Ph.D. Candidate Jordi Rivera Prince was awarded the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her project “Power in the Hands of Many: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Study Social Inequality in the Ancient Andes, North Coast of Peru (400-200 cal. B.C.).”
Jordi’s project focuses on the study of the emergence of social inequality in small-scale maritime communities in the ancient Andes. Her study will address emerging inequality from the perspective of human remains and mortuary contexts from the La Iglesia Site (Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru), a cemetery of a small-scale fishing community during the late Early Horizon (400-200 cal. B.C.).
According to the Wenner-Gren Foundation, “Dissertation Fieldwork Grants are awarded to aid doctoral or thesis research. The program contributes to the Foundation’s overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas…The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.”