CLAS Lecture Series: "20 Years of Archaeological Research at Chavin de Huantar, Peru: Implications of a Multidisciplinary Project"

The Chavin Archaeological and Conservation Project has involved a wide range of specialists, ranging from acousticians to psychiatrists, trying to decipher the implications of the Central Andean formative periods, a time in which most of the features of later Andean states developed. This talk will review the current understandings of this critical time period, as seen from findings in Chavin, a site that has features that eloquently speak to a period in which religion was radical, and emerging leadership was capable of extraordinary levels of creativity and innovation.

John W. Rick, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.

More about Professor Rick can be found here.