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KATHARINA SCHREIBER Professor of Anthropology Editor, Ñawpa Pacha KATHARINA SCHREIBER Professor of Anthropology Editor, Ñawpa Pacha Department of Anthropology University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 805-893-4291 (office) [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. 1978 Binghamton University (SUNY) Anthropology M.A. 1974 Binghamton University (SUNY) Anthropology B.A. 1972 SUNY Potsdam Anthropology (cum laude) PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: AREAS: Archaeology of Andean South America, Southwest United States THEORY: Contemporary social theory, landscape, complex societies, empire expansion OTHER: Prehispanic irrigation, Andean ethnohistory, architecture, prehistoric road networks ACADEMIC POSITIONS: 2005- Professor V o/s, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 2002-05 Professor V, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1999-2002 Professor III o/s, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1996-99 Professor II, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1994-96 Associate Professor III o/s, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1992-94 Associate Professor III, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1990-92 Associate Professor II, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1988-90 Assistant Professor V, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1986-88 Assistant Professor IV, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1984-86 Assistant Professor III, Department of Anthropology, UCSB 1983-85 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona 1980-84 Research Associate, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona 1978-80 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut 1 1974-75 Instructor, School of General Studies, SUNY Binghamton 1973-74 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton 1972-73 Research Assistant, Archaeology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton 2 PUBLICATIONS Books and Monographs 2006 Aguas en el desierto: los puquios de Nasca. Fondo Editorial, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. (By Schreiber and Lancho) 2003 Irrigation and Society in the Peruvian Desert: The Puquios of Nasca. Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland. (By Schreiber and Lancho) 1992 Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru. University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers 87. Ann Arbor. 1978 Planned Architecture of Middle Horizon Peru: Implications for Social and Political Organization. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms. Articles and Book Chapters n.d. The Water Systems of Nasca. In Proceedings of the Bielefeld Nasca Conference, Bielefeld, Germany. In press. (By Schreiber and Lancho) n.d. Metaphor, Monumentality, and Memory: The Imagery of Power on the Ancient Landscape. In States and the Landscape, edited by Steven Falconer. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. In press. n.d. Ceramic Production in Ancient Nasca: Provenance Analysis of Pottery from the Early Nasca and Tiza Cultures Through INAA. Journal of Archaeological Science, in press. (By Kevin Vaughn, Christina Conlee, Hector Neff, and Katharina Schreiber) 2006 Recent Research on New World Complex Societies: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism. Journal of Archaeological Research 14(1): 1-52. (By Michael E. Smith and Katharina Schreiber) 2006 The Role of Intermediate Elites in the Balkanization and Reformation of Post-Wari Society in Nasca, Peru. In Intermediate Elite Agency in Precolumbian States and Empires, edited by Christina Elson and Alan Covey, pp. 94-111. University of Arizona Press. (By Christina A. Conlee and Katharina Schreiber) 2005 Recent Research on New World Complex Societies: Economics and Social Organization. Journal of Archaeological Research 13(3): 189-229. (By Michael E. Smith and Katharina Schreiber) 2005 Imperial Agendas and Local Agency. In The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Gil Stein, pp. 237-262. School of American Research, Santa Fe. 3 2005 A Compositional Analysis of Nasca Pigments: Implications for Craft Production on the Pre- Hispanic South Coast of Peru. In Laser Ablation ICP-M in Archaeological Research, edited by R. J. Speakman and H. Neff, pp. 138-154. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. (By Kevin J. Vaughn, Christina A. Conlee, Hector Neff, and Katharina Schreiber) 2005 Sacred Landscapes and Imperial Ideologies: The Wari Empire in Sondondo, Peru. In Foundations and Relations of Power in the Prehispanic Andes, edited by Kevin J. Vaughn, Dennis E. Ogburn, and Christina A. Conlee. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 14: 131-150. 2004 Andean Empires. In Andean Archaeology, edited by H. Silverman, pp. 255-279. Blackwell, Malden, Mass. (By Terence N. D’Altroy and Katharina Schreiber) 2001 Los Wari en su contexto local: Nasca y Sondondo. Boletín de Arqueología 4 (2000): 425-447. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. 2001 The Wari Empire of Middle Horizon Peru: The Epistemological Challenge of Documenting an Empire without Documentary Evidence. In: Empires, Susan Alcock, Terence D’Altroy, Kathleen Morrison, and Carla Sinopoli, editors, pp. 70-92. Cambridge University Press. 1999 Latin American Antiquity Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-10, 1990-1999. Society for American Archaeology. (Compiled by K Schreiber) 1999 Regional Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Empires: Examples from Ayacucho and Nasca, Peru. In: Fifty Years Since Virú; Brian Billman and Gary Feinman, editors, pp. 160- 171. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1998 Afterword: Nasca Research Since 1926. In: The Archaeology and Pottery of Nazca, Peru, by Alfred L. Kroeber and Donald Collier; Patrick H. Carmichael, editor, pp. 257-269. Altamira Press. 1998 The Jampatilla Obsidian Source: Identifying the Geological Source of Pampas Type Obsidian Artifacts from Southern Peru. Andean Past 5. (By Richard L. Burger, Katharina J. Schreiber, Michael Glascock, and José Ccencho) 1996 A Test of the Relationship Between Site Size and Population. American Antiquity 61(3): 573- 579. (By Katharina J. Schreiber and Keith W. Kintigh) 1995 The Puquios of Nasca. Latin American Antiquity 6(3): 229-254. (By Katharina J. Schreiber and Josué Lancho Rojas) 1993 The Inka Occupation of the Province of Andamarcas Lucanas, Peru. In: Provincial Inka: Archeological Identification of the Impact of the Inka State; Michael A. Malpass, editor, pp. 77-116. University of Iowa Press. 4 1991 Jincamocco: A Wari Administrative Center in the South-Central Highlands. In: Wari Political Organization: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government; William H. Isbell and Gordon F. McEwan, editors, pp. 199-213. Dumbarton Oaks. 1991 The Association between Roads and Polities: Evidence for a Wari Road System in Peru. In: Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World; Charles Trombold, editor, pp. 243-252. Cambridge University Press. 1989 On Revisiting Huaca del Loro: A Cautionary Note. Andean Past 2: 69-79. 1989 The Bird of Chavín: A Parrot? Antiquity 63: 350-356. (By Demorest Davenport and Katharina J. Schreiber.) 1989 Houses of the Rising Sun. In: Time and Calendars in the Inca Empire; M.S. Ziolkowski and R. M. Sadowski, editors, pp. 49-74. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 479. (By David S. P. Dearborn and Katharina J. Schreiber.) 1988 Los puquios de Nasca: un sistema de galerías filtrantes. Boletín de Lima 10(59): 51-62. (By Katharina J. Schreiber and Josué Lancho Rojas) 1987 Conquest and Consolidation: A Comparison of the Wari and Inka Occupations of a Highland Peruvian Valley. American Antiquity 52(2): 266-284. 1987 From State to Empire: The Middle Horizon Expansion of Wari outside the Ayacucho Basin. In: The Origins and Development of the State in the Andes; Jonathan Haas, Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski, editors, pp. 91-96. Cambridge University Press. 1987 Intimachay: A December Solstice Observatory at Machu Picchu Peru. American Antiquity 52(2): 346-352. (By David S. P. Dearborn, Katharina J. Schreiber and Raymond E. White.) 1987 Conquista y consolidación: una comparación entre las ocupaciones de los imperios Wari e Inca en un valle peruano de la sierra. Histórica 11(1): 55-85. Lima, Perú. 1986 Here Comes the Sun: The Cuzco-Machu Picchu Connection. Archaeoastronomy 9: 15-37. (By Davis S. Dearborn and Katharina J. Schreiber) 1984 Prehistoric Roads in the Carahuarazo Valley, Peru. In: Current Archaeological Projects in the Central Andes: Some Approaches and Results; Ann Kendall, editor, pp. 75-94. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2l0. 1980 An Annotated Bibliography of Northeastern Ceramics. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 43: 78-93. (By Katharina J. Schreiber and others) 1978 Was Huari a State? American Antiquity 43(3): 372-389. (By William H. Isbell and Katharina J. Schreiber) 5 Reviews, Comments, Entries, Overview Essays 2006 Review of: Cultural Landscapes of the Ancient Andes: Archaeologies of Place, by Jerry Moore. Journal of Anthropological Research 62: 432-433. 2005 Old Issues, New Directions. Review of Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations, by Norman Yoffee. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15: 264-266. 2002 Review of: Empire and Domestic Economy, by Terence N. D’Altroy and Christine A. Hastorf. Journal of Anthropological Research. 2001 Review of: Max Uhle (1856-1944). Pläne archäologischer Stätten im Andengebeit. Planos de sitios arqueológicos en el área andina. Wolfgang W. Wurster, editor. Latin American Antiquity 12(4): 437. 2001 South American entries. The Penguin Archaeology Guide, edited by Paul Bahn. Penguin Books, London. 1996 The Paracas Necropolis.
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