We are seeking highly motivated graduate students to join the team. Contact Dr. Kurt Rademaker at rademaker@tamu.edu
The Paleo Andes team co-organized two symposia and gave five presentations at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver Colorado.
Congratulations to Texas A&M U. Anthropology student Ellie O'Connell on her Undergraduate Research Scholars Thesis "Ancient Andean Adornment: A Closer Look at Beads from Cuncaicha Rockshelter" !
New paper out in Quaternary Science Reviews by Erik Marsh and Kurt Rademaker: Human–environment Interactions in the Lake Junín basin: Fire, megafauna, deforestation and domestication, from the peopling of the Andes to the Inca Empire. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109159)
National Science Foundation Archaeology grant BCS-2345169 “Early Human Ecology and Settlement Dynamics of the Central Andean Highlands” awarded to Principal Investigator Kurt Rademaker, Texas A&M University.
The Paleo Andes team carried out excavations at Uchcumachay (4110 masl) in the Junín highlands of central Peru in July and August. The project was sponsored by the Elfrieda Frank Foundation.
When and by which routes did Paleoindians enter the Americas, and how did they adapt to inhabit different ecological zones?
Our group seeks to understand the timing, routes, and environmental setting of the earliest human dispersals in western South America.
We integrate archaeology, physical anthropology, genetics, and Quaternary science to study prehistoric settlement systems - linked archaeological sites situated in multiple ecological zones from the Pacific coast to the high Andes.
This work provides information about the long-term history and co-evolution of humans and ecological systems, and the formation of landscapes.
