M Elizabeth Grávalos
Biographic Data
| ID | 238794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Elizabeth Grávalos |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Grávalos |
| SIGNATURE | GRÁVALOS M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Field Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0686-825X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hegemony without Sovereignty? Potters as Materially Mediating Casma Statecraft (Ancash, Peru, ca. 1000–1400 CE)
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics
Emergent scholarship in political geology highlights multiple ways of knowing the earth and its materials. By examining the politics of Western knowledge production within the earth sciences, political geology queries who has the power to define geomaterials and the sociopolitical impacts of such categorizations. Simultaneously, political geology demonstrates how earthly formations cocreate politics alongside humans through their vibrancy, with s…
Wari across the Andes: Modeling the radiocarbon evidence
Inka and Local ceramic production and distribution networks: A view from the Chinchaysuyo and Colesuyo
Crafting cosmopolitanism: Ceramic production and exchange during Wari imperialism (600–1000 CE)
Examining the Nasca religious network on the south coast of Peru: LA-ICP-MS of Early Nasca ceramics from the Upper Ica Valley (AD 250–450)
This study investigates the geographic extent of a hypothesized pilgrimage network on the south coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-650), centered around the important ceremonial site of Cahuachi. It has been argued that Early Nasca style ceramics were manufactured here and distributed to pilgrims from surrounding Southern Nasca Region (SNR) villages as symbols of their pilgrimage, and daily reminders of the Cahuachi ideolo…
Memory Work and Place-Making over the Longue Durée at Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)
This article explores temporality at the village of Jecosh (Ancash, Peru) using a place and social memory framework. Through excavations and materials analysis of domestic and mortuary contexts, we consider the memory work involved in making and re-making place at Jecosh over the longue durée. Initial site settlement coincided with the rise of Huarás villages in the 4th century b.c.; continued site occupation in the Recuay era expanded upon Huará…
Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange During Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)
An examination of Recuay kaolin pottery production and exchange through petrography and LA‐ICP‐MS (100–700 CE; Ancash, Peru)
This article examines the production and exchange of kaolin ceramics among Recuay communities in highland Ancash, Peru (ca. 100–700 ce ). We draw upon geochemical (laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry; LA‐ICP‐MS) and petrographic data to investigate raw material use, provenance, and intraregional trade. We present data on 115 decorated and plain ceramics sampled from nine archaeological sites, which we compare with data on …
Prehispanic Highland Textile Technologies: A View from the First Millennium AD at Hualcayán, Ancash, Peru
The exceptional preservation of perishable artifacts on the arid west coast of the Andes has led to an abundance of knowledge on prehispanic textile production. Yet comparatively little of this knowledge is based on highland examples due to their poor preservation in the moist environment of the Andean sierra. Systematic excavations in 2011-2012 at the archaeological complex of Hualcayán in highland Ancash, Peru, revealed surprisingly well-preser…
Changing to remain the same: Everyday animal use at ancient Jecosh, north-central Peru
Studies of faunal discard reveal the everyday use of animal resources in the past. However, taphonomic processes, fragmentation due to butchery, equifinality, and other factors hamper identification of the practices responsible for creating accumulated faunal assemblages. In this paper, we suggest a way to reconceptualize mundane faunal waste from archaeological sites. We apply an everyday life theoretical framework to examine archaeofauna from d…
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics
Emergent scholarship in political geology highlights multiple ways of knowing the earth and its materials. By examining the politics of Western knowledge production within the earth sciences, political geology queries who has the power to define geomaterials and the sociopolitical impacts of such categorizations. Simultaneously, political geology demonstrates how earthly formations cocreate politics alongside humans through their vibrancy, with s…
Crafting cosmopolitanism: Ceramic production and exchange during Wari imperialism (600–1000 CE)
An examination of Recuay kaolin pottery production and exchange through petrography and LA‐ICP‐MS (100–700 CE; Ancash, Peru)
This article examines the production and exchange of kaolin ceramics among Recuay communities in highland Ancash, Peru (ca. 100–700 ce ). We draw upon geochemical (laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry; LA‐ICP‐MS) and petrographic data to investigate raw material use, provenance, and intraregional trade. We present data on 115 decorated and plain ceramics sampled from nine archaeological sites, which we compare with data on …
Prehispanic Highland Textile Technologies: A View from the First Millennium AD at Hualcayán, Ancash, Peru
The exceptional preservation of perishable artifacts on the arid west coast of the Andes has led to an abundance of knowledge on prehispanic textile production. Yet comparatively little of this knowledge is based on highland examples due to their poor preservation in the moist environment of the Andean sierra. Systematic excavations in 2011-2012 at the archaeological complex of Hualcayán in highland Ancash, Peru, revealed surprisingly well-preser…
Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange During Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)
Changing to remain the same: Everyday animal use at ancient Jecosh, north-central Peru
Studies of faunal discard reveal the everyday use of animal resources in the past. However, taphonomic processes, fragmentation due to butchery, equifinality, and other factors hamper identification of the practices responsible for creating accumulated faunal assemblages. In this paper, we suggest a way to reconceptualize mundane faunal waste from archaeological sites. We apply an everyday life theoretical framework to examine archaeofauna from d…
Inka and Local ceramic production and distribution networks: A view from the Chinchaysuyo and Colesuyo
Prehispanic Highland Textile Technologies: A View from the First Millennium AD at Hualcayán, Ancash, Peru
The exceptional preservation of perishable artifacts on the arid west coast of the Andes has led to an abundance of knowledge on prehispanic textile production. Yet comparatively little of this knowledge is based on highland examples due to their poor preservation in the moist environment of the Andean sierra. Systematic excavations in 2011-2012 at the archaeological complex of Hualcayán in highland Ancash, Peru, revealed surprisingly well-preser…
Changing to remain the same: Everyday animal use at ancient Jecosh, north-central Peru
Studies of faunal discard reveal the everyday use of animal resources in the past. However, taphonomic processes, fragmentation due to butchery, equifinality, and other factors hamper identification of the practices responsible for creating accumulated faunal assemblages. In this paper, we suggest a way to reconceptualize mundane faunal waste from archaeological sites. We apply an everyday life theoretical framework to examine archaeofauna from d…
Memory Work and Place-Making over the Longue Durée at Jecosh, Peru (340 b.c.–a.d. 1630)
This article explores temporality at the village of Jecosh (Ancash, Peru) using a place and social memory framework. Through excavations and materials analysis of domestic and mortuary contexts, we consider the memory work involved in making and re-making place at Jecosh over the longue durée. Initial site settlement coincided with the rise of Huarás villages in the 4th century b.c.; continued site occupation in the Recuay era expanded upon Huará…
Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange During Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)
An examination of Recuay kaolin pottery production and exchange through petrography and LA‐ICP‐MS (100–700 CE; Ancash, Peru)
This article examines the production and exchange of kaolin ceramics among Recuay communities in highland Ancash, Peru (ca. 100–700 ce ). We draw upon geochemical (laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry; LA‐ICP‐MS) and petrographic data to investigate raw material use, provenance, and intraregional trade. We present data on 115 decorated and plain ceramics sampled from nine archaeological sites, which we compare with data on …
Inka and Local ceramic production and distribution networks: A view from the Chinchaysuyo and Colesuyo
Crafting cosmopolitanism: Ceramic production and exchange during Wari imperialism (600–1000 CE)
Examining the Nasca religious network on the south coast of Peru: LA-ICP-MS of Early Nasca ceramics from the Upper Ica Valley (AD 250–450)
This study investigates the geographic extent of a hypothesized pilgrimage network on the south coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (AD 100-650), centered around the important ceremonial site of Cahuachi. It has been argued that Early Nasca style ceramics were manufactured here and distributed to pilgrims from surrounding Southern Nasca Region (SNR) villages as symbols of their pilgrimage, and daily reminders of the Cahuachi ideolo…
Wari across the Andes: Modeling the radiocarbon evidence
Hegemony without Sovereignty? Potters as Materially Mediating Casma Statecraft (Ancash, Peru, ca. 1000–1400 CE)
The geopower of kaolin clay: Toward a political geology of archaeological ceramics
Emergent scholarship in political geology highlights multiple ways of knowing the earth and its materials. By examining the politics of Western knowledge production within the earth sciences, political geology queries who has the power to define geomaterials and the sociopolitical impacts of such categorizations. Simultaneously, political geology demonstrates how earthly formations cocreate politics alongside humans through their vibrancy, with s…
Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works)