The Corral Redondo Project, Peru - Institute for Field Research


Location: United States

Season: 
July 14, 2019 to August 10, 2019

Application Deadline: 
Friday, April 5, 2019

Deadline Type: 
Rolling

Website: 
http://ifrglobal.org/program/peru-corral-redondo/

Program Type

Field school

RPA certified

no

Affiliation:

Institute for Field Research, Connecticut College, University of Chicago, UCLA, Getty Conservation Program

Project Director:

Dr. Maria Cecilia Lozada, Dr. Hans Barnard, Ms. Vanessa Muros

Project Description

In January of 1943, workmen at the Chorunga Valley discovered extraordinary Wari and Inca objects at Corral Redondo. The finds included imperial Wari face-neck jars, dozens of spectacular Wari feathered textiles, silver Inca objects and high-end Inca ceramics, miniatures and textiles. The site was likely a huaca – a sacred Andean site. The nature of the recovered objects suggests that the site functioned as a capacocha, an important ritual location where high-end objects were part of elite ceremonies. This alone makes Corral Redondo an important site. The fact that such high-end objects were interred at the site over an extended period of time (AD 600-1550) suggests that Corral Redondo was remembered for centuries as a potent ceremonial location – an extremely rare occurrence in the Andes. This project will excavate the site and attempt to recover additional objects, understand its architecture and through ground survey, contextualize Corral Redondo is time and space. Students will also engage in artifact conservation at a local museum where finds from the site will be displayed as part of the community’s cultural heritage.

Period(s) of Occupation: Middle-Late Horizon

Project size: 
1-24 participants

Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Participants are required to stay for the full duration of the field school.

Minimum age: 
18

Experience required: 
No prior experience is required to participate in this field school.

Room and Board Arrangements

During the initial days of the program, students will reside at the La Casa de mi Abuela (lacasademiabuela.com) hotel in Arequipa. From there, the team will travel to Iquipi at the Ocoña Valley, where field work will take place. At Iquipi, students will stay at the local school rented by the project that will have common clean rooms. Mattresses are provided but students are responsible for linen or may use sleeping bags.

All weekday meals are provided by the project and will be communal events. Meals will provide plenty of nutritious but basic food in the tradition of local cuisine. The daily diet in Peru is heavily based on rice, corn, potatoes and meat. Specialized diets (vegan, kosher, etc.) are impossible to maintain in this location. Vegetarians may attend but will find options limited.

Cost: 
Room and board are included in the tuition for the program.

Academic Credit

Name of institution offering credit: 
Connecticut College
Number of credits offered 8 Semester Credits
Tuition: 
$3,800

Location

Contact Information
Institute for Field Research
2999 Overland Ave. Suite 103
Los Angeles
CA
USA
90064
info@ifrglobal.org
Telephone: 
424-209-1173
Recommended Bibliography: 

All readings will be made available to students for download through a shared Dropbox folder. Please bring a printed or electronic copy of each item with you to Peru, as copies will not be available in the field. 

Arnold, Denise Y., and Elvira Espejo 2012 Andean Weaving Instruments for Textile Planning: The Waraña Coloured Thread-wrapped Rods and Their Pendant Cords. INDIANA, 29: 173-200. 

Burcaw, G. Ellis 1997 Introduction to Museum Work. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press. Pp. 13-120 

Cook, Anita 2015 The Shape of Things: The Genesis of Wari Wak’as. In The Archaeology of Wak’as. Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes. Tamara L. Bray (ed.). University Press of Colorado. Boulder Colorado. Pp. 295-334. 

Davidson, Amy, Samantha Alderson and Marylin Fox 2006 Assembling and Archival Marking Kit for Paleontological Specimens. Poster presented at the 66th Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Oct 2006, Ottawa, Canada. http://vertpaleo.org/For-Members/Preparators-Resources/Preparators-Resou...

Elder, Ann, Scott Madsen, Gregory Brown, Carrie, Herbel, Chris Collins, Sarah Whelan, Cathy Wenz, Samantha Alderson and Lisa Kronthal 1997 Adhesives and Consolidants in Geological and Paleontological Conservation: A Wall Chart. SPNHC Leaflets, Vol. 1 No. 2. http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/leaflet2_descrip.pdf and http://www.spnhc.org/media/assets/leaflet2_chart.pdf 

Hiltunen, Juha, and Gordon F. McEwan 2004 Knowing the Inca Past. In Andean Archaeology. Silverman, Helaine (ed.). Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology. London: Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 237-254. 

King, Heidi 2013 "The Wari Feathered Panels from Corral Redondo, Churunga Valley: A Re-Examination of Context". Nawpa Pacha 35(1):23-42. 

2016 "Further Notes on Corral Redondo, Churunga Valley". Nawpa Pacha 36(2):95-109. 

Kreps, Christina 2009 "Indigenous curation, museums, and intangible cultural heritage." Intangible heritage. Pp 193-208. 

Isbell, H. William 2010 Agency, Identity and Control: Understanding Wari Space and Power. In Beyond Wari Walls. Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru. Justin Jennings, ed. Pp. 233-254. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 

Moore, D. Jerry 2014 A Prehistory of South America: Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Pp. 417-470. 

Moser, Stephanie, Darren Glazier, James E. Phillips, Lamya Nasser el Nemr, Mohammed Saleh Mousa, Rascha Nasr Aiesh, Susan Richardson, Andrew Conner, and Michael Seymour. 2002 Transforming archaeology through practice: Strategies for collaborative archaeology and the Community Archaeology Project at Quseir, Egypt. World Archaeology 34: 220-248. 

Muros, Vanessa 2014 Conservation at the Lofkënd Archaeological Project, 2004-2008. In: Papadopoulos, J.K., S.P. Morris, L. Bejko and L. Schepartz. The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania, Vol. 1 and 2. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 122-138 (Vol. 1-text) and 915-921 (Vol. 2-illustrations). https://www.academia.edu/10189802/Conservation_at_the_Lofk%C3%ABnd_Archa...

Raphael, Toby J. 2005 Preventive Conservation and the Exhibition Process: Development of Exhibit Guidelines and Standards for Conservation. Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 44(3): 245-257. 

Schorch, Philipp, and Arapata Hakiwai. 2014 "Mana Taonga and the public sphere: A dialogue between Indigenous practice and Western theory." International Journal of Cultural Studies. Vol 17(2): 191-205. 

Sease, Catherine 1992 A conservation manual for the field archaeologist. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (book available as a free PDF): http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ft6488x 

Schindelholz, E. 2001 A simple guide to the characterization of archaeological materials. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. http://bit.ly/2mc64rI 

Schreiber, Katharina 2001 The Wari Empire of Middle Horizon Peru: The Epistemological Challenge of Documenting an Empire without Documentary Evidence. In Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Susan E. Alcock, Terence N. D’Altroy, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Carla M. Sinopoli, eds. Pp. 70-92. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Shimada, Izumi and Rafael Vega-Centeno 2011 Peruvian Archaeology: Its Growth, Characteristics, Practice and Challenge. In Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past. Lazuis, Ludomir R. Lazius, ed. Pp. 569-612. New York: Springer. 

OPTIONAL READINGS 

Good, Irene 2001 Archaeological Textiles: A Review of Current Research. Annual Review of Anthropology (30): 209-226. 

Jennings, Justin, ed. 2010 Beyond Wari Walls. Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 

Orton, Clive, Paul Tyers, and Alan Vince 2008 Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. 

Schneider, Jane 1987 The Anthropology of Cloth. Annual Review of Anthropology (16): 409-448. 

If students are interested in a general introduction to Andean archaeology and contemporary Peru, it is suggested they review the following books: 1) Culture and Customs of Peru (Ferreira and Dargent-Chamot 2003), 2) Society and Nationhood in the Andes (Klaren 1999), 3) The Incas and their Ancestors (Moseley 2004), and Peruvian Archaeology: A Critical History (Tantaleán 2014).