Warren B. Church, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
and Archaeology
Tombs of Peru's Cloud People
Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences National Geographic, June, 2004
Environmental Sciences Program
Columbus State
University
4225 University
Ave.
Tel: (706) 507-8093
Fax (706) 569-3133
e-mail: church_warren@colstate.edu
"Think globally, act locally,
act globally, too"
Study
Abroad
Study Abroad Class in Peru Spring, 2008
Peru Crew,
2009
Link to: Course Description:
Who were the Inca?

One student's excellent
"Adventure"
The Center for International Education Newsletter:
"An Adventure in Peru" by Amanda Rodwell, 09
Research Interests:


General:
New World archaeology and ethnohistory, especially
Tropical South America
and Southeastern US; ecological anthropology; economic anthropology;
interregional
interaction; evolution of Andean civilization; archaeology of social identity
and
ethnogenesis; ceramic and lithic
analysis; museums and public anthropology; world
heritage conservation in parks and preserves
Specific:
Archaeology and ethnohistory of Chachapoyas,
Peru; neo-tropical palaeo-
ecology, subsistence, settlement demography, and interregional interaction on
the
eastern slopes of the Central Andes

Education:
1982 B.A., Anthropology, University
of Colorado at Boulder
1988 M.A., Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Master's thesis: Test Excavations and Ceramic Artifacts
from Building
No. 1 at Gran Pajatén, Department of San Martín,
Peru. 313 pp.
1991 M.Phil., Anthropology, Yale University
1996 Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University
Dissertation: Prehistoric Cultural Development and
Interregional Interaction
in the Tropical Montane Forests of
Peru. 988 pp. Dissertation abstract
Academic Activities:
* Director Anthropology Program, Columbus State University
*
Research Associate, Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza
(APECO), Lima, PERU
*
Research Associate, Instituto de Conservación-Ambiental Monumental (ICAM),
Trujillo, PERU
* Member,
Latin American Studies sub-committee of Center for
International Studies
Past Employment:
1998-99 Research Fellow, Pre‑Columbian Studies,
Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collections,
1997-98
Curatorial Associate, Pre‑Columbian Collections, Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collections, Washington, DC.
1996-97
Project Coordinator: Digital Imaging of Mesoamerican
and South
American Archaeological Collections at Yale University Peabody Museum
of Natural History.
1983-85
Curatorial Assistant, Anthropology Section, University of Colorado
Museum. University of Colorado at Boulder.
1981-88
Various positions as field archaeologist, crew chief
and lab technician at
Cultural Resource Management firms in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming
Field Experience:
Courses taught at Columbus
State:
Lower division:
Upper division and graduate
o Native Cultures of North America
o Archaeology of North America
o Olmecs to Aztecs: the Archaeology of Mesoamerica
o Art and Archaeology of Ancient South America
o The Inca and Ancient Andean Civilizations
o Archaeology of the Southeast
o Museums and Public Archaeology
o Amazonia: Culture and Environment
o Human Social Organization and Social Boundaries
o Art and Archaeology of the Inca Cosmos (with Spring Break study abroad)
· ANTH 4698 Internship in Anthropology
· ANTH 4899 Independent Study
Active Research:
Since the
mid-1980s I have been conducting archaeological research in and around the
Rio Abiseo National Park in northern Peru. The
park lies within the pre-Hispanic
Chachapoya ethnohistoric
and archaeological culture area which in AD 1500 extended
north and south approximately 300 km (200 miles) along the Huallaga
and Marañon river
divide between the modern towns of Chachapoyas and Huaylillas. I have posted a
bibliography of scientific research conducted in the Rio Abiseo National Park since 1985
for those interested in finding out more.
Additional information about Peru's Rio Abiseo National Park can be found at the
following websites in English:
En español:
Grants received: National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren
Foundation, National
Geographic Society, Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship, Foundation for Exploration and
Research on Cultural Origins (FERCO), Loudermilk
Family Foundation at Columbus
State, others.
Selected Publications (author will send .pdf
file on request):
1989 Investigaciones Arqueológicas en
el Parque Nacional Rio Abiseo, San
Martín (with Thomas J. Lennon
and Miguel Cornejo G.). Boletin de Lima
No. 62, Año
11, pp. 43-56. Lima.
1991
La Ocupación Temprana del Gran
Pajatén. Revista del Museo de Arqueología
de la
Universidad Nacional de Trujillo 2:3-37.
1994 Early Occupations at
American Studies
Program,
1994 Threats to
Young, Mariella Leo and Patricia F. Moore). Ambio
23:4-5:312-314.
1996 Gran
Pajatén. In Dictionary of Art,
Vol. 13, p. 312. Edited by J. Turner.
Macmillan
Publishers Limited.
1999 Recovery
and Discovery in Peru: Opening Hidden Gateways.
Vol. 51, No. 1(February), pp. 35-39.
En español:
Recuperación y Descubrimiento en el Perú: Ciudades
Bajo la Selva.
1999
Mas Allá del Gran Pajatén:
Conservando el Paisaje Prehispánico
Pataz-Abiseo (10Mb). Revista del Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e
Historia
7(1997):203-246. Facultad de Ciéncias Sociales de la
Universidad Nacional
de Trujillo.
1999 Loving it to Death: The Pajatén Predicament. George
Wright Forum
16(4):16-27. Journal of the
George Wright Society. Hancock, MI.
2002
Parque Nacional del Rio Abiseo,
Sector Occidental: Diagnóstico
Situacional para un Plan de Uso Público (editor with Mariella Leo and
Jorge
Aliaga). Second
Edition. PROFONANPE
and the Fondo Fiduciario
Canadá.
2002 Chavín.
In The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 7,
Edited by P. Peregrine and M. Ember. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
New York.
2002
Los Pinchudos: Mausoleo
Polícromo de los Andes Nor Orientales del Perú
(with Ricardo
Morales G., Luis Valle A. and Luis Coronado T.) Revista
Arqueológica Sian Año
8, Edición 12, Special Edition. Trujillo, Perú.
2004 Tomb Raiders of El Dorado: Conservation
Dilemmas on a "New"
Archaeological Frontier in Peru (with Ricardo Morales Gamarra). The SAA
Archaeological Record 4 (1): 24-29. Washington, DC.
2004 Manachaqui: Buscando las Raizes de los
Chachapoya. Revista Archaeológica
Sian Año
9, Edición 15, pp. 4-5. Trujillo, Perú.
2005
"Chachapoya Indians" in Encyclopedia
of Anthropology, edited by Jim Birx,
Volume
2, pp. 469-477. Sage Publications.
2008 "Chachapoyas: Cultural
Development at a Prehispanic Andean Cloudforest
Crossroads" (with Adriana von Hagen). In Handbook of
South American
Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and
William Isbell, pp. 903-926.
Springer Press.
Professional Memberships:
* American Anthropological Association since
1984
* Society
for American Archaeology (SAA) since 1984
* Institute of Andean Studies,
Berkeley, CA, elected 1998
* Society
for Georgia Archaeology since 2003
* Georgia Council of Professional
Archaeologists, elected 2007

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