Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment

Publications

Andean Archaeology Working Group

Jacob L. Bongers, Ioana Dumitru, Carito Tavera Medina, Chris Khiatipes, Christine Bergmann, José Román, H. Tantaleán, and Charles Stanish, In Press, New insights into the organization and use of Monte Sierpe (“Band of Holes”) in the Pisco Valley, Peru. Antiquity. 

Stanish, C and Brian Damiata In Press, A Fourth Millennium BC Occupation on the Island of the Sun, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia.  Latin American Antiquity.

C. Stanish, T. Earle, G. Barrientos, H. Tantaleán, and L. G. San Juan 2024, Early Monumentality, Ritual, and Political Complexity: Formative Peru and Copper Age Iberia. Current Anthropology, 65(5), pp.810-836.

L. Román, H. Tantaleán, H., Carito Tavera Medina, and C. Stanish 2024,  Reconstruyendo a Lima La Vieja: forma y función de un sitio Inca evanescente en el valle de Pisco, Costa Sur del Perú. Arqueología 30(2), 13058.

H. Tantaleán, C. Stanish, J. Román and C. Bergmann, 2023, Pozuelo: un estilo cerámico del Horizonte Temprano (circa 800- 500 a. C.) en el valle de Chincha, Perú Pozuelo: An Early Horizon Ceramic Style (circa 800-500 B.C.) in the Chincha Valley, Peru. Estudios Atacameños 2023, 69: e5683 1  

J. R. McConnell, Chellman, N.J., Wensman, S.M., Plach, A., Stanish, C., Santibáñez, P.A., Brugger, S.O., Eckhardt, S., Freitag, J., Kipfstuhl, S. and Stohl, A. 2023, Hemispheric-scale heavy metal pollution from South American and Australian mining and metallurgy during the Common Era. Science of The Total Environment, p. 169431.

L. Flores-Blanco, L. Cuellar, M. Aldenderfer, C. Stanish and R. Haas 2023, . Quaternary International. 

Stanish, C. 2023.  Changing Ritual Landscapes and the Evolution of Early States. In Richerson, Peter J., Jenna Bednar, Thomas E. Currie, Sergey Gavrilets, and John Joseph Wallis, eds, , pp. 1-16. Open Access Book, Cultural Evolution Society. 

Schultze, Carol and C. Stanish. 2023. . In: And Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12):  Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, pp. 1419-1448. Edited by Erez Ben-Yosef and Ian W. N. Jones.  Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_60

Stanish, C. 2023. Trust, Demographic Thresholds, and Cooperation in Social Evolution. In The Moral Psychology of Trust, Edited by D. Collins, I.V. Javonović, and M. Alfano. pp, 15-36. Rowman & Littlefield, London.

Tantaleán, H.  and C. Stanish.  2023. The Sechín Alto Complex in the Pre-Hispanic Central Andes. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 7:197-213. 

Tantaleán, H. and C. Stanish, C. 2023. El Proceso Histórico en el Sitio de La Cumbe.  in Tantaleán, H. C. Stanish, A. Rodríguez, B. Orccosupa, I. Aragonez, and J. Román eds., La Cumbe. Una Huaca Milenaria en Chincha, pp. 315-324.  Instituto Peruano de Estudios Arqueológicos, Lima.

Tantaleán, H. C. Stanish, A. Rodríguez, B. Orccosupa, I. Aragonez, and J. Román. 2023. La Cumbe. Una Huaca Milenaria en Chincha. Instituto Peruano de Estudios Arqueológicos, Lima.

Tantaleán, H,, J. Román y C. Stanish. 2023. Antecedentes Arqueológicos de La Cumbe.  in Tantaleán, H. C. Stanish, A. Rodríguez, B. Orccosupa, I. Aragonez, and J. Román eds., La Cumbe. Una Huaca Milenaria en Chincha, pp. 23-34.  Instituto Peruano de Estudios Arqueológicos, Lima.

Orccosupa Ccapcha, Boris, Henry Tantaleán, and C. Stanish. 2022.  El estilo cerámico Topará: una aproximación desde el sitio de Pozuelo, valle bajo de Chincha. Actas, VII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, pp. 309-323.  

Tantaleán, H., Mejía, J.G. and Stanish, C., 2022. . Boletín de Arqueología PUCP, (31), pp.61-80. 

Tantaleán, Henry, C. Stanish, Alexis Rodríguez, and Irving Aragonéz. 2021. , Perú. 

Stanish, C. 2021. Los Antiguas Sociedades Complejas Andinas. Teoría y metodología en la investigación de las sociedades prehispánicas. Instituto Andino de Estudios Arqueológicos, Lima. 

Stanish, C. and Henry Tantaleán. 2020.  El Complejo Geoglifos de Chincha. The Geoglyphs of Chincha.  Bilingual. Instituto Peruano  de Estudios Arqueológicos, Lima. 

Tantaleán, Henry, C. Stanish y Alexis Rodríguez. 2020.  La Cerámica Paracas del Valle de Chincha, Costa Sur del Perú.  Publicaciones del Programa Arqueológico Chincha-PACH/PACH Press. 

Bongers, J.L., Nakatsuka, N., O’Shea, C., Harper, T.K., Tantaleán, H., Stanish, C. and Fehren-Schmitz, L., 2020. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(31), pp.18359-18368.

Tantaleán, Henry, Rodríguez, Alexis. and Stanish, C., 2020. U. Investigaciones sociales, 22(42), pp.91-108.

Stanish C. 2020. . In: Bondarenko D. M., Kowalewski S. A., Small D. B. (eds) The Evolution of Social Institutions. World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51437-2_24

Abigail Levine and C. Stanish. 2020.  The Sunken Court Tradition in the South Central Andes, in Archaeological Interpretations Symbolic Meaning within Andes Prehistory, Edited by Peter Eeckhout. pp. 19-40. University Press of Florida. 

Delaere, Christophe, José M. Capriles, and C. Stanish. 2019. ." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 201820749.

Stanish, C., Henry Tantaleán, Kelly Knudson. 2018. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences July 2018, 201806632; 

Stanish, C. and Henry Tantaleán. 2018. , Journal of Andean Archaeology, pp. 1–31. 

Tantaleán, Henry and C. Stanish 2017. , edited by H. Tantaleán and C. Stanish, pp. 9-16.  Publicaciones del Programa Arqueológico Chincha-PACH/PACH Press, Lima.

Stanish, C.  2017.  The Evolution of Human Cooperation: Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 

Tantaleán, Henry and C. Stanish 2017. ,  in: Cerro del Gentil. Un sitio Paracas en el valle de Chincha, costa sur del Perú, edited by H. Tantaleán and C. Stanish, pp. 233-239.  Publicaciones del Programa Arqueológico Chincha-PACH/PACH Press.

E. de la Vega, C. Stanish, M. E. Moseley, P. R. Williams, C. Chávez, and K. LaFavre, 2017. , in Nuevas Tendencias en el Estudio de los Caminos, S. Chacaltana, E. N. Arkush, and G. Marcone, eds. Lima, Peru: Ministerio de Cultura, Qhapaq Nan-Sede Nacional, pp. 100–123.

Tantaleán, Henry, C. Stanish, Kelita Pérez and Alexis Rodríguez. 2017. . Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 22:61-89. 

 

The Mediterranean DIet Archaeology Project (MEDIAP)

D. Tanasi, R. Micciché, R.H. Tykot, L. Busetti, P. Barbieri, G. Di Maida, V. Ardesia, A. Miani, E. Marin, E. Greco 2025 , Unearthing Prehistoric Diets: First Evidence of Horse Meat Consumption in Early Bronze Age Sicily”, PlosONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330772

A. Tafani, E. Greco, R.H. Tykot, P. Barbieri, M. Gaspari, C. Gabriele, A. Toma, M. Culea, B. Manea, A. Darie, V. Opriș, T. Ignat, G. Vasile, A. Bălășescu, V. Radu, G. Popescu, C. Covătaru, E. Marin, K. Salesse, H.F. James, C. Snoeck, C. Lazăr 2025, , Scientific Reports 15:23002.

E. Greco 2025, , Analytica 6.2, 17.

D. Tanasi, B. F. van Oppen de Ruiter, F. Florian, R. Pavlovic, L. M. Chiesa, I. Fochi, C. Stani, L. Vaccari, D. Chaput, G. Samorini, A. Pallavicini, A. S. Gaetano, S. Licen, P. Barbieri, E. Greco 2024, , Scientific Reports 14, 27891 (2024). 

E. Greco, A.S. Gaetano, A.De Spirt, S. Semeraro, P. Piscitelli, A. Miani, S. Mecca, S. Karaj, R. Trombin, R. Hodgton, et al. 2024, , Epidemiologia , 5, 267-274.

Greco, E., Rivier, L., Samorini, G., & D'Arienzo, A. 2024., Archaeometry, 66(6), 1328–1342.

E. Greco, B. Van Oppen, G. Samorini, D. Tanasi, R. H. Tykot 2024, A Bes Mug in Tampa, in B. Ban Oppen De Ruiter, R. S. Bianchi (eds), Under the Spell of Bes, Wallasey: Abercromby Press, pp. 105-116.

E. Greco, A.M. Gennaro, D. Piombino-Mascali, D. Costanzo, S. Accardo, S. Licen, P. Barbieri, S. Fornasaro, S. Semeraro, E. Marin, S. Signoretti, C. Gabriele, M. Gaspari 2023, , Microchemical Journal 195, 109472.

D. Tanasi, R. H. Tykot, A. Vianello, J. Bethard, I. Gradante, S. Hassam, P. Trapani, G. T. Ricciardi, E. Greco 2023, , Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 50, pp. 1-16.  

D. Tanasi, E. Greco 2023, , Open Archaeology 9.1, pp. 1-26. 

D. Tanasi, A. Cucina, V. Cunsolo, R. Saletti, A. Di Francesco, E. Greco, S. Foti 2021, , in Amino Acids 53, pp. 295-312. 

D. Tanasi, E. Greco, F. Pisciotta, S. Hassam 2021, , Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 40, pp. 1-7. 

M. Ba-Hoang-Anh, R. Barbieri, T. Chenal, D. Castex, R. Jonvel, D. Tanasi, P. Georges-Zimmerman, O. Dutour, M. Drancourt, G. Aboudharam 2020, , PLoS ONE 15.11: e0239526.

E. Greco, O. El-Aguizy, M. Fouda Ali, S. Foti, V. Cunsolo, R. Salletti, E. Ciliberto 2018, , Analytical Chemistry 90.16, pp. 9673-9676. 

D. Tanasi, E. Greco, R. Ebna Noor, S. Feola, V. Kumar, A. Crispino, I. Gelis 2018, , Analytical Methods 10, 2757, pp. 1-8.

D. Tanasi, E. Greco, V. Di Tullio, D. Capitani, D. Gullì, E. Ciliberto 2017, , Microchemical Journal 135, pp. 140–147.

 

Center for East Africa and the Indian Ocean Studies (CEAIOS) 

A. Dance and C. M. Kusimba 2025, , Knowable Magazine from Annual Reviews. 

C. M. Kusimba 2025, Chasing the Shadows of Ancestors: Glimpses from Archaeology and the Descendants. In  Lernia, S.D. (ed.) Echoes of Africa’s Past: Archaeological Explorations in the Anthropocene. Arid Zone Archaeology Monographs, vol. pp.155-182. Roma: Sapienza University.

C. M. Kusimba 2024, Swahili Worlds in Globalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

C. M. Kusimba 2024,  ,Annual Review of Anthropology, 53, pp. 353-370. 

J. M. Kenoyer, Kusimba, C.M., Sarathi, A., Walz, J.R., Law, R.W. and Dussubieux, L. 2024 , Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(5), p. 83. 

E. A. Sawchuk, Sirak, K.A., Manthi, F.K., Ndiema, E.K., Ogola, C.A., Prendergast, M.E., Reich, D., Aluvaala, E., Ayodo, G., Badji, L. and Bird, N., Kusimba, C. M. 2024, , The American Journal of Human Genetics, 111(7), pp. 1243-1251. 

C. M. Kusimba, Walz, J.R., 2024 Africa, Tropical: Swahili Archaeology. In: Nikita, E., Rehren, T. (eds.), , 2nd Edition, vol. 3, pp. 226–233, London: Academic Press. 

C. M. Kusimba and Reich D. E. 2023, , The Conversation.

C. M. Kusimba 2023, . African Archaeological Review, 40, pp. 777-779. 

E. S. Brielle, Fleisher, J., Wynne-Jones, S., Sirak, K., Broomand Khoshbacht, N., Callan, K., Curtis, E., Iliev, L., Lawson, A.M., Oppenheimer, J. and Qiu, L., Kusimba, C.M. 2023, . Nature, 615 (7954), pp. 866-873.

C. M. Kusimba 2023, Commentary: The Swahili World and Its Global Connections. In The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Oceans, edited by Mark W. Hauser and Julia J. Haines. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, pp. 228-242.

E. S. Brielle, J. Fleisher, S. Wynne-Jones, N. Broomandkhoshbacht, K. Callan, E. Curtis, L. Iliev, A. M. Lawson, J. Oppenheimer, L. Qiu, K. Stewardson, J. N. Workman, F. Zalzala, G. Ayodo, Agness, O. Gidna, A. Kabiru, A. Kwekason, A. Z.P. Mabulla, F. K. Manthi, E. Ndiema, C. Ogola, E. Sawchuk, L. Al-Gazali, B. R. Ali, S. Ben-Salem, T. Letellier, D. Pierron, C. Radimilahy, J.-A. Rakotoarisoa, B. Culleton, K. Sirak, S. Mallick, N. Rohland, N. Patterson, M. Ali Mwenje, K. B. Ahmed, M. M. Mohamed, S. Williams, J. Monge, S. Kusimba, M. E. Prendergast, D. Reich, K. M. Chapurukha 2022, , Nature, bioRxiv 2022.07.10.499442.

S. Alpaslan-Roodenberg, D. Anthony, H. Babiker, E. Bánffy, T. Booth, P. Capone, A. Deshpande-Mukherjee, S. Eisenmann, L. Fehren-Schmitz, M. Frachetti, R. Fujita, C. J. Frieman, Q. Fu, V. Gibbon, W. Haak, M. Hajdinjak, K. P. Hofmann, B. Holguin, T. Inomata, H. Kanzawa-Kiriyama, W. Keegan, J. Kelso, J. Krause, G. Kumaresan, C. Kusimba, S. Kusimba, C. Lalueza-Fox, B. Llamas, S. MacEachern, S. Mallick, H. Matsumura, A. Y. Morales-Arce, G. M. Matuzeviciute, V. Mushrif-Tripathy, N. Nakatsuka, R. Nores, C. Ogola, M. Okumura, N. Patterson, R. Pinhasi, S. P. R. Prasad, M. E. Prendergast, J. Luis Punzo, D. Reich, R. Sawafuji, E. Sawchuk, S. Schiffels, J. Sedig, S. Shnaider, K, Sirak, P. Skoglund, V. Slon, M. Snow, M. Soressi, M. Spriggs, P. W. Stockhammer, A. Szécsényi-Nagy, K. Thangaraj, V. Tiesler, R. Tobler, C. Chao Wang, C. Warinner, S. Yasawardene, M. Zahir 2021, , Nature 599, pp. 41–46.

D. Kusimba 2021,  Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, Stanford University Press.

S. Kusimba, C. M. Kusimba 2021, Cowries and Blood: Money, Value and Relationships in Precolonial East Africa, In Merchants, Measures and Money: Understanding the Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective, edited by L. Rahmstorf, G. Barjamovic, and N. Ialongo. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel, Hamburg, pp. 225-244.

C. M. Kusimba 2021, ” African Archaeological Review 38, pp. 569–595.

C. M. Kusimba and JR Walz 2021.  ,  Journal of the World Archaeology Congress 17, pp. 345–385.

C. M. Kusimba and I. Pikirayi 2020, , African Archaeological Review 37, pp. 185-223.  

S. Kusimba 2020, Embodied Value: Wealth-in-People.”  Economic Anthropology 7(2), pp. 166-175. Special Issue Theme: Wealth-in-People.

C. M. Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, and Purity Kiura, eds. China and East Africa: Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows 2020, Lanham: Lexington Books. 

G. Oteyo, C.M. Kusimba2020, The Consumption of Glass Beads in Ancient Swahili East Africa. In China and East Africa: Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows, edited by C.M. Kusimba, T. Zhu, and P.W. Kiura. Lexington Books, Lanham, pp 147-164. 

S. Kusimba and Changa Labs, M-Changa 2019, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. Understanding Digital Fundraising in Kenya: A Case Study of M-Changa. Nairobi, Kenya.

S. Kusimba 2018, It is Easy for Women to Ask: Gender and Digital Finance in Kenya. Economic Anthropology 5(2), pp. 247-260. 

S. Kusimba 2018, Money, Mobile Money and Ritual In Western Kenya: The Contingency Fund and the Thirteenth Cow, African Studies Review 61(2), pp. 158-182. 

S. Kusimba, 2018, Gabriel Kunyu, and Elizabeth Gross. “Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya.” In Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design, edited by B. Maurer, S. Musaraj, and I. Small. Berghahn Books, London, pp. 179-199.

R. Raaum, Sloan R. Williams, C. M. Kusimba, Janet Monge, Alan Morris, and Mohamed Mchulla Mohamed,  2018, Decoding the Swahili: The Genetic Ancestry of the Swahili, In The Swahili World, edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette, Routledge, London, pp. 81-102.

C. M. Kusimba, S. Kusimba 2018, Mosaics, In The Swahili World, edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette. Routledge, London, pp. 403-418.

C. M. Kusimba 2018, Ancient Connections Between China and East Africa, In Maritime Cultures of the Indian Ocean, edited by Akshay Sarathi, Archeopress, Oxford, pp 83-101.

C. M. Kusimba 2018, Trade and the Medieval Swahili State. In State Formations: Histories and Cultures of State, edited by J.L. Brooke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 20. Accepted.

C. M. Kusimba 2018, Trade and Civilization in Medieval East Africa: Socioeconomic Networks” In Ancient Trade and Civilization, edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Lindkvist, and Janken Myrdal. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 320-353

C. M. Kusimba and Jonathan Walz. 2018, When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the Swahili Coast.” American Anthropologist. 120(3):429-443. DOI: 10.1111/aman.13059.

C. M. Kusimba, 2017, ,  Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, 4(3), pp. 218-228. 

C. M. Kusimba, C.M., Rahul C. Oka, Vishwas D. Gogte, Laure Dussubieux, and Sibel B. Kusimba 2017, “Predatory Commerce and Economic Disaster:  A Cautionary Tale from the 17th Century Indian Ocean Economy, In Africa and Its Diaspora: History, Identities and Economy, edited by Samuel Oloruntoba. Panafrican University Press, Austin. pp. 89-102.

C. M. Kusimba, K. Nam, and SB. Kusimba 2017, Trade and State Formation on the Ancient East African and Southern Zambezia, In Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity, edited by R.J. Chacon and R. G. Mendoza. Springer, New York, Chapter 4, pp. 61-89.

C. M. Kusimba 2017, The Swahili and Globalization in the Indian Ocean, In Archaeology of Globalization, edited by Tamar Hodos. Routledge, London & New York, pp 104- 122.