Izumi Shimada

Professor Izumi Shimada examines a Loro Tumi knife unearthed on Huaca in 2006.

Sicán gold mask excavated by Shimada, now in the Sicán National Museum in Ferreñafe, Peru.

Izumi Shimada ( Japanese 島 田 泉 , Shimada Izumi ; * 1948 in Mukō , Kyōto Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist .

overview

Izumi Shimada teaches and researches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). His main interests relate to pre-Columbian cultures of the Andes , the technology and organization of handicraft production, grave analysis, experimental archeology. His area of ​​expertise also includes the role of ideology and organized religion in cultural development and the relationships between culture and the environment.

Shimada is particularly known for the interdisciplinary approach to researching the background of the sites and cultures he has archaeologically investigated.

Life

Izumi Shimada came to the USA in 1964 and studied anthropology at Cornell University , where he discovered his interest in ancient civilizations of the Andes and experimental archeology under the guidance of John V. Murra and Robert Ascher . The archaeological field work during two excavation seasons in 1973 and 1975 in the Moche city ​​of Pampa Grande (approx. 600–750 AD) on the north coast of Peru led to his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Arizona . He then taught at the University of Oregon from 1977 to 1978, at Princeton from 1978 to 1983 and at Harvard from 1984 to 1991 , before joining the SIUC in 1994.

From 1978 to the present day he leads the Sicán Archaeological Project , which focuses on the development processes, technology, religion and other aspects of the pre-Columbian Sicán culture (approx. 800-1400 on the northern coast of Peru). The results of the project formed the basis for the National Sicán Museum in Ferreñafe , Peru, which opened in 2004. In 2003 he started interdisciplinary studies of the social foundations and environmental conditions of the famous religious center of Pachacámac , outside Lima. The Government (2003) and Congress (2006) of Peru awarded him Medals of Honor for his contribution to the study and understanding of Peruvian culture and history.

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Shimada has written numerous (2011: 164) journal articles and book chapters and published thirteen scientific books (as of 2011). The anthology The Inka Empire , edited by Shimada in 2015, reflects the interdisciplinary status of Inca research . He is considered a leading explorer and currently the best expert on the pre-Incan Sicán culture .

Selection:

Book publications

• (as ed. *) The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Austin 2015)
• (as ed. *) Behind the Golden Mask: Sicán Culture (Lima 2010)
• (as Mithrsg. *) The Golden Capital of Sicán (exhibition catalog, Tokyo 2009)
• (as Ed. *) Craft Production in Complex Societies: Multi-Crafting, Sequential Production, and Producers (2007)
• Pampa Grande and the Mochica Kultur (1994, based on the author's doctoral thesis on the location from 1976, last reissued in 2002) ( limited preview in Google book search)
• Tecnología y organización de la producción cerámica prehispánica en los Andes (1994, 1998: Andean Ceramics Technology, Organization, and Approaches )
• (as Mithrsg. *) Andean Ecology and Civilization: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Andean Ecological Complementarity (1985)

* each with their own contributions

Articles in anthologies, exhibition catalogs and magazines

German:

• States on the north and south coast. In: Laura Laurencich Minelli (coord.): The Inca Empire. Origin and fall. 3rd edition (orig. 1992), Augsburg 1999, ISBN 978-3860479162 (translated from the English by Dieter W. Portmann), pp. 49-110
• (with Jo Ann Griffin) Goldsmith's art of the ancient Peruvian Sicán culture. In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft 6 (1994), pp. 88 ff. ( Online publication )

English:

• The Style, Technology and Organization of Sicán Mining and Metallurgy, Northern Peru: Insights from Holistic Study. In: Chungará, Revista de Antropología Chilena 45 ( Arica 2013), 3–31 ( online publication )
• Who were the Sicán? Their Development, Characteristics and Legacies. In: The Golden Capital of Sicán (2009), pp. 25–61 ( online publication )
• Late Moche Urban Craft Production: A First Approximation. In: Joanne Pillsbury (Ed.): Art and Archeology in Ancient Peru (2005), pp. 177-205
• (with D. Goldstein, W. Häusler, J. Sosa, U. Wagner) Early Pottery Making in Northern Coastal Peru. In: Ursula Wagner (Ed.): Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Archeology Volume II (Hyperfine Interactions 150) (2003), pp. 91-105
• (with Robert S. Corruccini) Dental Relatedness Corresponding to Mortuary Patterning at Huaca Loro, Peru. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117 (2002), pp. 113-121
• Late Pre-Hispanic Coastal States. In: Laura Laurencich Minelli (ed.): The Inka World: Developement of Pre-Columbian Peru, AD 1000–1534 (1992, most recently 2000), pp. 49–110 (German see above)
• (with Raffael Cavallero) Monumental Adobe Architecture of the late prehispanic Northern North Coast of Peru. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes 71 (1985), pp. 41-78 ( online publication )
• (with Paloma Carcedo Muro) Behind the Golden Mask: Sicán Gold Artifacts from Batán Grande, Peru. In: Julie Jones (curator): The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection (exhibition catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York 1985), pp. 61–75 ( limited preview in Google book search)

Web links

One hour lecture on Sicán culture at Utah Valley University given in February 2011:

• Press release Discovering Sican and
• Video recording Discovering the Sican with Izumi Shimada (with a detailed presentation of the speaker in the first few minutes),

both accessed on January 6, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Described in 1985 in the exhibition catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York: The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection. P. 67 and Fig. 6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).