Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador

Acknowledgments

ix a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The principal funding for the Challuabamba project came from research funds of the David Bruton Jr. Professorship in the History of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, augmented by substantial gifts from Dana DeBeauvoir and an anonymous donor. The zooarchaeological study by Peter Stahl was supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS-0130588). The Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador authorized these studies each year from 1995 to 2000. Dra. Mónica Bolaños expedited that process, under the supervision of Ldo. Carlos Guerrero B., the national director. The regional director in Cuenca, Srta. Mónica Zabala D., supervised our work and archaeologist Byron Camino participated in the work as inspector for the institute. Archaeologist Antonio Carrillo represented the institute and made a valuable contribution to the work. The 1995 excavation was made on the property of Francisco Chimbo , who permitted the work and took an interest in it. In the following years (1996–2000), the excavations were made on the neighboring property of the Jaramillo family through the kind permission of Juan Pablo Jaramillo. In 1995 the Texas group consisted of Senja Foster and Elizabeth Jenkins, graduate students at the University of Texas, Dagmar Grieder , and the project director (Terence Grieder), with a faithful local crew of Teresa Balarezo and members of her family, who continued in the following years. In 1996 the participating Texas students were Bradford Jones, Yvonne Rocha, and Mark Brignole. Manuel Guayas also joined the crew. In 1997 James Farmer joined us, bringing students Maria Naula and Julie White from Virginia Commonwealth University; and in 1998 Bradford Jones, Terence Grieder, and Antonio Carrillo supervised the work. Laboratory analysis occupied a larger share of the time each year. In 1999 the GPR-magnetometer survey was conducted by Mark Willis and Joe Brandon. Cuts 4 and 5 were based on that survey. Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador x Terence Grieder owes special thanks to Steven Wille, Carlos Vintimilla , Doña Costanza di Capua, and Lic. Mariella García de Parra, the director of the Center of Archaeological and Anthropological Studies at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Guayaquil. Karen Stothert was very helpful in facilitating our analyses at her archaeological laboratory in Cautivo, Ecuador. As project organizer, Terence Grieder appreciates the dedicated work of his colleagues in the production of this report. James Farmer gratefully acknowledges support from the University Grant-in-Aid Program for Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University. Peter Stahl thanks Antonio Carrillo, José Luis Espinoza, Ross Jamieson , Michael Muse, and Mariana Sanchez for their help in Ecuador and Felix Acuto and Josh Trapani in the United States. AMS radiocarbon dates of the excavated bone material were generated by the University of Arizona National Science Foundation (NSF)– Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory with the help of Greg Hodgins. Many thanks to John Lundberg of the National Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia for confirming the catfish identifications and to the staff of various departments in the American Museum of Natural History, specifically Linda Ford (Herpetology); Rad Arrindell, Barbara Brown, and Scott Schaefer (Ichthyology); Ross MacPhee, Jean Spence, and Rob Voss (Mammalogy); Peter Capainolo and Shannon Kenney (Ornithology); and Gene Gaffney (Paleontology). ...