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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):

• 2001 Multivariate Morphometry: Advantages of Direct Anlysis of 3-Dimensional Coordinates of the Human Skull Referred to Functionally Important Planes (junior author with D. G. McBride), American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 30:223-224. Benfer RA, Furbee NL . 2001;46(3): 427-431. 2000.
  
  
• 2000 Multivariate morphometry: advantages of direct analysis of 3-dimensional coordinates of the human skull referred to functionally important planes (jr. author with D. G. McBride), Amer. J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 30:223-234.
  
  
• 1999 Proyecto de Excavaciones en Paloma: El Valle de Chilca, Perú, El Periódo Arcaico en el Perú. Hacia una definición de los orígenes, Boletin de Arqueologia PUCP 3:213-237. Lima, Perú.
  
  
• 1999 Keeping alive children who are failing to thrive in an Archaic fishing village in Coastal Perú, Amer. J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 2 8:90-91.
  
  
• 1999 The Identification of the Remains of Don Francisco Pizzaro (senior author with Hugo Ludeñ a R.) Forensic Osteological Analysis: A Book of Case Studies, ed by Scott I. Fairgrieve, Charles C Thomas, pp. 107-128.
  
  
• 1997 Evaluating Archaeological Hypotheses of Population Growth and Decline on the Central Coast of Perú, (second author with Joseph A. Vradenburg and Lisa Sattenspiel), In Integrating Archaeological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population, ed. by Richard R. Paine, Occasional Paper No. 24, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, pp. 150-174.
  
  
• 1997 Paloma Tomb (poem) Special 75th anniversary issue of Science News 151:S9.
  
  
• 1997 Where stature estimated from regression of limb bone length is inappropriate. Amer. J. of Phys. Anthrop. Supplement 24:74.
  
  
• 1997 PalomaWorld, http://www.atc.missouri.edu/paloma/, the first archaeological digital library.
  
  
• 1995 Age of Pregnancies and Age of Weaning from Prehistoric Bone: Are Sr and Zn Indicators? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 20, 89-90 (refereed abstract of paper presented at Annual Meetings).
  
  
• 1995 A Methodology for Combining Cognitive and Behavioral Research: The Lari Soils Project in Peru, (junior author with David Guillet, Louanna Furbee, and Jon Sandor) , pp. 71-81 . In Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Cultural Dimension of Development, ed. by M. Warren, J. Slikkerveer, and D. Brokensha
  
  
• 1993 The Effects of Diagenesis on the Paloma Skeletal Material (junior author with Jeremy Edward). In Sanford, Mary K. (ed.); Investigations of Ancient Human Tissue: Chemical Analyses in Anthropology. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach, pp. 183-268.
  
  
• 1992 Representing Partly Shared Knowledge in Expert Systems of Terrace Agricultural Systems (senior author with Louanna Furbee), Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Expert Systems in Agriculture, pp. 35-41, International Academia Publisher, Huangshan, China.
  
  
• 1991 The Principal Axis Method for Measuring Rate and Amount of Dental Attrition: Estimating Juvenile or Adult Tooth Wear from Unaged Adult Teeth (senior author with Daniel S. Edwards), Dental Anthropology, ed. by M. Kelly and Clark Larson, Riss, Ch. 18, pp. 325-340.
  
  
• 1990 Effects of Ashing on the Composition of Human and Animal Bone (second author with Jeremy Edward and J. S. Morris) In Biological Trace Element Research 25:219-231.
  
  
• 1990 The Preceramic Period Site of Paloma, Peru: Bioindications of Improving Adaptation to Sedentism, Latin American Antiquity, 1:284-318.
  
  
• 1990 Informe Preliminar, Excavaciones en la Cueva de Tres Ventanas, 8 page report presented to the Nacional Institute of Culture, Lima, Peru. REPORT.

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.