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Conservation Program

An exhibit by graduate students from the UCLA/Getty Master's Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation, hosted by the UCLA Library in May, 2009. Watch the video below, or view it on UCLA's YouTube Channel.

Field Program Blogs

This past summer, Cotsen Institute archaeologists led dozens of students in digs around the world as part of the UCLA Archaeology Field Program. Below are links to some of the field blogs kept up during the summer of 2009:

Enculturating Environments Field School (Windwolves Preserve, California)
Misti Archaeological Project (Vitor Valley, Peru)
Abomey Plateau Archaeology Field School (Abomey Plateau, Benin)
Pukara Archaeological Project (Pukara, Peru)

Past Program Blogs

Below are links to program blogs from 2008.

Egypt Field Program Video Blog – Fall 2008
Blog round-up from first year of the Institute's world-wide Archaeology Field Program (via UCLA Magazine). Read firsthand accounts of life in the field from participants in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology's first summer of Field Programs

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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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