This research project involved travel to the community of Chiripa, Bolivia for the 2023 field season of the Taraco Archaeological Project. During the season, excavations were conducted at three sites in the Taraco Peninsula. Around 200 samples were processed via flotation, as well as about 60 which were processed via dry screening, yielding macrobotanical remains that were exported for anaysis at the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory .
The Taraco Archaeological Project completed excavations during the summer of 2022 at the Formative site of Chiripa on the shores of Lake Titicaca. The focus was on early occupation seeking early farming evidence. They encountered these levels under historic hacienda deposits in four units. We had a great open day where all of the school children visited the laboratory and excavations.
Research Interests:
Venicia's main research interests include household archaeology, paleoethnobotany, anthracology, foodways, historical ecology, agroecology, and ancient Latin America.
Bio:
ARF Contributions #68 is available Open-Access on eScholarship.
Khonkho Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, edited by John Janusek, 2018. Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, No. 68. University of California, Berkeley. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hf42218
The Taraco Archaeological Project was founded in 1992.
Website: http://www.taracoarchaeologyproject.org/
Publications
Datasets:
https://core.tdar.org/project/5726/taraco-pensinula-archaeological-survey
Christine Hastorf is a professor in the Anthropology department and the director of the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. She is also the director of the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
