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Monte Sierpe functioned as a barter marketplace for the powerful #Chincha Kingdom and later as an accounting device for tribute collection under the #Inca state. This research offers clear archaeological evidence to confront pseudo-archaeological narratives surrounding this important heritage site
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Furthermore, #sedimentanalysis revealed #microbotanical remains of crops like #maize (Zea mays), and plants used for basketry and matting (like Typha and Salix). This suggests that goods were deliberately deposited, exchanged, or transported in woven containers at this strategically located site
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Furthermore, #sedimentanalysis revealed #microbotanical remains of crops like #maize (Zea mays), and plants used for basketry and matting (like Typha and Salix). This suggests that goods were deliberately deposited, exchanged, or transported in woven containers at this strategically located site
Dating to at least the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1400) and used by the #Inca (AD 1400–1532), Monte Sierpe shows clear numerical patterns in its hole counts across different sections, and potentially parallels the complex groupings found in local Inca knotted-string #khipu
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Often labelled an "unexplained mystery", new research by Bongers et al. in @antiquity.ac.uk integrates drone imagery and microbotanical analysis to propose a function rooted in Indigenous practices: accounting and exchange. #BandOfHoles #Peru #Archaeology
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Often labelled an "unexplained mystery", new research by Bongers et al. in @antiquity.ac.uk integrates drone imagery and microbotanical analysis to propose a function rooted in Indigenous practices: accounting and exchange. #BandOfHoles #Peru #Archaeology
The enigmatic "Band of Holes" at Monte Sierpe in the Pisco Valley, Peru, stretching for 1.5km and consisting of approximately 5200 aligned depressions, has long been surrounded by speculation.
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The enigmatic "Band of Holes" at Monte Sierpe in the Pisco Valley, Peru, stretching for 1.5km and consisting of approximately 5200 aligned depressions, has long been surrounded by speculation.
The state-led busing extends the "thickening" borderlands condition, creating a form of "transborder governmentality" that manages mobility across state systems. doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The state-led busing extends the "thickening" borderlands condition, creating a form of "transborder governmentality" that manages mobility across state systems. doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
This practice reveals a major policy contradiction: exclusionary narratives frame migrants as "unwanted or burdensome," yet these same migrants "quickly find jobs across a range of economic sectors in Chicago". doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This practice reveals a major policy contradiction: exclusionary narratives frame migrants as "unwanted or burdensome," yet these same migrants "quickly find jobs across a range of economic sectors in Chicago". doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
Since early 2022, the state of Texas has spent more than $1450 per migrant on average) is substantially higher than commercial bus tickets, highlighting how migration has become a "lucrative business" for private companies and the state. doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Since early 2022, the state of Texas has spent more than $1450 per migrant on average) is substantially higher than commercial bus tickets, highlighting how migration has become a "lucrative business" for private companies and the state. doi.org/10.1111/anhu...
The practice of Texas busing migrants to northern cities, such as Chicago, is not just a political stunt—it’s analyzed as a strategy of internal rebordering. This process involves relocating migrants within the U.S. interior to enforce exclusion while simultaneously sustaining urban economies.
Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to nort...
doi.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The practice of Texas busing migrants to northern cities, such as Chicago, is not just a political stunt—it’s analyzed as a strategy of internal rebordering. This process involves relocating migrants within the U.S. interior to enforce exclusion while simultaneously sustaining urban economies.
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It provided a "user-friendly" way for navigators to calculate a change in latitude using a few simple manipulations of dividers. The scale, visually similar to boxwood, was recovered from between two stern framing timbers during the 2010 excavation.
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) | The Journal of Navigation | Cambridge Core
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) - Volume 77 Issue 5-6
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November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It provided a "user-friendly" way for navigators to calculate a change in latitude using a few simple manipulations of dividers. The scale, visually similar to boxwood, was recovered from between two stern framing timbers during the 2010 excavation.
This artifact proves that the plain scale—an analogue navigational computing instrument—was already in use by English sailors traveling to the colonies, while the primary text popularizing it wasn't published until 1624.
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) | The Journal of Navigation | Cambridge Core
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) - Volume 77 Issue 5-6
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This artifact proves that the plain scale—an analogue navigational computing instrument—was already in use by English sailors traveling to the colonies, while the primary text popularizing it wasn't published until 1624.
The Warwick was a magazine ship for the Virginia Company, lost in a hurricane in 1619. #NavTech #Archaeology #ShipwreckDiscovery #PlainScale #17thCentury
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) | The Journal of Navigation | Cambridge Core
The plain scale from Warwick (1619) - Volume 77 Issue 5-6
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Warwick was a magazine ship for the Virginia Company, lost in a hurricane in 1619. #NavTech #Archaeology #ShipwreckDiscovery #PlainScale #17thCentury
Let’s all congratulate Dr. de Ruiter for his hard work and dedication! This award is very well deserved.
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Follow the link for the news release: news.tamus.edu/regents-appr...
Regents Approve 17 Regents Professors, 13 Regents Fellows – A&M System News
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November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Let’s all congratulate Dr. de Ruiter for his hard work and dedication! This award is very well deserved.
Follow the link for the news release: news.tamus.edu/regents-appr...
Follow the link for the news release: news.tamus.edu/regents-appr...
Each recipient will receive a commemorative medallion bearing the A&M System seal and a certificate signed by Chairman Albritton and Chancellor Glenn Hegar.
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Each recipient will receive a commemorative medallion bearing the A&M System seal and a certificate signed by Chairman Albritton and Chancellor Glenn Hegar.
Award recipients are designated “Regents Professor” for the duration of their employment within the A&M System. They will receive a stipend of $15,000 — payable as $5,000 annually for three consecutive years — funded through their employing institution or agency.
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Award recipients are designated “Regents Professor” for the duration of their employment within the A&M System. They will receive a stipend of $15,000 — payable as $5,000 annually for three consecutive years — funded through their employing institution or agency.
The Regents Professor Award program, established in 1996, recognizes faculty members whose contributions advance the academic institutions and serve the people of Texas. Since its inception, 323 faculty across the System have been honored.
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Regents Professor Award program, established in 1996, recognizes faculty members whose contributions advance the academic institutions and serve the people of Texas. Since its inception, 323 faculty across the System have been honored.
Colonial authorities interpreted clandestine burial as idolatry, but historical sources cite it as cuyaspa—"for the love they bear them": community care, not just resistance. Maintaining ties with ancestors ensured the survival and fertility of the living community in the face of colonial disaster.
For the Love They Bear Them: Clandestine Burial and Caring for the Dead in Colonial Peru - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Following the Spanish invasion and the collapse and overthrow of the Inca Empire, millions of Indigenous Andean people died from diseases, famine, and violence. Simultaneously, the twinned forces of S...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Colonial authorities interpreted clandestine burial as idolatry, but historical sources cite it as cuyaspa—"for the love they bear them": community care, not just resistance. Maintaining ties with ancestors ensured the survival and fertility of the living community in the face of colonial disaster.
At Jahuay (Chincha), Indigenous people created inconspicuous burial spaces to protect their deceased. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
For the Love They Bear Them: Clandestine Burial and Caring for the Dead in Colonial Peru - International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Following the Spanish invasion and the collapse and overthrow of the Inca Empire, millions of Indigenous Andean people died from diseases, famine, and violence. Simultaneously, the twinned forces of S...
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
At Jahuay (Chincha), Indigenous people created inconspicuous burial spaces to protect their deceased. link.springer.com/article/10.1...