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CURRICULUM VITAE

Contents
  • Education
  • Present and Past Positions
  • Research Positions/Selected Projects
  • Post-Doctoral Grants & Awards
  • Publications Books and Monographs in English
  • Books and Monographs in Spanish
  • Journal Articles & Chapters in English & French
  • Selected Articles Published in Spanish
  • Selected Professional Activities
  • Language Ability
  • University Courses Taught (Undergraduate and Graduate)
  • Summary of Research Interests

Education   

1974    Ph.D. in Anthropology, Yale University 
1970    M.Phil. in Anthropology, Yale University 
1966    B.A. in English, Connecticut College


 
Present and Past Positions 

2010-present Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249

2007-present Scientific Advisor, Casa del Alabado, Museo de Arte Precolombino, Quito, Ecuador.

1978-2010 Research Associate, Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249

1977-2010 Investigator, Museo Antropológico, Banco Central del Ecuador, Guayaquil, and DIRECTOR of Cautivo Field Station

2005 Senior Lecturer in Art History, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

2004 Amos Eminent Visiting Scholar in Latin American Studies, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia.

2000-2001 DIRECTOR, Session: “Archeology of the Coast of Ecuador,” An International Field School in Coastal Ecuador (Anthropology Museum, Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil: //www.webnexus.com/users/vlp/ muscm000.htm)


1998-99 FELLOW, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington

1995-1996 VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1994-1997 FOUNDING DIRECTOR and designer, Museo Los Amantes de Sumpa (“Amantes de Sumpa” Museum), Santa Elena, Guayas, Ecuador

1995 & 1996 FULBRIGHT RESEARCHER/CONSULTANT, Amantes de Sumpa Museum Project, in cooperation with the Anthropology Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador

1990-1994 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212 (did not apply for tenure)

1989-90 VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212

1986-88 ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (half-time) Incarnate Word College (University of the Incarnate Word) San Antonio, TX 78209

1985-86 SENIOR FULBRIGHT-HAYS LECTURER and Investigator, School of Archaeology, Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Ecuador

1980 LECTURER IN ANTHROPOLOGY, Incarnate Word College (University of the Incarnate Word) San Antonio, TX 78209

1979-1985 LECTURER IN ANTHROPOLOGY (part time), Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, The University of Texas at San Antonio

1972-1979 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York

1975-76 SENIOR FULBRIGHT-HAYS LECTURER IN ANTHROPOLOGY, San Marcos University and The Catholic University, Lima, Peru

1971-72 CURATORIAL ASSISTANT IN ANTHROPOLOGY, Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1966-68 PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER, University Education/Bolivia
 
Research Positions/Selected Projects:

2008 Investigator, Early Holocene Zooarchaeology of the Las Vegas Occupations in Coastal Ecuador (Peter Stahl, Karen Stothert, Phillipe Béarez, Markus Tellkamp). Grant from National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

2004-2007 Ceramic consultant, Projet Manabí, Cote Centrale de l’Equateur, Site de Japotó. Director: Jean-Francois Bouchard. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.

2005-2006 Ceramic Specialist. Project: Human Colonisation and Environmental Change on the Galapagos Islands, Republic of Ecuador. Directors: Simon Haberle and Atholl Anderson. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Austrailia.

2005-2006 Contractor for preparation of design plan for the new National Museum (Quito, Ecuador): Coastal Archaeology Halls. Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito.

2001-2003 DIRECTOR, “Fishing, Fish Processing and Trade at the Endangered Mar Bravo Site, Southwest Ecuador.” Project sponsored by FERCO (Foundation for Exploration and Research on Cultural Origins).

2000-2001 DIRECTOR, Archeological Investigation of Preceramic Sites of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador; and CO-DIRECTOR (with B. Carter), Archeological Rescue in the Mar Bravo Site, M5 A3-362, Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador, both sponsored by MA/BCEG.**

1998-99 DIRECTOR, Archeological Rescue Project in the Community of San Marcos (Comuna San Marcos). MA/BCEG.*

1993-94 PROJECT DIRECTOR, The Archaeological Assessment of the Guangala Site in Comuna Las Balsas, Ecuador. Dumbarton Oaks, the H.

* MA/BCEG indicates sponsorship by the Anthropology Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil.

John Heinz III Charitable Trust, & MA/BCEG.*

1981-1994 DIRECTOR, The Guangala Project on the Santa Elena Peninsula. MA/BCEG.*

1987-88 DIRECTOR, The Santa Paula Project: A Study of the Colonial Period Petroleum Industry of the Santa Elena Peninsula. MA/BCEG.*

1985-88 DIRECTOR, The Santa Elena Ethnographic Project, for the study of disappearing traditional customs and crafts. MA/BCEG.*

1977-80 DIRECTOR, The Paleo-Indian Project. MA/BCEG.*

1975-76 INVESTIGATOR, Archaeological Investigation of the Origins of Complex Society on the Central Coast of Peru (with Peruvian archaeologist Rogger Ravines). Sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
 
Post-Doctoral Grants & Awards: 

2008 National Science Foundation grant for “Early Holocene Zooarchaeology of Las Vegas Occupations in Coastal Ecuador (#0739602 to Peter Stahl, PI, and Karen Stothert, Phillipe Bearez and Markus Tellkamp). Recommended for funding. 

1977-2003 Yearly grants for research, Anthropology Museum, Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil 2001 Grant for research, FERCO (Foundation for the Exploration and Research on Cultural Origins) 

1997 Decoration conferred by the National Congress of Ecuador for contributions to cultural identity 

1995/96 Fulbright Research Grant, to direct project for designing and building regional museum, Santa Elena, Ecuador 1993 Dumbarton Oaks, 

1993-94 Project Grant in Pre-Columbian Studies 1993 H. John Heinz III Charitable Fund, Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology (Grant for research) 1992 Summer Faculty Research Grant, Trinity University 

1990 Conservation Society Prize for Publication 1988 Successful proposal to the Fulbright Commission on behalf of the Anthropology Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador to establish a zooarchaeology lab 

1987 GTE Foundation Grant for Lecture Series on Modern Technology and Human Values (Incarnate Word College) 

1986 Fulbright Grant for Summer Research in Ecuador 

1985 Senior Fulbright-Hays Lecturer in Ecuador 

1977 Sigma Xi Grant for Research in Ecuador 

1976 Organization of American States Fellow 

1976 Ford Foundation Grant for Research in Peru 
1975 Senior Fulbright-Hays Lecturer in Peru

1974,1977 Fordham Faculty Research Council Grants
 

Publications Books and Monographs in English:

In Preparation: An Archaeology of the Coast of Ecuador.

In Preparation: Second edition of Women in Ancient America (with K. O. Bruhns), University of Oklahoma Press.

2010 Casa del Alabado, Museo de Arte Precolombino: Museum Guide. First edition, Casa del Alabado, Quito, Ecuador.

1999 Women in Ancient America (with Karen Olsen Bruhns). University of Oklahoma Press. [Reviewed in Latin American Antiquity 11(2):197-198.]

1989 The Archaeology and Early History of the Head of the San Antonio River. Southern Texas Archaeological Association, Special Publication 5, and Incarnate World College, History and Archaeology Summary 1. San Antonio, Texas. [Conservation Society Prize]

1974 The Lithic Technology of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador: A Method for the Analysis of Technologically Simple Stonework. Doctoral dissertation, Yale University. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

1967 Pre-Colonial Highways of Bolivia, Part I. Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Publicación 17. La Paz, Bolivia.
 
Books and Monographs in Spanish:

2010 (Textos por K. Stothert) Casa del Alabado, Museo de Arte Precolombino: Guía del Museo. Primera edición, Quito, Ecuador.

2007 Lanzas Silbadoras y Otras Contribuciones de Olaf Holm al Estudio del Pasado del Ecuador, Tomo II. (Compilacion, Investigacion y Edicion, K. E. Stothert). Museo Antropológico y De Arte Contemporáneo de Guayaquil, Banco Central del Ecuador, Guayaquil.

2006 Guión Museológico y Pérfil Museográfico para la Sala de Arqueología de la Costa Ecuatoriana del Nuevo Museo Nacional. Document presented to the Dirección Cultural del Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito. [With contributions by J. Chancay, I. Cruz, F. Delgado, A. M. Freire, M. Guinea, R. Lunniss, C. McEwan, L. Regalado, y J. Zeidler].

2002 Lanzas Silbadoras y Otras Contribuciones de Olaf Holm al Estudio del Pasado del Ecuador, Tomo I. Edited, compiled, and annotated by K. E. Stothert. Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo de Guayaquil, Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil.

1997 Sumpa: Historia de la Península de Santa Elena (K. Stothert and A. M. Freire). Banco Central del Ecuador and Plan Internacional Guayaquil.

1995 Así Fue Mi Crianza: Recuerdos de un Nativo de la Parroquia de Chanduy, by Roberto Lindao Quimí and K. E. Stothert. Fundación Pro- Pueblo, La Cemento Nacional, Guayaquil. [Life history project conducted by Stothert, edition and introduction by Stothert].

1994 El Uso Vernáculo de los Arboles y Plantas en la Península de Santa Elena; y La Costumbre de Poner Apodos a los “Viudos” en la Parroquia Julio Moreno, by Roberto Lindao Quimí and K. E. Stothert. Fundación Pro- Pueblo, La Cemento Nacional and Subdirección de Programas Culturales, Central Bank of Ecuador. [Ethnobotanical and ethnographic studies by Lindao and Stothert; edition and introductions by Stothert].

1993 Un Sitio de Guangala Temprano en el Suroeste del Ecuador. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and Anthropology Museum, Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil. [Reviewed in Latin American Antiquity 7(1):83-84.]

1988 La Prehistoria Temprana de la Península de Santa Elena, Ecuador: Cultura Las Vegas. With contributions by T. Chase, D. Piperno, D. Ubelaker, and E. Wing. Miscelanea Antropológica Ecuatoriana, Serie Monográfica 10. Museums of the Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil. [Reviewed in Latin American Antiquity 4(4):392-393.]
 
Journal Articles & Chapters in English & French (conference papers omitted):

2009 Un exemple de transition vers la production agricole en Amérique. En La Révolution Néolithique dans le Monde (sous la direction de Jean- Paul Demoule):87-101. Inrap/CNRS Editions, Paris, France.

2007 Valdivia, Machalilla, Chorrera: Early Art and Artists. In Ecuador: The Secret Art of Precolumbian Ecuador (Daniel Klein and Iván Cruz Cevallos, eds.):11-31. Milan, Italy: 5 Continents Editions. [also published in Spanish]

2007 Art in the Centers of Power (K. Stothert and Iván Cruz Cevallos). In Ecuador: The Secret Art of Precolumbian Ecuador (Daniel Klein and Iván Cruz Cevallos, eds.):107-117. Milan, Italy: 5 Continents Editions. [Also published in Spanish]

2007 (Atholl Anderson, Helene Martinsson-Wallin, and Karen Stothert) Ecuadorian sailing rafts and Oceanic landfalls. In Vastly Ingenious: The Archeology of Pacific Material Culture (in Honour of Janet M. Davidson) (A. Anderson, K. Green and F. Leach, eds):117-133. Otago University Press, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2006 Community Involvement in the Development of the Museum of the Lovers of Sumpa in Coastal Ecuador. Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America (Helaine Silverman, ed.):101-120. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

2006 (Douglas H. Ubelaker and Karen E. Stothert) Elemental Analysis of Alkalis and Dental Deposits Associated with Coca Chewing in Ecuador. Latin American Antiquity 17(1):77-89.

2003-2004 Shellfish Purple in Coastal Ecuador. The Textile Museum Journal 42 & 43:98-107.

2003 Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Human Adaptations in Coastal Ecuador: The Las Vegas Evidence (by Stothert, Piperno, and Andres). Quaternary International 109-111:23-43.

2003 Phytolith Evidence for Early Holocene Cucurbita Domestication in Southwest Ecuador (D. R. Piperno and K. E. Stothert). Science 299:1054- 1057 (14 February).

2003 Expression of Ideology in the Formative Period of Ecuador. In The Archaeology of Formative Ecuador (J. Scott Raymond and Richard L. Burger, eds):337-421. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. [Electronic version: www.doaks.org/etexts.html].

2002 New Evidence of Early Holocene Agriculture from the Coast of Ecuador: A Multidisciplinary Approach (by Stothert, Piperno and Andres). Culture and Agriculture 24(2):31-41

2001 Manteño. In Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 5: Middle America (edited by P. N. Peregrine and M. Ember):303-327. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.

2001 Making Spiritual Contact: Snuff Tubes and Other Burial Offerings from Late Prehistoric Ecuador. In Mortuary Practices and Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements in Prehistoric Funerary Contexts in South America. (J. E. Staller and E. J. Currie, eds): 132- 173. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 982. Oxford.

2001 (D. Piperno, I. Holst, A. Ranere, P. Hansell, and K. Stothert) The Occurrence of Genetically Controlled Phytoliths from Maize Cobs and Starch Grains from Maize Kernels on Archaeological Stone Tools and Human Teeth, and in Archaeological Sediments from Southern Central America and Northern South America. The Phytolitharien 13:1-7.

2000 (D. Piperno, T. Andres and K. Stothert) Phytoliths in Cucurbita and other Neotropical Cucurbitaceae and Their Occurrence in Early Archaeological Sites from the Lowland American Tropics . Journal of Archaeological Science 27:193-208.

2000 A New Role for the Ancient Lovers of Sumpa. In Working Together: Native Americans and Archaeologists (K. Dongoske, M. S. Aldenderfer, and K. Doerner, eds.), pp. 199-208. Society for American Archaeology.

2000 Review of The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics, by D. R. Piperno and D. M. Pearsall. Culture and Agriculture 22(2):36-37.

1999 Review of Mummies and Mortuary Monuments: A Postprocessual Prehistory of Central Andean Social organization, by William H. Isbell. In Journal of Anthropological Research 55(3):467-468.

1997 Settlements and Ceramics of the Tambo River, Ecuador, from the Early Nineteenth Century (by Stothert, A. Fox, K. Gross, and A. Sánchez M.). In Approaches to the Historical Archaeology of Mexico, Central and South America, edited by J. Gasco, G. Smith and P. Fournier-García, pp. 121-132. Monograph 38, The Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.

1995 “Guangala” (3:109-110); “Las Vegas” (3:387-388), and “Puná Island” (3: 501). In Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (B. A. Tenenbaum, ed.). Charles Schribner’s Sons, MacMillan Library Reference USA, Simon & Schuster MacMillan, New York).

1995 Review of Regional Archaeology in Northern Manabí, Ecuador, Volume 1:Environoment, Cultural Chronology, and Prehistoric Subsistence in the Jama River Valley, edited by J. A. Zeidler and D. M. Pearsall. In Latin American Antiquity 6(4), pp. 291-292.

1994 Early Petroleum Extraction and Tar-Boiling in Coastal Ecuador. In In Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America , edited by A. K. Craig and R. C. West, Geoscience and Man, Vol. 33:343-354. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

1992 Early Economies of Coastal Ecuador and the Foundations of Andean Civilization. Andean Past 3:43-54. Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University.

1992 Preceramic Houses and Household Organization along the Western Coast of South America (K. Stothert and M Malpass). Andean Past 3:137-164. Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University.

1991 Archaic Adaptations of the Andean Region, 9000-5000 BP (K. Stothert and J. Quilter). Revista de Arqueología Americana 4:25-53. Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, Organization of American States, Mexico.

1991 Reconstructing Prehistoric Textile and Ceramic Technology from Impressions of Cloth in Figurines from Ecuador (K. Stothert, K. Epstein, T. Cummins, and M. Freire). Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology II , edited by P. Vandiver, J. Druzik and G. Wheeler, pp. 767-776. Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh.

1987 Interpreting a Gap in the Prehistoric Chronology of the Arid Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador. In Man and the Mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary , ed. by N. A. McKinnon and G. S. L. Stuart, pp. 131-141. The University of Calgary Archaeological Association, Calgary, Alberta.

1987 Review of El Inga, A Paleo-Indian Site in the Sierra of Northern Ecuador, by William J. Mayer-Oakes. In Lithic Technology l6(l):29-31.

1985 The Preceramic Las Vegas Culture of Coastal Ecuador. American Antiquity 50(3):613-637.

1985 Review of the film "Peruvian Weaving: A Continuous Warp for 5,000 Years." American Anthropologist 87:488-489.

1983 Review of the Early Preceramic Complexes of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador. American Antiquity 48:122-127.

1983 Weaving a Cotton Saddlebag on a Two-Bar Vertical Loom on the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador (J. Parker and K. Stothert). The Textile Museum Journal 22:19-32.

1981 Corrections for the Published Descriptions of a Late Horizon Mummy Bundle from Ancón. Nawpa Pacha 19:177-188. Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley.

1981 Review of Adaptive Radiations in Prehistoric Panama, by Olga F. Linares and Anthony J. Ranere, editors. American Scientist 69(2):236.

1980 The Villa Salvador Site and the Beginning of the Early Intermediate Period in the Lurin Valley, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology 7:279- 295.

1980 Review of Guitarrero Cave: Early Man in the Andes, by Thomas F. Lynch, editor. Lithic Technology 9(3):61-63.

1979 Unwrapping an Inca Mummy Bundle. Archaeology 32(4):8-17.

1978 Preparing a Mummy Bundle: Note on a Late Burial from Ancón, Peru. Technical analysis by Eve Yarberry. Nawpa Pacha l6:13-22. Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley.

1976 The Early Prehistory of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador: Continuities between the Preceramic and Ceramic Cultures. Actas del XLI Congreso Internacional de Americanistas , Mexico, 1974 2:88- 98, Mexico.

1975 Review of Animal Nature and Human Nature, by W.H. Thorpe. Thought 50(198):332-333. New York.

 
Selected Articles Published in Spanish:

2009 (en prensa) Valdivia y el Proceso Civilizador del Tercer Milenio A.C. Nayra Kunan Pacha 1(1):1-18.

2009 Interpretación arqueológica en un Sitio-Taller de la Cultura Guangala en la Península de Santa Elena. Cuadernos de Historia y Arqueologia:22-76. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo del Guayas, Guayas, Ecuador.

2007 Valdivia, Machalilla, Chorrera: el arte y los artistas primigenios. In Ecuador: El Arte Secreto del Ecuador Precolombino (Daniel Klein and Iván Cruz Cevallos, eds.):11-31. Casa del Alabado, Museo de Arte Precolombino y 5 Continentes Ediciones, Milan, Italy. [also published in English]

El arte en los centros de poder (K. Stothert and Iván Cruz Cevallos). In Ecuador: El Arte Secreto del Ecuador Precolombino (Daniel Klein and Iván Cruz Cevallos, eds.):107-117. Casa del Alabado, Museo de Arte Precolombino y 5 Continentes Ediciones, Milan, Italy. [also published in English]

2007 La Cerámica de Etiqueta de las Tolas de Japotó, costa del Ecuador. En: Avances de Investigación en el Ecuador Prehispánico (Mercedes Guiinea y J.-F. Bouchard, editores): 265-284. Bulletin de l’Institut Francais d’Etud Andines 35 (3). Lima: IFEA.

2004 Contacto Espiritual: Tubos de Inhalación y Objetos Mortuorios de la Cultura Manteña (por K. E. Stothert e Ivan Cruz Cevallos). Cuadernos de Historia y Arqueologia 54-55-56:16-55

2003 Los Primeros Pueblos. In Guayaquil: Al Vaivén de la Ría (K. Stothert, F. Compte G., A. E. Hidalgo, W. Paredes R., C. Tutivén):pp. 18-73. Quito:Libri Mundi.

2003 Reseña: Gender in Pre-Hispanic America, C. F. Klein, editora. Mesoamerica 45:228-231.

2000 La Cultura Las Vegas de los Amantes de Sumpa y el Contexto del Origen del Cultivo de Plantas Domesticadas (K. Stothert and D. Piperno). Miscelanea Antropológica Ecuatoriana 9:51-72.

1998 Intercambio y Producción de Cerámica Durante el Período Guangala Temprano en la Cordillera Colonche-Chongón, Ecuador (by Stothert, A. Sánchez Mosquera, and C. Veintimilla). In El Area Septentrional Andina: Arqueología y Etnohistoria (M. Guinea, editor): 207-234. Biblioteca Abya-Yala 59, Quito.

1997 Fundición Tradicional Campesina en la Costa del Ecuador. Boletín del Museo del Oro 43:88-117. Banco de la República, Bogotá.

1997 El Arte de Hilar el Algodón: Una Tradición Milenaria Ecuatoriana. Cultura: Revista del Banco Central del Ecuador 2 (Segunda Epoca):3-9.

1995 Las Albarradas Tradicionales y El Manejo de Aguas en la Península de Santa Elena. Miscelanea Antropológica Ecuatoriana 8:131-160. Boletín del Area Cultural del Banco Central del Ecuador. Guayaquil.

1991 Informe de Trabajos Arqueológicos en Santa Paula. Boletín Arqueológico 3:30-40. Arqueólogos Asociados (ARAS), Guayaquil.

1990 Primer Informe del Estudio de los Tejidos Prehistóricos Utilizados en la Fabricación de Figurinas de la Costa Ecuatoriana (K. Stothert, K. Epstein, T. Cummins, and M. Freire), Boletín Arqueológico 2:29-36. Arqueólogos Asociados (ARAS), Guayaquil.

1985 El Tejido de una Alforja en la Península de Santa Elena (K. Stothert and J. Parker). Miscelanea Antropológica Ecuatoriana 4(4):141- 160. Bulletin of the Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil.

1979 La Prehistoria Temprana de la Península de Santa Elena, Ecuador: Una Interpretación Preliminar. Vínculos 5(2):73-87. Revista de Antropología del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José.

1979 Informe de Investigaciones en Villa Salvador. In: Arqueología Peruana: Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Perú, 1976 , compiled by Ramiro Matos Mendieta, pp. 81-88. Lima, Peru.

1977 Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Villa El Salvador (K. Stothert and R. Ravines). Revista del Museo Nacional 43:157-226. Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana. Lima, Peru.

1977 Proyecto Paleoindio: Informe Preliminar. Publicaciones del Museo Antropológico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Translated by Julio Estrada Ycaza. Guayaquil, Ecuador.

1976 Un Entierro Común del Horizonte Tardío en la Costa Central del Perú (K. Stothert and R. Ravines). Revista del Museo Nacional 42:153-179. Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana. Lima, Peru.
 

Selected Professional Activities 

2005-2006 Member, Scientific Committee of the International Congress of Americanists (Saville, 2006). 2001-2003 Editorial board, La Tierra, Southern Texas Archaeological Association.

1990-present REVIEWER/EVALUATOR, National Science Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation, Texas Committee for the Humanities, Latin American Antiquity, Andean Past, American Antiquity, The Textile Museum Journal, among others.

1984-present DISCUSSANT, CHAIRPERSON AND/OR ORGANIZER for symposia at annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology on at least 6 occasions. 

1997-98 Annual Meeting Program Committee, Society for American Archeology. 

1993 CO-ORGANIZER, international symposium entitled “Shamanism and Rock Art: Interpretations from Around the World” (Trinity University and the Witte Museum, San Antonio. 

1991 CO-ORGANIZER, for Yale Club and Trinity University, of a symposium in conjunction with the museum show "Mexico: Splendors of 30 Centuries." 

1990 STUDENT ENRICHMENT PRESENTER, TI-IN Network [educational television] on what anthropologists can learn from artifacts. 

1988 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEE, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana. 

1987 ORGANIZER, Texas portion of a Workshop on Higher Education Administration sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Fulbright Commission of Ecuador.
 

Language Ability 

Fluent in Spanish (reading, writing, speaking) 
Reading knowledge of French and Italian
 
University Courses Taught
(Undergraduate and Graduate)


Pre-Columbian Art 
Women in Latin America 
Introduction to Anthropology (4 fields) 
Introduction to Archaeology (Introduction to World Prehistory) 
Introduction to Physical Anthropology (Human Evolution) 
Primate Behavior 
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology 
Pre-Columbian Art 
Gender in Prehistory 
Native Peoples of South America 
Peasant Culture 
Rise (and Fall) of Civilizations (Complex Societies of the Old and New Worlds) 
New World Prehistory
Andean Civilization (Andean Prehistory) 
Archaeology of the Northern Andes 
Archaeology of South America 
Archaeology of Mesoamerica
 Archaeology of North America
 Method and Theory in Archaeology 
 Field Methods in Archaeology 
 Summer Field Courses in Ecuador 
Culture and Technology
Cultural Ecology 
Theories of Culture Change
 
Summary of Research Interests 

New World prehistory and archaeology; Andean cultures; preceramic cultures of South America; origins of agriculture/food production; burial patterns and funerary ceremonialism; Pre-Columbian art; ideology and religion; gender in prehistory; indigenous peoples of Latin America; cultural ecology; culture and technology; coastal adaptations; comparative development of complex societies in America; lithic technology; material culture; textiles; ceramics; historic archaeology of Latin America; contemporary peoples of the coast of Ecuador; heritage education; museum design.
© Karen Stothert, 1970-2013