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  • Publications
    • The Chavín Phenomenon and Its Regional Manifestation
    • Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • Climate stability and low population pressure predict peaceful interactions over 10,000 years of Central Andean history
    • Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas
    • Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece)
    • Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
    • Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece)
    • Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas
    • Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine Perspective from El-Hemmeh (Jordan)
    • Google Earth Engine for Archaeologists: An Updated Look at the Progress and Promise of Remotely Sensed Big Data
    • Landscape Taphonomy Predictably Complicates Demographic Reconstruction
    • Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates
    • The Jarigole Mortuary Tradition Reconsidered
    • El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America
    • Climate and Demography Drive 7000 Years of Dietary Change in the Central Andes
    • Detecting and Mapping the `Ephemeral': Magnetometric Survey of a Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
    • Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée
    • Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes
    • Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
    • The Freston Causewayed Enclosure, Suffolk: Initial Insight and Hypothetical History
    • Traditions Émergentes: Chavín et Cupisnique
    • The Influence of Ancient Herders on Soil Development at Luxmanda, Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
    • A New Minoan-type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos
    • Comment on Arnold et~al. ``Drought and the Collapse of the Tiwanaku Civilization: New Evidence from Lake Orurillo, Peru'' [Quat. Sci. Rev. 251 (2021): 106693]
    • Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface
    • Estudios Paleodemográficos Basados En Conjuntos de Dataciones Radiométricas. Una Revisión Crítica
    • Review of Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management, by Ludomir R. Lozny and Thomas H. McGovern, Eds.
    • Earliest Occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for Hominin and Homo Sapiens' Behavior and Dispersals
    • From Paleoclimate Variables to Prehistoric Agriculture: Using a Process-Based Agroecosystem Model to Simulate the Impacts of Holocene Climate Change on Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence, France
    • Public Archaeology's Mammoth in the Room: Engaging Wikipedia as a Tool for Teaching and Outreach
    • Hacia Una Geoarqueología Del Paisaje Andina: Paisaje, Medioambiente, y Acción Humana En Chavín de Huántar
    • Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
    • Reaching the Human Scale: A Spatial and Temporal Downscaling Approach to the Archaeological Implications of Paleoclimate Data
    • Regional Paleoclimates and Local Consequences: Integrating GIS Analysis of Diachronic Settlement Patterns and Process-Based Agro-ecosystem Modeling of Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence (France)
    • Characterization of the Siliceous Rocks at Stélida, an Early Prehistoric Lithic Quarry (Northwest Naxos, Greece), by Petrography and Geochemistry: A First Step towards Chert Sourcing
    • Correlation Is Not Enough - Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions
    • Not Just a Pyramid Scheme? Diversity in Ritual Architecture at Chavín de Huántar
    • Open Science in Archaeology
    • Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A El-Hemmeh, Jordan
    • The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interaction: Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past
    • The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Studies of an Early Prehistoric Chert Quarry in the Cyclades
    • Early Holocene Interaction in the Aegean Islands: Mesolithic Chert Exploitation at Stélida (Naxos, Greece) in Context
    • La Incorporación de La Tradición Mito En El Ámbito Ritual de Chavín de Huántar
    • Spherulites and Aspiring Elites: The Identification, Distribution, and Consumption of Giali Obsidian (Dodecanese, Greece).
    • Collaborative Action and Landscape Setting at Chavín de Huántar
    • Review of Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Modifications, by Thomas Håkansson and Mats Widgren, Eds.
    • (Before and) After the Flood: A Multiproxy Approach to Past Floodplain Usage in the Middle Wadi El-Hasa, Jordan
    • (Re) Constructing the Sacred: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • Summed Radiocarbon Calibrations as a Population Proxy: A Critical Evaluation Using a Realistic Simulation Approach
    • The Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project: New Data on the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Cyclades
    • Archaeological Approaches to Obsidian Quarries: Investigations at the Quispisisa Source
    • Investigaciones En La Fuente de La Obsidiana Tipo Quispisisa, Huancasancos- Ayacucho
    • The Character and Use of the Soros Hill Obsidian Source, Antiparos (Greece)
    • The Economics of the Looted Archaeological Site of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ': A View from Google Earth
    • How Far to Conchucos? A GIS Approach to Assessing the Implications of Exotic Materials at Chavín de Huántar
    • Quarrying Evidence at the Quispisisa Obsidian Source, Ayacucho, Peru
    • A Mito-Style Chamber at Chavín de Huántar: Dating and Implications
    • Huaqueros and Remote Sensing Imagery: Assessing Looting Damage in the Virú Valley, Peru
    • Landscape and Environment: Insights from the Prehispanic Central Andes
    • Reconstructing an Engineered Environment in the Central Andes: Landscape Geoarchaeology at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • Shining Light on Looting: Using Google Earth to Quantify Damage and Raise Public Awareness
    • The Utility of Publicly-Available Satellite Imagery for Investigating Looting of Archaeological Sites in Jordan
    • Implications of the Fluvial History of the Wacheqsa River for Hydrologic Engineering and Water Use at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
    • La Cronología de Chavń de Huántar y Sus Implicancias Para El Periodo Formativo
    • Reconstructing Landscape at Chavín de Huántar, Perú: A GIS-based Approach
    • Geomorfología y Paisaje En Chavń de Huántar
    • Sociopolitical and Geomorphologic Dynamism at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
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Programa de Investigación Arqueológica y Conservación Chavín de Huántar (PRIACCH)

John W. Rick
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PI: John Rick (Stanford University)

Exploring communal action problems at the 1st millennium BCE monumental center - and World Heritage Site - of Chavín de Huántar in highland Ancash, Peru.

PRIACCH
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John W. Rick
← Chicama Environmental Archaeology Project (CHEAP) Jan 1, 0001

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