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Richard L. Burger

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#637

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#249

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Archeology

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#85

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#12

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Lewis Burger, Ph.D. , is an archaeologist and anthropologist from the United States. He is currently a professor at Yale University and holds the positions of Charles J. MacCurdy Professor in the Anthropology Department, Chair of the Council on Archaeological Studies, and Curator in the Division of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. He has carried out archaeological excavations in the Peruvian Andes since 1975, publishing several books and many articles on Chavin culture, a pre-Hispanic civilization that developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 1000 BC to 400 BC. Burger is married to Lucy Salazar, a Peruvian archaeologist and long time collaborator on many research projects. His former doctoral student Sabine Hyland has become well-known as an Andean anthropologist.

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Richard L. Burger's Published Works

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Variation in Holocene El Niño frequencies: Climate records and cultural consequences in ancient Peru (2001) (323)
Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas (2016) (271)
Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization (1992) (186)
Through the Glass Darkly: Prehispanic Obsidian Procurement and Exchange in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia (2000) (150)
Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture (1994) (143)
Maize and the Origin of Highland Chavín Civilization: An Isotopic Perspective (1990) (127)
Our Father the Cayman, Our Dinner the Llama: Animal Utilization at Chavín de Huántar, Peru (1995) (103)
Use and legacy of mercury in the Andes. (2013) (95)
Locating the Quispisisa Obsidian Source in the Department of Ayacucho, Peru (2000) (68)
Atalla: A Center on the Periphery of the Chavín Horizon (2002) (65)
The Second Season of Investigations at the Initial Period Center of Cardal, Peru (1991) (54)
Chavín de Huántar and Its Sphere of Influence (2008) (54)
The Prehistoric Occupation of Chavin De Huantar, Peru (1984) (49)
A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes (2020) (47)
Ecuadorian Obsidian Sources Used for Artifact Production and Methods for Provenience Assignments (1994) (46)
Early New World Monumentality (2012) (44)
An Initial Consideration of Obsidian Procurement and Exchange in Prehispanic Ecuador (1994) (41)
The Chivay Obsidian Source and the Geological Origin of Titicaca Basin Type Obsidian Artifacts (1998) (41)
The Radiocarbon Evidence for the Temporal Priority of Chavin de Huantar (1981) (39)
Evidence for Early Long-Distance Obsidian Exchange and Watercraft Use from the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia and Peru (2002) (39)
Sources of archaeological obsidian in Peru : Descriptions and geochemistry (2007) (38)
The Early Ceremonial Center Of Huaricoto (1985) (37)
The Importance of Maize in Initial Period and Early Horizon Peru (2006) (37)
European Research Area (2007) (36)
The Alca Obsidian Source: The Origin of Raw Material for Cuzco Type Obsidian Artifacts (1998) (35)
The source, processing and use of red pigment based on hematite and cinnabar at Gramalote, an early Initial Period (1500–1200 cal. B.C.) maritime community, north coast of Peru (2016) (32)
Archaeology of Formative Ecuador (2002) (30)
Machu Picchu : unveiling the mystery of the Incas (2004) (30)
Considering Early New World Monumentality (2012) (29)
Trace Element Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from the Andes: New Perspectives on Pre-Hispanic Economic Interaction in Peru and Bolivia (1977) (28)
The Jampatilla Obsidian Source: Identifying the Geological Source of Pampas Type Obsidian Artifacts from Southern Peru (1998) (27)
Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution (2021) (26)
Ecuadorian Cinnabar and the Prehispanic Trade in Vermilion Pigment: Viable Hypothesis or Red Herring? (2016) (25)
The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition collections from Machu Picchu : human and animal remains (2003) (24)
POJOC AND WAMAN WAIN: TWO EARLY HORIZON VILLAGES IN THE CHAVIN HEARTLAND (1982) (22)
The Puzolana Obsidian Source: Locating the Geologic Source of Ayacucho Type Obsidian (2000) (21)
A Sacred Effigy from Mina Perdida and the Unseen Ceremonies of the Peruvian Formative (1998) (20)
Early Organizational Diversity In The Peruvian Highlands: Huaricoto And Kotosh (1986) (19)
What kind of hallucinogenic snuff was used at Chavín de Huántar? An iconographic identification (2011) (19)
The Manchay Culture and the Coastal Inspiration for Highland Chavín Civilization (2008) (18)
AN OVERVIEW OF PERUVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY (1976-1986) (1989) (18)
The Place of Dual Organization in Early Andean Ceremonialism : A Comparative Review (1993) (17)
INTERREGIONAL OBSIDIAN EXCHANGE DURING THE LATE INITIAL PERIOD AND EARLY HORIZON: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM CAMPANAYUQ RUMI, PERU (2017) (17)
POTREROPAMPA AND LISAHUACHO OBSIDIAN SOURCES: GEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF ANDAHUAYLAS A AND B TYPE OBSIDIANS IN THE PROVINCE OF AYMARAES, DEPARTMENT OF APURIMAC, PERU (2006) (15)
Tracking the Source of Quispisisa Type Obsidian from Huancavelica to Ayacucho (2002) (15)
The Life and Writings of Julio C. Tello: America's First Indigenous Archaeologist (2009) (12)
Information Control in the Palace of Puruchuco : An Accounting Hierarchy in a Khipu Archive from Coastal Peru (2007) (12)
Ancón and Garagay Ceramic Production at the Time of Chavı́n de Huántar (2001) (11)
Obsidian Procurement and Cosmopolitanism at the Middle Horizon Settlement of Conchopata, Peru (2016) (10)
Ch’arki at Chavín: Ethnographic Models and Archaeological Data (2000) (9)
Variations in the expression of Inka power : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 18 and 19 October 1997 (2007) (9)
CHEMICAL SOURCE GROUPS IN ECUADORIAN OBSIDIAN (1981) (9)
Central Andean Language Expansion and the Chavín Sphere of Interaction (2012) (9)
Yutopian: Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina. Joan M. Gero. 2015. University of Texas Press, Austin. xix + 367 pp. 134 illustrations. $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-292-77202-1. (2016) (9)
Monumental Public Complexes and Agricultural Expansion On Peru's Central Coast During the Second Millennium Bc (2012) (8)
Understanding the Socioeconomic Trajectory of Chavín de Huántar: A New Radiocarbon Sequence and Its Wider Implications (2019) (8)
Late Paracas Obsidian Tools from Animas Altas, Peru (2007) (8)
THE MOCHE SOURCES OF ARCHAISM IN CHIMU CERAMICS (1976) (7)
Special Studies: The Pre-Chavín Stone Sculpture of Casma and Pacopampa (1989) (6)
MAJOR SOURCES OF ECUADORIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBSIDIAN AND PROVENIENCE ASSIGNMENT OF ARTIFACTS (1981) (5)
“Are you the weakest link?” The FSA's financial crime review (2006) (5)
New AMS dates for Machu Picchu: results and implications (2021) (4)
Maize and dietary change in early Peruvian civilization: Isotopic evidence from the Late Preceramic Period/Initial Period site of La Galgada, Peru (2020) (3)
Breakthrough in precision (0.3 percent) of neutron activation analyses applied to provenience studies of obsidian (2002) (3)
Cinnabar use in Prehispanic Peru and its possible health consequences (2018) (3)
The Sources of Obsidian for Artifacts from Chobshi Cave, Ecuador (1989) (3)
The Original Context of the Yauya Stela (2008) (3)
Treatment of an adobe painted frieze in Cardal, Peru and its evaluation after 12 years (2000) (3)
The Charaña Obsidian Source and its Role in the Prehispanic Exchange Networks of the Titicaca Basin (2021) (3)
Flor de Mayo, Moyobamba, Peru; a formative u-shaped center in the Peruvian ceja de selva? (2015) (3)
THE SOURCING OF ARCHAIC OBSIDIAN FROM KASAPATA, DEPARTMENT OF CUZCO (2007) (3)
Excavations at Huacaloma in the Cajamarca Valley, Peru, 1979: Report 2 of the Japanese Scientific Expedition to Nuclear America. Kazuo Terada and Yoshio Onuki. University of Tokyo Press, 1982. xiv + plates, biblio., index. Cloth. (1984) (2)
The Development of Early Peruvian Civilisation (2600–300 bce) (2014) (2)
Social and economic organization in the prehispanic andes : proceedings, 44 International Congress of Americanists, Manchester 1982 (1984) (2)
Some Thoughts on Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes (2013) (2)
FSA enforcement process review (2006) (2)
The Machu Picchu Solution: A New Approach to Cultural Patrimony Disputes (2016) (1)
Reinventing the Incas in Contemporary Cuzco (2018) (1)
Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient Peru. Joanne Pillsbury, editor. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2001. Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven. 343 pp. illus., maps, $40.00 (paper). (2007) (1)
A principled front in the war against market abuse (2007) (1)
The Population Genetics of Machu Picchu (2019) (1)
The survival and transformation of annular pacchas in Cusco: An example of artistic and ideological continuity and change (2021) (1)
Correction to: Tourist Behavior Predicts Reactions of Macaques (Macaca fascicularis and M. nemestrina) at Sepilok Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Malaysia (2021) (1)
Final Report of Archaeological Test Excavations of CA-ALA-60, Located On Route 580, Castro Valley, Alameda County, California, P.M. 26.0 / 29.0 (1982) (1)
John Howland Rowe (June 10, 1918 - May 1, 2004) (2007) (1)
Watching the watch‐dog (2007) (1)
Dispatch from the field II: the mystery of the red and blue Opadometa male (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Opadometa sarawakensis) (2018) (1)
The occupation of Chavin, Ancash, in the initial period and early horizon (1978) (1)
“If in doubt count it out!”: a review of the AIT criminal trial (2007) (0)
New Evidence of Inca Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Cuzco Heartland (2018) (0)
Monuments of the Incas (1994) (0)
Current Research (1993) (0)
Q&A -- ROBERT BURGER : CHEVROLET'S GENERAL MANAGER DISCUSSES HIS DIVISION'S PRODUCT OFFERINGS AND MARKET STRATEGIES FOR NEXT YEAR AND BEYOND (1986) (0)
Current Research (1991) (0)
Discovery at Cardal, Peru of an Initial Period Polychrome Frieze of the Manchay Culture (2019) (0)
Andean Archaeology:Andean Archaeology (2005) (0)
Current Research (1993) (0)
Revisiting the Chronology of Chavin de Huantar (2016) (0)
Current Research (1991) (0)
Current Research (1990) (0)
The INAA Analysis of Pottery from Machu Picchu: An Initial Assessment (2016) (0)
Current Research (1991) (0)
The Place of Dual Ceremonialism: A Organization in Early Andean Comparative Review (1993) (0)
Current Research (1993) (0)
Current Research (1989) (0)
Revolution, Democracy and Values (On the Role of Terminology in the Assessment of Historical Events) (2001) (0)
Current Research (1988) (0)
Communicate Internationally - With Partners from the New Independent States (NIS) (2007) (0)
Archeology: Early Settlement and Subsistence in the Casma Valley, Peru. Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski (1989) (0)
Current Research (1992) (0)
Current Research (1992) (0)
A RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTARY BY KAREN OLSEN BRUHNS, WILLIAM E. BROOKS, AND DEBORAH TRUHAN ON “ECUADORIAN CINNABAR AND THE PREHISPANIC TRADE IN VERMILION PIGMENT: VIABLE HYPOTHESIS OR RED HERRING?” (2017) (0)
The Archaeology of Mural Painting at Pañamarca, Peru. Lisa Trever. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017, 366 pp. $69.95, paper. ISBN 9780884024248. (2019) (0)
Heidy Fogel, 1956-1994 (1998) (0)
Current Research (1989) (0)
Archaeology of formative Ecuador : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7 and 8 October 1995 (2003) (0)
Current Research (1990) (0)
The most valuable commodity I know of is information (2005) (0)
The Study of Correlation between Local Bird and Butterfly Community in Nosy Be, Madagascar (2014) (0)
Sourcing the Obsidian from Campanayuq Rumi: Implications for Understanding Chavín Interaction (2015) (0)
Current Research (1992) (0)
Economic interdependencies: andean ecology and civilization. (1986) (0)
Sayrosa, a Minor Obsidian Source in the Puna of Arequipa (2022) (0)
Current Research (1989) (0)
PERSONAL TRIBUTES TO JOHN H. ROWE (2006) (0)
Kay Pacha: Reciprocity with the Natural World (2016) (0)
Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (NCAAE) Statement on Sexual harassment and Community Values (2020) (0)
Current Research (1993) (0)
Current Research (1989) (0)

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