Kasia Szremski

Salitre was the second site that we excavated in 2012.  Getting to this site was extremely difficult.  Because of some bad planning on my part, we started excavating this site in the beginning of M...

Excavation is a technique used by archaeologists to find out is beneath the surface of a site.  Though the concept behind excavation sounds simple (basically we dig big wholes), in practice it is a...

A fearless archaeology student crossing the "bridge" we built across the Huanangue RiverIn honor of Labor Day, I thought I would take a minute to talk about the importance of infras...

As I mentioned in the last lab note, we don't know who built Ampituna.  This is one of the things we hope to figure out when we go and visit the site.  Still, there are some educated guesses we can...

One of the things we would like to determine by visiting the site of Ampituna is when the site was built and by whom.  It will be impossible to be certain about the identity of Ampituna's builders ...

Google Earth has become an invaluable tool for archaeologists as we can cover a huge amount of territory by scrolling through the images and looking for anomalies that could be archaeological sites...

One of the difficulties of this project is that we do not know exactly where Ampituna is.  I have talked with two locals who have been to the site, and based on their description of...

Archaeological Survey is a term that encompasses many different techniques that archaeologists use to find sites.  In its simplest form, archaeologists walk over a landscape looking for pot sherds,...

The Huanangue Valley is located in north-central Peru, about 2 hours north of the capital Lima.  It runs along the western slope of the Andes and passes through elevations of approx...