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Daniel
Alexander Contreras, Ph.D
I received my Ph.D in September 2007, as student of Professor John Rick at Stanford University, in the Department of Anthropological Sciences and affiliated also with the Archaeology Center. I'm currently a Lecturer for the Archaeology Center and the Department of Anthropology at Stanford. My courses may be found here. I have also been involved with a project aimed at quantifying the damage done by looitng of archaeological sites, based in the Archaeology Center's Cultural Heritage Resource.
My dissertation research was at the site of Chavín de Huántar, in the Peruvian Central Andes, and focused on landscape modification and environmental risk during the centuries of Chavín's existence (roughly 1200-500 BCE). This work included geomorphologic survey as well as archaeological excavation, and I do a substantial amount of GIS analysis. For a summary of my research, click here; if you're interested in a copy of my dissertation please contact me.
Have a look at my current vita.
In Spring 2006, John Rick and I organized a symposium on the Central Andean Formative at Stanford; for a brief description of that event, click here. That event was organized by the Andean Archaeology Working Group of the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies.
