The Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Amazonian & Andean Studies October 5-6, 2019 ​​Tuscaloosa, Alabama The Society for Amazonian and Andean Studies (SAAS) Meeting is a biennial national conference dedicated to showcasing and promoting research in the Amazonian and Andean regions of South America. ​ First held at Florida Atlantic University in 2008,
The keynote lecture of the Sixth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Amazonian and Andean Studies will be given by Dr. Christine Hastorf of the University of California Berkeley. This lecture is free and open to the public. *** Chthonic Powers and Earth Beings at Chiripa, Bolivia Armed with data from over two decades of
Armed with data from over two decades of archaeological research on the Taraco Peninsula located in the Titicaca Basin of Bolivia, Hastorf will present on its residents’ past and present engagements with the landscape through the material evidence the Taraco Archaeological Project (TAP) has encountered over years of excavation and ethnographic research in the region.