Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The 1984-1985 program of excavations at Cahuachi was authorized by Resolucion Suprema 165-84-ED. I am very grateful to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura for facilitating fieldwork. The Museo Nacional de Antropologia y Arqueologia extended me affiliation. Its director, Hermilio Rosas La Noire, was most helpful in expediting exportation of the 14C samples under Expediente No. 155-07 and Informe No. 173-CG-MNAA-85. The Cahuachi Project was funded with research grants from the Institute of International Education (Fulbright -Hays Act), National Science Foundation (BNS8401085 ), Social Science Research Council, Organization of American States, and Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. To these organizations I express my deepest thanks for their support . Marcia Koth de Paredes, executive director of the Comision Fulbright in Lima, was helpful in many ways and is sincerely thanked. Miguel Pazos, a dear friend and colleague, worked with me part-time at Cahuachi, and I am very grateful to him. I also benefited from the sequential participation of four excellent archaeology students whose assistance is affectionately and gratefully acknowledged: Frances Hayashida (then of Stanford), Dennis Scott (Yale), Juan Antonio Murro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru), and Jose Pablo Baraybar (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos). In addition, I had a wonderful crew of workers composed of Armando Valdivia, Julio Tueros, Gerardo Rojas, Abel Guevarra, and Guillermo Tinkuy. Hugo Verne Navas and Cenen and Estela Guzman made me welcome in their homes at Cahuachi, and I remember them with affection. My thanks to the specialists who undertook the analysis of particula! classes of material remains. Burial 1 was studied by Sonia Guillen; Burial 11 was analyzed by Alfonso Madrid. Jose Pablo Baraybar studied the trophy heads. Maria del Carmen Rodriguez de Sandweiss analyzed the shellfish remains. Bernardino Ojeda identified all botanical remains. Their findings are reported herein. The new map of Cahuachi presented here was drawn by architect Jose Pineda on the basis of aerial photogrammetric projection, supplemented by field reconnaissance and ground verification. I am very grateful to Josue Lancho Rojas of Nazca and his wife, Isabel (Chabuca) Pereyra de Lancho, who were always warm hosts during my many visits to their home and helped me in more ways than I can possibly enumerate . I have benefited greatly from many stimulating conversations with Josue, whose fund of knowledge about Nazca is virtually unlimited. Dr. Terence D'Altroy at Columbia University has been exceedingly kind over the years in facilitating access to Strong's collections at Columbia University. Review of the collections in 1988 was made possible by a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. Dr. Robert Feldman kindly facilitated access to the I(roeber Collections from Cahuachi, which are curated at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Many colleagues visited me in the field, an~ others gave generously of their time to discuss Nasca and other related issues with me in Lima and in the United States. I benefited greatly from the visits of Idilio Santillana, Daniel Sandweiss, William Isbell, Luis Lumbreras, Robert Feldman, and Fritz Riddell and from the conversations with Ruth Shady, Duccio Bonavia, Federico Kauffmann Doig, Carlos Williams Leon, Maria Rostworowski, Donald Proulx, Dwight Wallace, and Patricia Knobloch. I most especially wish to thank Richard Burger, Lucy Salazar-Burger, I(aren Mohr Chavez, and Sergio Chavez for their help and advice at Cahuachi and back in the United States. I give deep thanks to my outstanding draftsman, Steven Holland, and gratefully acknowledge a grant from the Campus Research Board of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that partially underwrote the cost of producing the figural material for publication. xiii David Minor, staff photographer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign , with cheer and patience worked miracles with often poor negatives. Warm thanks also go to Marilyn Bridges who took the magnificent photograph of Cahuachi that appears on the jacket of this book. xiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Finally, unending thanks to my husband, Enrique Mayer, for his constant love, support, enthusiasm, patience , and help. He has been my foremost intellectual companion, and living with him all these years has been the best anthropological and Peruvianist education anyone could ever hope to receive. Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World ...