Acknowledgements and Project Participants
SITE DIRECTORY
William Earl Brooks
United States Geological Service
Reston, Virginia
wbrooks@usgs.gov
Dr. Brooks has extensive experience in geologic mapping and field identification of volcanic rocks, alteration, and minerals associated with epithermal systems. He has conducted fieldwork in the western U.S., Central and South America and has served as the project geologist for the Maya Mountains Archaeological Project in Belize and the Santa Rita B Archaeological Project in Peru. Dr. Brooks is responsible for assessing mineral deposits and ancient mines at Porco, as well as visual identification of mineral specimens recovered in excavations.
Pamela Calla
Universidad de la Cordillera
La Paz, Bolivia
pcalla@proeibandes.org
Dr. Calla is the project socio-cultural anthropologist and is on the faculty at the Universidad de la Cordillera in La Paz. She has conducted ethnographic field work in Nicaragua and Cuba, and has extensive experience in bilingual education and curriculum development. Dr. Calla is in charge of the ethnographic team (Sofía Alcón, Maya Benavides, and Karina Delgadillo) which is collecting ethnographic data and oral histories in Porco as well as aiding sixth grade teachers in the development of curriculum on local history and archaeology based on project results.
Ludwing Cayo
Unidad Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia
La Paz, Bolivia
ludwingcristian@LatinMail.com
Mr. Cayo is a representative of the Unidad Nacional de Arqueología de Bolivia and has engaged in archaeological fieldwork throughout Bolivia in conjunction with a variety of different projects. He is currently conducting research on the 19th century ceramic sequence from Potosí for his licenciatura at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz.
Susan deFrance
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
sdef@anthro.ufl.edu
Dr. deFrance is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Florida
who specializes in the analysis of faunal assemblages. She did her dissertation
research on indigenous and Spanish contact-period sites in southern Peru.
Since then she has directed research at Tacahuay, an early maritime site
on the south coast of Peru, and has analyzed prehistoric assemblages in
the Titicaca Basin as well as colonial material from Potosí, among
other projects. She is responsible for analyzing the faunal material from
excavations at Porco.
Jeff Eighmy
Department of Anthropology
Colorado State University
Jeff.Eighmy@colostate.edu
Dr. Eighmy is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Colorado State University. He was instrumental in developing archaeomagnetic dating and in 1980 created the CSU Archaeometric Laboratory. He helped establish the U.S. Southwest and Midcontinent curves, and has tested the Southwest curve in the Plains. Dr. Eighmy is responsible for collecting and analyzing archaeomagnetic samples from Porco.
Christy Eylar
Department of Anthropology
Colorado State University
ceylar@lamar.colostate.edu
Mrs. Eylar is presently pursuing a masters' degree at Colorado State
University. She is conducting a comparative study between the families
of company miners and cooperative miners in Porco, looking at access to
health care, as well as coping strategies for dealing with illness. She
is working under the guidance of Dr. Lynn Kwiatkowski, and Dr. Mary Van
Buren. She will be spending the summer field season of 2005 in Porco,
conducting interviews, and familiarizing herself with the community.
Sergio Fidel
Museo Universitario “Tomás Frias”
Potosí, Bolivia
sergiofidel2000@yahoo.com
Mr. Fidel is an Investigator at the University Museum of Tomás Frías in Potosí. In 1994 he created the Museum’s first permanent exhibit on archaeology and paleontology, and since that time has acted as curator of these materials in addition to making ethnographic videos in Pulacayo and other villages around Potosí. Mr. Fidel is the project artist, supervises excavation crews, and will be in charge of curating the collections from Porco at the University Museum.
David Goldstein
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
djgoldste@yahoo.com
Mr. Goldstein is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is conducting his dissertation research on fuel use at Middle Sicán period sites on the North Coast of Peru under the direction of Dr. Izumi Shimada. Mr. Goldstein’s investigation of fuel use at Porco will be conducted as a post-doctoral research project. He will be responsible for collecting modern comparative material in Porco and Wisijsa, as well as the analysis of the charcoal associated with smelting, refining, and cooking features at sites in Porco.
Ana María Presta
Department of Precolumbian Latin American History
University of Buenos Aires
presta@mail.retina.ar
Dr. Presta is the project historian, and is a Professor of Precolumbian Latin American History at the University of Buenos Aires and a researcher in the Latin American History Program (Prohal). She has extensive experience in both the Potosí and Sucre archives where she has conducted research on the indigenous and Spanish populations of the southern Andes since the early 1980s. Much of her recent research has focused on the social and economic networks established by Spaniards, including a number of prominent families who had holdings in Porco during the early colonial period. She is responsible for conducting historical research in archives containing collections pertinent to Porco that are located in Buenos Aires, Potosí, Sucre, and Seville.
Thilo Rehren
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
th.rehren@ucl.ac.uk
Dr. Rehren is the project archaeometallurgist. Dr. Rehren is a Professor of Archaeological Materials and Technologies, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He has extensive experience in the analysis of pre-industrial silver production, and in research projects and educational programs that integrate historical, archaeological, and archaeometallurgical data. He supervised Barbara Mills’ recently completed B.Sc. dissertation research (Flame and Fortune: A Field Study of Traditional Silver Smelting in Porco, Bolivia) and will be overseeing Claire Cohen’s postgraduate research on the archaeological materials from Porco at the Wolfson Archaeological Science Laboratory, UCL.
Holly Stinchfield
Department of Anthropology
Colorado State University
hollystinchfield@hotmail.com
Ms. Stinchfield is currently pursuing a masters’ degree at Colorado
State University. She is conducting her research on the spatial organization
of Late Intermediate Period settlements near Porco under the direction
of Dr. Mary Van Buren. She has assisted in two field seasons in Porco
by supervising an excavation crew and collecting samples for archaeomagnetic
analysis.
Mary Van Buren
Department of Anthropology
Colorado State University
mvanbure@lamar.colostate.edu
Dr. Van Buren is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State
University and is the project director. She is an archaeologist with over
10 years of experience investigating the consequences of Inka and Spanish
expansion on populations incorporated into these empires. For the last
six years she has been investigating indigenous and European participation
in the mining economy of colonial Potosí. Dr. Van Buren is currently
supervising Holly Stinchfield’s M.A. research on the spatial organization
of LIP settlements near Porco as well as overseeing Veronica Arias’
work on settlement patterns which will be used as the basis for her Ph.D.
dissertation at the University of New Mexico. As PI, Dr. Van Buren is
responsible for directing field work, analyzing artifactual materials,
and public outreach, as well as the integration of data produced by project
collaborators.
Funding for this project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the National Science Foundation, the Curtiss T. Brennan and Mary G. Brennan
Foundation, and Colorado State University.
Please direct any comments or questions about the project to the director,
Mary Van Buren.
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