And his bachelor's degree, just a few short years before that. This was due to the generosity of one of our alums Richard M.
Richard Leventhal, but say that, I'm William Fash, I have the privilege of being the director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, where one of our most distinguished visiting lecturerships is the Gordon R. Before I get started, I should introduce not only our host, Dr. It's especially nice for me to welcome back are speaker to his old stomping grounds that Peabody Museum where Mike mostly spent a number of years doing important curatorial work and establishing sort of the gold standard of Andean archaeology, while he was here, published his results in a major monograph and came up with some really amazing theoretical contributions during his work in the Department of Anthropology. We have an amazing individual as our Gordon Willey lecture this evening and an equally amazing topic that he will cover for us. Thanks for joining us on this beautiful day. I invite exceptionally inquisitive minds with superior credentials to enjoy a mutual thirst for evolutionary understanding of the Native American achievement.” My investigative methodologies are eclectic, ranging from traditional to art history through new technologies of regional landscape analysis. He writes, “I am privileged to have conducted field studies with students and colleagues on the full temporal spectrum of indigenous evolution in the Americas and the Andes… my research interests are trans-disciplinary, embracing ideologies of corporate art and monumental architecture, political economies of subsistence and settlement systems, and adaptive responses to dynamic stress of social and environmental origin. Michael Moseley earned his doctorate from Harvard University studying coastal Peru, and went on to become a curator at the Peabody Museum and the Field Museum before joining the University of Florida. In this talk, archaeologist Michael Moseley discussed the four-thousand year-old architectural monuments in the Supe desert valley that are the focus of claims for the earliest civilization in the Americas.ĭr. Covering more than 130 acres, Caral was an urban center with large temple mounds that predate Giza’s famed pyramids. Later, Peruvian scholars identified sixteen more early monumental centers, including Caral, in the Supe desert valley.
In 1943 and again in 1971, Harvard archaeologist Gordon Willey investigated the monumental site Aspero in Peru’s Supe desert valley.
Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, Gainesville Could the ancient city of Caral in Peru be the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere?įour Thousand Years Ago in Coastal Peru: America's First Civilization?
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