Reconstructing Animal, Plant, and Landscape Management Processes at the Onset of Food Production in the Lake Titicaca Basin

Chiripa 2022 Group photo

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.  

Christine Hastorf

Faculty Director
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McCown Archaeobotany Lab

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.
 

 

Region(s): 
Andes
Research Theme(s): 
Food and agriculture, Foodways, political complexity, gender, paleoethnobotany.