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| THE PROJECT: Between 1998 and 2008, the Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) and the California Institute for Peruvian Studies (CIPS) sponsored a summer Field Expedition to Northern Peru for work at the Santa Rita B archaeological site. The project was structured as a field school in archaeology and biological anthropology.
THE SITE: The Santa Rita B Archaeological Site is located in northern coastal Peru in the Chao River Valley, about 25km inland and at an elevation of 360m above mean sea level. Occupations range from approximately 1000B.C. through the 16th century A.D. In 2008, the focus was on investigating a part of the site with occupation dating to the Middle Horizon (A.D. 700 - 1000). Materials associated with this portion of the site are very similar to those produced elsewhere in Northern Peru and may represent an intrusion by foreign peoples. The relationships between these newcomers and the local residents of the site was a major focus of the work during the project's final season.
CONTACT:
For any additional information, contact Dr. Jonathan D. Kent, Campus Box
28, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO 80217-3362. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Michael
Moseley, The Incas and their Ancestors. New York, 1992.
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