Stephen Berquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 72721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Berquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Berquist |
| SIGNATURE | BERQUIST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6607-0691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Lost Trenches to Living Data: Using UAV‐Mounted LiDAR to Relocate and Contextualize Legacy Excavations at Saqsaywaman, Cusco, Peru
LiDAR has transformed archaeological prospection by enabling the detection of sites and landscape features at unprecedented scales, particularly in environments with heavy vegetation. However, its methodological and analytical application at the excavation scale remains underdeveloped. In this paper, we develop a prospection‐oriented workflow that implements UAV‐mounted LiDAR to recontextualize legacy excavations within modern geospatial framewor…
Thinking Through Tradition: Continuity, Architecture, and the Material Grounds of Transformation in the Central Andes and Angkorian Cambodia
In this paper, we reconsider the relationship between continuity and change in archaeology by arguing that material continuities do not necessarily imply conservatism or resistance to change but function as precondition for transformation. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of thought as a ‘play of forms’, we conceptualize architecture as an active medium of sense-making, through which societies reframe novelty within familiar epistemic tra…
Imágenes Aéreas Sistemáticas Y Documentación Del Sitio Arqueológico De Huari: Una Actualización Y Perspectivas Para El Futuro
El sitio de Huari, centro una vasta formacin poltica expansionista, se cuenta entre las ciudades ms grandes de Sudamrica precolombina.La ciudad existi durante aproximadamente cuatrocientos aos durante el Horizonte Medio (600-1000 EC)
Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements
Through an ethnographic rendering of the Catholic Church at the Detroit-Windsor borderland, this article foregrounds the ways elemental forces, including water, earth/soil, and air, form an interconnected entity that constitutes part of the theopolitical and religious scaffolding of Holy Infrastructures. We argue that the repetitive inscription of social and affective flows within an urban terrain generates infrastructure projects that contract f…
Ayllus, Ancestors and the (Un)Making of the Wari State
At the time of the Spanish invasion, central Andean society was organized around ayllus. These extensive social units, bound together by kinship, reciprocity, land claims, honoured ancestors and other criteria, are an example of the kin-based sodalities that have long been seen in political science as impediments to state development. Class should replace kin when large and complex polities like the Inca Empire form, and groups like the ayllu sho…
Highland-Coastal Relations and Transformations in Dualistic Political Ideologies in Middle Horizon Jequetepeque
Recent research in the southern Jequetepeque Valley provides evidence that gender ideologies, dualistic spatial orders, and geopolitical relations underwent major transformations between the late 7th and 9th centuries C.E. Data from the Late Moche site of Huaca Colorada demonstrate that a dualistic cosmological schema informed the layout of the main monument earlier in the Moche era. However, the foundation of the neighboring ceremonial center of…
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru
Dating to the pre-Hispanic era, carved stone sculptures of terraced landforms -maquetas -found in the south-central Andes evoke topographic models. The purpose of thesemaquetashas eluded archaeologists as the lithic landscapes do not correspond precisely to the terrain and could not have served as maps. By centring irrigation as a fundamental concern among communities of the semi-arid western cordillera of the south-central Andes, we draw from sc…
Cosmopolitical Performances: Enacting authority and ordering the world through spatial music in the pre-contact Andes
Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru
The Late Intermediate period in the south-central Andes is known for the widespread use of open sepulchres called chullpas by descent-based ayllus to claim rights to resources and express idealized notions of how society should be organized. Chullpas, however, were rarer on the coast, with the dead often buried individually in closed tombs. This article documents conditions under which these closed tombs were used at the site of Quilcapampa on th…
Earthen Terrace Technologies and Environmental Adaptation in the Montane Forests of Pre-Columbian Northeastern Peru
The pre-Columbian Andes are renowned for agricultural terrace systems in areas of steep terrain. Most studies have concentrated on regions characterized by seasonally-variable limited precipitation, yet research in high-precipitation and cloud-forest regions of the North and Eastern Andes demonstrates the diversity of terrace technologies adapted to different landscapes. This paper presents research from survey, excavation, and digital modeling o…
A new aerial photogrammetric survey method for recording inaccessible rock art
A new aerial photogrammetric survey method for recording inaccessible rock art
Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru
The Late Intermediate period in the south-central Andes is known for the widespread use of open sepulchres called chullpas by descent-based ayllus to claim rights to resources and express idealized notions of how society should be organized. Chullpas, however, were rarer on the coast, with the dead often buried individually in closed tombs. This article documents conditions under which these closed tombs were used at the site of Quilcapampa on th…
Ayllus, Ancestors and the (Un)Making of the Wari State
At the time of the Spanish invasion, central Andean society was organized around ayllus. These extensive social units, bound together by kinship, reciprocity, land claims, honoured ancestors and other criteria, are an example of the kin-based sodalities that have long been seen in political science as impediments to state development. Class should replace kin when large and complex polities like the Inca Empire form, and groups like the ayllu sho…
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru
Dating to the pre-Hispanic era, carved stone sculptures of terraced landforms -maquetas -found in the south-central Andes evoke topographic models. The purpose of thesemaquetashas eluded archaeologists as the lithic landscapes do not correspond precisely to the terrain and could not have served as maps. By centring irrigation as a fundamental concern among communities of the semi-arid western cordillera of the south-central Andes, we draw from sc…
Earthen Terrace Technologies and Environmental Adaptation in the Montane Forests of Pre-Columbian Northeastern Peru
The pre-Columbian Andes are renowned for agricultural terrace systems in areas of steep terrain. Most studies have concentrated on regions characterized by seasonally-variable limited precipitation, yet research in high-precipitation and cloud-forest regions of the North and Eastern Andes demonstrates the diversity of terrace technologies adapted to different landscapes. This paper presents research from survey, excavation, and digital modeling o…
A new aerial photogrammetric survey method for recording inaccessible rock art
Earthen Terrace Technologies and Environmental Adaptation in the Montane Forests of Pre-Columbian Northeastern Peru
The pre-Columbian Andes are renowned for agricultural terrace systems in areas of steep terrain. Most studies have concentrated on regions characterized by seasonally-variable limited precipitation, yet research in high-precipitation and cloud-forest regions of the North and Eastern Andes demonstrates the diversity of terrace technologies adapted to different landscapes. This paper presents research from survey, excavation, and digital modeling o…
Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru
The Late Intermediate period in the south-central Andes is known for the widespread use of open sepulchres called chullpas by descent-based ayllus to claim rights to resources and express idealized notions of how society should be organized. Chullpas, however, were rarer on the coast, with the dead often buried individually in closed tombs. This article documents conditions under which these closed tombs were used at the site of Quilcapampa on th…
Highland-Coastal Relations and Transformations in Dualistic Political Ideologies in Middle Horizon Jequetepeque
Recent research in the southern Jequetepeque Valley provides evidence that gender ideologies, dualistic spatial orders, and geopolitical relations underwent major transformations between the late 7th and 9th centuries C.E. Data from the Late Moche site of Huaca Colorada demonstrate that a dualistic cosmological schema informed the layout of the main monument earlier in the Moche era. However, the foundation of the neighboring ceremonial center of…
Lithic landscape models and hydraulic imaginaries in the Colca Valley, Peru
Dating to the pre-Hispanic era, carved stone sculptures of terraced landforms -maquetas -found in the south-central Andes evoke topographic models. The purpose of thesemaquetashas eluded archaeologists as the lithic landscapes do not correspond precisely to the terrain and could not have served as maps. By centring irrigation as a fundamental concern among communities of the semi-arid western cordillera of the south-central Andes, we draw from sc…
Cosmopolitical Performances: Enacting authority and ordering the world through spatial music in the pre-contact Andes
Ayllus, Ancestors and the (Un)Making of the Wari State
At the time of the Spanish invasion, central Andean society was organized around ayllus. These extensive social units, bound together by kinship, reciprocity, land claims, honoured ancestors and other criteria, are an example of the kin-based sodalities that have long been seen in political science as impediments to state development. Class should replace kin when large and complex polities like the Inca Empire form, and groups like the ayllu sho…
Imágenes Aéreas Sistemáticas Y Documentación Del Sitio Arqueológico De Huari: Una Actualización Y Perspectivas Para El Futuro
El sitio de Huari, centro una vasta formacin poltica expansionista, se cuenta entre las ciudades ms grandes de Sudamrica precolombina.La ciudad existi durante aproximadamente cuatrocientos aos durante el Horizonte Medio (600-1000 EC)
Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements
Through an ethnographic rendering of the Catholic Church at the Detroit-Windsor borderland, this article foregrounds the ways elemental forces, including water, earth/soil, and air, form an interconnected entity that constitutes part of the theopolitical and religious scaffolding of Holy Infrastructures. We argue that the repetitive inscription of social and affective flows within an urban terrain generates infrastructure projects that contract f…
From Lost Trenches to Living Data: Using UAV‐Mounted LiDAR to Relocate and Contextualize Legacy Excavations at Saqsaywaman, Cusco, Peru
LiDAR has transformed archaeological prospection by enabling the detection of sites and landscape features at unprecedented scales, particularly in environments with heavy vegetation. However, its methodological and analytical application at the excavation scale remains underdeveloped. In this paper, we develop a prospection‐oriented workflow that implements UAV‐mounted LiDAR to recontextualize legacy excavations within modern geospatial framewor…
Thinking Through Tradition: Continuity, Architecture, and the Material Grounds of Transformation in the Central Andes and Angkorian Cambodia
In this paper, we reconsider the relationship between continuity and change in archaeology by arguing that material continuities do not necessarily imply conservatism or resistance to change but function as precondition for transformation. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of thought as a ‘play of forms’, we conceptualize architecture as an active medium of sense-making, through which societies reframe novelty within familiar epistemic tra…
Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (3 works)