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Elizabeth Arkush is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in Andean archaeology. Her research examines warfare, political authority, and community organization in pre-Columbian Peru through settlement pattern analysis, GIS, and excavations.
Primary research areas include:
- Conflict and violence in pre-state societies
- Pukara hillfort settlements in Titicaca Basin
- Spatial technologies in archaeology
- Paleoclimate impacts on Andean societies
Arkush's publications integrate archaeological evidence with ethnohistoric data to reconstruct sociopolitical dynamics. Recent work expands hillfort documentation through systematic satellite imagery analysis across the south-central Andes.
Honors include the SAA Book Award (2013) for her monograph 'Hillforts of the Ancient Andes'. She teaches courses on warfare, South American archaeology, and GIS applications in archaeology while supervising graduate research on Andean topics.
