Ancient Maritime Communities (including fishing technology)
Ethnoarchaeology
Latin American Archaeology; Archaeology of the Central Andean Region
History of Latin American Archaeology
The Archaeology of Violence and Human Sacrifice
Household Archaeology.
Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
2018-pr Estudio de aplicación de técnicas laser para limpieza y restauración de bienes arqueológicos y el uso de difracción de rayos X para identificación de componentes cristalográficos que afectan las pinturas murales en la Costa Norte del Perú FONDECYT-PERU. CONTRATO N°07-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-MU.
Recently Completed Research Support
2018a. Committee for Research and Exploration. National Geographic Society. Household and Embodied Lives at Huanchaco, Peru. Investigating Prehistoric Social Change through domestic and bio-archaeological studies. Grant # 305R-18.
2018b. Researcher Links Grant. British Council and CONCYTEC-Peru. Workshop on: Paleoclimate, Water Use and Environmental Phenomena in Ancient Peru and their Contemporary Impacts. Grant # 2017-RLWK9-360506125.
2018c. Brennan Foundation. Project Granted: Emerging Elites during the Salinar Period in Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru.
2016a. National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration.“Emergency excavation at the site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas in northern coastal Peru (summer 2016)”. Granted to Dr. John Verano as PI and Gabriel Prieto as co-director. Grant #9894-16.
2016b. National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration.“Emergency excavation at the site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas in northern coastal Peru.” Granted to Dr. John Verano as PI and Gabriel Prieto as co-director. Grant #9830-15.