Scott C Smith Professor of Anthropology, Program Chair of Latin American and LatinX Studies
Education
Ph.D. and M.A., University of California, Riverside
B.A., Drew University
Publications
Monographs
2016 Scott C. Smith. Landscape and Politics in the Ancient Andes: Biographies of Place at Khonkho Wankane. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
2012 Scott C. Smith. Generative Landscapes: The Step Mountain Motif in Tiwanaku Iconography. Ancient America monograph series, no. 12. Barnardsville, NC: Boundary End Archaeology Research Center.
Journal Articles
2019 Erik J. Marsh, Andrew Roddick, Maria C. Bruno, Scott C. Smith, John W. Janusek, and Christine Hastorf. Temporal Inflection Points in Decorated Ceramics: A Bayesian Refinement of Late Formative Chronology in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. Latin American Antiquity 30(4):798-817.
2017 Adolfo E. P茅rez Arias, Maribel P茅rez Arias, and Scott C. Smith, De la Muerte a la Inmortalidad: El Ritual Funerario en la Cuenca Sur del Lago Titicaca. Textos Antropol贸gicos 18(1):123-140.
2015 Scott C. Smith and Maribel P茅rez Arias, From Bodies to Bones: Death and Mobility in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. Antiquity 89 (343):106-121.
2014 Scott C. Smith and John W. Janusek, Political Mosaics and Networks: Tiwanaku Expansion into the Upper Desaguadero Valley, Bolivia. World Archaeology 46 (5):681-704.
2014 Scott C. Smith, Maribel P茅rez Arias, Adolfo P茅rez Arias, and Andrea Flores P茅rez, Long-term Occupation of Cerro Chijcha, Upper Desaguadero Valley, Bolivia. 脩awpa Pacha 34 (1): 107-116.
2011 Scott C. Smith, La Arquitectura del Formativo Tard铆o en Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia. Nuevos Aportes, no.5:71-98.
2002 Gair Tourtellot, Marc Wolf, Scott C. Smith, Kristin Gardella, and Norman Hammond, Exploring Heaven on Earth: Testing the Cosmological Model at La Milpa, Belize. Antiquity 76:633-634.
Book Chapters
2022 Scott C. Smith, Maribel P茅rez Arias, and Adolfo E. P茅rez Arias, 鈥The Politics of Connection: Caravans and Political Development in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia.鈥 In Caravans in Socio-Cultural Perspective: Past and Present, edited by Persis Clarkson and Calogero Santoro. London and New York: Routledge.
2018 Alexei Vranich and Scott C. Smith, 鈥淣ighttime Sky and Early Urbanism in the High Andes.鈥 In The Archaeology of the Night, edited by Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell, 121-138. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
2018 Christopher P. Dayton, Patrick Ryan Williams, Benjamin R. Vining, and Scott C. Smith, 鈥淕eophysical Investigations at Khonkho Wankane.鈥 In Khonkho Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia. Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility, no. 68. Berkeley: University of California.
2013 Scott C. Smith, 鈥淟ate Formative Period Spatial Organization at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 In Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology - 2, edited by Alexei Vranich and Abigail Levine. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Book Review
2016 Scott C. Smith, 鈥淩eview of At Home with the Sapa Inca: Architecture, Space, and Legacy at Chinchero by Stella Nair.鈥 American Anthropologist 118 (2): 439-440.
Educational Materials
2014 鈥淕enetic Drift and Gene Flow Illustration.鈥 Activity accompanying the book, How Real is Race? A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology by Carol C. Mukhopadhyay, Rosemary Henze, and Yolanda T. Moses. 2nd edition. 2014. AltaMira Press. http://www.sjsu.edu/people/carol.mukhopadhyay/race/Gene-Flow-and-Genetic-Drift-Illustration-2014.pdf
2008 Scott C. Smith. Introducci贸n B谩sica a los Sistemas de Informaci贸n Geogr谩fica (GIS) para Arqueolog铆a. Sociedad de Arqueolog铆a de La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia. Available at http://www.arqueobolivia.com.
Presentations
Conference Papers
2022 鈥淧erdurance and the Politics of Place at Iruhito, Bolivia.鈥 Paper solicited for presentation in the session In Memory of Wendy Ashmore: Landscapes of Meaning, Biographies of Place, and Archaeologies of Compassion. Society for American Archaeology 87th Annual Meeting, March 30 鈥 April 3, 2022, Chicago, IL.
2018 鈥淐eremonial Waterscapes: The Desaguadero River in Antiquity.鈥 Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018, Washington D.C.
2017 鈥淩ethinking the Middle Formative to Late Formative Transition in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin: New Data from Iruhito, Bolivia.鈥 With Adolfo P茅rez, Maribel P茅rez, and John W. Janusek. Poster presented at the Institute of Andean Studies, 57th Annual Meeting, January 6 and 7, 2017, Berkeley, CA.
2015 鈥淭he Politics of Connectivity at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, 80th Annual Meeting, April 15-19, 2015, San Francisco, CA.
2014 鈥淧olitical Landscapes of the Upper Desaguadero River Valley, Bolivia.鈥 Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology, 79th Annual Meeting, April 23-27, 2014, Austin, TX.
2014 鈥淭iwanaku Political Strategy in the Upper Desaguadero Valley, Bolivia.鈥 Poster presented at the Institute of Andean Studies, 54th Annual Meeting, January 10 and 11, 2014, Berkeley, CA.
2013 鈥淐irculatory Landscapes of the South-Central Andes.鈥 Paper presented at the European Association of Archaeologists, 19th Annual Meeting, September 5 鈥 8, Plzen, Czech Republic.
2013 鈥淓arly Ceremonialism at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 With Maribel P茅rez Arias. Paper presented at the Institute for Andean Studies, 53rd Annual Meeting, January 11 and 12, 2013, Berkeley, CA.
2011 鈥淐eremonialism and the Social Relations of Production during the Late Formative
Period (200BC 鈥 AD500) in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia.鈥 Paper presented
at the Society for American Archaeology, 76th Annual Meeting, March 30-April 3, 2011,
Sacramento, CA.
2010 鈥淚ruhito: A Rural Riverside Community in the Tiwanaku Heartland.鈥 With Adolfo
P茅rez Arias and Maribel P茅rez Arias. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology,
75th Annual Meeting, April 14-18, St. Louis, Missouri.
2009 鈥淓xperiencing Religion at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia: Ceramics and Architecture
at a Late Formative Period Ritual Center.鈥 Paper presented at the Society for American
Archaeology, 74th Annual Meeting, April 22-26, Atlanta, Georgia.
2007 鈥淐onstructing Ideological Relationships: Architecture at Khonkho Wankane,
Bolivia.鈥 Paper presented at the symposium El Centro Ceremonial de Khonkho Wankane:
Investigaciones Recientes y Perspectivas Emergentes sponsored by the Faculty of Social
Sciences at the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s and the Museo Nacional de Arqueolog铆a,
June 22, La Paz, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2007 鈥淪patial Practices and the Constitution of a Late Formative Built Environment:
Architecture at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 Paper presented at the Society for American
Archaeology, 72nd Annual Meeting, April 25-29, Austin, Texas.
2006 鈥淪ocial Organization and Architectural Change at Khonkho Wankane.鈥 Paper presented
at the Sociedad de Arqueolog铆a de La Paz, First Annual Meeting, October 19-21, La
Paz, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2006 鈥淎rchitecture and Activities at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 Paper presented
at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Advanced Seminar Contending Visions of Tiwanaku,
May 19-21, Los Angeles, California.
2006 鈥淪ocial and Spatial Disjunction: Landscape, Politics, and Memory during the
Late Formative at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 With Arik Ohnstad and John Janusek. Paper
presented at the Society for American Archaeology, 71st Annual Meeting, April 26-30,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2004 鈥淚mplementing GIS at Loma de los Cangrejitos, Ecuador.鈥 Paper presented at
the 24th Annual James C. Young Colloquium, February 7th, Riverside, California.
2003 鈥淢oving Dirt: Platform Mound Construction and the Rise of Social Complexity
at Loma de los Cangrejitos, Ecuador.鈥 With Maria Masucci and Franklin Fuentes. Submitted
for presentation at the Society for American Archaeology, 68th Annual Meeting, March
30th 鈥 April 3rd, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Invited Presentations
2022 鈥淩iver and Pampa: A Regional View of the Machaca Formative.鈥 Invited presentation at the Field Museum for the workshop John Wayne Janusek and the Tiwanaku Revolution. With Maribel P茅rez and Adolfo P茅rez. April 1, 2022, Chicago, IL.
2018 鈥淧lace Attachment and Mobility in the Formative Period Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia.鈥 Invited presentation for the Archaeology program, National University of Ireland, Galway, March 5th, delivered via WebEx.
2017 鈥淭he Formative Period in the Machaca and Desaguadero River Region.鈥 With Maribel P茅rez Arias. Invited presentation for the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropol贸gicas y Arqueol贸gicas, July 27th, La Paz, Bolivia (Spanish)
2016 鈥淭erritoriality in Archaeological Analysis.鈥 Invited presentation for the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, August 12th, La Paz, Bolivia (Spanish).
2015 鈥淭erritoriality and Connectivity in Settlement Pattern Analysis.鈥 Invited presentation for the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, June 9th, La Paz, Bolivia (Spanish).
2014 鈥淎rchaeology in the Americas.鈥 Invited presentation for Millersville University First-Year Inquiry seminar Culture, Science and Mathematics in the Pre-columbian Americas, Sept. 18th, Millersville, PA.
2013 鈥淧rocessing Earth Resistance Field Data Using Geographic Information Systems Software.鈥 Invited presentation for the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, June 20th, La Paz, Bolivia (Spanish)
2013 鈥淓lectrical Resistivity Surveying.鈥 Invited presentation for the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, June 11th, Iruhito, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2013 鈥淔ield Methods for Total Station Mapping.鈥 Invited presentation for the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, June 10th, Iruhito, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2011 鈥淐urrent Theoretical Trends in North American Archaeology.鈥 Invited presentation at the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, June 25th, La Paz, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2009 鈥淰enerable Geographies.鈥 Invited presentation at Drew University, December 7th, Madison, New Jersey.
2009 鈥淩econstruction of Architectural Change and its Applicability for Monumental Sites: Methods and Techniques.鈥 Invited paper presented at the first annual UNESCO archaeological workshop at Tiwanaku, July 24-27, Tiwanaku, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2009 鈥淭otal Stations and Techniques for Mapping: Theory, Practice, and Applications.鈥 Invited presentation at the first annual UNESCO archaeological workshop at Tiwanaku, July 24-27, Tiwanaku, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2007 鈥淚ntroduction to GIS.鈥 Introductory presentation at the invited workshop Introducci贸n B谩sica a GIS para Arqueolog铆a sponsored by the Sociedad de Arqueolog铆a de La Paz, May 30th, La Paz, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2006 鈥淚nvestigating Spatial Patterns at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia.鈥 Invited presentation to the Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, March 17th, Nashville, Tennessee.
2005 鈥淭opography and Architecture of Khonkho Wankane.鈥 Invited presentation at the bi-national symposium Revalorando el Sitio de Khonkho Wankane, August 13th, Qhunqhu Liquiliqui, Bolivia. (Spanish)
2003 鈥淢apping and Survey Methodology.鈥 Invited presentation and workshop for the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Classics, Drew University, March 15th, Madison, New Jersey.
2002 鈥淕IS Applications in Archaeology.鈥 Invited presentation to the Department of Anthropology, Drew University, October 15th, Madison, New Jersey.
Workshops Presented
2013 鈥淚ntroduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Archaeology.鈥 Workshop presented at the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, La Paz, Bolivia, August 2013.
2007 鈥淚ntroduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Archaeology.鈥 Workshop presented at the Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, La Paz, Bolivia, June 2007.
2007 鈥淏asic Introduction to GIS for Archaeology.鈥 Workshop presented at the Sociedad de Arqueolog铆a de La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia, May 2007.
Course Information
CNX132: Material Culture
CNX202: Learning from the Past - People and the Environment
ANT102: Introduction to Archaeology
ANT253: Andean Archaeology
ANT257: People and Cultures of the Andes
ANT301: Archaeologies of Inequality
ANT360: Spatial Archaeology
ANT411: Archaeological Methods