Daniel H. Sandweiss
| Daniel H. Sandweiss | |
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| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | Archaeologist |
Daniel H. Sandweiss is an American archaeologist and geoarchaeologist who has published extensively on climate change and maritime adaptations in Latin America, particularly the prehistory of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation.[1]
Sandweiss earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1979. He completed graduate studies at Cornell University, where he received an M.A. in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1989[1]. He is a professor of anthropology and quaternary and climate studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine, Orono.[1][2]
Sandweiss has worked extensively in coastal Peru. From 1989-1991, he collaborated with Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl to lead excavations at Túcume, a major pyramid center on the Peruvian north coast.[2] His work on coastal sand dunes suggested Spanish colonization permanently altered Peruvian coastal shorelines.[3][4] Sandweiss' research has also revealed some of the earliest human occupations of South America. He has dated the site of Quebrada Jaguay, on the Peruvian south coast, to 13,000–11,000 years BP.[5][6][7] Additional research at high elevation sites has revealed early human occupations between 12,800–11,500 year BP.[8][9]
He founded the Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory in 1982, in order to provide an accessible venue to report Andean research on the east coast.[10] In 1987, he founded the peer-reviewed publication series Andean Past and remains a member of its editorial board[1].[11] In 1993, he was the first American to conduct archaeological research in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution.[2]
Sandweiss served as president of the Society for American Archaeology from 2022-2025.[12][13] Previously, he served as president of the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society[13]. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.[14]
Major publications
- Heyerdahl, Sandweiss, D.H., A. Narváez (1995). The Pyramids of Túcume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City. Thames & Hudson, London.
- Sandweiss, D.H., H. McInnis, R.L. Burger, A. Cano, B. Ojeda, R. Paredes, M.C. Sandweiss, and M.D. Glascock (1998). "Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime Adaptations." Science281:1830-1832.
- Prieto, G. and D.H. Sandweiss, editors (2020) Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes. University Press of Florida.
- Rick, T.C. and D.H. Sandweiss (2020) Archaeology, Climate, and Global Change in the Age of Humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(15):8250-8253.
- Sandweiss, D.H. and K.A. Maasch (2022) Climatic and Cultural Transitions in Lambayeque, Peru, 600 to 1540 AD: Medieval Warm Period to the Spanish Conquest. Geosciences 12: doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12060238.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Dr. Daniel H. Sandweiss - Department of Anthropology - University of Maine". Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "UMaine archaeologist elected to National Academy of Sciences - Climate Change Institute - University of Maine". https://climatechange.umaine.edu/. 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2025-01-12. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Spanish Conquest May Have Altered Nation's Shoreline". HuffPost. 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ↑ "Spanish Conquest May Have Altered Peru's Shoreline". www.science.org. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ↑ "The Peopling of South America". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ↑ "Settling America by Sea?". www.science.org. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ↑ Sapiens (2018-06-08). "The Race to Recover South America's Ancient Past". SAPIENS. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ↑ Fraser, Barbara (2014-10-01). "The first South Americans: Extreme living". Nature. 514 (7520): 24–26. doi:10.1038/514024a. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ↑ "Ice Age hunter-gatherers lived at extreme altitudes". 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2025-01-13.
- ↑ NCAAE. "NCAAE 2024". NCAAE 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ↑ "Andean Past | Anthropology | The University of Maine". digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ↑ "Board of Directors 2024". Society for American Archaeology. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Sandweiss named president-elect of the Society for American Archaeology - UMaine News - University of Maine". https://umaine.edu/news/. 2022-02-15. Retrieved 2025-01-12. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS". https://www.nasonline.org/. Retrieved 2025-01-12. External link in
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