Author: Alisa Bollich Howdy! My name is Alisa Bollich, and I am a junior archaeology student at Texas A&M University. This summer I had the absolute privilege of being a part of a Paleo Andes excavation for the first time in the Peruvian highlands. When I originally set out to write this blog about halfway through the field season, I was still reeling from the most intense culture shock I had ever experienced. There is no place in the world more intense, beautiful, and overwh

Author: Sydney Cooper I am an undergraduate student studying archaeology and geoscience with a specific interest in South American archaeology. When my advisor, Matthew Biwer, invited me to join him on a project in the Highlands of the Andes of Peru for the month of July, I was ecstatic. I had no idea that this experience would turn out to be far more incredible and transformative than I could have ever imagined. I quickly learned that traveling to Tarma, the town we would st

Author: Ian Beggen In 2016, during my first experience in the high Andes, I thought to myself: “Why do people live all the way up here?”...

Author: Sarah Meinekat. Usually, when trying to explain my job as a geoarchaeologist, I start like this: Think about an archaeological...

High-altitude fieldwork is all about appreciating Type 2 fun. If you don’t know about Type 2 fun, think of an activity that’s somewhat unple

Author: Katherine Moore. As I left Junín to return home in July, I told collaborator Kurt Rademaker that for me our field season had been...

Author: Kurt Rademaker. This July 2019 our group began a new field project in the Puna of Junín, supported by a Faculty Initiatives Fund...

Author: Taylor Panczak. My master’s thesis research involves understanding the chronology of Cuncaicha rock shelter through the creation...

Author: Mike Cook. Between June 9 and June 18, 2018, our team visited the Pampas region north of Quebrada Jaguay. Our original goal was...

Author: Brett Furlotte. The 2018 collections project brought together researchers of various disciplines and institutions to study a...

Author: Kurt Rademaker. In June 2018 our team traveled to Arequipa, Peru to conduct a series of field and lab studies. The archaeology...