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TITLE: Formative Research at Chiripa, Bolivia: Taraco Archaeological Project 2022 field season
Speakers: Christine A. Hastorf; Milly McKenzie
Sponsor: Archaeological Research Facility
Abstract: At the time of the European conquest, the Lake Titicaca basin of the south-central Andes sustained some of the highest population densities in the western hemisphere. It is recognized as a center of crop domestication and early agriculture, and nearly four millennia of cumulative resource utilization by urban, farming, herding and fishing communities a complex socio-environmental system of dramatic landscape-scale transformations that are still visible today. To investigate the onset of food production and landscape modification in the basin, the Taraco Archaeological Project is conducting two seasons of archaeological excavations focusing on Early Formative Period (1500-800 BCE) contexts on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia. This presentation reports on the first field season in 2022.