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.                                   
Columbus, GA 31907                                       

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, Washington, DC. 

 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:

 Peru, USA: Plains, Northwest Coast, Great Basin, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Southeast
 

Courses taught at Columbus State:

Lower division:

  • ANTH 1105 Cultural Anthropology 
      (including distance education)
  • ANTH 1107 Discovering Archaeology
  • ANTH 2105 Ancient World Civilizations                  

Upper division and graduate

  • ANTH 3126             History of Anthropological Thought
  • ANTH/ENVS 5125  Human Ecology
  • ANTH/ENVS 5226  Culture and Environment
  • ANTH 5305             Field Methods in Archaeology
  • ANTH 5116             Lab Methods in Archaeology (coming '08)
  • ANTH 5515/5555   Sel. Topics Anthropology/Archaeology/Environmental Science:
     
    • Anthropology of Religion
    • Historical Ecology
    • Environmental Archaeology

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. Trujillo, Peru.

1994   Early Occupations at Gran Pajatén, Peru. Andean Past 4:281-318. Latin
           American Studies Program, Cornell University. Ithaca.

1994   Threats to Rio Abiseo National Park, Northern Peru (with Kenneth R.
           Young, Mariella Leo and Patricia F. Moore). Ambio 23:4-5:312-314.
           Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Stockholm.

1996   Gran Pajatén. In Dictionary of Art, Vol. 13, p. 312. Edited by J. Turner.
           Macmillan Publishers Limited. London.

1999   Recovery and Discovery in Peru: Opening Hidden Gateways. Americas
           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. Trujillo, Peru.

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. Lima, Perú.

2002   Chavín. In The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 7, South America.
            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. Thousand Oaks, California.

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
 

           
On the Qhapaq Ñan ("Inca Road") between Pataz and Condormarca (W. Church, 2000).