University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Student, Anthropology
Jason Yaeger
Sissel Schroeder
Frank Salomon
About
I study the pre-Columbian societies of the South American Andes. My research interests are complex societies, phenomenology and architecture, and semiotics.
I first excavated in 1995 as a field-school student in Belize. Since then I’ve worked on a number of digs in Belize, Peru and Bolivia. I also have worked field schools for Harvard and Stanford, and managed logistics for the Proyecto Arqueologico Pumapunku Akapana (Tiwanaku, Bolivia). My teaching experience includes instruction in military tactics, art history, political science, and anthropology.
Currently, I work with Dr. Frank Salomon and Carrie Brezine (Harvard University) on material from the Rapaz Patrimonial Khipu Project (Rapaz, Peru). I analyze radiocarbon samples to explain how people from Rapaz constructed the sacred khipu and how long it functioned as a relic.
My dissertation project will study the nature of power and the ways it was manifested during the expansion of the Tiwanaku Civilization (A.D. 400-1100). Tiwanaku is located in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, in what is now western Bolivia. I’m interested in what the archaeological record might tell us about the nature of state incorporation.
Contact Information
9206 Nat White
San Antonio, TX 78240
(512) 897-2609
tonychapa_at_uw
