AUGUSTO OYUELA-CAYCEDO, PhD.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Historical ecology, History of Science, Catastrophe, Evolution of ideology, ecology of religion, indigenous peoples of South America (especially the Amazon and the Andes), origins of technology and food production, history and theory of Latin American archaeology and anthropology, Nazism in Latin America Academia.

EDUCATION:

1994-1996 University Postdoctoral fellow, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1987–1993 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doctoral Dissertation: Sedentism, Food Production and Pottery Origins in the Tropics: The Case of San Jacinto 1, Colombia. Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1993).

1988–1993 Certificate in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1979–1985 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Degree in Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS

2005–Present  School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Affiliate Faculty.

2004-Present  Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Affiliate Faculty.

2005–Present  Tropical Conservation and Development Program. University of Florida, Affiliate Faculty.

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS:

1995    Concurso Internacional de Méritos “Generación 125 Años”, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Distinguished International Scholars.

1994 – 1995     University of Calgary President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alberta, Canada.

1992 – 1993     Heinz Fellow, awarded by the Heinz Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA.

1990 – 1991     Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Research assistant to Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff.

1987 – 1990     Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.  Soils lab (Assistant to Dr. Jack Donahue), Lithics lab (Assistant to Dr. Tony Bouldurian),

RESEARCH GRANTS:

2017                            Proposal for the development of long term research by UF and USFQ Faculty in the Galapagos. $15,000, Pi: Philip Williams and co-PI: Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, Latin American Studies, Award by the International Center, UF.

2010                Preliminary fieldwork the Historical Ecology of the Pacaya Samiria (UF-UNAP).Funding Agency: Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative. Effective Dates: 7/1/2010-8/16/2010, $25,000 aprox. Pi: (75%), co-PI: Nigel Smith (25%).

2007                Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of  Florida. The Arawak and Max Schmidt. $7,000.

2007                Latin American Studies Course Development Grant. Origins and Development of Agriculture in Latin America. $2,500.

2004–2005      Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida. Changing Landscapes and Cultural Dynamics in the Tropical Forest. $5,000.

2004–2005      School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida. An Investigation of Anthropic Soils in the Upper Amazon: Stratigraphy and Temporal Variability and Cultural Context. $5,000.

1997–1998      Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia. Territoriality and Hierarchy in black water systems: The case of the Mesay River. Aprox. $5,000.

1997–1999      Comité de Investigación y Desarrollo Científico (CINDEC), Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Territoriality and Hierarchy in black water systems: The case of the Mesay River. Aprox. $2,500.

1996–1997      Convenio Andrés Bello-Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Plan Nacional de Rehabilitación, Presidencia de la República  (PNR).  Study on social organization and fishing production of the Ticuna Indians of the Trapecio Amazonico. Aprox. $4,000.

1991–1992      National Science Foundation. Dissertation Grant BNS-9114356. (Robert D. Drennan, P.I.). Sedentism, Food Production and Pottery Origins in the Tropics. $10,031.

1991                Tinker Foundation. University of Pittsburgh, Center for Latin American Studies. Sedentism, Food Production and Pottery Origins in the Tropics. $1,000.

1988                Cornell University–Center for Latin American Studies and University of Pittsburgh, Summer Research Grant. Regional Study of the Lower Gayra, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. $1,000.  

 

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

2016-2017, Full Salary Sabbatical research fellowship. August 2016-April 2017. University of Florida.

1995                Concurso Internacional de Méritos “Generación 125 Años”, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Distinguished International Scholars, Bogotá, Colombia.

1994–1995      University of Calgary President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alberta, Canada.

1992–1993      Heinz Fellow, awarded by the Heinz Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1990–1991      Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. Research assistant to Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1987–1990      Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of

Pittsburgh.  Soils lab (Assistant to Dr. Jack Donahue), Lithics lab (Assistant to Dr. Tony Bouldurian), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

 

Active

2016                Principal investigator Catastrophe and disasters in active floodplains, Manabi. Ecuador. co-Pi: Florencio Delgado. UF-USFQ.

2016                Historical ecology of humans and plants at the Galapagos Islands.

Co-Pi: Peter Stahl, Co-Pi, Florencio Delgado.

2011                From Perpetrators to Academic Nazis in Latin America: the case of G. Reichel-Dolmattoff and others.

2007                Principal Investigator with Co-PI: Dr. Manuela Fischer, (Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Archäologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Max Schmidt and the Arawak expansion.

 

Completed

2010                Principal Investigator: Historical Ecology of the Upper Amazon, Peru.

Subproject (2010-Present) Historical Ecology of the National Reserve Pacaya-Samiria, Peru. with Co-PI: Nigel Smith. Geography Department, UF.

2005-2009       Director with Co-PI: Santiago Rivas (Iquitos, Peru), Historical Ecology of Quistococha, Peru (funded by CLAS, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund, UF).

2008-2009    Rethinking Community Participation, Capacity Building, Conservationism and State Policy in Protected Areas: The Case of the Tahuayo-Mishana ana National Reserve Pacaya Samiria (funded by Universidad de la Amazonia Peruana-MCPLAMAP and UF-Moore Foundation).

2008             Principal Investigator with Co-PI: Dr. Manuela Fischer, (Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Archäologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin): The ecology of masked dances: the case of the Kaggaba and Tikuna .

2003            Principal Investigator: The Emergence of Hierarchy and Territoriality in Black Water and White Water River Systems (funded by ICAN CINDEC, Colombia).

Subproject (2003): Moieties, Clans, and Hierarchies of Territorial Control: Tikuna Indians, Northwestern Amazon (funded by PNR).

Subproject (1996–present): Territoriality and Hierarchy in Black Water Systems: The Case of the Mesay River (funded by Instituto Colombiano de Antropología, CINDEC, and the Fundación Puerto Rastrojo).

1996–1999  Principal Investigator (with Co-PI: Juan José Vieco). Social Structure and Fishing Economies of the Ticuna Indians in the Northwest Amazonia. (Funded by Convenio Andrés Bello-Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Plan Nacional de Rehabilitación de la Presidencia de la República de Colombia).

1986–1995  Principal Investigator (from 1991 Principal Co-investigator with Renée M. Bonzani). The origins of pottery, food production and sedentism in the Septentrional Andes (funded by two dissertation grants from NSF, a Fulbright Fellowship and several other agencies).

1993            Principal Investigator. Survey of the Colonial historical bridge of Puente de Heredia, Cartagena (funded by Sociedad de Mejoras Públicas de Cartagena, Colombia).

1988            Field Research Supervisor. Settlement patterns of the Rio Jama, Ecuador (PI: Jim Zeidler and Deborah Pearsall).

1984–1987  Principal Investigator. The Formation of the Tayrona-Kogui Chiefdoms (funded by Fundación Tayrona).

Subproject (1986–1987): Archaeology of the Lower Gaira River, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. (Funded by Banco de la República de Colombia).

Subproject (1984–1985): Archaeology of the Parque Nacional Tairona, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. (Funded by Banco de la República de Colombia).

1983            Field Supervisor (PI: Instituto Ser de Investigaciones). Study of the Peasant Economy of Northern Colombia.

1981 – 1982     Field Research Supervisor (PI: Alvaro Soto Hoguín). Archaeological Project of Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.

 

 

Ethnographic Fieldwork

 

12-1/ 2017-8   Prospective survey on the ecology of religion, Laos, Camboya and Thailand.

3/ 2017            Prospective research survey on the Coffee social life in Kaffa, Ethiopia

8/2016             Plant survey of human introduce plants in San Cristobal, Santa Cruz and Isabela. Galapagos Island, Ecuador. In the project of Historical Ecology of the Galapagos, directed by Peter Stahl and Florencio Delgado.

7/2008–8/2008 Field course in the protected areas Tahuayo-Mishana, Peruvian Amazon. Course in Protected areas III: “Participación comunitaria y sustentabilidad”. ANP/CS-705). Maestria en Planificacion y Manejo de Areas Protegidas. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana – MCPLAMAP and UF-Moore Foundation. July 14–August 11, 2008. Iquitos, Peru.

8/2002             Preliminary ethnographic review trip to the Saraguro Indians of the Ecuadorian Andes.

5/1996–3/1999 Field based research stationed in Leticia, Amazon River (frontier Colombia, Brazil, Peru) on: Territoriality and Social Organization of the Ticuna Indians. Several weeks of field work in Ticuna villages and reservations, as well as on the Uitoto, Yukuna, Tanimuka, Bora, Andoque, and Muinane indigenous peoples of the middle and lower Caquetá  River, Miriti-Paraná River, and Amazon River.

11/1983–1/1984 Ethnoarchaeological work in the indigenous reservation of the Kaggaba Indians, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia).

6 – 7/1983       Aracataca and Copey municipality study of the peasant economy in northern Colombia, Instituto Ser de Investigaciones (Colombia).

 

Archaeological Excavations

 

2-3/2017    Field School excavation at Mochena Borago, Ethiopia. PI: Steve Brand. UF, co-director of Field School.

8-12/2016. Excavation of Julcuy, an Early Valdivia Site. Manabi, Ecuador. USFQ. Co-Pi: Florencio Delgado

5-7/2006           Phase II amd III: Preliminar excavation in area, site LQ001, Quistococha, Loreto, Peru. (Peru).

7/2005             Phase I: Initial evaluation of Quistococha, Loreto (Peru).

8/1991–8/1992            Archaeological project of San Jacinto 1, Department of Bolivar (Colombia).

7/1986–4/1987 Archaeological field research in the region of Gaira, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia).

12/1981–12/1982 Research at the archaeological site of Ciudad Perdida, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia).

 

Archaeological Surveys

 

5-7/2018, 4-5/2019     Long term Strategical Research planning of Tumshukaico and Callejon de Huailas, with CoPi: Alberto Bueno (U. San Marcos) and Ilder Cruz Mostacero (U. National University of Santiago Antunez Mayolo (UNASAM), Huaraz, Perú.

7-8/2010                      Fieldlwork in the National Park Pacaya-Samiria, Peru. July-August.

8/2009             Preliminary survey of the Bonda River Basin, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia).

6-7/2005          Preliminary survey of the Upper Amazon, road Iquitos-Nauta (Peru).

5-7/2002          Preliminary survey of the Upper Solimões, Villa Betancour-Tefe (Brazil).

8/2002             Preliminary survey and coring in the Daule River (Ecuador).

5/1996–3/1999 Field based research stationed in Leticia, Amazon River. Several weeks and months of field work on the rivers Mesay, Yari, Caquetá (middle and lower), Miriti-Paraná, and Amazon (Colombia, Brazil, Peru frontiers).

5-8/1995          Preliminary survey trip to the Mesay River and Trapecio Amazónico (Peru, Colombia and Brazil).

3/1994             Preliminary survey trip to the Gran Chaco (Paraguay).

6–8/1988         Archaeological project of the Rio Jama (Ecuador).

6/1986             Archaeological survey in the Serranía de San Jacinto, Department of Bolivar (Colombia).

7/1984–11/1985 Archaeological field work at the Parque Nacional Tairona, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia).

 

Research on Archives and Museum Collections

 

6-7/2012          Archival research of documents and collection on Reichel-Dolmatoff at the Federal Archive of Germany (Berlin). 

6-7/2011          Archival research of documents and collection K.T. Preuss and Karl von den Steinen. Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Ethnologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany).

 3-2011             Research visit to the Science Museum in Coimbra, Porto, and Lisbon,

Portugal for a preliminary study of the Amazonian collection of                                                      Rodrigues de Ferreira expedition of the XVIII Century.  March 1-14,

5–6/2009         Archival research of the documents and the collection of Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, “German Nazi Expedition to the Jari river (1935-1937)”, Amazonia. Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Ethnologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany).

7–8/2007         Archival research on the collection of botanical remains from Peru collected by Max Uhle and Max Schmidt at the Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Archäologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany).

8/2006             Study of archival and collection of K. T. Preuss and M. Schmidt at the Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Archäologie, Amerikanische Ethnologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). 

5-8/2004          Study of archival and collections of  K. T. Preuss and M. Schmidt at the Ethnologisches Museum Fachreferat Amerikanische Archäologie, Staaliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany).

5/8/2003          Study of the archaeological and ethnographic collection of Colombia at the Ethnologisches Museum, Fachreferat Amerikanische Archäologie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany).

1986                Curator of the exhibition of archaeology of San Jacinto, Biblioteca Municipal de San Jacinto-Banco de la República (Colombia).

1984                Curator of the  permanent exhibition on Tayrona, Museo del Oro, Banco de la República, Santa Marta (Colombia).

 

PUBLICATIONS: 

 

Books:

 

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto and Renee M. Bonzani.

2014              San Jacinto, Ecología histórica, orígenes de la cerámica e inicios de la vida sedentaria en el Caribe colombiano. Universidad del Norte Editorial, Barranquilla.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto and Renée M. Bonzani

2005               San Jacinto 1: a historical ecological approach to an archaic site in Colombia. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Reviews: Choice, April 2006, 43(8):1446-1447, by Rosemary Joyce. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2006 31(3):342-344, by John W. Hoopes. Antiquity. 2006  80(309) 739-741, by Jose R. Oliver. Hispanic American Historical Review 87(4): 738-740, by Anna C. Roosevelt.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto and J. Scott Raymond (editors)

1998          Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes. Monograph 39. The Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. Reviews: Latin American Antiquity 9:372 (1998), by Elsa Redmond. Antiquity 73:716 (1999), by Warwick Bray.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto (editor)

1994  History of Latin American Archaeology. Worldwide Archaeology Series, Avebury. Hampshire, England. Reviews: The Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 75, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 654-655, by Joan Gero. Humanities and social sciences net online April 1997, by Charles C. Kolb. http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=1175878233157

 

 

Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews:

 

Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and Nicholas C. Kawa

2015          A deep history of tobacco use and its variation in lowland South America. In  Tobacco in Lowland South America: Changing Landscapes, Shifting Perspectives. Edited by Andrew Russell (Durham University) and Elizabeth Rahman (University of Oxford). Chapter 1, Pp.27-44. Bloomsbury, England.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto

2014          Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia – by Brightman, Marc, Grotti, Vanessa E. and Ulturgasheva, Olga. Bulletin of Latin American Research. Volume 33, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages: 536–537.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto

2014          Review of the book: Pitarch, Pedro (2010) The Jaguar and the Priest: An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX). Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 233-234. March 2014.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto

2013          Review of the book: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2011. American Anthropologist. Volume 115, Issue 4, pages 697–698, December 2013.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto

2013          Comments: Nonagricultural Cultivation and Social Complexity: The Olmec, Their Ancestors, and Mexico’s Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands Thomas W. Killion. Current Anthropology, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 595-596.  October 2013.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto

• Biographical Archaeology: The Nazi Roots of Erasmus Reichel, Life in Austria (1912-1933). 1912. Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia Arqueologia desde el Caribe Colombiano. 9(18): 1-21. http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/memorias/issue/view/310/showToc

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto

2011               Stone, Rebecca R. (2011) The Jaguar Within: Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art , University of Texas Press (Austin, TX). Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 234-235. March 2014.

 Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto, Manuela Fischer and Renzo Duin.

2011               Von Herrenmenschen” und “Waldmenschen”. Die Deutsche Amazonas-Jary-Expedition“ von 1935 bis 1937 nach Brasilien.) In Vom Amazonas an die Ostrfront, Der Expeditionsreisende und Geograph Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, 1910-1989, edited by Holger Stoecker and Sören Flachowsky.pp. 97-128. Böhlau, Köln.

Manuela Fischer and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo.

2011                Der zeitlose Rahmen Fotografien       aus der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Kolumbien. Visuelle Kultur. Studien und    Materialien, Band 5: 129-140.Waxmann Verlag, Muinster.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto and Alejandro Dever.

2011                The Agency of Academic Production in Colombian Archaeology.  In Comparative Archaeologies: A Sociological View of the Science of the Past, edited by S. Ludomir R. Lozny. Pp. 613-639. Springer, New York.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto, Peter Stahl and J. Scott Raymond)

2010               Cerro Narrío y Max Uhle arqueólogo como agente del desarrollo de la

arqueológia ecuatoriana. In Max Uhle (1856-1944): Evaluaciones de sus investigaciones y obras, edited by Peter Kaulicke, Manuela Fischer, Gregor Wolff and Peter Masson, pp. 359-377. Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto.

2010                The Forest as a fragmented archaeological artifact. In The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments, edited by Rebecca M. Dean, pp. 75-95. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 37, Southern Illinois University.

Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto.

2010                San Jacinto 1 y los inicios de la alfarería en el Nuevo Mundo. In Cartagena de Indias en el Siglo XVI, edited by Adolfo Meisel Roca Haroldo, and Calvo Stevenson. Pp.15-35. Banco de la República,  Cartagena.

2009                Review. “Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil by Hans Staden, edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeir (trans.). The Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) 28(3):460-461.

2008                Late Prehispanic Chiefdoms of Northern Colombia and the Formation of Anthropic Landscapes. Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helen Silverman and Bill Isbell, pp. 405-428, Springer, New York.

2008                (with Nicholas Kawa). Amazonian Dark Earth: A Model of Sustainable Agriculture of the Past and Future? The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 4(3):9-16.

 2008                El Contexto económico de la alfarería temprana en el caso de San Jacinto 1. In Procesos y expresiones de poder, identidad y orden tempranos en Sudamérica, edited by Peter Kaulicke and Tom D. Dillehay. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP. No. 10 (2006), pp. 285-304. Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.

2007                (with Manuela Fischer). Ritual Paraphernalia and the Foundation of Religious Temples: The Case of the Tairona-Kágaba/Kogi, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Baessler-Archiv 54 (2006):145-162.

 2007                (with Peter Stahl) Early Prehistoric Sedentism and Seasonal Animal Exploitation in the Caribbean Lowlands of Colombia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26(3):329-349.

2007                Review. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropical Lowlands by William Baleé and Clark L. Erickson. American Anthropologist 109(2):366-367.

2006                The Ecology of a Masked Dance: Negotiating at the Frontier of Identity in the Northwest Amazonia. Baessler-Archiv 52 (2004):54-74.

2006                (with Renée M. Bonzani). The Gift of the Variation and Dispersion of Maize: Social and Technological Context in Amerindian Societies. In Histories of maize: multidisciplinary approaches to the prehistory, domestication and evolution of maize, edited by John Staller, Robert Tykot, and Bruce Benz, pp. 343-356. Elsevier Inc., London.

2006                I(with Santiago Rivas, Mónica Panaifo, and Andrew Zimmerman). Informe preliminar sobre los hallazgos en el sitio arqueológico de Quistococha, Amazonia Peruana. Boletín de Estudios Amazónicos, Unidad de Post grado de Ciencias Sociales, 1(2):79-98. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima.

2005                El surgimiento de la rutinización religiosa: los origenes de los tairona-kogis. In Chamanismo y sacrificio: Perspectivas arqueológicas y etnológicas en sociedades indígenas de America del Sur, edited by Jean-Pierre Chaumeil, Roberto Pineda, and Jean-François Bouchard, pp.141-163. Fundación de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Nacionales, Banco de la República, Bogotá, and Instituto de Estudios Andinos, Lima.

2004                (with Olaf Jaime Riveron). Arqueología Colombiana y Latinoamericana en su contexto y futuro: Una visión preliminar. Revista de Estudiantes de Arqueología 2:66-69.

2003                Comments. Stalk, Sugar and the Domestication of Maize by John Smalley and Michael Blake. Current Anthropology 44(5):693-694.

2002                El surgimiento de la rutinización religiosa: la conformación de la elite sacerdotal Tairona-Kogi. Arqueología del Area Intermedia 4(2):45-64.

2001                The Rise of Religious Routinization. The Study of Changes from Shaman to Priestly Elite. In Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Context in South America, edited by John E. Staller and Elizabeth J. Currie, pp. 1-18, Archaeopress Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.

2000                (with Juan José Vieco). Mitades, Clanes y Casas del Trapecio Amazónico Colombiano: Una Perspectiva Numérica de los Ticuna. Amazonia em Cadernos No 5, Os Ticunas Hoje, p. 39-68, Museu Amazónico, Universidade do Amazonas, Manaus.

2000                Review. Sed Non Satiata: Teoría Social en la Arqueología Latinoamericana Contemporánea, by Andrés Zarankin and Félix A. Acuto, eds., Latin American Antiquity 11(4):430-431.

1999                (with Juan José Vieco). La organización social de los Ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano: una aproximación cuantitativa. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 35:146-179.

1999                Arqueología: 30 años de historia marginal. In Ciencias Sociales en la Amazonia Colombiana: Guerra, etnicidad y conocimiento, edited by Comisión Regional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Amazonia, p. 11-29. Impreso Ediciones Ltda., Santafé de Bogotá.

1999                (with Juan Jose Vieco). La pesca entre los ticuna: historia, técnicas y ecosistemas. Boletín de Antropología de la Universidad de Antioquia 13(30):73-99.

1999                Prologo. In Los Nukak: nómadas de la amazonia colombiana by G.Cabrera, C. Franky y D. Mahecha. pp.13-15. Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Coama-Government of Denmark.

1998                Seasonality in the Tropical Lowlands of  Northwest   In Seasonality and Sedentism: Archeological Perspectives from Old and New World Sites. Edited by Thomas R. Rocek and Ofer Bar-Yosef, Peabody Museum Bulletin 6, pp. 165-179. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

1998                (second author, with J. Scott Raymond, and Partrick H. Carmichael). The Earliest Ceramic Technologies of the Northern Andes: A Comparative Analysis. In Andean Ceramics: Technology, Organization, and Approaches, edited by Izumi Shimada, pp. 153-172, Supplement to Vol. 15. MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1998                Bibliography of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: 1943-1997. In Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes, edited by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and J. Scott Raymond, Monograph 39, pp. ix-xv. The Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

1998                Ideology, Temples, and Priests: Change and Continuity in House Societies in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. In Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes, edited by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and J. Scott Raymond, Monograph 39, pp. 39-53. The Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

1998                (with J. Scott Raymond). Preface. In Recent Advances in the Archaeology of the Northern Andes, edited by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and J. Scott Raymond, Monograph 39, pp. vii-viii. The Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

1998                Review. Fifty Years of Southeastern Archaeology: Selected Works of John W. Griffin, by Patricia C. Griffin, with a foreword by Kathleen Deagan. Hispanic American Historical Review 78(1):12.

1998                Review. Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm by Mary G. Hodge and Michael E. Smith, eds. Hispanic American Historical Review 78(1):127.

1997                (with Armando Anaya, Carlos G. Elera and Lidio Valdez). Social Archaeology in Latin America? Comments to T. C. Patterson. American Antiquity 62(2):365-374.

1997                Prologo al Gran Jaguar. In Arqueología de Colombia by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, pp. xi-xix. Segunda Edición, Presidencia de la República de Colombia, Biblioteca Familiar Colombiana, Bogotá.

1996                The Study of Collector Variability in the Transition to Sedentary Food Producers in Northern Colombia. Journal of World Prehistory 10(1):49-92.

1996                Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: 1914-1994. American Antiquity 61(1):52-56.

1996                Amazon Basin, Archaeology; Magdalena Valley, Puerto Hormiga, Tairona. In Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, edited by Barbara A. Tenenbaum. Vol. 1:81-82, Vol. 3:493,  Vol. 4:493, Vol. 5:195-196. Charles Scribner’s Sons and MacMillan Library, New York.

1996                Review. Caciques and their People: A Volume in Honor of Ronald Spores. Marcus, Joyce, and Judith Francis Zeitlin, eds. Hispanic American Historical Review 76(4):766-767.

1996                Review. South American Archaeology, by Karen Bruhns. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 20: 139-141.

1996                Review. Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America, by Elsa M. Redmond. Latin American Antiquity 7(2):165-166.

1996                Review. Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices, by Tom Dillehay, ed. Hispanic American Historical Review 76(2): 339.

1995                Rocks vs. Clay: The Evolution of Pottery Technology in the Case of San Jacinto 1, Colombia. In The Emergence of Pottery, edited by William K. Barnett and John W. Hoopes, pp. 133-144. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

1995                Review. Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World, by Elizabeth M. Brumfield and John W. Fox. Hispanic American Historical Review 75(4):660-661.

1995                Review. The Origins of Agriculture and Settled Life, by Richard S. MacNeish. Hispanic American Historical Review 75(3):453-454.

1995                Centralización e integración en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Boletín Museo del Oro 38-39:113-133.

1995                (with Camilo Rodríguez). La Formación de Concheros en la Costa Norte de Sur América. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología 11:73-123.

1994                Nationalism and Archaeology: a Theoretical Perspective. In History of Latin American Archaeology, edited by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, pp. 3-21. Worldwide Archaeology Series, Avebury. Hampshire, England.

1994                (with Luis Gonzalo Jaramillo). Colombia: a Quantitative Perspective. In History of Latin American Archaeology, edited by Augusto Oyuela Caycedo, pp. 49-68. Worldwide Archaeology Series, Avebury. Hampshire, England.

1994                Introduction. In History of Latin American Archaeology, edited by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, pp. ix-xii. Worldwide Archaeology Series, Avebury. Hampshire, England.

1994                (with J. Scott Raymond and Patrick Carmichael). Una Comparación de la Cerámica Temprana de Ecuador y Colombia. In Tecnología y Organización de la Producción Ceramica Prehispanica en los Andes, edited by Izumi Shimada, pp. 33-52. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Fondo Editorial, Lima.

1991                Ideology and Structure of Gender Spaces: The Case of the Kaggaba Indians. In Gender Archaeology, edited by Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows, pp.  327-335. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary. University of Calgary, Canada.

1990                Las Redes de Caminos Prehispánicas en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. In Ingeniería Prehispánica, pp. 47-72. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología and Fondo Eléctrico Nacional (FEN), Bogotá.

1988                Review. Etnohistoria con Fuentes Primarias: “Mercado, Poblamiento e Integracion Étnica entre los Muiscas.”, by Carl Langebaek. Boletín Cultural y Bibliografico 25(17):121-123.

1987                Aspectos Culturales de las Secuencias Locales y Regionales en los Tairona. In Chiefdoms in the Americas, edited by Robert D. Drennan and Carlos A. Uribe, pp.  213-228. University Press of America, Lanham.

1987                Gaira: Introducción a la Ecología y Arqueología del Litoral de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Boletín Museo del Oro 19:35-55.

1987                Dos Sitios Arqueológicos con Degrasante de Fibra Vegetal en la Serranía de San Jacinto (Departamento de Bolívar). Boletín de Arqueológia 2(1):5-26.

1987                Los Museos del Oro Quimbaya. El Mundo al Vuelo 101:109-112

1987                Review. Otro Intento: “Raíces de la Arqueología en Colombia”, by Pricila Burcher de Uribe. Boletín Cultural y Bibliografico 24(10):90-91.

1987                Review. Las Figuras de la Fauna: “El Animal en el Mundo Mítico Tairona”, by Ann Legast. Boletín Cultural y Bibliografico 24(13):82-84.

1987                Review. Informes Antropológicos, by Instituto Colombiano de Antropología.Nacional. Boletín Museo del Oro 18:97-98.

1986                Von der Tairona-Kultur zu den Kogi: Eine Interpretation des Kulturwandels. In Tairona-Goldschmiede, edited by Corinna Raddatz, pp.  9-13. Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg.

1986                De los Tairona a los Kogi: una Interpretación del Cambio Cultural. Boletín Museo del Oro 17:32-43.

1986                Contribución a la Periodización Cultural en el Litoral del Parque Tairona. Boletín de Arqueológia 1(2):24-28.

1986                Excavación de un basurero en Ciudad Perdida. Boletín de Arqueológia 1(1):28-37.

1986                Santa Cruz de Mompox. El Mundo al Vuelo 89:29-30.

1986                La Necrópolis de Tierradentro. El Mundo al Vuelo. 89:12-17.

1986                Review. Una recopilación de relatos deshilados: Karanau, relatos breves y crónicas, by Raúl Loyo Rojas. Boletín Cultural y Bibliografico 23(7):86-87.

1986                Review. Raíces de la Arqueología Colombiana, by Pricila Burcher de Uribe. Revista de Antropología 2(1-2):163-166.

1986                Review. Jaguar, by George Dahl. Boletín Museo del Oro 17:99-100.

1986                Review. Investigaciones arqueológicas en el Magdalena Medio, sitios Colorados y Macaya, by Carlos Castaño and Carmen Lucía Dávila. Boletín Museo del Oro 16:82-83.

1986                Review. Monsú: un sitio arqueológico, by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff. Boletín Museo del Oro 15:29-30.

1986                Review. Arqueología de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, by Instituto Colombiano de Antropología Nacional. Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff. Boletín Museo del Oro 15:27-28.

1985                Review. Reedición de una Monografía Clásica: Los Kogí, by Gerardo Reichel Dolmatoff. Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico  22(5):68-69.

1984                San Agustín. El Mundo al Vuelo 75:18a-18e.

1984                Ciudad Perdida. El Mundo al Vuelo 73:32-38.

 

Papers submitted for publications

Myrian S. L. Barboza, Nicholas C. Kawa, Andre B. Junqueira and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo. Open Air Laboratories: Neotropical Home Gardens as Places of Multi-Species Historical Experimentation, Management, Cultural Exchange, and Boundary Negotiation. Submitted to the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Submission no: YJAAR_2019_165, 9/29/2019. Accepter with revision Oct/2020.

 

Invited Lectures, Conference Papers and Workshops:

2019                            Catastrophe and Archaeology: Some Lessons from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Gainesville Society, Gainesville. November 20.

2019                Historias activas y pasivas de las catástrofes: algunas lecciones arqueológicas.

Universidad de San Marcos. June 17, Lima, Perú.

2019                            Orígenes de la producción de cerámica en la historia de las tecnologíasUniversidad de Trujillo. May 31, Trujillo, Perú.

2018                            The Mangle of Catastrophe and Human Activity: Some Lessons from Ecuador and Colombia. The Ancient Latin America Speaker Series. MacMillan Center, Yale University, April 27, New Haven.

2018                            Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and Florencio Delgado Espinoza—From Cooking to Smelting, the Social Technology of Pyrotechnology of Earth Ovens. Symposium: what’s hot in pyrotechnology? Controlling fire from campfires to craftspeople, Organized by Ellery Frahm, Michelle Young and Lingyi Zeng. 83rd annual meeting Society for American Archaeology. April 13, 2018, Washington D.C.

2018                            Ecological Dissasters from the perspective of historical ecology/ Desastres naturales desde la perspectiva arqueológica de la Ecología Histórica. El Centro de Investigaciones Socioculturales de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. March 19, 2018.

2017                            Historical ecology: a comparative perspective. Magistral Conference and the National Congress of Colombian Archaeology, at the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, de cierre del Congreso Colombiano de Arqueología. May 12, 2017.

2015                Jorge Garcia, Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto, Alexis Rojas. The study of Opercula from San Sancinto, Colombia. (with. SAA, April 2015, San Francisco, CA

2014                Invited speaker, The Origins of Pottery. Universidad del Norte. In the symposium, Un Caribe a Cuatro Voces. Barranquilla, Colombia. October 2, 2014

• Participation in the design of the interdisciplinary course between material engineer and humanities.  EMA 1004, ANT 3930. CLA 3930, HIS 3930, and IDS 4930. The Social Impact of Materials on Society – Fall 2013. Organize by  Prof. Kevin Jones and Dr. Sophia Acord (Sociology),Workshop in summer 2013, and class teaching in the fall of 2013.

2012                “Max Schmidt and the Arawakan expansion”, invited paper for the sysmposium Arawakan linguistic and cultural identities. 17.07.2012 | 08:00 – 13:30, Organized by Francoise Rose (CNRS, France , Lyon Cedex 07, France) and Frank Seifart, (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany / Deutschland).

2012                “Antecedentes: De Erasmus Reichel a Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff , seminar “Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff 1912-2012” Octubre 5, 2012, Banco de la Republica, Cartagena. Colombia.

2012                Organization of the symposium “Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (Salzburgo 1912- Bogota 1994): El legado de un Americanista Austro-Colombiano.” 18.07.2012, in collaboration with Roberto Pineda Camacho (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia. Paper presentation on “Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: su pasado, legado y problemas”. International Congress of Americanists, Uniersity of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 15-20 july 2012.

2011                Invited to the Workshop, on “International Exhibition on the “El Dorado, and the Elder Brother’s Message: Concept and Design: Proexpo- Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto April 25-27. 2011.

2011                Looking at the Amazonian environment as an archaeological artifact. The Whitney Laboratory for Marine . Evenings at Whitney lecture series at the Whitney Lab’s Center for Marine Studies,St. Augustin. March 17, 2011.

2011                Environmental and socio-cultural  changes from the perspective of the archaeology of Western Amazonia (Colombia, Peru). Geography Colloquium Series, UF. Gainesville, 27th January, 2011

2011                Early Villages in the Northern Andes. The Institute for Learning in Retirement. Gainesville, January 21, 2011

2010                Arqueología del Alto Amazonas. Paper presented. and Organizer of the Symposium Arqueología del Alto Amazonas at the II Encontro Internacional de Arqueologia Amazonia. Manaus  12-18 of September, 2010. Brazil.

2010                Animism on the Rocks. Paper presented in the symposium “Debating Animism: Perspectives and the Construction of Ontologies”, organized by Dr. Ernst Halbmayer at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, September 29-October 3, 2010, Germany.

2010                Sacred Networks: Horizontal or/and Vertical Structures? Paper presented and the symposium Organized by Robin         Wright, Sacred Knowledge and Power in Lowland South America and Indigenous Society. 2nd Biennial  Conference, Society for Amazonian and Andes Studies,          Gainesville, Fl. November 5, 2010.

2010                The Ecology of Masked Dances: Identity, Power and Territoriality.  A Comparative Perspective from the Amazon and the Andes.  Invited talk at The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, The Macmillan Center. Yale University. January 26, 2010.

2009                Los orígenes de los Tairona. Invited paper. Primer Congreso de Aqueología del Caribe. Universidad del Magdalena, November 12, 2009. Santa Marta, Colombia.

2009                Orígenes de la cerámica en América. Keynote speaker of the “XVI Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina y Amazónica”, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), October 26-31, 2009. Lima, Peru.

2009                Terras Pretas, cambio ambiental y agricultura en la amazonia desde la perspectiva de Quistococha, Iquitos.  Paper presented at the “XVI Congreso Peruano del Hombre y la Cultura Andina y Amazónica”, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), October 26-31, 2009. Lima, Peru.

2008                Repensando la participación comunitaria en las fronteras del conservacionismo, el desarrollo sustentable, la Universidad, las ONGs y el estado en la Amazonia. Invited paper for the “Ethnologisch-Altamerikanistisches Kolloquium 2008/2009“, organized by Nikolai Grube. Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie. Universität  Bonn, November 10, 2008. Bonn, Germany.

2008                Templos, máscaras y danzas: la reproducción de espacios sagrados entre los Tairona-Kágaba/Kogi de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Société des Américanistes de Belgique in collaboration with the Red Europea de Estudios  Amerindios. Ritual Americas. Section: Ceremonial Andean Spaces “ceremoniales andinos”, organized  by  Mónica Gudemos and Francisco Gil García, April 2–5, 2008. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

• Cambios ambientales y culturales en el Alto Amazonas. Una perspectiva de ecología histórica. Invited paper at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, February 26, 2008. Berlin, Germany.
• Terra Preta do Indio: Um Modelo de Agricultura Sustantavel do Passado e Futuro (?). Nicholas Kawa and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo. Invited paper for the conference on “Brasil – Vanguardas: Imagem e palavra /Fogo – Terra – Ar – Agua”, Grupo dos Brasilianistas na Alemanha c/o Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Kommunikation mit Ibero-Amerika (CCC Tübingen) in cooperation with Lehrstuhl für Brasilianistik, Lateinamerika-Institut of the Freie Universität Berlin / Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung / Brasilianische Botschaft Berlin, at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, October 19–20, 2007. Berlin, Germany.

Masks for All, Masks for Few:  The Ideology of Masks in Amerindian Societies in the Past and Present. Invited paper for the symposium “The Center of the Americas: Contemporary Studies of an Ancient World”, sponsored by The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C, September 15, 2007. U.S. Navy Memorial & Naval Heritage Center, Washington, D.C.

2007                Looking the forest as a fragmented archaeological artifact: toward archaeology of anthropogenic tropical forest. Invited paper for the conference “The Archaeology of Anthropogenic Environments”. 24^th Annual visiting Scholar Conference, The Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University. May 23-34, 2007. Carbondale, Il.

2007                Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Early Pottery Invention and Technological Dispersion in the Neotropics. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and J. Scott  Raymond (U. of Calgary). Invited paper for the symposium “Theoretical and Methodological Contributions of Hunter-Gatherer Pottery Studies”, organized by Larkin Hood and Jelmer Eerkens. SAA 72^nd Annual meeting, April 25-29, 2007, Austin, Texas.

• La construccíon histórica de territorialidad e identidad indígena en el caso de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and Manuela Fischer. Invited paper for the Workshop “Ethnizität, Territorialität und indigene Sonderrechte”, SűdamerikanistInnentreffen 2007, Lateinamerika-Institut,  Universität Wien, March 1-4, 2007, Vienna, Austria.

2006                El Formativo Temprano en el Caribe Colombiano. Invited  talk in the “VI simposio sobre la Historia de Cartagena”, organized by Haroldo Calvo Stevenson and Adolfo Meisel Roca, Banco de la República. September 14-15 2006. Cartagena, Colombia.

2006                Looking at the forest as a fragmented archaeological artifact: Toward an archaeology of the tropical forest.  Paper giver in the section “The Legacy of the Maya Forest as a Garden”, organized by Anabel Ford Ronald Nigh and Scott Fedick. 53th International Congress of Americanists, Universidad de Sevilla. July 17-21, 2006. Sevilla, Spain.

2006                Formation of Dark Earth Soils in Western Amazonia, Iquitos, Peru: Chemistry and Morphology. Andrew R. Zimmerman and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo. Paper presented at the symposium “Amazonian Dark Earth Soils (Terra Preta and Terra Preta Nova): A Tribute to Wim Sombroek”. Sponsor: WCSS 18^th World of Soils Science, Philadelphia 15 July, 2006. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2006                Introducción a la Arqueología de Quistococha, Iquitos. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and Santiago Rivas Panduro. Invited paper presented at the “Escuela Académico Profesional de Arqueología”, Universidad de San Marcos, June 2, 2006. Lima, Peru.

2006                Cerro Narrío y Max Uhle: posibilidades de análisis de un sitio seriamente perturbado. Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto, J. Scott Raymond and Peter Stahl. Invited paper at the “International Symposium  Max Uhle (1856-1944) Evaluación de sus investigaciones y obras”. Pontificia Universitaria Católica del Perú. May 5–7 2006. Lima, Peru.

• La Cerámica Temprana en América. Invited paper for the Escuela Académico Profesional de Arqueología, Universidad de San Marcos, May 2, 2006. Lima, Peru.
• Quistococha: An Inquiry to the Historical Ecology of the Upper Amazon River. Santiago Rivas, Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo, Mónica Panaifo, and Andrew Zimmerman. Invited paper for the SAA symposium “Human Agency and Anthropogenic Landscapes in Amazonia”, sponsored by SAA Committee on the Americas, organized by Michael Heckenberger, 71st Annual Meeting of the SAA, April 26–30, 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006                 Ritual Paraphernalia and the Foundation of Religious Temples: The Case of the Tairona-Kágaba/Kogi, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo and Manuela Fischer, SAA symposium “Religious Authority and Ritual Architecture in Prehispanic South America”, organised by Jerry Moore             and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo. 71st Annual Meeting of the SAA, April 26–30, 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2006                Cosmology and Ecology in White and Black Water Rivers. Invited  paper to the Dean’s Workshop series “New Amazonian Perspectives”, University of Binghamton, March 3, 2006, Binghamton, NY.

2005                Toward an Historical Ecology of Religion: The Lessons from the Kogui of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Shamanistic Societies of the Northwest Amazon. Invited paper at the Institute of Ethnology, Freie Universität Berlin, October 31, 2005. Berlin, Germany.

• (with  Renée M. Bonzani). Reflections of Commodity Development and Values in the Indigenous and Colonizer Markets of Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia. Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky Annual Meeting. September 30–October 1, 2005, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
• From the Tairona to the Kogui: A Case Study on Historical Ecology of Religion. Invited lecture at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. May 3, 2005. London, Great Britain.

2005                Historical ecology of religion: some thoughts on shamanic and priestly societies and what it means in the structure of spiritual beings and the masters of the Universe. Invited lecture at the Institute of African Studies. University of Köln, May 25, 2005. Cologne, Germany.

2005                Archaeological Nature of the Andean Tropical Cloud Forests In Symposium: Rethinking rain forest occupation in Australasia and the Americas, organized by Huw Barton and John Krigbaum, Society for American Archaeology. April 31, 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah.

2004                The Gift of masks dance. Negotiating at the frontier of identity. Marburg:  Plenary speaker at the conference “Deutschsprachige Südamerika- und Karibikforscher”, Philipps-Universität Marburg, October 7-10, 2004. Marburg, Germany.

2003                Movilidad, estacionalidad  y los orígines de la producción de alimentos y cerámica  en el Trópico: El caso de San Jacinto 1, Colombia. Invited talk at “L’Aula Oberta d’América Llatina”. Departament d’Antropologia Social i Prehistoria and the Centre d’Estudis Internacionals i Interculturas of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, November 26, 2003. Barcelona, Spain.

2003                The priestly Chibchans: The ideological roots of religious complexes. Paper given in the symposium “Breaking down boundaries in the Intermediate Area: Toward a New Macro-Chibchan Synthesis”, organized by Alejandra Gudiño and Ronla Lippi. Society for American Archaeology, 68th annual Meeting, Milwaukee, April 10. 2003. Milwaukee, WI.

2002                From Shamanism to Priesthood: An Inquiry into the Rise of Priestly Societies. Organizer of the session “The Rise of Priestly Societies: Past and Present”, 101st Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Session Chair: Edith Turner, discussants: Edith Turner (CNRS) and Roberte N. Hamayon (EPHE), November 23, 2002. New Orleans, Louisiana.

2002                Etnología, Paraindigenismo y Estado: el caso de Colombia después de la constitución de 1991. “Etnologia Indígena no Contexto de Diferentes estados-Nacionales”, coordination by João Pacheco de Olveira and Stephen Grant Baines. 23th meetings of the Associação Brasilera de Antropologia, Gramados (Rio Grande do Sul, June 16, 2002. Gramados, Brazil.

2002                Perspectivas de una Arqueología Antropológica Social del Noroeste Amazonico y Alto Solimões. Invited speaker for the Postgraduate program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro UFRJ, June 6, 2002. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2002                Problemas e perspectivas para uma teoria sobre a origem da produção cerâmica.  Invited speaker, Museu de Arqueologia (MAE), at Univesidade de São Paulo, SP. June 14, 2002. São Paulo, Brazil. 

2001                Perceptions on the Plan Colombia and Indigenous People. Invited speaker for the session “The Product of Victimization: Narcotrafficking, Human Rights, and Plan Colombia”, organized by Janet M. Chernela and Victor Uribe.  100^th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 29, 2001. Washington, D.C.

2001                The gift of dance: negotiating at the frontier of identity. Invited speaker. University of Calgary, Department of Archaeology and Latin American Center. Alberta, April 9, 2001. Alberta, Canada.

2000                From shaman to priest: the case of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.  Invited speaker for the international colloquium “Chamanisme et Sacrifice. Visions amérindiennes et perspectives comparatives”. at the Collège de France. Organized by Maurice Godelier and coordinated by Jean-François Bouchard and Jean-Pierre Chaumeil (CNRS). April 18–20, 2000. Paris, France.

2000                CHM and Dams in Colombia: Expedient Archaeology between Bullets and Ideologies. Invited speaker at The International Workshop on Cultural Heritage Management and Dams, organized by Steven Brandt and Fekri Hassan, University of Florida. February 13–16, 2000. Gainesville, Florida.

 

Chair of Ph.D. students and job placement:

• Jorge Garcia (PhD 2019), Adjunct faculty, Stetson University.
• Myrian Sá Leitão Barboza (PhD 2019), Assistant Professor, and researcher of the Anthropology and Archaeology Program at UFPA, Brazil).
• James Crandall (PhD 2018), Lecture, Anthropology, Sacramento State Campus. 
• Stephanie Borios (PhD, 2014), Assistant Professor at Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
• Michael van Patrick Lemons (PhD, 2013), Lecturer, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Community College.
• Renata Godoy (PhD, 2012), Assistant Professor, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil.
• Nicholas Kawa (PhD, 2011), Assistant Professor at Ohio State University.
• Diogo Menezes Costa (PhD. 2010), Professor, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil,(co-Chair).

Committee member of Ph.D. students:

• Byron Real-Lopez (PhD 2018)
• Scott A. Macrae (PhD. 2017)
• Lucas Martindale Johnson (PhD. 2016)
• Paulette M. McFadden (PhD. 2016)
• Jaehoon Lee (PhD. 2013)
• Joshua Robert Toney (PhD. 2012)
• Asa Randall (PhD. 2010)
• Reyda Taylor (PhD. 2010)
• James Cowan Waggoner (PhD. 2009)
• Gerardo Silva Mosiman (PhD. 2009)
• Renzo S. Duin (PhD. 2009)
• Mohammed Mustapha (ABD)

Committee chair of MA students:

• Marcos Ramos Valdes (2020)
• Amanda Brock (MA 2019)
• Kiristin Bright (MA 2010)
• Nicholas Kawa (MA 2009).

External committee member of PhD. Students:

• Martha Osorio-Cediel (U Florida, Romance Languages and Literatures, PhD. 2015).
• Chris Woolley, (Department of History, U Florida, PhD. 2016).
• Herlinda Flores (U Florida, Romance Languages and Literatures. PhD. 2011)
• Carmen Guerrero ( U Florida, Romance Languages and Literatures, PhD. 2011)
• Geraldo Mosiman Silva (Department of Geography, PhD. 2009).
• Alexander Stephanelly (U Florida, Romance Languages and Literatures. PhD. 2006).
• Committee member of MA students:
• Kevin S. McDaniel (MA 2017)
• Amanda L Monroe (MA 2015)
• Stephanie Marie Juengling (MA 2012)
• Haiyan Xing (MA 2011)
• Michael Kay (MA 2010)
• Carmen A. Laguer Díaz (MA 2009)
• Charles R. Crones (MA 2010)
• Lisa A. Howell (MA 2008).

Professional Affiliation:

• The Society for American Archaeology.