Warren B. Church

Warren B. Church, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of
Anthropology and Archaeology

Assistant Chair        Tombs of Peru's Cloud People
Dept. of Chemistry and Geology                         National Geographic, June, 2004
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 Class in Peru Spring, 2008
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

* Chair, Latin American Studies sub-committee of Center for International Studies

* Research Associate, Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza
(APECO), Lima, PERU

* Research Associate, Instituto de Conservación-Ambiental Monumental (ICAM),
Trujillo, PERU

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.

Field Experience:

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

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 (coming Fall '08)

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:
- Native Cultures of North America
- Archaeology of North America
- Olmecs to Aztecs: the Archaeology of Mesoamerica
- Art and Archaeology of Ancient South America
- The Inca and Ancient Andean Civilizations
- Archaeology of the Southeast
- Museums and Public Archaeology
- Amazonia: Culture and Environment
- Human Social Organization and Social Boundaries
- 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:

Rio Abiseo National Park, World Heritage Site, UNESCO
World Conservation Monitoring Centre Park Description (their biblio. is out-dated)

En español:

Parque Nacional Rio Abiseo

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. Also published in Spanish edition.

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
*            SAA Committee on the Americas, appointed 2004
*        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).

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