Publications
In press “La interfaz política/medio-ambiental en el valle del Colca durante la época inkaica.” In Actas del Simposio Internacional de Arqueología del Area Centro Sur Andina, edited by Augusto Belán Franco, Mariusz Ziolkowski, and Justin Jennings, University of Warsaw Press, Warsaw.
In press “Asentamiento, agricultura y pastoralismo temprano durante el Periodo Formativo en el Valle del Colca.” In El Valle del Colca: estudios antropologicos, históricos, y arqueológicos, edited by Felix Palacios, Universidad Nacional de San Agustin, Arequipa.
2007 “Analogy or Erasure? Dialectics of Religious Transformation in the Early Doctrinas of the Colca Valley, Peru.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 11(2):152-182.
2007 “Negotiating Community and Landscape in the Peruvian Andes: A Trans-Conquest View.” American Anthropologist 109(1):130-152.
2006 “The Politics of Community and Inka Statecraft in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Latin American Antiquity 17(7):177-208.
2006 “Collagua ‘Eco-logistics’: Intermediate Elites and Hybrid Community Structures in the Colca Valley, Peru.” In Intermediate Elites in Pre-Columbian States and Empires, edited by Christina M. Elson and R. Alan Covey, pp. 175-211. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2006 “Comunidad e imperialismo: una visión arqueo-histórica del reino inkaico en Yanquecollaguas.” In Collaguas III: Yanquecollaguas, edited by David J. Robinson, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, pp. CXXV-CXLVI.
Presentations (a sampling)
2008 “Households in Transition: Excavating Domestic Organization at an Early Colonial Mission in the Andean Highlands,” Paper presented at the symposium “Lost in Transition: Decolonizing Indigenous Histories at the Prehistoric / Colonial Intersection in Archaeology,” organized by Maxine Oland and Siobhan Hart, at the 2008 Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco.
2008 “Convergences: The Origins of Colonial Hybridity at Early Mission Complexes in Highland Peru.” Paper to be presented at the School for Advanced Research (Formerly School of American Research), for the Short Seminar “The Archaeology of Indigenous Resistance to the Spanish Conquest,” organized by Matthew Liebmann and Melissa Murphy.
2008 “Excavating between the Lines: Textual Silences and Missionary Archaeology in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the symposium “Circa 1530: Integrating Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Andes,” organized by Joanne Pillsbury, at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada.
2008 “A GIS-Based Simulation of Colonial Resettlement and Terrace Abandonment in the Colca Valley, Peru,” by Steven A. Wernke and Travis Williams. Poster to by presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, Canada.
2007 “Resistance or Persistence? Recycling Spaces and Revisiting Ancestors in the Early Missionary Settlements of the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented in the symposium, “Archaeological Perspectives on Indigenous Resistance to Spanish Colonization in the New World,” Melissa Murphy and Matt Liebmann, organizers, at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.
2007 “Productive Entanglements: The Spaces of Early Mission Settlements in the Colonial Andes.” Paper presented at the Spatial Americas Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2007 “Agriculture and Inequality in the Colonial Andes: A Simulation of Production and Consumption Using Colonial Administrative Documents,” by Thomas A. Whitmore and Steven A. Wernke. Paper presented at the Conference of Latin American Geographers, Colorado Springs, CO.
2006 “Taking Stock: Houses and Their Propertied Interests in the Colca Valley, Peru,” by Steven A. Wernke, Ericka Guerra Santander, and Thomas A. Whitmore. Presented in the symposium “New Perspectives in Andean Household Archaeology,” Donna Nash and Victor Pimentel, organizers, at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2006 “Agricultural Land Holdings and Labor Demands in late Sixteenth Century and early Seventeenth Century Highland Peru,” by Thomas A. Whitmore and Steven A. Wernke. Paper presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois.
2005 “A Negotiated Settlement: Reducción and the Prehispanic Landscape in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the 24th Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Washington, DC.
2005 “La interfaz política/medio-ambiental en el valle del Colca durante la época inkaica y colonial.” Paper presented at the Simposio Internacional Sobre Arqueología del Area Sur Andina, Arequipa, Peru.
2005 “Remapping Authority and Community in the Reducciones of the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2005 “Una reconstrucción del impacto del tributo colonial sobre la economía doméstica en el valle del Colca, Perú,” by Thomas A. Whitmore and Steven A Wernke. Paper presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Morelia, Mexico.
2005 “Reconstructing the Impact of Tribute on Domestic Economy in the Colonial Colca Valley, Peru,” by Thomas A. Whitmore and Steven A. Wernke. Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado.
2004 “Mapping Ayllus: Land Tenure and Residence Patterns in the Late Prehispanic and Early Colonial Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Chicago.
2004 “Inka Imperialism and Community Structures in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal, Québec.
2004 “Agricultural Productivity, Demography, and Famine Risk in the late 16th C. and early 17th C. in the Colca Valley of Southern Highland Peru,” by Thomas A. Whitmore and Steven A. Wernke. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2004 “Agricultural Productivity and Famine Risk in late Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century Highland Peru,” by Thomas A. Whitmore and Steven A. Wernke. Paper presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala.
2002 “Eco-logistical Practice Over the Longue Durée: Intermediate Elites and Hybrid Community Structures in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
2002 “An Archaeo-History of Andean Community and Landscape.” Paper presented at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC.
2001 “A Reassessment of Collagua and Provincial Inka Ceramic Styles of Arequipa, Peru.” Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dissertation
2003 An Archaeo-History of Andean Community and Landscape: The Late Prehispanic and Early Colonial Colca Valley, Peru. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. (large file: 90mb)