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Since 1994 I have organized and run the Cuenca Historical Archaeology Project. This is an ongoing research effort in the city of Cuenca, in the southern highlands of Ecuador. It is an exploration of the household remains that the people of colonial Cuenca left behind, the architecture of the houses they lived in, and the material culture inside those houses. |
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Past Projects Excavation in urban backyards has provided samples of the things people used in their daily lives. This includes the remains of household furniture, the pottery they cooked and served their food in, the remains of the meals they ate, and the buried remains of the architecture of their houses. The overall goal of the project is to understand the daily lives and material culture of the colonial people of Cuenca, and through this to better understand the social relationships and ideology of this colonial urban centre. To learn more about the project click here.
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Publications
2004 with Ron G. V. Hancock. Neutron Activation Analysis of Colonial Ceramics from Southern Highland Ecuador. Archaeometry 46(4):569-583. Download PDF
2004 Bolts of Cloth and Sherds of Pottery: Impressions of Caste in the Material Culture of the Seventeenth Century Audiencia of Quito. The Americas 60(3):431-446. [Invited paper in special issue on material culture]. Download PDF
2003 De Tomebamba a Cuenca: Arquitectura y Vida Cotidiana en la Colonia. Abya-Yala Publishers, Quito, Ecuador. [Spanish translation of 2000 Domestic Architecture and Power volume published in Ecuador].
2001 The Essence of Commodification: Caffine Dependecies in the Early Modern World. Journal of Social History. 35(2):269-295. Download PDF
2001 Majolica in the Early Colonial Andes: The Role of Panamanian Wares. Latin American Antiquity. 12(1):45-58. View abstract
2000 Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador. Foreward by Prudence Rice. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology, series editor Charles Orser, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, New York.
2000 Doña Luisa and Her Two Houses: Widowhood as Power in the Colonial Andes. In Lines that Divide Historical Archaeologies of Race, Gender, and Class. ed. by J. A. Delle, S.A. Mrozowski, and R. Paynter. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
1995 Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practivces. Historical Archaeology 29(4) 39-58. Download PDF
editor (with Sylvia Abonyi and Neil Mirau)
1993 Culture and Environment: A Fragile Coexistence. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Chacmool Conference. Archaeological Association, University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada.
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Courses |
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Ancient Peoples and Places (Archaeology 100) |
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My Background |
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I'm originally from Hamilton, Ontario, and began my archaeological training in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University, where I developed an interest in historical archaeology. In my last undergraduate year I participated in the Huamachuco Archaeological Project in Peru, and fell in love with the Andes (as well as with my future wife, Laurie Beckwith, who also went to Trent). It seemed logical to do my Master's degree in the Anthropology Department at the College of William and Mary because of their reputation in historical archaeology and close ties to Colonial Williamsburg. When Laurie and I chose a school for our doctorates we wanted a Canadian school with a Latin American focus, and decided on the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. This worked out very well, as we were able to participate in archaeological projects in Mexico and Cameroon as well as complete our dissertation research in Ecuador supervised by Scott Raymond. From Calgary Laurie was awarded a fellowship at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts. Then to Ottawa, where Laurie held a position as a photo archivist at the National Archives of Canada, and I received a post-doctoral fellowship back at Trent. In April of 2000 I was hired into the Archaeology Department at Simon Fraser. |
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