Dr. Richard C. Sutter, Associate Professor of Anthropology
My interests include the Peopling of the New World,
South American Archaeology, Mortuary Analysis, Prehistoric Ethnicity,
Bioarchaeological Theory and Methods, and Human Behavioral Ecology.
My National
Science Foundation
funded research focused on the prehistoric peopling of South America,
and I continue to research this topic today.
I have published on the origins
of the Moche human sacrificial victims from Huaca de la Luna Plazas
3A and 3C, the origins and ultimate
fate of the Chinchorros of northern Chile, ethnohistoric
models of prehistoric culture change among Pre-Colombian coastal
Andeans of northern Chile and southern Peru, the Prehistoric Peopling
of South America, ethnogenesis among Late Intermediate Period
inhabitants of the Azapa Valley, Chile, social and dietary implications
of dental disease among the prehistoric inhabitants of Chiribaya
Alta, Peru, and the social and dietary implications of dental
disease among 19th century poorhouse inmates (see list of publications below - some available
as PDF files). I have also worked extensively with South American
mummies and Moche human sacrifices (click
here for Dr. Sutter's Mummy Image Gallery) and have conducted my research at a number of research
institutions in the United States and the South America (see list of institutions below).
Courses I teach include:
Publications and Manuscripts in Press:
Sutter, RC, and R Cortez (2007) Analysis of Human Skeletal Materials from Kasapata (AN-309), Cuzco Valley, Peru. Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley, by B Bauer and B Jones (editors). The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA: 78-110. (AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)
Bauer, BS, Jones, B, Klink, C, Sutter, RC, deFrance, SD, and Burger, R (2007) The Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley. Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley, by B Bauer and B Jones (editors). The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA:122-125. (AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)
Sutter, RC (2005) The Prehistoric Peopling of South America as Inferred from Genetically Controlled Dental Traits. Andean Past 7: 183-217.
Accepted Manuscripts:
Sutter, RC (i.p.) Prehistoric Population Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes. Chapter to published in The Foundations of South Highland Andean Civilization: Papers in Honor of Michael E. Moseley, by P.R. Williams and C. Stanish (editors). The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.
Sutter, RC (n.d.) The Biological Origins and Relations Among the Moche Valley Gallinazo Of Cerro Oreja and Other Prehistoric Northern Andean Mortuary Populations: A First Approximation Using Epigenetic Dental Traits. Chapter acccepted for publication in the volume Gallinazo: An Early Cultural Tradition on the Peruvian North Coast, edited by Jean-François Millaire.
Sutter, RC (n.d.) Post-Tiwanaku Ethnogenesis in the Coastal Osmore Valley: A Test of Competing Models for the Origins of the Moquegua Chiribaya Using Matrix Correlations. Chapter acccepted for publication in the edited volume Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, edited by Kelly J. Knudson and Christopher Stojanowski. University of Florida Press.
Sutter, RC (n.d.) Nonmetric Subadult Sexing Traits: II. A Multifactorial Examination of Eight Previously Proposed Methods Using Prehistoric Known-Sex Mummies from Northern Chile. Manuscript accepted for publication to Journal of Forensic Sciences.
Manuscripts in Preparation:
- n.d. Were Late Horizon (AD 1476-1532) Inhabitants of Molle Pampa, Northern Chile, Inka Mitmacuna? An Examination of Dentally Derived Biodistances. Manuscript by Richard C. Sutter and Calogero Santoro to be submitted to American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
- n.d. The Prehistoric Peopling of the Peruvian Andes.
- n.d. Human Skeletal Remains from Kasapata (AN-309).
- n.d. A Prehistoric Shark Attack Victim from Central Coast of Peru: Skeletal Analysis of Tomb 159 from Paloma.
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Institutions where Dr. Sutter has conducted research
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Richard Sutter.
Last updated 30 August, 2007.