Gabriel Ramón
SRU Phd 2008
MA 1998, Universidade de São Paulo; BA 1993; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; B.A. 1992, Universidad Católica del Peru.
Cultural variability in Andean archaeology is still limited by current knowledge of the ethnographic record. From artefacts’ descriptions to the explanation of past societies, the imprint of the modern experience is ubiquitous. And this experience is unnecessarily restricted. Pottery and pottery workshops are not an exception: some archaeologists used -- and are using -- two or three examples of ethnographic pottery production (e.g., Simbilá, Mórrope and Raqchi) to explain a heterogeneous corpus of pre-Hispanic evidence. And this was because those are the villages with the most detailed ethnographic record, or simply because they were easier to reach by car than other pottery communities.
Don Julio and Francisco Manchay (Sondorillo, Piura)
For my PhD thesis “Pottery techniques in the northern Peruvian Andes,” I am working on an ethnographic data base of pottery forming processes in the departments of Ancash, La Libertad, Lambayeque and Piura. The focus is the tool-kit as the main feature of the process. Besides the digital catalogue of the techniques, we want to provide a useful link between these evidences and pre-Hispanic remains, using material signatures of the formation process. To help document different practices, we are doing x-ray experiments of modern vessels and studying archaeological evidence of pottery production, especially from the Moche society. As the late John H. Rowe (1976:41) said: “The more information we have on the modern pottery techniques in Peru, the better will we be able to interpret ancient ceramics”.
Publications:
Archaeology:
Periodificación en arqueología peruana:
genealogía y aporía
Produccion Alfarera en Santon Domingo de Los Olleros...
History:
Myself and Doña Pola García (Santo Domingo, Piura)
Fidel Reyes (Huacaday, La Libertad)
Vicente Román Ramos (Sanagoran, La Libertad)