Campus Directory: Andrea Cuellar

University of Lethbridge

Andrea Cuellar
Faculty
Anthropology Department
Office: C876 (University Hall)
Phone: (403) 329-2521
Email:

Degrees

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 2006. M.A. Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 2006. Graduate Certificate, Latin American Studies, U. of Pittsburgh 2006 B.A. Anthropology, Universidad de Los Andes 1997

Expertise

Historical ecology, anthropology/archaeology of food, agrarian history/agrarian change, land use history, social inequality, regional approaches in archaeology, South America, Andes, Amazon

Alternate Languages

Spanish

Selected Publications


Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2024. Social Impacts on Landscapes. Elsevier Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2nd Edition. Efthymia Nikita and Thilo Rehren, Eds. Elsevier. Pp. 612-619.

Cuéllar, Andrea M.; Pérez Rodríguez, Verónica; Morrell-Hart, Shanti and Stacie M. King. 2024. The Making of Oaxacan Foodways. Introduction to Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 4,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines. Verónica Pérez Rodríguez, Shanti Morrell-Hart and Stacie M. King, eds. University of Texas Press. Pp. 1-24.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2022. Book review essay: Food Under Duress: Perspectives from the Kitchen, the Body and the Trenches. American Antiquity. 87: 859-863.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2021. Alimentación y cambio social en las sociedades prehispánicas de Colombia. In Economías Prehispánicas de Colombia. Adolfo Meisel, María Alicia Uribe and Carl Henri Langebaek, Eds. Bogotá, Banco de la República. Pp. 103-121.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2018. Book review essay: Evolution, Diversity, and the Promise of a Comparative Perspective in South American Archaeology. Latin American Antiquity. 29: 828-830.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2015. Food and Inequality. In Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. Karen Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry, Eds. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Pp. 191-193.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2013. The Archaeology of Food and Social Inequality in the Andes. Journal of Archaeological Research. 21:123-174.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2012. Una evaluación de la noción de centralización en el estudio de sociedades complejas. In Reproducción social y creación de desigualdades: Discusiones desde la antropología y la arqueología suramericana. Hope Henderson and Sebastian Fajardo, Eds. Córdoba, Argentina: Editorial Brujas. Pp. 152-176.

Knight,Charles; Cuéllar, Andrea M.; Glascock, Michael; Hall, Minard andPatricia Mothes. 2011. Obsidian source characterization in the Cordillera Real and eastern piedmont of the north Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Archaeological Science. 38:1069-1079.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2011. Modelos económicos para las vertientes orientales de los Andes. El caso de los cacicazgos quijos desde una perspectiva arqueológica. Indiana (Journal of the Iberoamerican Institute, Berlin). 28: 35-58.

Cuéllar, Andrea M., Ingrid Kummels, and Karoline Noack. 2011. Repensando los Andes: perspectivas de análisis para el pasado y presente. Indiana (Journal of the Iberoamerican Institute, Berlin) 28: 9-14.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2011. What do historians and archaeologists mean by "complexity"? In Early Civilizations: 4000-1000 bce. ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of World History, Volume 4. Kevin M. McGeough, Ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 473-475.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2011. Demography in Ancient Societies. In Early Civilizations: 4000-1000 bce. ABC-CLIO. Encyclopedia of World History, Volume 3. Kevin M. McGeough, Ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 125-127.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 2009. The Quijos Chiefdoms: Social Change and Agriculture in the Eastern Andes of Ecuador. University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology No. 20. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Publications.

Langebaek, Carl; Cuéllar, Andrea M., and Alejandro Dever. 1998. Medio Ambiente y Poblamiento en la Guajira: Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Ranchería Medio.. Estudios Antropológicos No.1. Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Los Andes.

Cuéllar, Andrea M. 1995. Reflexiones en torno al desarrollo de sociedades complejas prehispánicas en la Amazonía. Revista de Antropología y Arqueología. Universidad de Los Andes. 11:125-142.

Research Interests

Anthropology/archaeology of food; food systems and human-environment relations; historical ecology; land use history; agrarian history; regional-scale approaches in archaeology; comparative study of social complexity and social inequality; South America; Andes; Amazon.


Internet Links

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