| Izumi Shimada | |
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ContactSouthern Illinois University
Carbondale IL
 Pachacamac Archaeological Project
He is director of the Sican Archaeological Project and professor at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His spectacular finds of the Sicán elite tombs at Batán Grande Archaeological Reserve in northern Peru recently attracted public attention. He has put the evaluation of these finds on a broad basis using all available methods to investigate them. We are studying ceramic material from Batán Grande and recently also from the newly excavated 1000-years old workshop at Huaca Sialupe. Professor Shimada is greatly interested in experimental archaeology. He made possible the field firing experiments in a Formative kiln at Batán Grande. This was a unique opportunity for us to compare the behaviour of clay fired in the laboratory with that of the same clay fired in an authentic kiln and with the actual sherds excavated in settlements near the production site.
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Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Hutzelmann, T. and Wagner, U., Early Pottery
Making in Northern Coastal Peru. Part I: Mössbauer Study of Clays, In:
U. Wagner (ed.), Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Archaeology,
Hyp. Interact., Vol. 2, Kluwer, 2003, pp. 73-89.
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Shimada, I., Goldstein, D., Häusler, W., Sosa, J., Riederer, J. and Wagner,
U., Early Pottery Making in Northern Coastal Peru. Part II: Field Firing
Experiments, In: U. Wagner (ed.), Mössbauer Spectroscopy in
Archaeology, Hyp. Interact., Vol. 2, Kluwer, 2003, pp.
91-105.
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Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Hutzelmann, T., Riederer, J. and Wagner, U.,
Early Pottery Making in Northern Coastal Peru. Part III: Mössbauer Study
of Sicán Pottery, In: U. Wagner (ed.), Mössbauer Spectroscopy
in Archaeology, Hyp. Interact., Vol. 2, Kluwer, 2003, pp.
107-123.
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Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Jakob, M., Montenegro, J., Riederer, J. and
Wagner, U., Early Pottery Making in Northern Coastal Peru. Part IV:
Mössbauer Study of Ceramics from Huaca Sialupe, In: U. Wagner (ed.),
Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Archaeology, Hyp. Interact., Vol. 2, Kluwer, 2003, pp. 125-139.
|  Funeral mask from the tomb of
the Lord of Sicán
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Last update: 19.11.2005 |
