Speaker: Dr. Christopher Heaney,Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Penn State. Author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones and the Search for Machu Picchu (2010).
Moderated by: Harvard Andean Working Group
By 1873, seven years after the founding of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, over 400 of the 684 skulls in its collection...