015, the Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP) has excavated a prehistoric site on what today is the northwest coast of Naxos, the largest island of the Cycladic …
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Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
Using the Central Andean Chavín Phenomenon as a case study, this paper explores the middle ground between top-down (big data) and bottom-up (Bayesian modeling) approaches to …
Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates