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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Receives Three Transdisciplinary Seed Grant Awards
Cotsen Institute and UCLA/Getty Masters Program Professor David Scott Interviewed by KPCC
Cotsen Institute Publication Wins Ernest Wright Award for Best Archaeological Publication by the American Schools of Oriental Research
UCLA/Getty Conservation Program receives $1M Mellon Foundation Challenge Grant
Chip Stanish recognized in Archaeology magazine
Andrew W. Mellon Residency in Conservation Education available at UCLA/Getty
Jo Anne Van Tilburg's work on Easter Island featured in magazines
Professor Chip Stanish And Abby Levine's Work On War And Early State Formation Featured In New York Times
Ernestine Elster featured in UCLA Today
Virginia Fields dies at 58
National Geographic Radio Interview on Sisupalgarh Research
Cotsen Institute Researcher Discusses Chumash Indians
2011 field research grants
UCLA/Getty Conservation Program featured in Daily Bruin
Cotsen Institute's Armenian Discovery Featured in UCLA Today
Cotsen Institute's Rock Art Archive and Archaeology Program Featured in Daily Bruin
UCLA Scholars Discover Earliest-Known Winery
Wine Production in Chalcolithic Armenia
Giorgio Buccellati wins AIA Site Preservation Award
UCLA Researcher Looks at the Origins of Multitasking
SEM Image Contest
MNA, FEI & Thermo Fisher Scientific OPEN HOUSE
CIOA Welcomes New Assistant Director
UCLA Egyptology Recognized
By Hans Barnard
Cotsen Postdoc Hired at Johns Hopkins
Date: 5/7/2010
Faculty research makes cover of Near Eastern Archaeology magazine
UCLA Archaeology Students win NSF Grants
Director Elected to National Academy of Sciences
By Shauna Mecartea
UCLA Alumni, Faculty headline SAA Program
Cotsen Institute publishes new book on Mesoamerican archaeology
Cotsen Scholars publish new articles on Fayum, Egypt
2010 AP Student Awards
UCLA event explores quest for historic Queen of Sheba on April 3
By Meg Sullivan
UCLA Newsroom, March 22

Prof. Kara Cooney Featured in New York Times
March 22, 2010
SPI Announces First Grant
Sustainable Preservation Initiative (“SPI”) Announces First Grant to San Jose de Moro, Peru for Artisanal and Touristic Development and Preservation
Faculty Member Featured for Work with LAPD
Grad Student Wins Two Paper Awards
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 2/10/10

Institute hosts UCLA Lab School students
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 2/3/10

Cotsen Institute to co-host microscopy symposium in April
Program receives two grants for conservation internships
Archaeology Field Program now enrolling for 2010
Institute wins state preservation award for radar mapping
By Meg Sullivan
12/16/09

Ioanna Kakoulli featured in UCLA Engineering Magazine
By Eric Gardner | 10.29.2009
Cotsen Institute hosting two conferences in November
By Eric Gardner | 10.26.09
Prof. Kara Cooney featured in 'Welcome to UCLA' video and Daily Bruin
By Eric Gardner | 10.22.09
Fall 2009 New Publications
By Eric Gardner | 10.22.09
Archaeology Chair Featured in Daily Bruin
By Eric Gardner 10.15.09
2009 Field Program Blogs On-line
By Eric Gardner
7/13/09

Cotsen Institute Names New Assistant Director
Egyptologist pulls together threads woven through ancient civilizations
By Meg Sullivan
6/30/2009

San Bernardino Field School Makes News
By Eric Gardner
6/22/09

Institute Egyptologist featured in UCLA College Report
by Eric Gardner
6/16/09

Digital Karnak project covered in UCLA News
by Eric Gardner
06/16/09

Cotsen scholars featured in Science Magazine
By Eric Gardner
5/14/09

Stanish's Article on eBay Attracts Attention
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 5/8/09

Student Conserved Objects on Display at UCLA Library
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 5/1/09

Cotsen Institute Web site Featured
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 5/1/09

Buccellati Receives 2009 Emeriti Award
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 4/28/09

Kakoulli Publishes Book on Greek Painting Techniques
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 4/13/09

Celebrating Merrick Posnansky
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 3/26/09

Pearlstein Receives Keck Award for Serving as Teacher and Mentor
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 3/26/09

Grant Received for Easter Island Statue Preservation
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 3/17/09

Fencing in the Fayum: Donors React Fast to Protect a Site
By Willeke Wendrich
Prestigious Professor Delivers Lecture Series on Jerusalem
By Kyle Keimer
Lively Bones: The Karanis Cemetery Survey Project
Archaeology Program student describes her ongoing bioarchaeological research in the Fayum By Anne Austin
Conservation Faculty Member Takes Part In Historic Event
CIOA Receives Media Coverage for Local Work
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 3/2/09

CIOA Affiliates Hunt for Long-Lost Burials
By Elizabeth Klarich and Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 2/23/09

Alumna Delivers Presentation on Preservation
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 2/18/09

Catalog for the Rock Art Archive’s Heizer Collection completed
By Sonia Gottesman
Date: 2/12/09

Database Created for the Rock Art Archive’s Pontoni Collection
By Ed Schoch
Date: 2/12/09

New book on South American camelids is released
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 2/10/09

Book lecture celebrates new publication on mobility
By Shauna K. Mecartea
Date: 1/28/09

The Institute welcomes the first DAI/AIA Fellow
By: Elizabeth A. Klarich
Date: 01/27/09

Registration for the UCLA Archaeology Field Program is open
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 1/27/09

Grad Students Win AIA Poster Award
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 01/27/09

New name, new look, same quality
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 12/17/08

Funding Student Research: Donors Making an Impact
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 12/16/08

Lecture Series: Recent Advancements in the Archaeology of Jerusalem
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 8/21/08

New Archaeology Program Students: Fall 2008
By Eric Gardner
Date: 12/9/08

Archaeology Field Program Receives More Press
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 11/7/08

Digital Publication Series to Launch on E-Scholarship
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 11/05/08

Fayum Field School Garners Publicity
By Shauna Mecartea
Date: 11/04/08

UCLA Faculty Seminar: DNA & History
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 11/01/08

East Asia Archaeology Exhibit at the Young Research Library
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 11/01/08

Archaeochemist and classical archaeologist joins UCLA Classics
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 10/7/08

Book Award Winner featured in SAA Publication
by Eric Gardner
6/18/09

Professor's Research on Middle-Class Families Featured
Date: 5/14/10
New East Asian archaeologist joins faculty
By Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 8/21/08

First 2-year postdoctoral fellow selected
By: Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 8/21/08

Visiting researcher studies pastoral nomadic societies
By: Elizabeth Klarich
Date: 8/21/08

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Donnan - Chotuna

Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend

Christopher Donnan's Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend, explores one of the most intriguing oral histories passed down among ancient Peruvians: the legend of Naymlap, the founder of a dynasty that ruled the Lambayeque Valley of northern Peru centuries before European contact. Naymlap is said to have built his palace at a place that many now consider to be the archaeological sites of Chotuna and Chornancap. In an effort to test the validity of the Naymlap legend, Donnan directed extensive archaeological excavations at Chotuna and Chornancap--completing plans of the monumental architecture, mapping and excavating most of the major structures, and developing a chronology for the sites. This book presents the results of these excavations and demonstrates the extent to which the archaeological evidence correlates with the sequence of events described in the Naymlap legend.

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