Aleksa Alaica

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Assistant Professor

The University of British Columbia

Canada

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Dr. Aleksa Alaica is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on archaeology, particularly the ethics and applications of isotope analysis, as well as the environmental and cultural influences on ancient populations in Peru. Recent publications include studies on the dietary practices of camelids, the symbolic significance of bats in Moche iconography, and the examination of funerary traditions in late Intermediate Period Peru.

Recent Grants

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From the Mountains to the Sea: Animal Management, Sustainability and Colonization in Southern Peru in the 1st Millennium CE

Open Date: 2022-06-01

Close Date: 2024-05-01

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Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Open Date: 2018-04-01

Close Date: 2019-09-01

Articles (12)

Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology

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2024

Bone and antler artifact use in the 1st millennium CE of Cusco, Peru: Insights on textile production and food processing from the site of Ak'awillay

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2023

Birds among the Moche of northern Peru: Examining food, environment, and ritual through avian taxa from Huaca Colorada (600–900 CE)

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2023

Reconstructing Middle Horizon Camelid Diets and Foddering Practices: Microbotanical and Isotope Analyses of Dental Remains from Quilcapampa, Peru

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2023

The day the music died: Making and playing bone wind instruments at La Real in Middle Horizon, Peru (600–1000 CE)

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2022

Flexible agropastoral strategies during the 1st millennium CE in southern Peru: Examining yunga Arequipa camelid husbandry practices during Wari expansion through stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) in the Majes and Sihuas Valleys

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2022

Contextualizing the influence of climate and culture on bivalve populations: Donax obesulus malacology from the north coast of Peru

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2022

Late Intermediate Period Funerary Traditions, Population Aggregation, and the Ayllu in the Sihuas Valley, Peru

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2021

Inverted Worlds, Nocturnal States and Flying Mammals: Bats and Their Symbolic Meaning in Moche Iconography

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2020

Creating a body-subject in the Late Moche Period (CE 650 – 850). Bioarchaeological and biogeochemical analyses of human offerings from Huaca Colorada, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

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2020

The effect of diet and sociopolitical change on physiological stress and behavior in late Roman‐Early Byzantine (300–700 AD ) and Islamic (902–1,235 AD ) populations from Ibiza, Spain

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2020

Zooarchaeology and landscape interactions: A short introduction

Year:

2020

Collaborators (6)

Julieta G. García-Donas

Lecturer and Researcher

University of Dundee

UNITED KINGDOM

Chris Stantis

Assistant Professor

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

UNITED STATES

Kelly Knudson

Professor

Arizona State University

UNITED STATES

Benjamin Schaefer

Lecturer in Anthropology

Brandeis University

UNITED STATES

Esther Plomp

Delft University of Technology

NETHERLANDS

Veronique Belisle

Associate Professor

Millsaps College

UNITED STATES

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