Bill Sillar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92556 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bill Sillar |
| NOMBRES | Bill |
| APELLIDO | Sillar |
| FIRMA | SILLAR B |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9232-3995 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 329 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
South of the Empire
Pensamientos de una etnógrafa acerca de la interpretación en la arqueología andina
En este ensayo se busca ofrecer una perspectiva etnográfica del entendimiento andino de la materialidad en el contexto de la interpretación arqueológica. Se referirá específicamente a algunas de las formas en que la etnografía puede ser de ayuda para el pensamiento arqueológico. En la actualidad, el denominado “giro ontológico” de la antropología desafía a los arqueólogos a comprometerse seriamente con realidades alternativas que cuestionan los t…
Rethinking cultural hybridity and technology transfer
Using the present to interpret the past
Within Andean research it is common to use ethnographic analogies to aid the interpretation of archaeological remains, and ethnographers and archaeologists have developed shared research in technology, material culture and material practice. Although most of this research does not follow the detailed recording methods of spatial patterning envisioned in earlier formulations of ethnoarchaeology, it has had a profound effect on how archaeology in t…
Miniatures and Animism
Andean offerings use miniaturization and synecdoche to enact connections within a relational animism (where people, places, and things participate in an interactive network), allowing the person preparing the offering to make material links between them and more distant, nonhuman entities. Catholic priests working in the Andes during the Spanish colonial period tried to eradicate these practices in which small objects called conopa were used. Con…
Studying at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Ranked first, for the past four years, in The Guardian league table for studying archaeology. For the past four years, 100% of Institute undergraduate finalists have expressed satisfaction with our teaching and support in the UK National Student Surveys
Microscopic Rocks and Expansive Empires
High quality polychrome ceramics are an iconic aspect of Inca material culture. This ‘Cuzco Inca’ pottery appears suddenly in the archaeological record: but it draws upon technological and stylistic aspects of earlier local pottery and we discuss the specifics of how these pre-Inca traits were combined to form the distinctive new state ceramics. Using ceramic petrography, the dominant fabric of Cuzco Inca pottery is compared with those of two pre…
Studying at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Ranked 1st in The Guardian (2013) league table for studying archaeology Ranked 2nd in The Times (2013) ‘Good University Guide’ 100% of Institute undergraduate finalists expressed satisfaction with our teaching and support in the UK National Student Surveys 2010 and 2011
My State or Yours? Wari "Labor Camps" and the Inka Cult of Viracocha at Raqchi, Cuzco, Peru
The archaeological site at Raqchi is best known for the large Inka building identified by colonial sources as the "temple of Viracocha." The site also has an enclosure with 152 circular buildings that have previously been interpreted as Inka state storage: collcas. Although Inka pottery was found within some structures, the utilitarian pottery, carbonized plant remains, and hearths found on the floors of the buildings at Raqchi date their constru…
The building and rebuilding of walls
Walls are at the foundation of 'civil society': physical and symbolic barriers that differentiate people and activities. Cooperation in construction work expresses people's aspirations and can be a focus for the development of group solidarity. However, walls change the control and use of space, causing tensions and social divisions. In Raqchi, a small Peruvian village whose houses and fields are located within the ruins of a major archaeological…
Studying at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Pilgrims past and present
In 1533 the Spanish overthrew the Inka1 empire that then dominated the Andean region and much of the west coast of South America. Most tourists going to Peru visit Cuzco and Machu Pichu, but few see any of the other spectacular Ink a ruins, such as the mythical and ritual site at Raqchi. There research is focusing on the site itself and on the long-term history of the Vilcanota Valley, including the changes wrought by the Spanish invasion. The pr…
Evaluating effects of chemical weathering and surface contamination on the in situ provenance analysis of building stones in the Cuzco region of Peru with portable XRF
As the only type of instrument capable of determining artifact geochemistry in a wide variety of settings, portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) may be frequently utilized as probably the best option for collecting data when removal of objects in part or in whole is unfeasible. However, using PXRF in circumstances where sample selection and preparation diverge from standards developed for lab-based instrumentation requires assessing the impact of ne…
Patrimoine vivant
En Amérique du Sud, les gens développent parfois des relations d'affection vis-à-vis d'objets particuliers qui les rendent irremplaçables. Ce qui importe dans ces relations n'est pas la forme physique de ces objets, mais plutôt leur identité sociale. Dans les hautes terres des Andes, on considère que certains objets sont vivants. Cet article traite de petits objets, les illas et les conopas, utilisés dans des rituels domestiques. Au cours de la p…
Studying at the Institute of Archaeology
Ranked 1st in The Guardian (2013) league table for studying archaeology Ranked 2nd in The Times (2013) ‘Good University Guide’ 100% of Institute undergraduate finalists expressed satisfaction with our teaching and support in the UK National Student Surveys 2010 and 2011 Students at the UCL Institute of Archaeology discover the rich diversity of the human past, exploring societies from two million years ago to the present day, and asking questions…
The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes
A major focus of inter-disciplinary debate has been the need to bridge the Cartesian divide between people as active subjects and inert passive objects, to better reflect how things provoke and resist human actions through their 'secondary agency'. Many Central Andean people express a deep concern about their relationship with places and things, which they communicate with through daily work and rituals involving 'sympathetic magic'. A considerat…
La saisonnalité des techniques
La saisonnalité des techniques.Saisonnalité et spécialisation artisanale dans les Andes. Les variations saisonnières des activités techniques illustrent l'intégration sociale des techniques. Les partis pris techniques résultent en partie des variations saisonnières des conditions naturelles, mais cette saisonnalité, qui rythme la vie sociale, a aussi des origines et des retombées économiques et politiques. La disponibilité des ressources selon la…
West Dean 2008
The West Dean Archaeological Project is coordinated by the Institute of Archaeology in association with the staff of the Centre for Applied Archaeology. It forms the focus for teaching Institute undergraduates in the practical skills of archaeological fieldwork through researching the changing settlement and land use of the West Dean Estate and adjacent areas. It has been running since 2006 and an introductory account appeared in the last issue o…
The West Dean Archaeological Project
Since 2005/2006 West Dean College and the associated West Dean Estate in West Sussex have provided the home for practical training of Institute of Archaeology students, for both the initiation ritual of the Experimental Archaeology Course ("Prim Tech") and for the field training courses undertaken at the end of the
Who's indigenous? Whose archaeology
Who's indigenous? Whose archaeology
The International Labour Organisation, the United Nations and various indigenous Organisations have raised and/or objected to diverse criteria through which indigenous groups have been defined and the rights that should be accorded to them. This paper discusses the implications of these issues in relation to archaeological research and heritage management and uses this to position the other papers in this volume. Specific themes that are addresse…
Marcia-Anne Dobres. Technology and social agency
Marcia-Anne Dobres. Technology and social agency: outlining a practice framework for archaeology. xiii+300 pages, 25 figures. 2000. Oxford & Malden (MA): Blackwell; 1-57718-123-9 hardback £55 & 33.95. - Volume 76 Issue 292
Identidad étnica bajo el dominio inka
Cieza de León describe como luego de acordar una amnistía con el Inka Viracocha, el grupo étnico Canas se convirtió en aliado principal de los inkas y reubicó sus asentamientos lejos de la cumbre de los cerros y, más bien, se asentaron en el fondo de los valles. En el presente trabajo se consideran estas afirmaciones a la luz de las evidencias arqueológicas de cambios y continuidades dentro del territorio canas durante el Periodo Intermedio Tardí…
Dung by Preference
A discussion of how Andean potters acquire and use their fuels is used to demonstrate the ‘embedded’nature of ceramic technology. The most common choice of fuel in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia is animal dung (mainly cow, sheep, and llama). This technological choice is related to wider social and economic practices (particularly in relation to animal husbandry) which has further repercussions that affect other technologies (such as agricultur…
The Challenge of ‘Technological Choices’for Materials Science Approaches in Archaeology
Recently several anthropological and sociological studies have interpreted technologies as cultural choices that are determined as much by local perceptions and the social context fly any material constraints or purely functional criteria. Using the example of ceramic technology we consider how materials science studies can contribute to and benefit from this understanding of technology as a social construct. Although we acknowledge some potentia…
The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes
A major focus of inter-disciplinary debate has been the need to bridge the Cartesian divide between people as active subjects and inert passive objects, to better reflect how things provoke and resist human actions through their 'secondary agency'. Many Central Andean people express a deep concern about their relationship with places and things, which they communicate with through daily work and rituals involving 'sympathetic magic'. A considerat…
The Challenge of ‘Technological Choices’for Materials Science Approaches in Archaeology
Recently several anthropological and sociological studies have interpreted technologies as cultural choices that are determined as much by local perceptions and the social context fly any material constraints or purely functional criteria. Using the example of ceramic technology we consider how materials science studies can contribute to and benefit from this understanding of technology as a social construct. Although we acknowledge some potentia…
The Dead and the Drying
Many aspects of a culture's technology, such as techniques, tools or raw materials, are elaborated as metaphors or areas of meaning within the culture's ideology. The choice of raw materials and the techniques used to process them depend on the representation of these materials and tech niques within society. Such 'technical representations' play an important role in the trajectory of social and technological change. Examples drawn from present-d…
Dung by Preference
A discussion of how Andean potters acquire and use their fuels is used to demonstrate the ‘embedded’nature of ceramic technology. The most common choice of fuel in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia is animal dung (mainly cow, sheep, and llama). This technological choice is related to wider social and economic practices (particularly in relation to animal husbandry) which has further repercussions that affect other technologies (such as agricultur…
Using the present to interpret the past
Within Andean research it is common to use ethnographic analogies to aid the interpretation of archaeological remains, and ethnographers and archaeologists have developed shared research in technology, material culture and material practice. Although most of this research does not follow the detailed recording methods of spatial patterning envisioned in earlier formulations of ethnoarchaeology, it has had a profound effect on how archaeology in t…
Miniatures and Animism
Andean offerings use miniaturization and synecdoche to enact connections within a relational animism (where people, places, and things participate in an interactive network), allowing the person preparing the offering to make material links between them and more distant, nonhuman entities. Catholic priests working in the Andes during the Spanish colonial period tried to eradicate these practices in which small objects called conopa were used. Con…
Patrimoine vivant
En Amérique du Sud, les gens développent parfois des relations d'affection vis-à-vis d'objets particuliers qui les rendent irremplaçables. Ce qui importe dans ces relations n'est pas la forme physique de ces objets, mais plutôt leur identité sociale. Dans les hautes terres des Andes, on considère que certains objets sont vivants. Cet article traite de petits objets, les illas et les conopas, utilisés dans des rituels domestiques. Au cours de la p…
Identidad étnica bajo el dominio inka
Cieza de León describe como luego de acordar una amnistía con el Inka Viracocha, el grupo étnico Canas se convirtió en aliado principal de los inkas y reubicó sus asentamientos lejos de la cumbre de los cerros y, más bien, se asentaron en el fondo de los valles. En el presente trabajo se consideran estas afirmaciones a la luz de las evidencias arqueológicas de cambios y continuidades dentro del territorio canas durante el Periodo Intermedio Tardí…
Rethinking cultural hybridity and technology transfer
My State or Yours? Wari "Labor Camps" and the Inka Cult of Viracocha at Raqchi, Cuzco, Peru
The archaeological site at Raqchi is best known for the large Inka building identified by colonial sources as the "temple of Viracocha." The site also has an enclosure with 152 circular buildings that have previously been interpreted as Inka state storage: collcas. Although Inka pottery was found within some structures, the utilitarian pottery, carbonized plant remains, and hearths found on the floors of the buildings at Raqchi date their constru…
Evaluating effects of chemical weathering and surface contamination on the in situ provenance analysis of building stones in the Cuzco region of Peru with portable XRF
As the only type of instrument capable of determining artifact geochemistry in a wide variety of settings, portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) may be frequently utilized as probably the best option for collecting data when removal of objects in part or in whole is unfeasible. However, using PXRF in circumstances where sample selection and preparation diverge from standards developed for lab-based instrumentation requires assessing the impact of ne…
The building and rebuilding of walls
Walls are at the foundation of 'civil society': physical and symbolic barriers that differentiate people and activities. Cooperation in construction work expresses people's aspirations and can be a focus for the development of group solidarity. However, walls change the control and use of space, causing tensions and social divisions. In Raqchi, a small Peruvian village whose houses and fields are located within the ruins of a major archaeological…
La saisonnalité des techniques
La saisonnalité des techniques.Saisonnalité et spécialisation artisanale dans les Andes. Les variations saisonnières des activités techniques illustrent l'intégration sociale des techniques. Les partis pris techniques résultent en partie des variations saisonnières des conditions naturelles, mais cette saisonnalité, qui rythme la vie sociale, a aussi des origines et des retombées économiques et politiques. La disponibilité des ressources selon la…
Who's indigenous? Whose archaeology
Who's indigenous? Whose archaeology
The International Labour Organisation, the United Nations and various indigenous Organisations have raised and/or objected to diverse criteria through which indigenous groups have been defined and the rights that should be accorded to them. This paper discusses the implications of these issues in relation to archaeological research and heritage management and uses this to position the other papers in this volume. Specific themes that are addresse…
South of the Empire
Art of the Andes from Chavin to Inca
Lives Together, Worlds Apart
The Dead and the Drying
Many aspects of a culture's technology, such as techniques, tools or raw materials, are elaborated as metaphors or areas of meaning within the culture's ideology. The choice of raw materials and the techniques used to process them depend on the representation of these materials and tech niques within society. Such 'technical representations' play an important role in the trajectory of social and technological change. Examples drawn from present-d…
Pilgrims past and present
Dung by Preference
A discussion of how Andean potters acquire and use their fuels is used to demonstrate the ‘embedded’nature of ceramic technology. The most common choice of fuel in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia is animal dung (mainly cow, sheep, and llama). This technological choice is related to wider social and economic practices (particularly in relation to animal husbandry) which has further repercussions that affect other technologies (such as agricultur…
The Challenge of ‘Technological Choices’for Materials Science Approaches in Archaeology
Recently several anthropological and sociological studies have interpreted technologies as cultural choices that are determined as much by local perceptions and the social context fly any material constraints or purely functional criteria. Using the example of ceramic technology we consider how materials science studies can contribute to and benefit from this understanding of technology as a social construct. Although we acknowledge some potentia…
Marcia-Anne Dobres. Technology and social agency
Marcia-Anne Dobres. Technology and social agency: outlining a practice framework for archaeology. xiii+300 pages, 25 figures. 2000. Oxford & Malden (MA): Blackwell; 1-57718-123-9 hardback £55 & 33.95. - Volume 76 Issue 292
Identidad étnica bajo el dominio inka
Cieza de León describe como luego de acordar una amnistía con el Inka Viracocha, el grupo étnico Canas se convirtió en aliado principal de los inkas y reubicó sus asentamientos lejos de la cumbre de los cerros y, más bien, se asentaron en el fondo de los valles. En el presente trabajo se consideran estas afirmaciones a la luz de las evidencias arqueológicas de cambios y continuidades dentro del territorio canas durante el Periodo Intermedio Tardí…
Who's indigenous? Whose archaeology
Who's indigenous? Whose archaeology
The International Labour Organisation, the United Nations and various indigenous Organisations have raised and/or objected to diverse criteria through which indigenous groups have been defined and the rights that should be accorded to them. This paper discusses the implications of these issues in relation to archaeological research and heritage management and uses this to position the other papers in this volume. Specific themes that are addresse…
The West Dean Archaeological Project
Since 2005/2006 West Dean College and the associated West Dean Estate in West Sussex have provided the home for practical training of Institute of Archaeology students, for both the initiation ritual of the Experimental Archaeology Course ("Prim Tech") and for the field training courses undertaken at the end of the
West Dean 2008
The West Dean Archaeological Project is coordinated by the Institute of Archaeology in association with the staff of the Centre for Applied Archaeology. It forms the focus for teaching Institute undergraduates in the practical skills of archaeological fieldwork through researching the changing settlement and land use of the West Dean Estate and adjacent areas. It has been running since 2006 and an introductory account appeared in the last issue o…
The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes
A major focus of inter-disciplinary debate has been the need to bridge the Cartesian divide between people as active subjects and inert passive objects, to better reflect how things provoke and resist human actions through their 'secondary agency'. Many Central Andean people express a deep concern about their relationship with places and things, which they communicate with through daily work and rituals involving 'sympathetic magic'. A considerat…
La saisonnalité des techniques
La saisonnalité des techniques.Saisonnalité et spécialisation artisanale dans les Andes. Les variations saisonnières des activités techniques illustrent l'intégration sociale des techniques. Les partis pris techniques résultent en partie des variations saisonnières des conditions naturelles, mais cette saisonnalité, qui rythme la vie sociale, a aussi des origines et des retombées économiques et politiques. La disponibilité des ressources selon la…
Studying at the Institute of Archaeology
Ranked 1st in The Guardian (2013) league table for studying archaeology Ranked 2nd in The Times (2013) ‘Good University Guide’ 100% of Institute undergraduate finalists expressed satisfaction with our teaching and support in the UK National Student Surveys 2010 and 2011 Students at the UCL Institute of Archaeology discover the rich diversity of the human past, exploring societies from two million years ago to the present day, and asking questions…
Studying at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Pilgrims past and present
In 1533 the Spanish overthrew the Inka1 empire that then dominated the Andean region and much of the west coast of South America. Most tourists going to Peru visit Cuzco and Machu Pichu, but few see any of the other spectacular Ink a ruins, such as the mythical and ritual site at Raqchi. There research is focusing on the site itself and on the long-term history of the Vilcanota Valley, including the changes wrought by the Spanish invasion. The pr…
Evaluating effects of chemical weathering and surface contamination on the in situ provenance analysis of building stones in the Cuzco region of Peru with portable XRF
As the only type of instrument capable of determining artifact geochemistry in a wide variety of settings, portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) may be frequently utilized as probably the best option for collecting data when removal of objects in part or in whole is unfeasible. However, using PXRF in circumstances where sample selection and preparation diverge from standards developed for lab-based instrumentation requires assessing the impact of ne…
Patrimoine vivant
En Amérique du Sud, les gens développent parfois des relations d'affection vis-à-vis d'objets particuliers qui les rendent irremplaçables. Ce qui importe dans ces relations n'est pas la forme physique de ces objets, mais plutôt leur identité sociale. Dans les hautes terres des Andes, on considère que certains objets sont vivants. Cet article traite de petits objets, les illas et les conopas, utilisés dans des rituels domestiques. Au cours de la p…
Studying at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Ranked 1st in The Guardian (2013) league table for studying archaeology Ranked 2nd in The Times (2013) ‘Good University Guide’ 100% of Institute undergraduate finalists expressed satisfaction with our teaching and support in the UK National Student Surveys 2010 and 2011
My State or Yours? Wari "Labor Camps" and the Inka Cult of Viracocha at Raqchi, Cuzco, Peru
The archaeological site at Raqchi is best known for the large Inka building identified by colonial sources as the "temple of Viracocha." The site also has an enclosure with 152 circular buildings that have previously been interpreted as Inka state storage: collcas. Although Inka pottery was found within some structures, the utilitarian pottery, carbonized plant remains, and hearths found on the floors of the buildings at Raqchi date their constru…
The building and rebuilding of walls
Walls are at the foundation of 'civil society': physical and symbolic barriers that differentiate people and activities. Cooperation in construction work expresses people's aspirations and can be a focus for the development of group solidarity. However, walls change the control and use of space, causing tensions and social divisions. In Raqchi, a small Peruvian village whose houses and fields are located within the ruins of a major archaeological…
Studying at the UCL Institute of Archaeology
Ranked first, for the past four years, in The Guardian league table for studying archaeology. For the past four years, 100% of Institute undergraduate finalists have expressed satisfaction with our teaching and support in the UK National Student Surveys
Microscopic Rocks and Expansive Empires
High quality polychrome ceramics are an iconic aspect of Inca material culture. This ‘Cuzco Inca’ pottery appears suddenly in the archaeological record: but it draws upon technological and stylistic aspects of earlier local pottery and we discuss the specifics of how these pre-Inca traits were combined to form the distinctive new state ceramics. Using ceramic petrography, the dominant fabric of Cuzco Inca pottery is compared with those of two pre…
Using the present to interpret the past
Within Andean research it is common to use ethnographic analogies to aid the interpretation of archaeological remains, and ethnographers and archaeologists have developed shared research in technology, material culture and material practice. Although most of this research does not follow the detailed recording methods of spatial patterning envisioned in earlier formulations of ethnoarchaeology, it has had a profound effect on how archaeology in t…
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