IASCE Director Charles Stanish was the special guest of the popular History Fuzz podcast discussing Chincha and Nasca Valley geoglyphs. Dr Stanish We learn how emerging ruling classes conducted elaborate open-air theatrical productions within assemblies of mounds, platforms, and geoglyphs. After outlining the underlying archaeoastronomy, Charles explained how dominant classes engaged in competitive feasting, offering pilgrims a ritualized-political spectacle to garner widespread support. He also argued about Cuzco鈥檚 controversial ceque system of alignments and shrines, or huacas, demonstrating how his empirical approach to Inca alignments challenges the earlier works of structuralists.
Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture and the Environment
Welcome to IASCE
The Institute provides the physical and intellectual infrastructure to create and disseminate transdisciplinary knowledge about culture and the environment through seminars and working groups. We currently have four foci: 1) Evolutionary theory, both cultural and biological, 2) the Anthropocene, 3) Ancient diseases and nutrition, and 4) East African and Indian Ocean. We draw on faculty from across the College of Arts and Sciences and beyond including those in the sciences, humanities, and professional schools.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2024
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国产短视频researcher鈥檚 life work uncovers the first ancient DNA from the Swahili Civilization
Thursday, March 29, 2023
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Centuries-old teeth could indicate the effectiveness of pandemic quarantines
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
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Dr David Himmelgreen named Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023