Ilo: Days 11 and 12
Ilo: Day 11: Die Hard Data Collecting Day June 5 was our final full day at Centro Mallqui. Dr. Barrett told us we were close to the goal of collecting data for 50 individuals, more than double the previous year’s data collection. We worked through our data collecting, and I personally caught up with the pictures and castings …
Ilo: Days 9 and 10
Ilo: Day 9: Centro Mallqui Shopping Spree It is difficult to believe that June 3 is our 9th day in Ilo. However, I never got use to the smell of our work space. Our pace was slower than most days, most likely the combination of the continual attention to detail our work requires and traveler’s diarrhea. At lunch, …
Ilo: Days 7 and 8
Ilo: Day 7: Festival Shopping and Dinner Partying During last year’s Peru trip, some of the students got sick around the 7th/8th day. The pattern held true this year as on June 1, Traveler’s Diarrhea hit our group in various degrees. Therefore, we took our respective medication and proceeded with our usual day of collecting data. …
Ilo: Centro Mallqui
We have been doing our work at the Centro Mallqui research center in El Algorrabal. The importance of Centro Mallqui is to preserve the cultural and biological remains of the Chinchorro and Chiribaya cultures. Looting is a wide spread issue in Peru because those that loot the tombs take only artifacts that they can sell …
Ilo: Days 5 and 6
Ilo: Day 5: Picarones May 30 was our half day. Thankfully, prying the casting off the skull and mandible I left the previous day did not go too badly. Several other skulls and mandibles kept me busy during the rest of the day. One of the anthropology students took the time to investigate the people’s …