Izumi Shimada

Izumi Shimada (Japanese岛 田 泉, Izumi Shimada, * 1948 in Muko, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese anthropologist and archaeologist.

Overview

He is a professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale ( SIUC ). His main research interests relate to pre-Columbian cultures of the Andes, the technology and the organization of craft production, tombs analysis, experimental archeology. The role of ideology and organized religion in the cultural development and the relationships between culture and the environment are among his field.

Life

Izumi Shimada 1964 came to the U.S. and studied anthropology at Cornell University, where he discovered his interest in ancient civilizations of the Andes and experimental archeology under the guidance of John V. Murra and Robert Ascher. The archaeological fieldwork during two excavation seasons in 1973 and 1975 in the Moche city of Pampa Grande (about 600-750 AD ) on the north coast of Peru in 1976 led to his doctorate at the University of Arizona. He then taught from 1977 to 1978 at the University of Oregon from 1978 to 1983 in Princeton from 1984 to 1991 Harvard before he came to SIUC in 1994.

From 1978 until the present he leads the Sicán Archaeological Project, which focuses on the development process, technology, religion and other aspects of the pre-Columbian Sican culture (about 800-1400 on the northern coast of Peru). The results of the project were the basis for the Sicán National Museum in Ferreñafe, Peru, which was opened in 2004. In 2003, he began with interdisciplinary studies of the social foundations and the environmental conditions of the famous religious center of Pachacamac, outside Lima. The Government ( 2003) and the Congress ( 2006) of Peru awarded him medals of honor for his contribution to the study and understanding of Peruvian culture and history.

Works

He has authored or edited 150 journal articles and book chapters and 11 books, including

  • Craft Production in Complex Societies: Multi- Crafting, Sequential Production, and Producers ( 2007)
  • Early Pottery Making in Northern Coastal Peru. (2003) Part I: Mössbauer Study of Clays ( Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Hutzelmann, T. and Wagner, U.)
  • Part II: Field Firing experiment ( Shimada, I., Goldstein, D., Häusler, W., Sosa, J., Riederer, J. and Wagner, U.)
  • Part III: Mössbauer Study of Sicán Pottery, ( Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Hutzelmann, T., Riederer, J. and Wagner, U.)
  • Part IV: Mössbauer Study of Ceramics from Huaca Sialupe, ( Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Jacob, M., Montenegro, J., Riederer, J. and Wagner, U.)

Contributions.

  • The Inca Empire: . Emergence and demise (ISBN 3-86047-916-4 ) ( 1998)
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