OSCAR GABRIEL PRIETO
PROFESSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Florida
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD
August 16th 2019 – present
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.
2017-2019. Assistant Professor – School of Archaeology, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo.
2016 Post-Doc, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Taught courses in Social Science Graduate School.
2015 Adjunct Professor – School of Archaeology, Facultad de Ciencias Historico-Sociales, Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo – Lambayeque.
2010-2015 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. (Great Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology; Introduction to Archaeological Laboratory Sciences; The Ancient Maya; The Archaeology of China; Great Civilizations of the Ancient World)
EDUCATION
2015 Ph.D, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
Dissertation Title: Gramalote: Domestic Life, Economy and Ritual Practices of a Prehispanic Maritime Community. Committee: Richard L. Burger, Roderick McIntosh, Anne Underhill and Jeffrey Quilter.
2011 M.A. Department of Anthropology, Yale University
2004 Licenciate . Andean Archaeology, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
2003 B.A. Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss
2020 Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes. Co-edited volume (15 chapters). University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Fl.
Gabriel Prieto and Alicia Boswell
2019 Actas de la Primera Mesa Redonda de Trujillo. Nuevas perspectivas en la arqueología de los valles de Viru, Moche y Chicama. Co-edited volume (14 chapters). Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Trujilo, Peru.
Gabriel Prieto and Elias Rodrich
2015 Huanchaco y la Fiesta del Huanchaquito. Fondo editorial de la Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego. Trujillo, Peru.
Ana Cecilia Mauricio and Gabriel Prieto (Editors)
2016 Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 19. “Avances en la arqueología de la Cultura Lima – Parte 2”. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Fondo Editorial.
Ana Cecilia Mauricio and Gabriel Prieto (Editors)
2015 Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 18. “Avances en la arqueología de la Cultura Lima – Parte 1.” Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Fondo Editorial.
Refereed Articles and Chapters in Refereed Volumes (English)
Prieto Gabriel
2020 The Fisherman’s Garden: Horticultural Practices in a Second Millennium Maritime Community of the North Coast of Peru. In Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes. Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss, editors, pp. 218-246. University Press of Florida.
2018a The Temple of the Fishermen: Early Ceremonial Architecture at Gramalote, a Residential Settlement of the Second Millennium B.C., North Coast of Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology 43(3): 200-221.
2018b The Social Dynamics and Economic Interactions of the Households at Gramalote, a small-scale Residential Settlement During the Second Millennium BC on the North Coast of Peru. Latin American Antiquity 29(3): 532-551.
2014 The Initial Period Fishing Settlement of Gramalote, Moche Valley: A Preliminary Report. Peruvian Archaeology 1,2014: 1-46.
2011 Chicha Production during the Chimu Period at San Jose de Moro, Jequetepeque valley, North Coast of Peru. In Advances in North Coast Archaeology: State and Empire in the Jequetepeque Valley (pp. 105-128) Edited by Collen M. Zori and Ilana Johnson. British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International Series, Oxford.
2010 Approximating Lambayeque Political Configurations: A Perspective from the Site of San Jose de Moro, Jequetepeque Valley. In Comparative Perspectives on the Archaeology of Coastal South America, (pp. 232-246). Edited by Robyn E. Cutright, Enrique Lopez-Hurtado and Alexander J. Martin. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Ministerio de Cultura del Ecuador.
In press Grilling clams and roasting tubers: Andean Maritime Foodways during the Second Millennium B.C. To be pubished in: Andean Foodways, Volume 2, John E. Staller and Susan deFrance, editors. Springer Publishers.
Prieto, Gabriel and Daniel H. Sandweiss
2020 Introduction. A Historical Perspective on the Studies of Andean Maritime Communities. In Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes. Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss, editors, pp. 1-35. University Press of Florida.
Prieto, Gabriel, John W. Verano, Nicolas Goepfert, Douglas Kennett, Jeffrey Quilter, Steven LeBlanc, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Jannine Forst, Mellisa Lund, Brittany Dement, Elise Dufour, Olivier Tombret, Melina Calmon, Davette Gadison and Khrystyne Tschinkel
2019 A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, Moche Valley, Peru. PLOS One 14(3): e0211691.
Sutter, Richard and Gabriel Prieto
2020 The Ethnogenesis of Pescador Identity: The Implications of Biodistance Analyses of Initial Period (1500-1200 BC) Human Remains from Gramalote, Peru, for Our Understanding of the Social and Economic Dynamics of Ancient Andean Maritime Communities. In Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes. Gabriel Prieto and Daniel H. Sandweiss, editors, pp. 247-263. University Press of Florida.
Le Bailly, Matthieu, Nicolas Goepfert, Gabriel Prieto, John Verano and Benjamin Dufour
2019 Camelid Gastrointestinal Parasites from the Archaeological Site of Huanchaquito (Peru): First Results. Environmental Archaeology:1-8.
Goepfert, Nicolas, Elise Dufour, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
2018 Herds for the Gods? Selection criteria and herd management at the mass sacrifice site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas during the Chimu Period, Northern Coast of Peru. Environmental Archaeology (online).
Dufour, Elise, Nicolas Goepfert, Manon Le Neun, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
2018 Life History and Origin of the Camelids Provisioning a Mass Killing Sacrifice During the Chimu Period: Insight from Stable Isotopes. Environmental Archaeology (online).
Parker, Bradley, Gabriel Prieto and Carlos Osores
2018 Methodological advances in household archaeology: an application of microartifact analysis at Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, Peru. Ñawpa Pacha 38(1): 57-75.
Prieto, Gabriel, Veronique Wright, Richard L. Burger, Colin A. Cooke, Elvira L. Zeballos-Velasquez, Aldo Watanave, Matthew R. Suchomel and Leopoldo Suescun
2016 The source, processing and use of red pigment based on hematite and cinnabar at Gramalote, an early Initial Period (1500-1200 cal. B.C.) maritime community, North Coast of Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 5(2016): 45-60.
Goepfert, Nicolas and Gabriel Prieto
2016 Offering Llamas to the Sea. The economic and ideological importance of camelids in the Chimu Society, North Coast of Peru. In The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism. Jose Capriles and Nicholas Tripcevich, editors, pp. 197-210. University of New Mexico Press, Alburqueque.
Millaire, Jean Francois, Gabriel Prieto, Flannery Surette, Elsa M. Redmond and Charles Spencer
2016 Statecraft and expansionary dynamics: A Viru outpost at Huaca Prieta, Chicama Valley, Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (41): E6016-E6025.
Castillo, Luis Jaime; Julio RucabadoY.; Martín Del Carpio P.; Katiusha Bernuy Q.; Karim Ruiz; Carlos Rengifo Ch.; Gabriel Prieto and Carole Fraresso
2009 Ideología y Poder en la Consolidación, Colapso y Reconstitución del Estado Mochica del Jequetepeque. El Proyecto Arqueológico San José de Moro (1991 – 2005). Ñawpa Pacha 45: 3-82.
Book Reviews:
Prieto, Gabriel (Invited by Journal)
2018 Where the land meets the sea: fourteen millennia of human history at Huaca Prieta, Peru (Tom Dillehay, ed.). 2017. Austin: University of Texas Press: 978-1-4773-1149-3. Antiquity 92(364): 1122-1124.
Prieto, Gabriel (Invited by Journal)
2017 Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (John Verano). 2016. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC. Latin American Antiquity 28(2): 310-311.
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Refereed Articles and Chapters in Refereed Volumes (Spanish) – Selected
Prieto, Gabriel
2018a El Camino Prehispánico 1 de Huanchaco, valle de Moche: un tramo olvidado del Qhapaq Ñan. Cuadernos del Qhapaq Ñan 5(5): 100-125.
2018b El uso del color rojo entre el 1500 a.C. y el 1600 d.C. en la costa norte del Peru: el caso de la bahía de Huanchaco. In Pigmentos y brillos en la costa de Ecuador precolombino. Edited by Maria Fernanda Cartagena and Alejandra Sanchez-Polo, pp. 62-69. Casa del Alabado, Quito, Ecuador.
2018c Las pequeñas huacas también hablan. Investigaciones en sitios arqueológicos no-monumentales, distrito de Huanchaco, costa norte del Perú. In Peru. Arqueología de los Andes. Edited by Pedro Iberico, pp. 125-155. Instituto de los Andes. Trujillo, Peru.
2018d Santiago E. Uceda Castillo y la edad de oro de la arqueología en la costa norte del Perú. In Avances recientes en datación y arqueometría en los Andes. Actes y memoires 45. Edited by Ivan Ghezzi and Luis E. Salcedo, pp. 43-50. Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos. Lima, Peru.
2018e El templo en la aldea: excavaciones arqueológicas en una estructura ceremonial del Periodo Inicial en el sitio de Gramalote. Quignam 4: 33-76.
2017a El Caballito de Totora más Antiguo de América. In El Top Anual de los Grandes Descubrimientos del Peru, Eloy Ramírez, editor, pp. 224-233. Consorcio Grafico del Pacifico. Lima, Peru.
2017b Utensilios de subsistencia y producción hechos de madera del sitio Gramalote. Periodo Inicial (1500-1200 a.C.). In Actas del II Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Vol 1, pp. 67-83. Ministerio de Cultura del Peru, Lima.
2017c Tablada Baja: Un Sector Olvidado de los Campos Prehispánicos de Cultivo Chimú en Pampas de Huanchaco. Revista del Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo 13: 75-103.
2016a ¿Solo productores de comida bajo la sombra del gran templo? Teorizando los sitios domésticos del Periodo Inicial. Una Perspectiva desde Pampas Gramalote, costa norte del Peru. In Actas del I Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Peru, Vol. 3, pp. 107-117. Ministerio de Cultura del Peru, Lima.
2016b Balsas de totora en la costa norte del Perú: una aproximación etnográfica y arqueológica. Quignam 2: 139-186.
2015 Una aproximación a la tecnología de pesca en el sitio Huaca 20 y sus implicancias sociales y económicas. In Huaca 20, un sitio Lima en el antiguo Complejo Maranga. Ana Cecilia Mauricio, Luis Muro and Carlos Olivera, editors, pp. 175-202. Fondo Editorial PUCP & IFEA. Lima, Peru.
2014a La Pesca Prehispánica de la Costa Central: Una Revisión Necesaria a Partir de los Nuevos Datos Provenientes del Barrio de Pescadores del Sitio Huaca 20, Complejo Maranga. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 18: 129-157.
2014b Herramientas de hilado y tejido en las tumbas y contextos votivos Lambayeque: ¿Evidencia de especialistas textileras o simbolismo mítico de una diosa desconocida? In Cultura Lambayeque en el Contexto de la Costa Norte del Peru, Carlos Wester and Julio Cesar Fernández, editors, pp. 107-137. Editorial ENDECOSEGE S.A. Lambayeque, Perú.
2013a El espacio domestico de los pescadores del Periodo Inicial (1550-1250 a.C.) en la costa norte del Perú: un estudio preliminar desde el sitio Pampas Gramalote, valle de Moche. ARKINKA 207: 90-99.
2013b Apuntes etnográficos de algunos pueblos de pescadores tradicionales del Norte Chico y la Costa Norte del Peru. NOSOTROS. Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo V(6): 140-191.
2011 Las fiestas anuales y quinquenales de la Virgen Candelaria del Socorro de Huanchaco: expresión religiosa de los pescadores de la Costa Norte del Perú. Arqueología y Sociedad 23: 193-221.
2010 Dos Forjadores de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú: sus confrontaciones y publicaciones. Arqueología y Sociedad 22: 120-141.
2008 Rituales de Enterramiento Arquitectónico en el Núcleo Urbano Moche: una aproximación desde el C.A. 27, valle de Moche. In Arqueología Mochica, Nuevos Enfoques. Luis Jaime Castillo, Helene Bernier, Gregory Lockard and Julio Rucabado, editors, pp. 307-324. Instituto Frances de Estudios Andinos and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Perú.
Espinosa, Alicia, Gabriel Prieto y Walter Alva
2020 Tradiciones técnicas y producción cerámica Viru-Gallinazo y Mochica: nuevas miradas sobre las relaciones entre dos grupos sociales del periodo Intermedio Temprano en la costa norte del Peru. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 26: 85-102.
Prieto, Gabriel, and Alicia Boswell
2019 Introducción. Repensando la arqueología de los valles de Viru, Moche y Chicama. In Actas de la Primera Mesa Redonda de Trujillo. Nuevas perspectivas en la arqueología de los valles de Viru, Moche y Chicama. Gabriel Prieto and Alicia Boswell, editors, pp. 11-24. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel, Isabelle Druc, Elvis Monzón, Jhon Baldeos, Aldo Watanabe, Lorenzo Risco, Roy Lezama and Pedro Cáceres.
2019 La cerámica temprana de Gramalote en el vale de Moche: aproximaciones a sus modos de producción, formas y usos. In Actas de la Primera Mesa Redonda de Trujillo. Nuevas perspectivas en la arqueología de los valles de Viru, Moche y Chicama. Gabriel Prieto and Alicia Boswell, editors, pp. 31-68. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel, and Helen Chavarria
2017 La ocupación Moche en Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco. ARKINKA: 78-87.
Prieto, Gabriel, John Verano and Nicolas Goepfert
2017 Lluvias e inundaciones en el siglo XV de nuestra era: sacrificios humanos y de camélidos Chimu en la periferia de Chan Chan. In Actas del II Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Vol. 1, pp. 55-65. Ministerio de Cultura del Peru, Lima.
Prieto Gabriel, Ana Cecilia Mauricio and Leonardo Arrelucea
2015 Bibliografía General de la Cultura Lima. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 19: 205-235.
Prieto Gabriel and Angie Burmester
2015 El Entorno Sagrado de Chan Chan. ARKINKA 240: 96-105.
Prieto, Gabriel and Erik Maquera
2015 La Arquitectura del sitio del Periodo Inicial de Menocucho, valle de Moche, Costa Norte del Peru ARKINKA 231: 92-101.
Prieto, Gabriel, Nicolás Goepfert, Katya Valladares and Juan Vilela
2015 Sacrificios de Niños, Adolescentes y Camélidos Jóvenes durante el Intermedio Tardío en la periferia de Chan Chan, valle de Moche, costa norte del Perú. Arqueología y Sociedad 27: 255-296.
Prieto, Gabriel and Fernando Freire
2013 Por la Ruta del Pescado: asentamientos y caminos prehispánicos de pescadores-mariscadores en el litoral al sur del rio Casma, costa norte del Perú. ARKINKA 213: 100-111.
GRANTS (Total awarded as PI: $ 633,500.00)
2019 AMBASSADOR FUND United States of America Embassy in Peru. Conservation of archaeological collections of the Huanchaco Archaeological Program. Amount granted: $ 150,000.00.
2018a FONDECYT-CONCYTEC. Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología del Perú. 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. Grant # 007-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-MU. Amount granted: $ 110,000.00.
2018b 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. Amount granted: $ 29,500.00.
2018c 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. Amount granted: £ 42,000.00.
2018d Brennan Foundation. Project Granted: Emerging Elites during the Salinar Period in Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru. Grant given on April, 2018. Amount granted: $ 5,000.00
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. Amount granted : $9,608.00
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. Amount granted: $7,913.00.
2015a Beca de Repatriación de Investigadores Peruanos. “Human Adaptability, Fishing Technology and Climate Change between 3500 BP and 1600 AD in Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru.” Programa Nacional INNOVATE PERU, Ministerio de la Producción – Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Huanchaco Archaeological Program. Grant number: 354-15. Amount granted: $ 150,000.00
2015b National Geographic/Waitt Research Grant. National Geographic Society. Project: “Las Aldas and Its Role in the Emergence of Social Complexity in the North Coast of Peru.” Grant #W389-15. Amount granted: $ 15,000.00
2015c Joseph Albers Funds. Department of Anthropology, Yale University. “Sourcing Clays in the Moche Valley.” Amount granted: $ 8,500.00
2014a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration. “Child and Camelid Sacrifices at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, Moche Valley, Peru.” Granted to Dr. John Verano as PI and Gabriel Prieto as co-director. Grant #9521-14. Amount granted: $18,140.00
2014b Joseph Albers Funds. Department of Anthropology, Yale University. Project: Gramalote Archaeological Program, 2014. Amount granted: $ 9,850.00
2014c Latin American & Iberian Studies Summer Travel Grant (LAIS). MacMillan Center, Yale University. Amount granted: $ 1,000.00
2013a Joseph Albers Funds. Department of Anthropology, Yale University. Amount granted: $ 8,900.00
2013b National Geographic Society/Waitt Foundation. Amount granted: $ 5,000.00
2012a Sustainable Preservation Initiative Grant. Project: “Sustainable Development with the local community of Huanchaquito.” Amount granted: $ 10,000.00
2012b Josef Albers Funds. Department of Anthropology. Yale University. Amount granted: $ 9,500.00
2011a Wenner Gren Research Grant. Wenner Grenn Foundation. “Pampas Gramalote: Social Dynamism and Interaction of an Early Fishing Village, North Coast of Peru.” Grant # 8427. Amount granted: $ 17,750.00.
2011b National Geographic / Waitt Research Grant. National Geographic Society. “Gramalote, Social Dynamics and Economic Interactions in an Early Fishing Village.” Grant #W188-11. Amount granted: $ 15,000.00.
2011c McMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant. Yale University. “Gramalote and the Emergence of Social Complexity.” Amount granted: $ 15,000.00
2011d Josef Albers Funds. Department of Anthropology, Yale University. “Excavations at Gramalote, Peru.” Amount granted: $ 15,000.00
2011e Sigma Xi Research Grant. “Gramalote and the origins of social complexity.” Grant # G20110315156259 Amount granted: $ 800.00.
2011f John F. Enders Fellowship. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University. Amount granted: $ 750.00
2011g Latin American Travel Award Funds. McMillan Center, Yale University. Amount granted: $ 650.00
2011h Agrarian Studies Research Grant. Yale University. “Identification of macro and micro botanical remains at Gramalote, Peru.” Amount granted: $ 2000.00
2010a McMillan Center, Pre-Dissertation Fellowships. Yale University. “Archaeological Excavations at Pampas Gramalote.” Amount granted: $ 4,000.00
2010b Tinker Field Research Grant. Council of Latin American Studies. Yale University. Amount granted: $ 700.00
2010c Augusta Hazard Fund 2009-2010. Yale University. Amount granted: $ 1,500.00
2010d Josef Albers Travelling Fellowships 2009-2010. Yale University. Amount granted: $ 6,550.00
2009 Josef Albers Travelling Fellowships 2008-2009. Yale University. “Ethnography of the traditional fishing communities of the North Coast of Peru.” Amount granted: $ 6,550.00.
DIRECTED ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD PROJECTS
Director. Household and Embodied Lives at Huanchaco, Peru. Investigating Prehistoric Social Change through domestic and bio-archaeological studies. May 2018 to present.
Director. Huanchaco Archaeological Program (Human Adaptability, Fishing Technology and Climate Change between 3500 BP and 1600 AD in Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru). January 2016 to present.
Director. Project: “Las Aldas and Its Role in the Emergence of Social Complexity in the North Coast of Peru.” July December, 2015.
Co-Director (with John Verano). Archaeological Excavations at Huanchaquito Las Llamas. April, 2014 – June 2016.
Director. Archaeological Excavations at the Site of Huanchaquito – Las Llamas. August 2011 – December 2013.
Director. Gramalote Archaeological Project. June 2010 – December 2014.
Director. Huaca 20 – Maranga Archaeological Complex, Season 2007.
EXPERIENCE ON ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS
Director. Analysis of archaeological collections from Gramalote, Gramalote A and Pampa la Cruz. December 2016 to present.
Research Assistant. Analysis of Beads and Abalories from the Bead Collection at the Peabody Museum, Yale University. February – June 2015.
Research Assistant. Laboratory of the Machu Picchu Collection, Peabody Museum, Yale University. January 2009 to May 2011.
Research Assistant. Analysis of materials at the laboratory of the San Jose de Moro Archaeological Program. June 2004-July 2008.
PARTICIPATION ON OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
San Jose de Moro Archaeological Program. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. June 2004- July 2008.
Magdalena de Cao Viejo- Complejo El Brujo. Harvard University. August 2006.
Proyecto Arqueológico valle de Lurín, Cardal. July-August 2008.
Proyecto Arqueologico Huaca de la Luna. June 2001 – December 2003
PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIUMS, ETC.
Prieto, Gabriel
“Sacrificios de niños y camelidos en el Corazon del reino Chimu: Siglos XII-XVI de nuestra era: ofrendando sangre en la costa norte peruana” Ciclo de Conferencias Virtuales: Hablando con la Eternidad. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Ciudad de Guatelama, Guatemala. Martes, 8 de Septiembre de 2020.
Prieto, Gabriel
“Exploring New Children and Camelid Sacrificial Sites in Huanchaco Bay: The Peak of the Iceberg?” College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The University of Maine. March 3th, 2020. Orono, Maine.
Prieto, Gabriel
“Ceremonias de sangre y sacrificios humanos en la costa norte del Peru: el caso de los Chimues.” El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, Thursday, February 27th, 2020. Mexico City, Mexico.
Prieto, Gabriel
Symposium: “Peru: Ancient and Modern.” Theme: “Ritual Violence and Human Sacrifices in the Ancient Andes.” Duke University. Thursday February 20th , 2020. Durham, North Carolina.
Prieto, Gabriel
“Massive Child and Camelid Sacrificial Practices in the North Coast of Peru: Understanding the Role of Ritual Violence in Ancient Societies.” Florida Museum of Natural History Seminars. Friday, February 7th, 2020. Gainesville, Florida.
Prieto, Gabriel and Feren Castillo
84th. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker.” Paper: “Becoming Moche in Huanchaco: The Impact of Moche Politics, Economy and Religion in the Fishermen Households at Pampa la Cruz, AD 500-650”. 10 – 14, April, 2019. Albuquerque, NM.
Rivera-Prince, Jordi and Gabriel Prieto
84th. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). General Session: “Bioarchaeology in Peru”. Paper: “Defining Markers of Occupational Stress in the Ancient Fisherman of Huanchaco, Perú: When Modern Ethnography and Bioarchaeology Intersect”. 10 – 14, April, 2019. Albuquerque, NM.
Sutter, Richard, Gabriel Prieto, Celeste Gagnon and Jordi Rivera-Prince
84th. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “Bioarchaeology: South American Case Studies”. Paper: “Horizontality Revisited: Evidence for 3,000 Years of Prehistoric Biocultural Continuity of Fisherfolk at Huanchaco, North Coast of Peru”. 10 – 14, April, 2019. Albuquerque, NM.
Prieto, Gabriel
83th. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Simposium: “Andean Households, Living Spaces”. Tema: “Continuities and Discontinuities in a Thousand Year Old Fishing Village on Huanchaco Bay, North Coast of Peru: The Pampa la Cruz Case”. 11 – 15, April, 2018. Washington, DC.
Prieto, Gabriel
Brown Bag Series, Peabody Museum at Yale University. “Emerging Elites, Trade and Social Violence During the 4th Century BC in the North Coast of Peru”. March 29th, 2018. Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT.
Boswell, Alicia, Jessica Walthews and Gabriel Prieto
36th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. “Bridging the gap between fieldwork and conservation in Huanchaco, Peru” 14-15 October 2017, Philadelphia.
Le Bailly, Matthieu, Nicolas Goepfert, Gabriel Prieto and Nicolas Goepfert
82nd. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “Ecological Adaptations and New Forms of Pastoralism? New Insights into Herding Practices in the Andes during the Prehispanic Times. “Gastrointestinal Parasites of the Camelids of the Archaeological Site of Huanchaquito (Peru): First Results” March 29th and April 2nd 2017. Vancouver, Canada.
Dufour, Elise, Nicolas Goepfert, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
82nd. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “Ecological Adaptations and New Forms of Pastoralism? New Insights into Herding Practices in the Andes during the Prehispanic Times. “Origin of Sacrificed Camelids at Huanchaquito (Chimu Period, Northern Coast of Peru): Insight from Stable Isotopic Analysis.” March 29th and April 2nd 2017. Vancouver, Canada.
Goepfert, Nicolas, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
82nd. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “Ecological Adaptations and New Forms of Pastoralism? New Insights into Herding Practices in the Andes During the Prehispanic Times. “Herds for the Gods? Sacrifice and Camelids Management during the Chimu Period” March 29th and April 2nd 2017. Vancouver, Canada.
Bardolph, Dana, Brian Billman, Jesus Briceño and Gabriel Prieto
82nd. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “General Session. Andean Archaeology.” “Reconsidering Farming and Foraging in the Pre-Moche World” March 29th and April 2nd 2017. Vancouver, Canada.
Prieto, Gabriel and Carlos Osores
57th Annual Meeting, Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley, California. “Social Dynamics and Climate Change during the late Early Horizon and the Early Intermediate Period at Pampa La Cruz, Huanchaco Bay, North Coast of Peru”. Friday, January 6th, 2017.
Verano, John, Gabriel Prieto and Nicolas Goepfert
35th Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. “Chimu Child and Llama Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru: a Growing Phenomenon.” October 15th and 16th, 2016.
Prieto, Gabriel, Jeffrey Quilter and Tom Dillehay
81st. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium “Social Complexity in the Central Andean Region: Current Research in the Initial Period and Early Horizon – Part 1”. “Early Guañape Ceramics from the North Coast of Peru: New data from Gramalote (Moche Valley) and Huaca Prieta (Chicama Valley)”April 6th -10th 2016. Orlando, Florida.
Druc, Isabelle and Gabriel Prieto
81st. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium “Continuity and change in the Peruvian North Highlands: current research in the Cajamarca region.” “Social interactions in Gramalote, a ceramic production perspective, North Coast of Peru.” April, 6th-10th 2016. Orlando, Florida.
Prieto, Gabriel
80th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium “Recent Research and a Chronological Reevaluation of the Viru-Moche-Chicama Valleys.” “La Poza de Huanchaco: A Late Early Horizon – Early Intermediate Period Fishing Community: Social and Material Culture Interactions Between Salinar and Gallinazo.” April, 15th-19th 2015. San Francisco, California.
Prieto, Gabriel
33th Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Vermont. “Shark as Meat and Shark as Myth: Tracking the Origins and Meanings of the Ritual Fishing Theme in Moche Art.”October, 18th – 19th, 2014. Burlington, VT.
Prieto, Gabriel
79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium “New Perspectives on the Social Dynamics and Economic Interactions of Andean Maritime Communities.” “Social Dynamics and Economic Interactions of an Early Initial Period Maritime Community: The Gramalote Case.” April, 23th – 27th, 2014. Austin, Texas.
Sutter, Richard and Gabriel Prieto
79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium “New Perspectives on the Social Dynamics and Economic Interactions of Andean Maritime Communities.” “The Implications of Bio distance Analyses of Initial Period (1550-1250 B.C.) Human Remains from Gramalote, Peru, for Our Understanding of the Social and Economic Dynamics of Ancient Andean Maritime Communities.” April, 23th – 27th, 2014. Austin, Texas.
Sutter, Richard and Gabriel Prieto
78th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). “Becoming Moche: An Examination of Models of Ethnogenesis using archaeological and bio-archaeological data for the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-750) in the Moche Valley, Peru.” April, 3 th – 7th, 2013. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Prieto, Gabriel
YAMAHA Meetings (Yale, Maine and Harvard). “Just Food Producers? Recent Studies at Gramalote, an Early Initial Period Fishing Village, North Coast of Peru.” Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. May 4th, 2013.
Prieto, Gabriel
111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. “Pampas Gramalote: Social Organization and Subsistence Economy of an Initial Period Fishing Village, North Coast of Peru.” November, 14th -18th, 2012. San Francisco, California.
Prieto, Gabriel
111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Symposium: Recent Anthropological Perspectives on Past and Present Andean Pastoralism. “Offering Llamas to the Sea: The Economic and Ideological Importance of Camelids in Chimu Society, North Coast of Peru.” November, 14th -18th, 2012. San Francisco, California.
Prieto, Gabriel
77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: Household and Autonomy in Pre-Hispanic times. “Exploring Fishing Communities through Household Dimensions: The Pampas Gramalote Case.” April, 18th – 22nd, 2012. Memphis, Tennessee.
Prieto, Gabriel
76th Annual Meeting. Society for American Archaeology. (SAA). Symposium: “From the Ciudadelas de Chan Chan to the Platforms of Farfan: Papers in Honor of Carol J. Mackey.” “When the Gods Got their Fangs.” March 30th – April 3th, 2011. Sacramento, California.
Prieto, Gabriel
51st Annual Meeting, Institute for Andean Studies. “Pampas Gramalote: Re-excavating an early Initial period fishing village of the Peruvian North Coast.” January, 8th – 9th, 2011. Berkeley, California.
Prieto, Gabriel
29th Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Drew University. “Characterizing ritual activities in an early fishing village of the Peruvian North Coast.” October, 23th – 24th, 2010. Madison, New Jersey.
Prieto, Gabriel
Discussant. Precolumbian Art from the Jequetepeque Valley. Americas Society, New York. September, 16th, 2010. New York
Presentations in Spanish (selected)
Prieto, Gabriel
Segundo Congreso de Arqueología del Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipan “Lambayeque y la arqueología del norte peruano”. “Entre el 400 y 550 d.C.: Nuevos Datos sobre interacciones Viru y Moche desde la perspectiva de Huanchaco, Costa Norte del Peru.” November, 6th-10th, 2017. Lambayeque, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
Segundo Congreso de Arqueología del Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipan “Lambayeque y la arqueología del norte peruano”. Tema: “Las aves marinas y su importancia económica e ideológica en el Periodo Inicial Temprano del valle de Moche, Costa Norte del Peru.” November, 6th-10th, 2017. Lambayeque, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
I Encuentro sobre Cultura Fúnebre. “Más allá de la historia: practicas funerarias durante la ocupación Inca y el periodo Colonial Temprano en Huanchaco: nuevos fechados radiocarbónicos” November 3th, 2017. Centro Cultural del Banco de la Nación. Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
25th Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes de Arqueología (CONEAR), Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Symposium: “Los Orígenes de la Complejidad Social en la Costa Norte”. “Reevaluando algunos factoids en torno al origen de las sociedades complejas en los Andes Centrales” September, 18th – 23th, 2017. Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
4th Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Perú, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. Symposium: “Arqueología de la Costa Norte”. “Una perspectiva diacrónica de la tecnología de pesca y asentamientos ocupacionales en la Bahía de Huanchaco, Valle de Moche – Costa Norte del Peru.” August, 8th -11st, 2017. Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
4th Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Perú, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. Symposium: “Arqueologia y Estudios Paleoclimaticos en los Andes Centrales”. “Cambios climáticos en la costa norte del Perú: Una perspectiva desde las especies de pescados consumidos entre 1500 cal BC. y 400 a.C. Bahía de Huanchaco.” August, 8th -11st, 2017. Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
3th Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Perú, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. Symposium: “UNESCO: Grupos Intermedios”. “Cambios Climáticos y grupos intermedios durante los siglos III a VII d.C. Entre “lo” Viru y “lo” Moche: El caso de Pampa La Cruz, Huanchaco.” September, 12nd -16th, 2016. Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel, Elvira Zeballos and Gianina Comeca
3th Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Perú, Ministerio de Cultura del Perú. “Turquesas, malaquitas, crisocolas o todas las anteriores? Estudios preliminares de cuentas prehispánicas hechas con minerales verdes a partir de la aplicación de PXRF, SEM y Difracción de Rayos X.” September, 12nd -16th, 2016. Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
7th Congreso Nacional de Historia. Symposium: “Arqueología Histórica”. “Cambiando de Fe: Practicas funerarias de una población nativa a inicios de la conquista. Nueva evidencia de los trabajo arqueológicos en el Santuario de la Virgen Candelaria del Socorro de Huanchaco, Costa Norte del Perú.” August, 8th -12nd, 2016. Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
2nd Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Perú. “Excavaciones en el Templo de Gramalote, Periodo Inicial y en el sector de sacrificios Chimu de Las Llamas-Huanchaquito-Gramalote A, Valle de Moche.” August, 4th -7th, 2015. Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
1st Congreso Nacional de Cristalografia, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. “Aplicación de Cristalografía y otros Métodos Analíticos en Arqueología: el caso de Gramalote: resultados, limitaciones y potenciales.” August, 4th -6th, 2015. Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel and Victor Campaña
I Mesa Redonda de Trujillo. “Hacia el final del Horizonte Temprano y la primera mitad del Intermedio Temprano en el valle de Moche: una perspectiva desde Pampa La Cruz, Huanchaco.” July, 17th -18th, 2015. Trujillo-Peru.
Prieto, Gabriel and Jason Nesbitt
I Mesa Redonda de Trujillo. Tema: “La dieta de los pescadores y agricultores del segundo milenio antes de Cristo en el valle de Moche: integrando estrategias de subsistencia.” July, 17th -18th, 2015. Trujillo-Peru.
Prieto, Gabriel
1st Congreso Nacional de Arqueología del Perú. Symposium: “Corrientes Teóricas en la Arqueología Andina: Aplicación y Vigencia.” “Comunidades Marítimas Tempranas en la Costa Peruana, Una Reconsideración Teórica a un Viejo Problema: Nuevos Modelos en Base a una Perspectiva Multidimensional.” August, 20th -22nd, 2014. Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
2nd Conferencia Intercontinental de la Society for American Archaeology. “Comunidades Marítimas Tempranas en la Costa Peruana: Reconsiderando el Origen de la Complejidad Social en los Andes Centrales.” August, 8th -10th , 2014. Lima, Peru.
Prieto, Gabriel
Rende-Vous. Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos. “Comunidades Marítimas durante el Periodo Inicial en la costa norte del Perú: El caso de Pampas Gramalote, re-considerando nuestra perspectiva de los asentamientos domésticos tempranos en los Andes Centrales.” Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA), Lima, Perú. June 11st, 2013.
Prieto, Gabriel
Conferencia “Arqueología y Patrimonio de la Cultura Lima.” “Hacia el Final de Lima: recursos marinos y la “adopción” del Caballito de Totora en los valles de Chillón, Rímac y Lurin.” August, 14th – 16th, 2012. Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Lima, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
1st Conferencia Intercontinental de la Society for American Archaeology (SAA). “Rituales y Sacrificios al Mar en la Cultura Chimu.” January, 13th – 15th, 2012. Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
Prieto, Gabriel
Dumbarton Oaks International Symposium. “Reconsiderando el periodo Intermedio Tardío en la Costa Norte del Perú.” June, 5th – 7th, 2008, Trujillo, Perú.
Prieto, Gabriel
73th Annual Meeting. Society for American Archaeology. (SAA). Symposium: “Andean Households: New Perspectives from the Highlands and the North Coast.” Una residencia de elite Lambayeque en San Jose de Moro. March, 26th – 30th , 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Prieto, Gabriel
Congreso Internacional “Perspectivas Comparativas sobre la arqueología de la Costa Sudamericana”. University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences, Museo de Sitio de Pachacamac, Insitito Nacional de Cultura del Perú, Centro de Investigaciones Arqueobiológicas y Paleoecológicas Andinas ARQUEOBIOS y Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador. August, 3th – 5th, 2007. Lima, Perú.
ACADEMIC POSTER SESSIONS
Carpiaux, Natalie, Alicia Boswell, Jessica Walthew and Gabriel Prieto
83th. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). “Burial Garments of a Chimu Child Sacrifice from Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, Peru.” 11 – 15, April, 2018. Washington, DC.
Rivera-Prince, Jordi, Celeste Gagnon and Gabriel Prieto
83th. Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). “Disturbing the Ancestors: Interpreting Early Intermediate Perio Commingled Remains at La Iglesia, Huanchaco, Peru.” 11 – 15, April, 2018. Washington, DC.
Tschinkel, Khrystyne, Kathryn Hunt, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
45th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association. Probable Metastatic Cancer in a Woman from the Salinar Period (ca. 200BC-AD200) in Huanchaco, Peru.”Hyatt Regency Hotel Austin, April 9th-11st, 2018, Texas.
Woolwine, Lauren, Celeste Gagnon and Gabriel Prieto
36th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. “All’s fair in Health and War: a paleopathological analysis of skeletal remains from the Salinar and Gallinazo periods in the Moche Valley (Peru)”. 14th -15th October, 2017. Philadelphia.
Walker, Diana, Marissa Bartz, Alicia Boswell, Jessica Walthew and Gabriel Prieto
36th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. “Sacrificial(?) Clothing: Chimu Loincloth from Pampa la Cruz, Huanchaco, Peru”. October 14th -15th, 2017. Philadelphia.
Osores, Carlos and Gabriel Prieto
57th Annual Meeting, Institute of Andean Studies. “The Fishermen and their dogs: a case study of Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley, Peru”. January 6th – 7th, 2017 Berkeley, California.
Torres, Genesis, Celeste Gagnon and Gabriel Prieto
82nd Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). “Violence among the Gallinazo: New Insights from Pampa la Cruz, Moche Valley.” March 29th – April 2nd 2017. Vancouver, Canada.
Tschinkel, Khrystyne, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
44th Annual North American Meeting of the Paleopathology Association. “A Rare Case of Osteosarcoma in the Ethmoid Bone With Possible Proptosis.” Westin Hotel, April 17th-19th, 2017, New Orleans.
Tschinkel, Khrystyne, Gabriel Prieto and John Verano
86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. “Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis or Disseminated Hematogenous Osteomyelitis? The Case of a High Status Child from Huanchaco, Peru.” Marriot Hotel, April 19th – 22nd, 2017. New Orleans.
ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED SYMPOSIA
Co-Chair (with George Lau). Workshop on: Paleoclimate, Water Use and Environmental Phenomena in Ancient Peru and their Contemporary Impacts. Researcher Links Grant. British Council and CONCYTEC-Peru.
Co-Chair (with Jason Nesbitt). 81st Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “Social Complexity in the Central Andean Region. Current Research on the Initial Period and Early Horizon – Part 1.” April, 6th -10th, 2016. Orlando, Florida.
Co-Chair (with Alicia Boswell). 79th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “Recent Research and A Chronological Reevaluation of the Viru-Moche-Chicama Valleys.” April, 15th – 19th, 2015. San Francisco, California.
Co-Chair (with Alicia Boswell). I “Mesa Redonda de Trujillo” July, 17th – 19th, 2015. Museo Huacas de Moche, Trujillo, Peru.
Chair. 78th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Symposium: “New Perspectives on the Social Dynamics and Economic Interactions of Andean Maritime Communities.” April, 23 th – 27th, 2014. Austin, Texas.
Co-Chair (with Ana Cecilia Mauricio and Cecilia Pardo). Conference: “Arqueología y Patrimonio de la Cultura Lima.” August, 14th – 16th, 2012. Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Lima, Perú.
PEER-REVIEW EXPERIENCE (JOURNALS AND GRANT PROPOSALS)
Journals:
Journal of Archaeological Research
Journal of Field Archaeology
Antiquity
Latin American Antiquity
Boletín del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andino
Chungara
Grant Proposals:
CONICET – Argentina
FONDECYT – Chile
MUSEUM ACTIVITIES
Curator: “Arqueología: Patrimonio Regional”. Centro Cultural del Banco de la Nación. March-May, 2017. La Libertad. Trujillo, Perú.
Curator: “Expo Santuario 2008”. February, 2008. Huanchaco. Trujillo, Perú.
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Member, Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley. Since January 2016.
Member, Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Since 2009.
Board, Committee on the Americas. Society of American Archaeology (SAA): 2011-2013.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2019 SHANGHAI ARCHAEOLOGY FORUM “FIELD DISCOVERY AWARD” INSTITUTE OF
ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES.
2015 HUESPED DISTINGUIDO. UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA ANTENOR ORREGO – TRUJILLO.
2012 CABALLITO DE PLATA. DISTINCION POR LABOR EN PRO DE LA CULTURA, ARQUEOLOGIA Y TRADICIONES LOCALES DEL DISTRITO. MUNICIPALIDAD DISTRITAL DE HUANCHACO.