The long term Taraco Archaeological Project conducted two excavation field seasons in 2022 and 2023 in the Early Formative period sectors of sites Chiripa, Chiriamaya, and Chiripata, located next to each other along the Taraco Peninsula, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. The team conducted a range of collection strategies during the excavations, with a focus on contextual recording of artifact and ecofact material, systematically collecting archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological, and bio-archaeological material.
The major activities this last field season in 2024 that was supported in part by Hastorf’s Stahl award were to complete the processing of materials from the excavations from the 2022 and 2023 excavations, specifically finishing the processing and curation of the sediment samples by both water flotation and dry screening to investigate the plants evident throughout these early farming times.