For more than half a century, Andean archaeology has discussed the relationship between human societies and natural phenomena. In recent decades, with the increasingly evident climate change, this debate has been rekindled and sophisticated, also due to the use of new technologies to investigate archaeological sites and artifacts, and even human remains themselves. Throughout this debate, the cases of the ancient Andean states have been outstanding because they deployed a series of strategies to interact with their environment from their complex political economy. Based on his extensive studies of both survey and excavation in the northern Titicaca basin on the southern Peruvian highlands, the Chincha valley on the southern coast of Peru, and the Chicama valley on the northern Peruvian coast, Henry Tantaleán will explain how the ancient Andean states developed their agency and resilience with respect to climate changes, but also how these political entities were part of the change and transformation of their own ecosystems in a dialectical relationship that forged their history

A conference co-organised by iiTSE, CReA et AmericaS.

With the participation of Henry Tantaleán, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru.

Moderation: Peter Eeckhout (CReA), Christophe Delaere (CReA/iiTSE) and Chloé Deligne (SociAMM/MMC/iiTSE)