Alan L. Kolata

(PhD, Harvard 1978) Neukom Family Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College leads ongoing interdisciplinary research projects studying human-environment interactions over the past 3000 years in the Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia, on the north coast of Peru and most recently in Thailand and Cambodia. Recent research interests include comparative work on agroecological systems, human-environment interactions, the human dimension of global change, agricultural and rural development, and archaeology and ethnohistory, particularly in the Andean region.
email: a-kolata@uchicago.edu

Publications:

1993 The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Mass: Basil Blackwell.

1993 Nutrient and Sediment Retention in Andean Raised-Field Agriculture (with H.J. Carney, M.W. Binford, R.R. Marin and C.R. Goldman). Nature, 364:131-133.

1996 Valley of the Spirits. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

1996 Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland: Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization. Volume 1: Agroecology. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

1996 Mimesis and Monumentalism in Native Andean Cities. RES 29/30: 223-236.

1997 Of Kings and Capitals: Principles of Authority and the Nature of Cities in the Native Andean State. In D.L. Nichols & T.H. Charlton, eds., The Archaeology of City States: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 245-254.

1997 Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Andean Civilization (with M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, M. Abbott, J.W. Janusek, M.T. Seddon & J. Curtis). Quarternary Research. 47:235-248.

1999 Nitrogen Fixation in Soils and Canals of Rehabilitate Raised-Fields of the Bolivian Altiplano (with D. Biesboer & M.W. Binford). Biotropica. 31(2):255-267.

2000 Environmental Thresholds and the 'Natural History' of an Andean Civilization. In G. Bawden & R. Reycraft, eds., Environmental Disaster and the Archeology of Human Response. Univ. of New Mexico Press, 163-178.

2003 Tiwanaku and Its Hinterland: Archaeology and Paleoecology of an Andean Civilization. Volume 2: Urban and Rural Archaeology. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

2004 Pre-Industiral Human and Environment Interactions in Northern Peru during the Late Holocene. (with T. Dillehay) Journal of Halocene Studies. 14(2): 272-281

2004 Long-Term Human Response to Uncertain Environmental Conditions in the Andes. (with T. Dillehay) Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(12): 4325-4330.

2004 Top-down or Bottom-up: Rural Settlement and Raised Field Agriculture in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia (with J.W. Janusek). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23(4): 404-430.

2004 The Flow of Cosmic Power: Religion, Ritual, and the People of Tiwanaku. In M. Young-Sanchez, ed., Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca. Denver Art Museum and the University of Nebraska Press, 97-125.

2006 Before and After Collapse: Reflections of the Regeneration of Social Complexity. In G.M. Schwartz & J.J. Nichols, eds., After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies. Univ. of Arizona Press.

2009  Origin of the Annual Flood Pulse in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Geology. (with 7 other authors) (forthcoming).