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Jordan Dalton

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Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Mahar 428
315-312-3061
[email protected]

Dr. Dalton's research explores human-environment interactions through evaluating how decisions about land use and agricultural practices affect individual health, economic practices, and sociopolitical relationships. She conducts research in Chincha, Peru, where she evaluates how local agricultural and land use practices changed overtime. She has been director of the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Las Huacas since 2016 and through analysis of material culture (ceramics, textiles, architecture, balances (scales) and metal artifacts) and mortuary studies, her research has created a framework for understanding the social and political environment within which Inca expansion and Spanish colonialism developed.
 

 
In addition to her research, she is passionate about enhancing science communication and reaching broader and more diverse audiences. Along with community members and Peruvian archaeologists she has created youtube videos, an activity book and outreach activities for communities in the Chincha Valley inspired by the research at Las Huacas.
 
Publications:

2024. Dalton, Jordan A. “The Use of Balances in Late Andean Prehistory (AD 1200- 1650)”. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Online.

2023. Dalton, Jordan A. “Production, Distribution, and Hybridization under the Inca Empire (AD 1400-1534): Analyzing the ceramic assemblages from La Centinela and Las Huacas, Chincha Valley”. Latin American Antiquity, FirstView: 1-19. doi:10.1017/laq.2023.21
 

 

2023. Dalton, Jordan A. and Sarah Bennison. “Fair and Balanced: The Use of a Wipi Scale in Casta, Peru”. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/wipi-scale-peru/

Spanish: “Justo y equilibrado: pesando coca con un wipi en el Perú”. https://www.sapiens.org/es/culture-es/wipi-scale-peru/

2022. Dalton, Jordan A., Juliana Gómez Mejía, Iride Tomažič, Noemi Oncebay Pizarro, and Emilie Cobb. “The dead do not unbury themselves: understanding posthumous engagement and ancestor veneration in coastal Peru (AD1450-1650)”. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 66:101410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101410

2022. Dalton, Jordan A., Colleen O’Shea, Juliana Gómez Mejía and Noemi Oncebay Pizzaro. “Mortuary Practices Amid Sociopolitical Changes: interpreting a large communal ossuary at Las Huacas, Chincha Valley”. Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology 42(2):235-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/00776297.2021.1995121

 

2020. Damián Domínguez, Nathaly and Jordan A. Dalton. “Excavaciones en el sitio arqueológico Las Huacas- valle medio de Chincha”. Actas del IV Congresso Nacional de Aruqeología Vol. I: 147-154.

2017. Dalton, Jordan A. and Nathaly Damián Domínguez. “Los inca en la costa: investigando las transformaciones del sitio Las Huacas en el Valle de Chincha”. Cuadernos del Qhapaq Ñan 5: 196-208.