On March 7th and 8th, CLACS hosted the 51st Annual Midwest Conference on Andean & Amazonian Archaeology & Ethnohistory. The conference provided a space for scholars to share their current research on Andean and Amazonian studies. We sincerely thank all presenters, participants, and attendees for their valuable contributions. 

Featured Presentations:

Panel 1 - Ecuador

• Tamara Bray (Wayne State University): Cañaris and Incas: Material Expressions of Intersecting Histories
• Mozelle Bowers & Sara Juengst (Wayne State University): Alternative Power and Special Burial Locations: Children at the Buen Suceso Formative Period
• Maria I. Guevara-Duque (University of Illinois - Chicago): Copper Acquisition, Circulation, and Consumption in Ancient Ecuador: Preliminary Insights from pXRF Analyses

Panel 2 - South-Central Andes

• Max Shachar, Sarah I. Baitzel, Arturo F. Rivera-Infante, James A. Davenport (Washington University in St. Louis): Sama-Cabuza Ceramic Production and Exchange
• Rosa Maria Varillas (University of Illinois - Chicago): Reconstructing Inka Provincial Agricultural Strategies
• Marcos G. Alarcón Olivos (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign): Native Households, Grapevine Cultivation, and the Construction of a Native European Economy in Early Colonial Perú (1550-1576)

Panel 3 - North-Central Andes

• Daniel Rosenburg, Ben Vining, Aubrey Hillman, Eric Pollock, Lena Campisi, Rachel Handloser (University of Arkansas): Heavy Metal Never Dies: 9,800 Years of Mining and Metal Pollution from Laguna Sausacocha, Perú
• Henry Bacha (University of Chicago): Towards a GIS and Remote Sensing Approach to Camelid Movement in the Andean Late Horizon
• Gabrielle Wolf & Kasia Szremski (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign): Inka – Chancay Interactions: New Data from Cerro Blanco

Panel 4 - Linguistic Diversity

• Carlos Molina Vital (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign): Reconstructing the Proto-Quechua Spatial System
• Bruce Mannheim (University of Michigan): Language, Locality, Land: How Linguistic Differences Persisted and Disappeared in the Central Andes

Panel 5 - Bolivia

• Corey Bowen (University of Illinois - Chicago): Agua Buena: Perspectives on Time and Water in the Bolivian Altiplano

• Matthias Strecker (University of Illinois - Chicago): Representation of Birds in Rock Paintings of Roboré, Chiquitania

Thank you for being part of this year’s conference,  we look forward to seeing you again next year!

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