Team Members

Dr. Sarah Baitzel (PI)

Sarah is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St Louis in the United States. She is interested in using domestic and mortuary archaeology to explore social identity formation and interaction patterns on the margins of expansive Andean states, particularly the Tiwanaku and their descendant communities.

Lic. Arturo Rivera

Arturo is an archaeologist trained at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Having worked extensively on the Pacific Coast, Central and Southern Highlands of Peru, and in the Western and Southern Titicaca Basin (Peru and Bolivia), his research focuses on the role of camelid caravans in the movement and diffusion of ceramic styles, traditions, and iconographies during the Middle Horizon and Late Intermediate Period, throughout the South Central Andes.

Dr. Noa Corcoran-Tadd

Noa is a historical archaeologist at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library whose research crosses the traditional divide between the ‘prehispanic’ and ‘historical’ periods. Bringing together remote sensing, archival sources, and archaeological fieldwork, he looks at how communities in the Sama Valley were connected to wider worlds from the Inca Empire to the globalizing Pacific of the 19th century.