Charles S Stanish

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., Chicago 1985

(Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)

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Curriculum Vitae

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Office: 309 Haines Hall or A210 Fowler Bldg.
Phone: 310-206-8934
Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: stanish@anthro.ucla.edu

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Subfield

Anthropological archaeology

Research Interests

Andean anthropology, settlement archaeology, and the evolution of social complexity.

Selected Publications

Joyce Marcus and Charles Stanish, editors. 2006
Agricultural Strategies. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.

Stanish, Charles, Amanda B. Cohen, and Mark S. Aldenderfer, editors
2005. Advances in the Archaeology of the Titicaca Basin-I. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.

Stanish, Charles and Brian S. Bauer, editors
2004. Archaeological Research on the Islands of the Sun and Moon, Lake Titicaca Bolivia: Final Results from the Proyecto Tiksi Kjarka. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles.

Stanish, Charles
2003. Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex
Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia.
University of California Press, Berkeley.

Bauer, Brian and Charles Stanish
2001. Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes.
The Islands of the Sun and Moon. University of
Texas Press, Austin.


1993 with Edmundo de la Vega M., and Kirk Lawrence Frye. Domestic Architecture of Lupaqa Area Sites. In Domestic Architecture in South Central Andean Prehistory. M. Aldenderfer (Ed.). University of Iowa Press. Pp. 83-93.

1994 The Hydraulic Hypothesis Revisited: A Theoretical Perspective on Lake Titicaca Basin Raised Field Agriculture. Latin American Antiquity 5(4):312-332.

1995/6 with E. de la Vega M., L. Steadman, C. Chavez J., K.L. Frye, L. Onofre M., M. Seddon, and P. Calisaya Ch. Archaeological Survey in the Southwestern Lake Titicaca Basin. Dialogo Andino 14-15:97-143.

1997 Nonmarket Imperialism in the Prehispanic Americas: The Inca Occupation of the Titicaca Basin. Latin American Antiquity 8(2):1-17.



Stanish, Charles, Richard Burger, Lisa Cipolla, Michael Glascock, and Esteban Quelima
2002 Evidence for Early Long-Distance Obsidian Exchange and Watercraft Use from the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia and Peru. Accepted by Latin American Antiquity

Stanish, Charles
2001 The origins of the state in South America. Annual Reviews in Anthropology, vol. 30:41-64.

Grants

Last five years

2006-07 National Science Foundation Grant no. BCS 0621398. “Interregional trade and the development of archaic states. (with Michael Moseley and Ryan Williams).

2002-03 National Science Foundation Grant no. BCS 0210158. “The origins of ranked society in the northern Titicaca Basin.”

2001 Verison/GTE grant Charles Stanish and Bernard Frischer: "3-D computer model of the Inca Island of the Sun to test astronomical-geological-architectural alignments in the Lake Titicaca Area"

2005 NSF Grant BCS-0533443. Dissertation Improvement Grant with Ilana Johnson. “Urbanism and Social Organization at the Late Moche Period Site of Pampa Grande, Peru”.

2005 NSF Grant BCS-454615. Dissertation Improvement Grant with Zannie Sandoval. “. Inca Administration of the Peruvian North Coast. A View from Cerro Colorado.”

2002 NSF. Grant BCS-0226741. Dissertation Improvement Grant with Elizabeth Arkush “Warfare and Political Development in the Prehispanic Northwest Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru”

2002 NSF Grant BCS-0225057. Dissertation Improvement Grant with Amanda Cohen, “The Significance of Sunken Court Architecture to the Development of Sociopolitical Complexity

Awards

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lloyd Cotsen Chair of Archaeology

Grad Students

Zannie Sandoval
Abby Levine
Ilana Johnson
Colleen Donley

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