Elizabeth Nelson Arkush

( Email - Website )
Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology
PO Box 400120
Department of Anthropology
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4120

Phone:434-924-7044
Fax:434-924-1350

Education and Experiences:
(BA) Harvard University
(MA) University of California System : Los Angeles
(PhD) University of California System : Los Angeles

Interests:
Andean archaeology, complex societies, violence and warfare, regional analysis, ethnohistory, GIS applications.

Selected Projects:
Post-Collapse Community & Social Hierarchy in the Titicaca Basin, Peru

Selected Publications:

• Forthcoming - Warfare, space, and identity in the south-central Andes: constraints and choices. In Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Conflict, edited by Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker. Amerind Foundation Advanced Seminar Series, Dragoon, Ariz.

• 2006 - (With Mark W. Allen, eds.). The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

• 2005 - (With Charles Stanish). Interpreting conflict in the ancient Andes: implications for the archaeology of warfare. Current Anthropology 46 (1) 3-28.

• 2005 - Inca ceremonial sites in the southwest Titicaca Basin. In Advances in the Archaeology of the Titicaca Basin, edited by C. Stanish, A. Cohen, and M. Aldenderfer, pp. 209-242. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA, Los Angeles.




I am Elizabeth Arkush and I would like to update this page.