Ari Caramanica's research is focused on the sociopolitical impacts of borderland occupation and the reconstruction of agricultural landscapes of pre-Hispanic coastal Peru using remote sensing techniques and paleobotanical analysis. She is currently an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her dissertation research is focused on the ancient agricultural landscape, the Pampa de Mocan, where she has been conducted research since 2013. The Pampa de Mocan is a desert area located in the northern right margin of the Chicama Valley on the North Coast of Peru. There the extremely dry conditions pose obstacles for modern-day habitation, however, the landscape was densely occupied and developed in the pre-Hispanic periods beginning in the Early Horizon (900-500 BC) and through the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000-1476).
Ari has also worked as a collaborator on the following projects:
Mawchu Llacta - Colca Canyon, Perú--Directed by, Steve Wernke
Magdalena de Cao Viejo, Complejo El Brujo, Chicama Valley, Perú--Directed by Jeffrey Quilter
Cerro Chepén - Proyecto San José de Moro, Chepén, Perú--Directed by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters
Ravenscroft Bakery, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation--Directed by Marley Brown
R. Charlton's Coffeehouse, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation--Directed by Andrew Edwards
A.B. (2010) Harvard College
A.M. (2013) Harvard University
PhD. (2017, expected) Harvard University
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