The UMMAA is pleased to present Dr. Gabriela Cervantes Quequezana, from the Social Sciences Department at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and research associate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, who will speak on Friday, March 25, 12-1 p.m., as part of the online UMMAA Brown Bag Lecture Series.

Dr. Quequezana will discuss the characteristics of sociopolitical integration in the city of Sicán with an emphasis on the Middle Sicán period (AD 950-1100). She provides evidence of permanent residential patterns, using the density and spatial distribution of ceramics recovered systematically from surface survey units. Results of the analysis show that the city of Sicán had a low-density urban pattern extending over a large area with a total of eight demographic districts. She argues that this provides evidence of Sicán’s segmentary sociopolitical integration format.

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95567379046

The Museum’s Brown Bag Lecture Series is free and open to the public.