Patrick Ryan Williams
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Phone: 480-965-9813
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900 S. Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 2402Campus: Tempe
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Patrick Ryan Williams is a professor and director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. For two decades, he has served as curator of archaeological science and director of the Elemental Analysis Facility at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, where he also served on the graduate faculties of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University. Williams curated the South American Anthropology collections at the Field, and has worked with several Native American artists in building that collection. He has also curated several traveling exhibits, including "Death: Life’s Mystery, Maps: Finding our Place in the World, and Mummies: Images of the Afterlife." Educated at Northwestern and the University of Florida, Williams served on the faculty of Boston University before joining the Field, where he served as chair of anthropology, associate director for research, and head of social sciences for over a decade. Williams has authored more than 80 publications, has been awarded 10 federal senior research grants, and directs a multidisciplinary international archaeological research program around the site of Cerro Baúl in Southern Peru.
- PhD. Anthropology and GIS and Remote Sensing, University of Florida, 1997
- MA. Anthropology, University of Florida, 1995
- BA. Anthropology, Geography, Northwestern University, 1993
- Lic. Arqueología (revalidada), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Anthropology of imperialism and colonialism, complex societies, agricultural dynamics, landscape ecology, climate change, geographic information systems and remote sensing applications, geoarchaeology, archaeometry, Andean South America.
2023 Grávalos, M. Elizabeth, David A. Reid, Donna J. Nash, and Patrick Ryan Williams. Crafting Cosmopolitanism: Ceramic Production and Exchange during Wari Imperialism (600-1000 CE). In Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks, edited by M. E. Gravalos, P. R. Wiliams, and L. Muro. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
2023 Kosiba, Steve, Nicola Sharratt, Mark Golitko, Kylie Quave, Laure Dussubieux, and Patrick Ryan Williams. Local Knowledge, Imperial Aesthetics: LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Clay Procurement and Ceramic Production in Ancient Cuzco. In Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks, edited by M. E. Gravalos, P. R. Wiliams, and L. Muro. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
2023 Sharratt, Nicola, Patrick Ryan Williams, Donna J. Nash, Sofia Chacaltana-Cortez, Joshua Wackett. Crafting a Colony: geochemical insights into 1000 years of state craft in the Moquegua Valley, Peru. In Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks, edited by M. E. Gravalos, P. R. Wiliams, and L. Muro. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
2023 Williams, Patrick Ryan, Nicola Sharratt, Cyrus Banikazemi, Andrew Roddick, Michele L. Koons, Collette Gabler, Ashley Vance. Ceramic Production in the Tiwanaku Sphere: LA-ICP-MS in the Moquegua, Titicaca, and Cochabamba Regions. In Collaborative Analyses of Elemental Data: A Special Issue on Andean Ceramics and Ancient Political Networks, edited by M. E. Gravalos, P. R. Wiliams, and L. Muro. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
2023 Deglin, Louise, Donna Nash, and P. R. Williams. Wari Imperial Motives: the Variety of Decorated Ceramics at Cerro Baúl. Ñawpa Pacha 43(1): 1-26.
2023 Hastorf, CA, KM. Moore, IE. Smail, R. Penfil, P. R. Williams, D. Riebe, KJ Knudson. Formative Exchange in the Andean Titicaca Basin: Isotopic Camelid Data and Lithic Sourcing: Evidence from the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia. Ñawpa Pacha 43(1): 27-53.
2022 Dauphas, Nicolas, Timo Hopp, Grant Craig, Zhe J. Zhang,Maria C. Valdes, Philipp R. Heck, Bruce L. A. Charlier, Elizabeth A. Bell, T. Mark Harrison, Andrew M. Davis, Laure Dussubieux, Patrick R. Williams, Michael J. Krawczynski, Claudia Bouman, Nicholas S. Lloyd, Darren Tollstrup, and Johannes B. Schwieters. In situ 87Rb–87Sr analyses of terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples by LA-MC-ICP-MS/MS with double Wien filter and collision cell technologies. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. JAAS, DOI: 10.1039/D2JA00135G.
2022 Reid, David, P. S. Goldstein, and P. R. Williams. P-XRF compositional analysis of obsidian from the Middle Moquegua Valley, Peru: Interaction on the Tiwanaku and Wari frontier. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 46: 103701.
2022 Reid, David, P. R. Williams, Kurt Rademaker; Nicholas Tripcevich, and Michael D.
Glascock. The Characterization of Small-Sized Obsidian Debitage Using P-XRF: A Case Study from Arequipa, Peru. In Obsidian Across the Americas, edited by G. Feinman and D. Riebe. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2022 Williams, P. R., David Reid, Donna Nash, Sofia Chacaltana, Kirk Costion, Paul Goldstein, Nicola Sharratt. Obsidian Utilization in the Moquegua Valley through the Millennia. In Obsidian Across the Americas, edited by G. Feinman and D. Riebe. Oxford: Archaeopress.
2022 Williams, Patrick Ryan, Gary Feinman, and Luis Muro Ynoñán, Editors. Beyond Death: Beliefs Practice, and Material Expression. Oxford: BAR Press and Fieldiana Anthropology.
2022 Williams, Patrick Ryan and Gary Feinman. Introduction to Beyond Death. In P. R. Williams, G. M. Feinman, and L. Muro Ynoñán, Editors. Beyond Death: Beliefs Practice, and Material Expression. Oxford: BAR Press and Fieldiana Anthropology: 1-11.
2022 Gary Feinman and Williams, Patrick Ryan Social Endurance Beyond Human Death. In P. R. Williams, G. M. Feinman, and L. Muro Ynoñán, Editors. Beyond Death: Beliefs Practice, and Material Expression. Oxford: BAR Press and Fieldiana Anthropology: 117-143.
2022 Williams, Patrick Ryan The Inca Capac Hucha. In P. R. Williams, G. M. Feinman, and L. Muro Ynoñán, Editors. Beyond Death: Beliefs Practice, and Material Expression. Oxford: BAR Press and Fieldiana Anthropology: 53-54.
2021 Nash, Donna and Patrick Ryan Williams. As Wari Weakened. Ritual Transitions in the Terminal Middle Horizon of Moquegua, Peru. In Joanne M. A. Murphy, Ed. Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States. London: Routledge, pp. 77-99.
2021 Williams, P.R. and Nash, D.J. Consuming Kero: Molle Beer and Wari social identity in Andean Peru. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 63, p.101327.
2020 Bélisle, Véronique, Hubert Quispe-Bustamante, Thomas J. Hardy, Allison R. Davis,
Elder Antezana Condorie, Carlos Delgado González, José Victor Gonzales Avendaño, David A. Reid, Patrick Ryan Williams. Wari impact on regional trade networks: Patterns of obsidian exchange in Cusco, Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 32: 102439.
2020 Vining, Benjamin and Patrick Ryan Williams. Crossing the Western Altiplano: An Ecological Context to Tiwanaku Migrations. Journal of Archaeological Science 113:105046.
2020 Williams, Patrick Ryan. Cambio Climático en los Antiguos Andes. Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Peru. 218 pp.
2020 Williams, Patrick R. Wari, Geography & Culture of. In Claire Smith, Ed. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer: 11095-11107.
2020 Williams, Patrick R. Moseley, Michael. In Claire Smith, Ed. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York: Springer: 7414-7416.
2020 Williams, Patrick Ryan, Donna Nash, and Sofia Chacaltana. Wari and Tiwanaku: Early Imperial Repertoires in Andean South America. In A. Boozer, B. During, and B. Parker, Eds. Archaeologies of Empire: Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press.
2019 Biwer, Matthew E., Patricia Chirinos Ogata, Donna J. Nash and Patrick Ryan Williams
Comida y contacto cultural: Resultados preliminares del Proyecto de Investigación Paleobotánica Wari en Moquegua. Actas deI IV Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Volumen II. Lima: Ministry of Culture of Peru. Pp. 77-88.
2019 Stephens, Lucas, Dorian Fuller, Nicole Boivin, Torben Rick, …, Patrick Ryan Williams, et al. Archaeological Assessment reveals Earth’s Early Transformation through Land Use. Science Vol. 365, Issue 6456, pp. 897-902. DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1192
2019 Williams, Patrick R., Donna Nash, Anita Cook, William Isbell, and Robert J. Speakman. Wari Ceramic Production in the Heartland and Provinces. In Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America: Production and Exchange, Michael D. Glascock, Hector Neff, and Kevin J. Vaugh, editors. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp 125-133.
2019 Williams, Patrick R., Donna Nash, Josh Henkin, and Ruth Ann Armitage. Archaeometric Approaches to Defining Sustainable Governance: Wari Brewing Traditions and the Building of Political Relationships in Ancient Peru. Sustainability 11(8), 2333; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11082333
2019 Sharratt, N., S. deFrance, P. R. Williams. Spanish Colonial Networks of Production: Earthenware Storage Vessels from the Peruvian Wine Industry. International Journal of Historical Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-018-0480-3.
2019 Hart, Megan, Ana Londoño, and Patrick R. Williams. The Rise and Fall of Peruvian Adaptive Agriculture in the Face of Climatic Instability. Geophysical Research Abstracts 21, EGU2019-4537.
2019 Londoño, Ana, Megan Hart, and Patrick Ryan Williams. Dryland irrigation, the expansion of an Agricultural Frontier in the Moquegua Region of Peru. Geophysical Research Abstracts 21, EGU2019-4525.
2018 Williams, P. R., A. C. Londoño, M. Hart. Modeling Archaeological Landscape Transformations in Early Andean Empires. In New Geospatial Approaches in the Anthropological Sciences, R. Anemone and Glenn Conroy, Eds. Albuquerque: UNM Press. Pp. 189-209.
2018 Dayton, C., P. R. Williams, B. Vining, and S. Smith. Geophysical Investigations at Khonko Wankane. In Khonko Wankane: Archaeological Investigations in Jesus de Machaca, Bolivia, J. W. Janusek, ed. Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility No 68. University of California, Berkeley.
2017 Williams, P. R. Una Perspectiva Comparada de Caminos Wari y Tiwanaku: los Antecedentes del Qhapaq Ñan Incaico. In Nuevas Tendencias en el Estudio de los Caminos Sofia Chacaltana, Elizabeth Arkush, and Giancarlo Marcone, Eds. Lima: Ministry of Culture of Peru. Pp. 30-47.
2017 Edmundo de la Vega, Charles Stanish, Michael E. Moseley, P. R. Williams, Benjamin R. Vining, Cecilia Chavez, and Karl LaFavre. Qawra Thaki: el Sistema de Caminos Transversales entre el Altiplano y los Valles Occidentales del Sur Peruano. In Nuevas Tendencias en el Estudio de los Caminos Sofia Chacaltana, Elizabeth Arkush, and Giancarlo Marcone, Eds. Lima: Ministry of Culture of Peru. Pp. 100-123.
2017 Londoño, Ana C., Patrick Ryan Williams, Megan L. Hart. A change in landscape: Lessons learned from abandonment of ancient Wari agricultural terraces in Southern Peru. Journal of Environmental Management 202 (3):532-542.
2016 Golitko, Mark, Nicola Sharratt, and Patrick Ryan Williams. "Open-Cell Ablation of Killke and Inka Pottery from the Cuzco Area: Museum Collections as Repositories of Provenience Information." Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Pp. 27-52.
2016 Janusek, J. & Williams, P. R. Tectonic Technē in the Production of Tiwanaku Monumentality. In Making Value, Making Meaning: Technē in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Andean South America. Cathy L. Costin, editor. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks. Pp. 95-128.
2016 Williams, P. R. and Donna Nash. Religious Ritual and Wari State Expansion. In Ritual and Archaic States, edited by Joanne M. A. Murphy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Pp. 131-156.
2016 Williams, Patrick Ryan. "Prologue." Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
2016 Williams, P. R. Exploration with radar and electrical resistivity. in Liangchengzhen: 1998-2001 Excavation Report (volume III). Edited by Luan Fengshi, Anne Underhill, Yu Haiguang, Fang Hui, Cai Fengshu, Wang Fen, Geoffrey Cunnar. Wenwu/Cultural Relics Press, pp. 1013-1021.
2015 Williams, P. R., J. Janusek, & C. Lemuz. Monumentalidad e Identidad en la Producción Monumental Lítica de Tiwanaku. In Juan Chacama y Antti Korpisaari, Eds. El Horizonte Medio: Nuevos Aportes para el Sur del Peru, Norte de Chile, y Bolivia. Lima: Instituto Frances de Estudios Andinos. Pp. 31-56.
2015 Sharratt, N., M. Golitko, and P. R. Williams. Pottery Production, Regional Exchange and State Collapse during the Middle Horizon: LA-ICP-MS analyses of Tiwanaku Pottery in the Moquegua Valley, Perú. Journal of Field Archaeology 40(4):397-412.
2015 Piscitelli, Matthew, Sofía Chacaltana Cortez, Nicola Sharratt, Mark Golitko, and Patrick Ryan Williams. Inferring Ceramic Production, Social Interaction, and Political Dynamics in the Moquegua Valley through Geochemical Analysis. Ceramic Analysis in the Andes, edited by Isabelle Druc. Madison: Deep University Press.
2014 Eerkens, J. W., Barfod, G. H., Vaughn, K. J., Williams, P. R., & Lesher, C. E. Iron isotope analysis of red and black pigments on pottery in Nasca, Peru. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6, 241-254.
2013 Levine, Abigail, Charles Stanish, P R Williams, Cecilia Chavez, and Mark Golitko. Trade and Early State Formation in the Northern Titicaca Basin. Latin American Antiquity 24(3): 289-308.
2013 Londono, A. C., Megan L. Hart, Patrick Ryan Williams, Megan L. Hente. Ground Based Lidar of Ancient Andean Agricultural Systems. Proceedings of the 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress. New York: IEEE: pp. 507-510.
2013 Williams, P. R. Tiwanaku: A Cult of the Masses. In A. Vranich and C. Stanish, eds. Visions of Tiwanaku. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. pp. 27-40.
2013 Williams, Patrick Ryan, Ana Cristina Londono, Megan L. Hart, Donna J. Nash, Sofia Chacaltana C., Megan L. Hente. Surface Architectural Scanning of Archaeological Sites with Ground Based Lidar in Southern Peru. Proceedings of the 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress. New York: IEEE: pp. 605-608.
2012 Arnold, Dean E., Bruce F. Bohor, Hector Neff, Gary M. Feinman, Patrick Ryan Williams, Laure Dussubieux, Ronald Bishop. The First Direct Evidence of Pre-Columbian Sources of Palygorskite for Maya Blue. Journal of Archaeological Science 39:2252-2260.
2012 Golitko, Mark, James Meierhoff, Gary Feinman, and P. R. Williams. Complexities of Collapse: the evidence of Maya obsidian as revealed by Network Graphical Analysis. Antiquity 86: 507-523.
2012 Janusek, J., P. R. Williams, M. Golitko, and C. Lemuz Building Taypikala: Telluric Transformations In The Lithic Production Of Tiwanaku in Mining and Quarrying in the Ancient Andes, K. Vaughn and N. Tripcevich, eds. New York: Springer. Pp. 65-97.
2012 McEwan, Gordon and P. R. Williams. The Wari Built Environment: Landscape and Architecture of Empire. In S. Bergh, ed. Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art. Pp. 65-81.
2012 Meierhoff, J., Mark Golitko, Gary M. Feinman & Patrick Ryan Williams. Chemical characterisation of obsidian from the Maya site of San José, Belize. Antiquity 86 (332):1-7.
2012 Sayre, Matthew, David Goldstein, William Whitehead, and P. R. Williams. A Marked Preference: Chicha de Molle and Wari State Consumption Practices. Ñawpa Pacha 32(2):231-258.
2012 Sharratt, N., P. R. Williams, M. C. Lozada, and J. Starbird. Late Tiwanaku Mortuary Patterns in the Moquegua Drainage, Peru: Excavations at the Tumilaca la Chimba Cemetery. In L. Klarich, C. Stanish, & A. Vranich, eds. Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology 3. Ann Arbor: UMMA.
2012 Williams, Patrick Ryan, Laure Dussubieux, and Donna J Nash. "Provenance of Peruvian Wari obsidian: Comparing INAA, LA-ICP-MS, and portable XRF," in Ioannis Liritzis and Chris Stevenson, ed., Obsidian and Ancient Manufactured Glasses. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. Pp. 75-96.
2011 Arnold, Dean, Jason Branden, Gary Feinman, Patrick R. Williams, and J. P. Brown. La primera evidencia de produccion de azul Maya: Redescubriendo una tecnologia mesoamericana olvidada. Mesoamerica Debates y Perspectivas. Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico. Pp. 199-218.
2011 Vaughn, Kevin, Laure Dussubieux, and P. R. Williams. A Pilot Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from the Kroeber Collection. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 3560-3567.
2011 Thornton, Erin K. Susan D. deFrance, John Krigbaum , and P R. Willliams. Isotopic Evidence for Middle Horizon to Sixteenth Century Camelid Herding in the Osmore Valley, Peru. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21: 544-567.
2010 C Stanish, E de la Vega, M Moseley, P R Williams, C Chavez, B Vining, K LaFavre. Tiwanaku Trade Patterns in Southern Peru. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29(4): 524-532.
2010 Williams, P. R. Innovacion Agricola, Intensificacion, y Dearrollo Socio-politco. Georama 2(3): 58-67.
2010 Williams, P. R. Paisajes hidráulicos y las relaciones sociales en los Andes del Horizonte Medio. Georama 2(4): 56–62.
2009 Sharratt, N., M. Golitko, P. R. Williams, and L. Dussubieux. Ceramic Production during the Middle Horizon: Wari and Tiwanaku clay procurement in the Moquegua Valley, Peru. Geoarchaeology 24(6): 792-820.
2009 Dussubieux, Laure and P. R. Williams. Elemental Analysis of Peruvian Copper-Based Artefacts using LA-ICPMS. In 2nd International Conference Archaeometallurgy in Europe 2007. Associazione Italiana di Metalurgia. Pp. 489-497.
2009 Marcus, Joyce and Patrick Ryan Williams, editors. Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA.
2009 Nash, D. and P. R. Williams. Wari Political Organization: The Southern Periphery. Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley. J. Marcus and P. R. Williams, eds. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA. Pp. 257-276.
2009 Williams, P. R. Wari and Tiwanaku Borderlands. In M. Young-Sanchez, ed. Tiwanaku: Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium. Denver: Denver Art Museum. Pp. 211-224.
2009 Kelly J. Knudson, Sloan R. Williams, Rebecca Osborn, Kathleen Forgey and P. R. Williams The geographic origins of Nasca trophy heads using strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope data. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28:244-257.
2008 D. J. Goldstein, R. C. Coleman, and P. R. Williams. You are What you Drink. Reconstructing Middle Horizon (500-1000 C.E.) Social Dynamics through Paleoethnobotanical Interpretations of Fermented Beverage Production and Consumption at Cerro Baúl, Moquegua, Perú. In J. Jennings and B. Bowers (eds.) Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes. Gainesville, University of Florida Press. pp. 133-166.
2008 Laffoon, J. E., L. A. Curet, P. R. Williams, W. Pestle, and L. Dussubieux. "Comparing the results of trace element analysis of human tissues using ICP-MS versus LA-ICP-MS." AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, pp. 136.
2008 Vining, B., P. R. Williams, D. Blom, y N. Couture. Hacia una Imagen del Espacio Social en Tiwanaku: Perspectivas por Medio de Metodos Geofisicos en el Altiplano Boliviano. In Arqueologia de las Tierras Altas, Valles Interandinos, y Tierras Bajas de Bolivia: Memorias del I Congreso de Arqueologia de Bolivia (Claudia Rivera Casanovas, ed.). La Paz: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas y Arqueologicas – Universidad Mayor de San Andres. pp. 63-76.
2008 Arnold, D., J. R. Branden, P. R. Williams, G. M. Feinman, & J. P. Brown
The first direct evidence for the production of Maya Blue: rediscovery of a technology. Antiquity 82: 151–164.
2008 Williams, P. R., D. J. Nash, M. Moseley, S. deFrance, M. Ruales, A. Miranda, D. Goldstein
Encuentros en el Reino Wari. Boletin de Arqueologia PUCP 9: 207-232.
2007 Dussubieux, Laure, Mark Golitko, Patrick Ryan Williams and Robert J. Speakman
LA-ICP-MS analysis applied to the characterization of Peruvian Wari ceramics. In Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, edited by Michael D. Glascock, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff & Robert J. Speakman. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society Symposium Series 968: 349-363.
2007 Williams, P. R., N. Couture, and D. Blom Urban Structure at Tiwanaku: Geophysical Investigations in the Andean Altiplano. Remote Sensing in Archaeology, J. Wiseman and F. El-Baz, Eds. New York: Kluwer. Pp. 415-433.
2007 Williams, P. R. Review of Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities Through Time. Journal of Anthropological Research 63:114-115.
2006 Williams, P. R. and D. J. Nash Sighting the Apu: A GIS Analysis of Wari Imperialism and the Worship of Mountain Peaks World Archaeology 38(3):455-468.
2006 Martin, R. D. A. M. MacLarnon, J. L. Phillips, L. Dussubieux, P. R. Williams, and W. B. Dobyns
Comment on “The Brain of LB1,Homo floresiensis” Science 312: 999b.
2006 Williams, P. R . Review of Andean Diaspora: The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of South American Empire. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11(2): 507-509.
2006 Williams, P. R. Agricultural Innovation, Intensification, and Sociopolitical Development: the Case of Highland Irrigation Agriculture on the Pacific Andean Watersheds. In Agricultural Strategies, J. Marcus & C. Stanish, Eds. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. Pp. 309-333.
2006 Williams, P. R. , C. Stanish, M. Moseley, and B. Vining. Roads Scholarship: A Methodological Approach to the Role of Trade in the Tiwanaku State of the South American Andes. in From Space to Place, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Remote Sensing Archaeology, edited by Stefano Campana and Maurizio Forte. BAR Intl Series 1568: lxxv.
2005 M. Moseley, D. Nash, P. Williams, S. DeFrance, A. Miranda, M. Ruales. Burning Down the Brewery: Excavation and Evacuation of an Ancient Imperial Colony at Cerro Baúl, Perú. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(48):17264-17271.
2005 Williams, P. R., D. K. Keefer, D. J. Nash, K. Sims, C. Dayton, M. Moseley. Envisioning the Invisible: Reconstructing the Taphonomy of Ancient Andean Agricultural Landscapes through GIS Slope Stability Models. The Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes through Digital Technologies II, M. Forte, Ed. Oxford: BAR Intl Series 1379. Pp. 53-59.
2005 Nash, D. and P. R. Williams. Architecture and Power on the Wari—Tiwanaku Frontier . Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 14. Pp. 151-174.
2004 Williams, P. R., N. Couture, D. Blom, J. Janusek, B. Vining, and C. Dayton
Ground-Based Remote Sensing and Early State Development in the South-Central Andes. Proceedings of the International Conference of Remote Sensing Archaeology. Beijing: Joint Laboratory of Remote Sensing Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Pp. 149-157.
2003 Williams, P. R. Hydraulic Landscapes and Social Conflict in Middle Horizon Peru in M. Forte & P. R. Williams, eds. The Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes through Digital Technologies. Oxford: BAR Intl Series S1151. Pp 163-172.
2003 Terrell, J. E., Hart, J. P., Barut, S., Cellinese, N., Curet, A., Denham, T., Kusimba, C. M., Latinis, K., Oka, R., Palka, J., Pohl, M. E. D., Pope, K. O., Williams, P. R., Haines, H. and Staller, J. E.
Domesticated landscapes: The subsistence ecology of plant and animal domestication. J. Arch. Method and Theory 10: 323-368.
2002 Williams, P. R. Re-thinking Disaster Induced Collapse in the Case of the Andean Highland States: Wari and Tiwanaku. World Archaeology 33(3): 361-374.
2002 Williams, P. R. and J. Isla. Excavaciones Arqueológicas en el Centro Administrativo Wari de Cerro Baúl. Gaceta Arqueológica Andina 26: 87-120.
2002 Williams, P. R. and D. Nash. Imperial Interaction in the Andes: Wari and Tiwanaku at Cerro Baúl. in W. Isbell & H. Silverman, eds. Andean Archaeology. New York: Plenum. Pp. 243-265.
2001 Williams, P. R., J. Isla, and D. Nash. Cerro Baúl: un Enclave Wari en Interacción con Tiwanaku. Boletin de Arqueologia PUCP 5: 69-88.
2001 Williams, P. R. Cerro Baúl: A Wari Center on the Tiwanaku Frontier. Latin American Antiquity 12(1): 67-83.
PUBLIC ORIENTED PUBLICATIONS:
2021 Williams, Patrick R., How to Survive a Climate Crisis. In the Field. Summer 2021: 11.
2020 Williams, Patrick R., The Politics of Beer. In the Field. Summer 2020: 12.
2019 Williams, Patrick R., Donna Nash, Josh Henkin, and Ruth Ann Armitage. Beer Bonding: Brewing traditions built strong political relationships in ancient Peru. Natural History November 2019: 12-15.
2016 Williams, P. R. Inca or Tahuantinsuyu Empire. Encyclopedia of Empire. Oxford University Press.
2016 Williams, P. R. Tiwanaku or Tiahuanaco Culture. Encyclopedia of Empire. Oxford University Press.
2011 Williams, P. R. Cerro Baúl. Museo Contisuyo, Moquegua.
2005 Williams, P. R. "Inca." World Book Online Reference Center. 2005. World Book, Inc. 21 Nov. 2005 <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar273760>.
2003 Williams, P. R. and D. Nash. Clash of the Andean Titans: Wari and Tiwanaku at Cerro Baul. In the Field. Summer: 16-17.
2000 Williams, P. R., M. Moseley, and D. Nash. Empires of the Andes: A Majestic Frontier Outpost Chose Cooperation Over War. Scientific American Discovering Archaeology March/April: 68-73.
June 1997 - present, Project Director, Cerro Baúl Excavation Project. Ongoing excavation of a Wari administrative center occupied ca. A. D. 600 - 1000.
Sept 2000 - present, PI, Geoarchaeological and geochemical investigations in the Andean altiplano. Collaborations with colleagues on investigating the buried structured of Tiwanaku urban sites.
Sept 2003 - present, Director, Elemental Analysis Facility at The Field Museum. Installation of a trace element and isotopic chemistry lab using LA-ICP-MS, XRF, and SEM-EDS for researching exchange systems in prehistory worldwide.
October 1995 - March 1996, Project Director, Moquegua Ancient Agriculture Project. Archaeological reconnaissance, remote sensing, and excavation of hydraulic sites, and ethnographic interviews with modern farmers.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 333 | Frauds, Myths and Mysteries |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 799 | Dissertation |
| ASB 792 | Research |
| ASB 592 | Research |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ASB 333 | Frauds, Myths and Mysteries |
| ASB 333 | Frauds, Myths and Mysteries |
2022 Presidential Recognition Award, Society for American Archaeology
2015 Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza, Peru, Honorary Visiting Professor
Editorial Board, Revista de Arqueología Americana, Mexico City
Editorial Board, Boletin de Arqueologia PUCP, Lima
Editorial Board, Boletín del Instituto Riva-Agüero, Lima
Review Editor, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, London
American Association of Museums 2019-
Institute for Andean Studies, 1998-; Board of Directors 2013-2018
Scientific Advisory Board, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute ArchPro, Vienna, 2014-
Society for American Archaeology, 1991-; Investment Committee 2019-22, Local Advisory Chair 2022
American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division, 2001-
Register of Professional Archaeologists, 2004-9, 2021-
Archaeological Institute of America, 2011-
Registro Nacional de Arqueólogos del Perú BW-9507, 1995-
Colegio de Arqueólogos del Perú 040612, 2006-
Asociación Contisuyo; Advisory Board Director 2002-; Board member 2018-
AAUP-FMNH Chapter 2009-; President 2009-2011
AAUP, Illinois State Council representative 2009-2015
Graduate Students Advised 2022-23: Emily Baca*, UIC; John Hicks*, UIC; Ben Schaefer*, UIC; Corey Bowen*, UIC; Ashley Vance*, UIC; Cyrus Banikazemi*, UIC; Emilee Witte*, UIC; Maria Isabel Guevara Duque, UIC; Rosa Maria Varillas, UIC; Rory Dennison, UIC; Caitlin Monesmith, UIC; William Ridge, UIC; Kendall Hills, UIC; Katerina Psoma, UIC; Krystal Britt, UIC.
Alumni: Nicola Sharratt* (UIC), Sofia Chacaltana*(UIC), David Reid* (UIC), M. Elizabeth Grávalos* (UIC), Robin Coleman* (NU), Ben Vining (BU), Chris Dayton (BU), Pilar Escontrias (NU)
*doctoral committee chair
July 2023 – present Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
2006 – 2023 Associate to Full Curator, Field Museum of Natural History
2001 – 2006 Assistant Curator, Field Museum of Natural History
2000-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Boston University.
January 1999 - May 2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Honors Program, University of Florida.
Scientific Advisory Board, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection, Vienna
Oficina de Evaluación de la Investigación PUCP, Lima.
Local Advisory Chair, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Chicago 2022