South America

Laurel Hamilton works with Tulane undergraduates to recover evidence of mass human sacrifice from the Moche Huaca de la Luna pyramid, northern Peru

J. Marla Toyne examines the remains of a partially mummified individual from Punta Lobos in the Huarmey Valley of Peru. This individual comes from a large collection of remains dating to the period of Chimor explansion along the North Coast of Peru in the fourteenth century CE.

Lori Jahnke

Physical anthropology of prehistoric populations of the Peruvian north coast and highlands. Previous field research includes work at Las Golandrinas, near Antigua, Guatemala, and at the Huaca de la Luna in the Moche River Valley, northern Peru
ljahnke@tulane.edu

Sara Phillips

Research at Casma, Peru
sarasphillips@yahoo.com

Anne Titelbaum

I received an MA in anthropology from Washington University, St. Louis, a BA in anthropology from Tufts University, and have done bioarchaeological and archaeological fieldwork in Peru, archaeological and bioarchaeological fieldwork in the United States (Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Louisiana, and Delaware), and sociocultural fieldwork in Indonesia. My current research interests concern Andean bioarchaeology. I am particularly interested in examining skeletal biology, paleopathology, human biological variation, and musculoskeletal stress markers among the prehistoric Moche (ca. 100 BC - AD 700) population of Peru. atitelb@tulane.edu

J. Marla Toyne

My prinicipal regional focus is on South American bioarchaeology (incorporating both Physical Anthropology and Archaeology). My recent field site was Túcume, Lambeyeque Valley on the north coast of Peru where I completed my MA thesis on an Inka period skeletal sample. I would like to continue working in Peru but also in Ecuador and Argentina exploring issues of Inka imperial expansion and interaction in frontier zones and their effects on biological health patterns of conquered populations. Skeletal biology, paleopathology, Musculoskeletal Stress Markers, childhood stress, osteobiography, concepts of biological health in archaeological contexts and interpretations, history and theory in physical anthropology, archaeology of the Andean region, Inka Empire.
jtoyne@tulane.edu

James R. Welch

I received a Bachelor's degree in anthropology from Stanford University and a Master's degree in ethnobotany from Sonoma State University. My Master's thesis was a comprehensive investigation of historical plant use by the Potter Valley Pomo of California. At Tulane University I am pursuing a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, with a focus on historical ecology of lowland South America. I am currently in Brazil conducting my dissertation research, which addresses changing subsistence regimes among a small indigenous group in the Tupi-Guarani language family.
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~jwelch
jwelch@tulane.edu

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