Most conceptualizations of the state in archaeology remain rooted in Enlightenment ideas of interlocking institutions that existed external to individuals and their interactions. These static conceptualizations often run...
Bruno, Maria C. Beyond Raised Fields: Exploring Farming Practices and Processes of Agricultural Change in the Ancient Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. American Anthropologist 116, no. 1 (2014): 130-145....
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , In this article, we present the results of an analysis of carbonized plant remains from the site of Loma Salvatierra, in the Llanos de Moxos...
The timing of Tiwanaku’s collapse remains contested. Here we present a generational-scale chronology of Tiwanaku using Bayesian models of 102 radiocarbon dates, including 45 unpublished dates. This chronology tracks four...
El surgimiento de la agricultura en la cuenca sur del lago Titicaca fue esencial para el desarrollo de las primeras sociedades complejas. Se presenta un estudio de las semillas de Chenopodium del sitio Chiripa, Bolivia, el...
Few if any of us working with archaeological plant remains 30 years ago dreamed that a chenopod could by now have achieved Supergrain status in the popular food world. Back then, North American chenopod was considered a lowly...
Planella, María Teresa, María Laura López, and Maria Christina Bruno. Domestication and Prehistoric Distribution. In State of the Art Report on Quinoa Around the World in 2013, edited by Didier Bazile, Daniel Bertero, and...
Ayrampu Qontu, named after a nearby hill, or qontu in Aymara, where a particular cactus called ayrampu grows, is the westernmost sector of the Kala Uyuni site. This area was selected for excavation based on the high density of...
As archaeobotanists we query the archaeological plant record to understand ancient wild plant gathering, agriculture, and foodways: the quintessential components of human interactions with the plant world. When working with...
Marsh, Erik J., Maria C. Bruno, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul Baker, José M. Capriles, and Christine A. Hastorf. "IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14C Calibration Curve for Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records...
Moore, Katherine, Maria Bruno, José M. Capriles, and Christine Hastorf. Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. In "Integrating...
Bruno, Maria C. Macrorestos botánicos de la Loma Mendoza. In Loma Mendoza: las excavaciones del Instituto Arqueológico Alemán y de la Direccíon Nacional de Arqueología en los años 1999-2002, edited by Heiko Prumers,...
One of the major models for the rise of the Tiwanaku state has been trade between people and colonies outside of the Titicaca Basin. Another major model has been the increased intensity of rituals and feasting at the center to...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , El capítulo presenta de manera novedosa datos sobre los usos diversos y secuencia cronológica de plantas silvestres y cultivadas y, sobre la...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , The Lake Titicaca basin has long been recognised as an area of crop diversity in the Andes of South America (Beck and García 1991; Cardenas...
Bruno, Maria C., Nicole C. Couture, and Deborah E. Blom. Proyecto Qochamama?: Experiences, Perceptions, and Representations of Three Female Co-Directors at Tiwanaku, Bolivia. The SAA Archaeological Record 12, no. 2 (2012):...
One of the indigenous staple crops of Andean South America is the pseudocereal quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.). While it was traditionally placed in its own family Chenopodiaceae, recent genetic work located it within the...
Chuño is created by subjecting Solanum subspecies or other tubers to a process of freeze-drying that reduces their weight and renders them highly storable. Despite the importance of chuño within traditional Andean foodways, we...
Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson College. , For more information on the published version, visit Revistas Bolivianas' Website....