Matthew C Velasco
Biographic Data
| ID | 149057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew C Velasco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew C |
| FAMILY NAME | Velasco |
| SIGNATURE | VELASCO M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8784-7076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Preparing for a Career at the Intersection of Geography and Computing
The growth of the geospatial services industry is increasing the demand for a workforce with training at the intersection of geography and computing (i.e., geocomputation) in terms of skills, knowledge, and disciplinary background. To be more effective at increasing the supply of geocomputational professionals, we need to better understand the existing educational pathways that are available to acquire knowledge and skills in geography, computing…
Social Theory in Isotope Bioarchaeology
Introduction to the Special Issue
Embodied Places
Bioarchaeologists routinely use isotopic data to classify the geographic origin of skeletal individuals as “local” or “nonlocal” using statistical criteria or comparative baselines. Yet, these analyses and resulting interpretations rarely consider how people in the past may have conceived of their relationships to different places. Using a case study from the late pre-Hispanic Colca Valley, Peru (A.D. 1300–1450), this article demonstrates how And…
Isotopic insights into quinoa agriculture at an Andean hillfort town (cal ad 1250–1450)
Burying the Dead at Ayawiri
This article presents results from the excavation and analysis of 11 slab-cist tombs associated with the site of Ayawiri, one of the largest hillforts in the western Lake Titicaca Basin during the Late Intermediate period (LIP; AD 1100-1450). These semi-subterranean tombs typically contain commingled human remains. Variation between and within tombs in the number of individuals, the body parts represented, and the degree of skeletal articulation …
Shaping dietary histories
Open sepulchers and closed boundaries? Biodistance analysis of cemetery structure and postmarital residence in the late prehispanic Andes
OBJECTIVES: In the Late Intermediate Period Andes (AD 1100-1450), the proliferation of above-ground sepulchers reconfigured social boundaries within and between communities engaged in protracted conflict. However, the biosocial dimensions of these mortuary practices, and their implications for conflict and alliance formation, remain unexplored. This study examines patterns of phenotypic variation to: (1) evaluate if open sepulchers were organized…
Ethnogenesis and Social Difference in the Andean Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1450)
It has long been recognized that the Inka incorporated diverse peoples into their empire, but how these ethnic groups developed historically during the political upheaval of the preceding Late Intermediate Period (LIP; AD 1100-1450) is only now receiving commensurate attention. This study explores how changes in cranial modification, a correlate of embodied identity in the Andes, made possible new forms of political solidarity and social inequali…
Building on the Ancestors
Theoretical approaches to the agency of inanimate objects have gained traction in bioarchaeological conceptualizations of the dead body and its capacity to shape human action and emotion. In the late prehispanic Andes (ad 1000–1532), new forms of burial involving above-ground funerary structures emplaced ancestral bodies on the landscape and facilitated their incorporation into the unfolding affairs of political and social life. Architectural dat…
Ethnogenesis and Social Difference in the Andean Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1450)
It has long been recognized that the Inka incorporated diverse peoples into their empire, but how these ethnic groups developed historically during the political upheaval of the preceding Late Intermediate Period (LIP; AD 1100-1450) is only now receiving commensurate attention. This study explores how changes in cranial modification, a correlate of embodied identity in the Andes, made possible new forms of political solidarity and social inequali…
Building on the Ancestors
Theoretical approaches to the agency of inanimate objects have gained traction in bioarchaeological conceptualizations of the dead body and its capacity to shape human action and emotion. In the late prehispanic Andes (ad 1000–1532), new forms of burial involving above-ground funerary structures emplaced ancestral bodies on the landscape and facilitated their incorporation into the unfolding affairs of political and social life. Architectural dat…
Open sepulchers and closed boundaries? Biodistance analysis of cemetery structure and postmarital residence in the late prehispanic Andes
OBJECTIVES: In the Late Intermediate Period Andes (AD 1100-1450), the proliferation of above-ground sepulchers reconfigured social boundaries within and between communities engaged in protracted conflict. However, the biosocial dimensions of these mortuary practices, and their implications for conflict and alliance formation, remain unexplored. This study examines patterns of phenotypic variation to: (1) evaluate if open sepulchers were organized…
Burying the Dead at Ayawiri
This article presents results from the excavation and analysis of 11 slab-cist tombs associated with the site of Ayawiri, one of the largest hillforts in the western Lake Titicaca Basin during the Late Intermediate period (LIP; AD 1100-1450). These semi-subterranean tombs typically contain commingled human remains. Variation between and within tombs in the number of individuals, the body parts represented, and the degree of skeletal articulation …
Shaping dietary histories
Building on the Ancestors
Theoretical approaches to the agency of inanimate objects have gained traction in bioarchaeological conceptualizations of the dead body and its capacity to shape human action and emotion. In the late prehispanic Andes (ad 1000–1532), new forms of burial involving above-ground funerary structures emplaced ancestral bodies on the landscape and facilitated their incorporation into the unfolding affairs of political and social life. Architectural dat…
Open sepulchers and closed boundaries? Biodistance analysis of cemetery structure and postmarital residence in the late prehispanic Andes
OBJECTIVES: In the Late Intermediate Period Andes (AD 1100-1450), the proliferation of above-ground sepulchers reconfigured social boundaries within and between communities engaged in protracted conflict. However, the biosocial dimensions of these mortuary practices, and their implications for conflict and alliance formation, remain unexplored. This study examines patterns of phenotypic variation to: (1) evaluate if open sepulchers were organized…
Ethnogenesis and Social Difference in the Andean Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1450)
It has long been recognized that the Inka incorporated diverse peoples into their empire, but how these ethnic groups developed historically during the political upheaval of the preceding Late Intermediate Period (LIP; AD 1100-1450) is only now receiving commensurate attention. This study explores how changes in cranial modification, a correlate of embodied identity in the Andes, made possible new forms of political solidarity and social inequali…
Shaping dietary histories
Isotopic insights into quinoa agriculture at an Andean hillfort town (cal ad 1250–1450)
Burying the Dead at Ayawiri
This article presents results from the excavation and analysis of 11 slab-cist tombs associated with the site of Ayawiri, one of the largest hillforts in the western Lake Titicaca Basin during the Late Intermediate period (LIP; AD 1100-1450). These semi-subterranean tombs typically contain commingled human remains. Variation between and within tombs in the number of individuals, the body parts represented, and the degree of skeletal articulation …
Social Theory in Isotope Bioarchaeology
Introduction to the Special Issue
Embodied Places
Bioarchaeologists routinely use isotopic data to classify the geographic origin of skeletal individuals as “local” or “nonlocal” using statistical criteria or comparative baselines. Yet, these analyses and resulting interpretations rarely consider how people in the past may have conceived of their relationships to different places. Using a case study from the late pre-Hispanic Colca Valley, Peru (A.D. 1300–1450), this article demonstrates how And…
Preparing for a Career at the Intersection of Geography and Computing
The growth of the geospatial services industry is increasing the demand for a workforce with training at the intersection of geography and computing (i.e., geocomputation) in terms of skills, knowledge, and disciplinary background. To be more effective at increasing the supply of geocomputational professionals, we need to better understand the existing educational pathways that are available to acquire knowledge and skills in geography, computing…
Geography (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Bioarchaeology (3 works)