On Sunday, Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. in Spiro 2, please join the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Archaeology Society of Staten Island for a lecture entitled, “Listening to the Sounds of the Ancient City: Exploring the Soundscapes of Moche Archaeological Sites on the North Coast of Peru,” presented by Dianne Scullin, a doctoral candidate in Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology.
The lecture is free, and the public is invited to attend.
Scullin’s presentation will attempt to answer questions concerning the impact of sound on the lives of past peoples of Moche sites on the north coast of Peru and provide insight into the interaction between their material culture, architecture and organization. For more information about Dianne Scullin and the Moche Music Project, visit her website.
For more information about this lecture, email Prof. Celeste Gagnon.
PHOTO: Shown here is a Moche ceramic pot vessel in the form of a recumbent anthropomorphic peanut playing the quena (an Andean flute). (Photo by Nathan Benn, July 1989, from a private collection in Lima, Peru)