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The Inca control in the Utcubamba basin is indisputable, however, there is still much to clarify regarding dates, sequences, associations, and spaces involved in the process.
Archaeology and bioarchaeology in the Amazonas region have advanced enough for the cultural process in this region to appear more clearly. Ancient genetics, ethnohistory, studies of funerary and residential sites, extended dating, and material studies are all contributing significantly.
There are still very imprecise issues persisting regarding how the Inca presence could have been consolidated in such a short time in this extensive territory. We will review the basin from south to north in relation to recent studies, seeking to integrate data and the new insights they may provide.
Speaker: Sonia E. Guillén Oneeglio, Peruvian bioarchaeologistdirector of the Museo Leymebamba and Centro Mallqui.
Sonia E. Guillén Oneeglio is a Peruvian bioarchaeologist, graduate of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan. She is the director of the Museo Leymebamba and Centro Mallqui—an NGO specialized in the study and conservation of bioarchaeological remains.
She has served as Minister of Culture of Peru (12/2019–05/2020), director of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú (10/2018–12/2020), and was in charge of the Dirección General de Museos from October 2013 to June 2015, at the Ministry of Culture. She was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 2012.
Dr. Guillén has been involved in the management of the Chiribaya Museum in Moquegua and the Leymebamba Museum in Amazonas. She led the rescue and conservation project of the mummies from the mausoleums discovered at Laguna de los Cóndores, and she has studied the Chinchorro mummies of Arica and Ilo.
She contributed from the field of forensic anthropology to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated the crimes of the terrorism era in Peru. She coordinated the Master's program in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology offered at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú from 2007 to 2010. She is an associate professor at the National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza of Amazonas.
Moderated by: The Harvard Andean Working Group.
Presented in collaboration with the Harvard Department of Anthropology and Harvard University Department of History.