 Winifred
Creamer
Ph.D. Tulane 1983
Professor
Executive Director of the Anthropology Museum
Since 2002, Professor Creamer has been a director of the Proyecto
Arqueologico Norte Chico (PANC), an investigation on the development
of monumental architecture and social complexity in ancient Peru.
In 2007, the project continues with excavation of residential structures
at a site in the Fortaleza Valley. Undergraduate and graduate students
from NIU, other universities in the US, and Peruvian students take
part in the project. The other directors of the project are Jonathan
Haas (Field Museum) and Alvaro Ruiz (PANC, NIU).
In addition, Professor Creamer maintains her interest in culture
contact and the period of transition from prehistory to history
in the New World, focusing on the impact of European expansion on
the Pueblo people of New Mexico.
She has also carried out field research in Central America (Costa
Rica, Panama, Honduras, Belize) and in the American Southwest (New
Mexico, Arizona). Fulbright postdoctoral fellowships have taken
me to Honduras (1985-86) and Peru (2004).
Courses:
Anth 102 Rise of Civilization
Anth 210 Exploring Archaeology
Anth 303 North American Indians
Anth 414 Archaeology of Mesoamerica
Anth 415 Archaeology of the Southwest
Anth 417 Archaeology of South America
Anth 418 Archaeological Method and Theory
Anth 690c Guns, Germs and Steel: Perspectives on Cultural Evolution
Selected Publications
2006 The Crucible of Andean Civilization. Current Anthropology.
With CA comment. (with Jonathan Haas).
2005 Power and the Emergence of Complex Polities in the Peruvian
Preceramic. In, Foundations of Power in the Prehispanic Andes,
edited by Kevin Vaughn, Dennis Ogburn and Christina Conlee, pp.
37-52. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
14. [2004]. (with Jonathan Haas and Alvaro Ruiz).
2004 Dating the Late Archaic occupation of the Norte Chico Region
of Peru. Nature 432:1020-1023. (with Jonathan Haas and Alvaro
Ruiz).
2004 The Late Archaic in Andean Prehistory:3000-1800 BC. In, Andean
Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman, pp.35-50. Blackwell
Global Archaeology Series. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. (with Jonathan
Haas and Alvaro Ruiz).
Dating Caral, A Preceramic Site in the Supe Valley on the Central
Coast of Peru. (with Jonathan Haas and Ruth Shady S.) Science
292:723-726, April 27, 2001.
The Origins of Centralization: Changing Features of Local and Regional
Control During the Rio Grande Classic PEriod, A.D. 1325-1540. In,
Leaders to Rulers, edited by Jonathan Haas, pp. 37-58. New
York, Plenum Press, 2001.
The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico. Santa
Fe: School of American Research Press. (1993)
Stress and Warfare Among the Kayenta Anasazi of the Thirteenth
Century A.D. Fieldiana n.s. 21. (1993) (with
J. Haas)
Contact Information:
Website: http://www3.niu.edu/~t20wmc1/
Dr. Winifred Creamer
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-7038
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: wcreamer@niu.edu
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