Thursday, April 3 (12pm-1:30 pm) Penn State is excited to host the Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Henry Tantaleán to talk about the Andean archaeological phenomenon of Paracas (First Millennium BCE) and his ongoing research on the Chincha Valley. Dr. Tantaleán is a Professor of Archaeology at the oldest university in the Americas, the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and is the former curator of that university’s archaeological museum, founded by the pioneering archaeologist Julio César Tello in the late 1910s. Dr. Tantaléan’s excavations and historical research advance our understanding of Peru’s early archaeological horizons, as well as their study in the late 19th and early 20th century by Tello (who made Paracas famous) and others. With support from Latin American Studies, the departments of History, Anthropology, CAMS, and Latin American Studies, and the Archaeological Institute of America, his talk next Thursday will be of interest to more general students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, of the history and art history of the Andes, and of 19th and 20th century post-colonial intellectual history in Latin America.

For further details, please write to Dr. Christopher Heaney at cuh282@psu.edu and Dr. José Capriles at juc555@psu.edu.