2014
UCLA
I am a visiting graduate student from UCLA participating in the Inter-Campus Exchange program here at Berkeley for the Fall 2014 semester. I am currently in my fourth year of study with a specialty in Andean archaeology. My work focuses on the Chincha Kingdom, a polity dating to the LIP/LH that thrived in the Chincha Valley along the south coast of Peru. Currently I’m working with a collaborative group of scholars from the Proyecto Arqueológico de Chincha (PAC) studying Chincha domestic culture and Chincha mortuary practices. I’ve worked with PAC for the last three years and have participated in a variety of studies associated with this archaeological project including: malacology, pigment analysis, and ceramic analysis. I am here at Berkeley to work with Dr. Christine Hastorf and the wonderful crew in the UCB McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory to be trained in paleoethnobotany. My research interests include political complexity, inter- and intra-regional exchange, social identity, culinary archaeology, and medical paleoethnobotany.