Climate Change and Violence Part 2

Climate Change and Violence? Cautionary Tales from the
Pre-Columbian Andes The seminar will take place on January 25,
2008, 4 to 5 PM, in 201 Old Chem Building, West Campus, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Arkush received her PhD at
UCLA in 2005. Her research centers on the interplay of warfare,
political power, social identity, and ritual in the prehispanic
Andes. Her doctoral research focused on the later part of the
prehispanic sequence after about A.D. 1000, when many small
polities throughout the Andes were apparently engaged in cycles of
endemic warfare. Fieldwork on a suite of fortified hilltop sites in
the northern Lake Titicaca basin in Peru investigated the regional
patterns that emerged from conflictual and cooperative social
relationships. This study also examined the chronology of
fortification to question current interpretations of the causes of
intergroup violence at the time.