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m. elizabeth grávalos, ph.d.

anthropologist & archaeologist, Stanford University

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peer-reviewed publications 

Journal Articles

2025           Grávalos, M.E. “The Geopower of Kaolin Clay: Toward a Political Geology of Archaeological Ceramics”. American Anthropologist. 127, 43–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28036

2024                 Williams, P.R., D.A. Reid, M.E. Grávalos, E. Marsh, V. Belisle, C. Conlee, S. Kerchusky, and G. McEwan. “Wari across the Andes: Modeling the radiocarbon evidence”. Invited paper for special issue “Leveraging Radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From Chronologies to Research Agendas” in Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.04.007

2023                 Grávalos, M.E., D.A. Reid, D.J. Nash and P.R. Williams. “Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange during Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE)”. For special issue “Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks” in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103878  

2023                 Gorman, A.J., M.E. Grávalos, and K.J., Vaughn. “Examining the Nasca Religious Network on the South Coast of Peru: LA-ICP-MS of Early Nasca Ceramics from the Upper Ica Valley (AD 250-450)”. For special issue “Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks” in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103919

2023                 S. Chacaltana Cortez, E. Baca Marroquin, C. Hernández Garavito, S. Norman, and M.E. Grávalos. “Inka and Local Ceramic Production and Distribution Networks: A View from the Chinchaysuyo and Colesuyo”. For special issue “Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks” in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103910

2022                 Grávalos, M.E., R.E. Bria, and G.F. Lau. “An Examination of Recuay Kaolin Pottery Production and Exchange through Petrography and LA-ICP-MS (100 – 700 CE; Ancash, Peru)”. Archaeometry, 64 (6), 1340-1358. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12782

2022                  Grávalos, M.E. and E.A. Sharp. “Memory Work and Place-making over the Longue Durée at Jecosh, Peru (340 B.C.–A.D. 1630)”. Journal of Field Archaeology, 47 (3), 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2028232

2021                 Tomczyk, W. and M.E. Grávalos. “Changing to Remain the Same: Everyday Animal Use at Ancient Jecosh, North-central Peru”. World Archaeology, 53 (2), 305-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2021.2005676

2021                 Grávalos, M.E. and R.E. Bria. “Prehispanic Highland Textile Technologies: A View from the First Millennium AD at Hualcayán, Ancash, Peru”. Latin American Antiquity, 32 (4), 781-799. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2021.30

2019                 Vaughn, K.J., M.E. Grávalos, M.Z. Zegarra, and A.J. Gorman. “Cerro Tortolita, an Early Intermediate Period Ceremonial Center in the Upper Ica Valley”. Peruvian Archaeology, 3, 1-32. 

Edited Journal Issues

In Progress       Grávalos, M.E. and A.P. Roddick. “Political Geologies Past and Present: Ontology, Knowledge, and Affect” for the Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Special Issue proposal accepted July 22, 2024. Expected publication of issue: 2025. 

2023                 Grávalos, M.E, P.R. Williams, and L.A. Muro Ynoñán. “Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks”  in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. *Contributed articles listed in prior section.

Manuscripts in Progress

Submitted            Grávalos, M.E. “World-building amidst climate instability: geoaesthetics practices in Ancash, Peru”. Manuscript for Cambridge Archaeological Journal of special issue titled “Political Geologies Past and Present: Ontology, Knowledge, and Affect”.

Submitted             Grávalos, M.E. and A.P. Roddick. “’The state has the right to the sub-soil’: political geology and archaeological practice”. Manuscript for Cambridge Archaeological Journal as a part of special issue titled “Political Geologies Past and Present: Ontology, Knowledge, and Affect”.

other writing (not peer-reviewed)

Publications
2022                 M.E. Grávalos. Invited book review of Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru, by Ilana Johnson, David Pacifico, and Robyn E. Cutright (eds), Current World Archaeology, No. 113: 55.

2021               P.R. Williams, E. Suzukovich III, M.E. Grávalos, and L. Muro Ynoñán. “SAA 2022—Chicago Excursions” in the SAA Archaeological Record, 21 (5): 6-7.

Technical Reports

2020               D.K. Herrera Rondan, M.E. Grávalos, E.A. Sharp. Informe Final: Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica – Jecosh. Resolución Directoral No 146-2017/DGPA/VMPCIC/MC. Ministerio de Cultura del Perú.

2017               S. Peña del Castillo, M.E. Grávalos, E.A. Sharp. Informe Final: Proyecto de Investigación de Colecciones y Fondos Museográficos: “Estudio de la Cerámica y Restos Humanos en la Sierra de Ancash.” Resolución Directoral No 000012-2016/DGM/VMPCIC/MC. Ministerio de Cultura del Perú.

contact me: gravalos@stanford.edu