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Julie Farnum at
Chavín de Huantár, Perú

Research by geographic area: Peru
(since 1990; please see C.V. for full details.)

Articles and Chapters     
(includes selected recent refereed abstracts):

• n.d. Gourd and Squash Artifacts Yield Starch Grains of Feasting Foods from Preceramic Peru (junior author with Neil A. Duncan and Deborah Pearsall), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.
  
• n.d. Lunar Standstill Markers at Preceramic Temples at the Buena Vista Site in Peru (junior author with Larry R. Adkins) Conference Proceedings Issue of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (in press).
  
• n.d. Buena Vista y Otros Templos Tempranos y Calendarios de Los Valles al Oeste del Perú. Peter Kaulicke y Tom D. Dillehay (eds.), Procesos y expresiones de poder, identidad y orden tempranos en Sudamérica.
  Segunda parte, Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 11 (2007), Lima. (in press).
  
• n.d. The Buena Vista Monumental Architecture Astronomical/Religious Tradition in Perú, 2,200BC-1,750 BC, The Origins of New World Monumentality, ed. By Robert M. Rosenswig and Richard L. Burger, Gainesville, University of Florida Press (in review).
  
• n.d. Delineating the Inequalities of Urbanism: The Skeletal Biology of the Early Intermediate (junior author with J.A. Vradenburg and E.A. Pechenkina), in La Arqueología de la Costa Centrál de Perú, Ed. by Krzysztof Makowski and John Rick (in press).
  
• n.d. The New World’s Most Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Buena Vista, Perú, Andean Past (in review).
  
• n.d. Biologia Osea de Una Poblacion del Periodo Inicial Tardio: Cardal,Peru (junior author with Joseph H. Vradenburg). En Materiales del Coloquio: El Valle de Lurin en el Periodo Formativo, ed.by Richard L. Burger and Krzysztof Makowski H., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima.
  
• 2009 Adaptaciones de la dieta human a nuevos problemas y oportunidades en la costa central del Perú (1,800-8000 a.C., (junior author with Sara Meadors) in Richard Burger y Kryzstof Makowski, eds, Arqueología del Periodo Formativo en la cuenca baja de Lurín: El Valle de Pachacamac (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima), pp.
  117-158.
  
• 2008 The Americas Oldest Observatory, Astronomy Magazine (senior author with Larry R. Adkins), 35:40-43.
  
• 2007 Early Villages in south America, Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Deborah M. Pearsall, Academic Press, pp. 269-284.
  
• 2007 Skeletal biology of the Central Peruvian Coast: consequences of changing population density and progressive dependence on maize agriculture (third author with EA Pechenkina, JA Vradenburg, and JF Farnum), In Ancient Health, ed. by M. Cohen and C. Kramer, Gainesville, University of Florida Press.
  
• 2005 Frederic-Andre Engel (1908-2002), Andean Past 7: 1-14.

Field Work      

• July 2002 Test excavations at Quipa site, Chilca Valley, Perú.
  
  
• June-July 2002 Test excavations of Buena Vista site, Chillón Valley, Perú.
  
  
• June, 2001 Mapping, Buena Vista site, Chillón Valley; reconnaissance of Quipa site, Chilca Valley, Perú.
  
  
• July-August, 1999 Excavations at Antibal, 3,600 m in the Chilca Valley, Perú.
  
  
• May-June, 1998 Amazonian Origin of a Disease which Led to the Collapse of the Initial Period, Lima and also Ica, Perú , with Michael Dietz.
  
  
• May-July, 1997 Sican Project continued in Fereñ afe, Perú ; Asia, Huayamarca, Villa Salvador, and Huaca Pucllana skeletal studies, Lima, Perú with Ekaterina Petchenkina.
  
  
• June-July 1996 Sicán Sacrifices: Base Data on Health, Batan Grande,Perú and PalomaWorld, Chilca Valley, Perú, with Julie Farnum.
  
  
• Jan.-Feb. 1995, Disease and the collapse of initial civilization in coastal Perú , Lima, Perú, with Joseph Vradenburg.
  
  
• July 1994, Reconnaissance of upper Chilca Valley sites (3800 m) for future excavation, Perú.
  
  
• June-July 1992, Laboratory Work in Lima; reconnaissance for dental studies in Ilo, Perú.
  
  
• June-July 1990, Salvage Excavations at the Paloma Site, Chilca Valley, Perú, with Eric White.
  
  
• August 1990, collection of ethnographic materials for the expert systems of field management project, Lari, Perú, L. Furbee, director.
  

Research Support     

• 2002 The Rise of Civilization in Peru, University of Missouri Research Board, $ 36,000.
  
  
• 2000 Technical Analyses of Materials Excavated at the Site of Antibál, Perú, UM Research Board, $1000.
  
  
• 1999 The Rise and Sudden Fall of Early Andean Civilizations, Brennan Foundation, $5,000.
  
  
• 1997 Sican Archaeological Project: Laboratory preparation of samples for Ph.D. dissertation by Julie Farnum, Ekaterina Pechonkina and myself, Fereñ afe, Peru, $2,500.
  
  
• 1996-97 PalomaWorld virtual reality project, Advanced Technology Center, MU, $58,080.
  
  
• 1996 Sican Archaeological Project: Preliminary field work in cooperation with SIU on the study of skeletal remains from Moche sites in northern Perú, Batan Grande, Peru, $1,500.
  
  
• 1996 PalomaWorld: An Intelligent Hypermedia Archaeological Site Report, University of Missouri Research Board, $45,859.
  
  
• 1994-95 Research Leave: Disease and the Collapse of Early Civilization in Perú, Research Council Grant funded 7 person months of research by myself and my graduate student, Joseph Vradenburg, MU Research Council.
  
  
• 1991-1992 DBS-9208593, Dietary Evidence from Dental Phytoliths, NSF, $4,300.
  
  
• 1991-1992 Research Experience for Undergraduates, Maritime Foundations of Sedentism, (Ellen O'Neil), BNS-9007928, NSF, $4,000.
  
  
• 1990-1991 Adaptation to Sedentism on the Western Flanks of the Central Andes (PI), NSF, BNS 90-07928, $29,396.
  
  
• 1990-1991 Adaptation to Sedentism in the Andes (PI), MU Research Council, $2,290.