Arequipa, March 4, 2000
- Hello all!
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- All is well in Arequipa--we are working
hard in the lab, analyzing the thousands of artifacts recovered
during the survey. Right now we are working on the ceramics.
This means drawing diagrams, photographing, and entering each
sherd as coded data into a database. I expect to have over 1,000
diagrams and lines of data. We're at about 900 each right now,
so there it's almost done. From there, it's on to the stone tools
and textiles...
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- I've been working pretty much 12 hours
a day, 6 days a week, but we've been able to escape the city
a couple of times since my return. Arequipa is only about 2 hours
from the coast, so Augusto (a good friend, and the director of
CIARQ, where I am living and doing the labwork), Erika (Augusto's
wife, and one of my field techs.), and once, Miriam Doutriaux
(a grad student from Berkeley) were able to get out for a day
trip. We went to a point called Punta Islay, and later to Mollendo,
a coastal city in southern Peru.
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- I've put up a new
slide show for y'all to see from this trip...check it out.
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- If you don't have time to go through it
all at once, here are links to the individual pages:
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- The old slide shows are still up, in case
you didn't see them before:
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- Explorations in and around Coporaque.
- Individual slides from that slideshow:
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- September baptism of the grandson of Don Gerardo Huaracha (a dear
friend and the owner of the house that we lived in at Yanque).
I took part as Godfather.
- Individual slides from that slideshow:
Take care, and I'll
be in touch!!!
