Spring Colloquium: Sarah Baitzel
"The Politics of Death and Identity in an Early Andean State"
Reception to follow.
Sarah is a Ph.D. candidate of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She has been working on various projects in Peru for the last decade, mostly in the Moquegua Valley of Southern Peru where she excavated cemeteries associated with the region's Tiwanaku colonization (AD 600-1000). Her interests include most things archaeological, anthropological, and historical, but particularly mortuary archaeology, the Andes, social organization, ritual, and complex societies.