University of California, Berkeley

Department Member, Archaeological Research Facility

Staff Research Associate

Berkeley Research

Thesis Title: Quarries, Caravans, and Routes to Complexity: Prehispanic Obsidian in the South-Central Andes (Ph.D. Dissertation, UC Santa Barbara Anthropology)

About

I am an anthropologist and archaeologist specializing in Andean archaeology, ancient exchange, quarry studies, and GIS methods in archaeology. My dissertation research focused on the Chivay obsidian source in southern Peru and the circulation of this material. I subsequently directed an ethnoarchaeological study of long-distance llama caravan transport with a traditional salt caravan. In my current research I am  collaborating on a project looking at the ancient use of the Quispisisa obsidian source in Ayacucho, Peru. I am presently employed as a research associate and the laboratory manager at the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley.

Please visit my research website at http://MapAspects.org
My work website is http://arf.berkeley.edu

and my profile with links to my publications (more current than this page) is online at
http://works.bepress.com/tripcevich/

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