Ancient Peru: The First Horizon
By Kimberly Munro Mon, Dec 05, 2011
Archaeologists have found that the Chavin culture of ancient Peru set a religious and artistic foundation that reverberated through the great civilizations that followed.
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Kimberly Munro is an archaeologist with seven years experience working for the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service. With excavation experience throughout the Southeastern United States and the Northern Coast and Central Highlands of Peru, Kimberly received her B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies, and her M.S. in Geographic Information Sciences from Florida State University. She has been involved with the PIARA Archaeological Field School located in the highlands of Peru since 2011, and will be returning to work as a crew chief for PIARA in the summer of 2012. With interests in GIS applications in Archaeology, remote sensing, landscape and settlement patterns, and coastal/highland interaction in central Peru, Kimberly will be starting work on her PhD at Louisiana State University in the fall of 2012.
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