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Jason S. Nesbitt

Degrees

  • B.A., Simon Fraser University, Archaeology, 2000
  • M.A., Trent University, Anthropology, 2003
  • M. Phil., Yale University, Anthropology, 2007
  • Ph.D., Yale University, Anthropology, 2012

Academic Experience

  • Co-Instructor, Anthropology 277 (Archaeological Field Techniques) and Anthropology 278 (Archaeology Laboratory I). Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 2009
  • Associated Investigator, Escuela Académico Profesional de Arqueología, Departamento de Antropología e Arqueología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú, 2007-2008

Distinctions

  • BOR Targeted Enhancement Research Grant, “Modernizing Methods to Study the Ancient Past: Enhancing the Research Potential of the Center for Archaeology,” 2020-2021
  • Stone Center Summer Faculty Research Grant, Tulane University, 2013
  • William Shirley Fulton Fellowship in Archaeology Endowment, Yale University, 2005-2006
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, #752-2007-0508, “Early Sociopolitical Organization at Caballo Muerto, Peru,” 2007-2008
  • GeoEye Foundation, for the acquisition of IKONOS satellite imagery of the Caballo Muerto Complex, Peru, 2009
  • Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History, Collections Study Grant (for the study of the Initial Period ceramic collection from Huaca Prieta, Peru), 2009
  • Sigma Xi, Grants in Aid of Research, #G2009101995, “Radiocarbon Dating of El Niño Events at Huaca Cortada: Implications for Human-Environment Dynamics in Ancient Peru,” 2009

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French

Overseas Experience

  • Peru

Related Experience

Selected Publications

  • 2021 [in press]. Early Monumental Architecture on the North Coast of Peru: Archaeological Excavations of the Caballo Muerto Complex. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • 2021 [in press]. The Archaeology of the Upper Amazon: Complexity and Interaction in the Andean Tropical Forest. edited by Ryan Clasby and Jason Nesbitt. . University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  • 2021 [in press]. Nesbitt, Jason, Rachel Johnson, and Bebel Ibarra Asencios. Connections Between the Chavín Heartland and the Upper Amazon: New Perspectives from Canchas Uckro (1100-850 BC). In The Archaeology of the Upper Amazon: Complexity and Interactio
  • 2020 [in press]. Washburn, Eden, Jason Nesbitt, Bebel Ibarra, Lars Fehren-Schmitz and Vicky M. Oelze. A Strontium Isoscape for the Conchucos Region of Highland Peru and its Application to Andean Archaeology. PLOS One.
  • 2020 [in press]. Haldon, John, Arlen Chase, Martin Medina Elizalde, Adam Izdebski, Francis Ludlow, Guy Middleton, Lee Mordechai, Jason Nesbitt, and B.L. Turner II. Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre- Modern Societies. Mi
  • 2020. “Ancient Agriculture and Climate Change on the North Coast of Peru.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(40): 24617-14619.
  • 2020. Washburn, Eden, Jason Nesbitt, Richard L. Burger, Elsa Tomasto, Vicky M. Oelze, and Lars Fehren-Schmitz. “Maize and Dietary Change in Early Peruvian Civilization: Isotopic Evidence from the Late Preceramic Period/Initial Period Site of La Galgada.”
  • 2020. Nesbitt, Jason, Bebel Ibarra, Fuyaki Tokanai. “The Architecture and Chronology of Reparín, Eastern Ancash, Peru.” Nawpa Pacha. Journal of Andean Archaeology 40(1). 41-59.
  • 2019. Nesbitt, Jason, Yuichi Matsumoto and Yuri Cavero. “Campanayuq Rumi and Arpiri: Two Civic-Ceremonial Centers on the Southern Periphery of the Chavín Interaction Sphere.” Nawpa Pacha. Journal of Andean Archaeology 39(1): 57-75.
  • 2019. Wealth in People: An Alternative Perspective on Initial Period Monumental Architecture from Huaca Cortada. In New Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization: Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the 1st and 2nd Millennia BC,
  • 2019. Nesbitt, Jason, Rachel Johnson, and Rachel Horowitz. “Was Obsidian Utilized to Shear Camelids in Ancient Peru? An Experimental and Use-Wear Approach,” Ethnoarchaeology. Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic and Experimental Studies 11(1): 80-94.
  • 2019. Matsumoto, Yuichi, Yuri Cavero, and Jason Nesbitt. Excavaciones Arqueologicas en Campanayuq Rumi, Vilcashuaman, Ayacucho: Tercera Temporada de Campo (2016). In Actas del IV Congreso Nacional de Arqueologia (Volumen II), pp. 45-54. Ministerio de Cult
  • 2018. Matsumoto, Yuichi, Jason Nesbitt, Michael Glascock, Yuri Cavero, and Richard Burger. Interregional Obsidian Exchange during the late Initial Period and Early Horizon: New Perspectives from Campanayuq Rumi. Latin American Antiquity 29: 44-63.
  • 2016. “El Niño and Second-Millennium B.C. Monument Building at Huaca Cortada (Moche Valley, Peru),” Antiquity 90: 638-653.
  • 2013. Gamboa Velásquez, Jorge and Jason Nesbitt. ‘€œLa Ocupación Moche en la Margen Norte del Valle Bajo de Moche, Costa Norte del Peru.‘€ Arqueología y Sociedad 25:115-142.
  • 2012. Matsumoto, Yuichi, Jason Nesbitt, and Denesy Palacio. Mitomarca: A Possible Fortification in the Upper Huallaga Basin. Andean Past 10: 272-278.
  • 2012. An Initial Period Domestic Occupation at Huaca Cortada, Caballo Muerto Complex. Andean Past 10: 278-283.
  • 2010. Nesbitt, Jason, Belkys Gutiérrez, and Segundo Vásquez. Excavaciones en Huaca Cortada, Complejo Caballo Muerto: Un Informe Preliminar. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 12 (2008): 261-286.
  • 2010. Gamboa Velásquez, Jorge and Jason Nesbitt. Huaca San Idelfonso y la Ocupación Moche en la Margen Norte del Valle Bajo de Moche, Costa Norte del Perú. ANTI: Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Precolombinas 9: 47-107.
  • 2010. López-Hurtado, Enrique and Jason Nesbitt. Provincial Religious Centers in the Inka Empire: Propagators of Official Ideology or Spaces for Local Resistance? In Comparative Perspectives on the Archaeology of Coastal South America, edited by Robyn Cutr

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