Publications and Disseminations
2025
Stantis, C., Schaefer, B. J., Correia, M. A., Alaica, A. K., Huffer, D., Plomp, E., Di Giusto, M., Chidimuro, B., Rose, A. K., Nayak, A., & Kendall, E. J. (2025). Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, e24992. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24992
2024
Alaica, A. K., & Bélisle, V. (2024). Camelid Caravans of Middle Horizon Peru: Household Contexts, Local Transformations, and Interregional Interaction in Cusco. In Mobile Pastoralist Households: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives, edited by Jean-Luc Houle, pp. 255-274. Berghahn Books, New York. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805396697
Alaica, A. K., & González, L. M. (2024). From small to large scale: Biomolecular trends of guinea pig remains to understand household and environmental dynamics in 1st millennium CE Nasca, Peru. In Costa, C., Rufà, A., García-Suárez, A., & Kabukcu, C. (Eds.), Cross-disciplinary research in Environmental Archaeology (pp. 34-35). ICarENB - Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.34623/n433-sz51
Warner, J. & Aleksa K. Alaica. (2024) Contextualizing the Influence of Climate and Culture on Bivalve Populations: Donax obesulus Malacology from the North Coast of Peru. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1991055
2023
Alaica, A. K. (2023). Birds among the Moche of northern Peru: Examining food, environment, and ritual through avian taxa from Huaca Colorada (600-900 CE). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 33(4), 771-786. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3251
Alaica, A. K., & Bélisle, V. (2023). Bone and antler artifact use in the 1st millennium CE of Cusco, Peru: Insights on textile production and food processing from the site of Ak’awillay. Quaternary International, 665-666, 176-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.05.009
Alaica, A. K., González La Rosa, L. M., Yépez Álvarez, W., & Jennings, J. (2022). The day the music died: Making and playing bone wind instruments at La Real in Middle Horizon, Peru (600-1000 CE). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 68, 101459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101459
Melton, M. A., Alaica, A. K., Biwer, M. E., González La Rosa, L. M., Gordon, G., Knudson, K. J., VanDerwarker, A. M., & Jennings, J. (2023). Reconstructing Middle Horizon camelid diets and foddering practices: Microbotanical and isotope analyses of dental remains from Quilcapampa, Peru. Latin American Antiquity, 34, 783-803. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2022.80
2022
Alaica, A. K., González La Rosa, L. M., Yépez Álvarez, W., & Jennings, J. (2022). The day the music died: Making and playing bone wind instruments at La Real in Middle Horizon, Peru (600-1000 CE). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 68, 101459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101459
Alaica, A. K., Scaffidi, B. K., González La Rosa, L. M., Jennings, J., Knudson, K. J., & Tung, T. A. (2022). Flexible agropastoral strategies during the 1st millennium CE in southern Peru: Examining yunga Arequipa camelid husbandry practices during Wari expansion through stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) in the Majes and Sihuas Valleys. Quaternary International, 634, 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.06.015
Plomp, E., Stantis, C., James, H. F., Cheung, C., Snoeck, C., Kootker, L., Kharobi, A., Borges, C., Moreiras Reynaga, D. K., Pospieszny, Ł, Fulminante, F., Stevens, R., Alaica, A. K., Becker, A., de Rochefort, X., & Salesse, K. (2022). The IsoArcH initiative: Working towards an open and collaborative isotope data culture in bioarchaeology. Data in Brief, 45, 108595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108595
Alaica, A. K. (2022). Alterity, Authority and Ancestors: Exploring Monkey Images in Moche Iconography of North Coast Peru. In World Archeoprimatology: Interconnections of Humans and Nonhuman Primates in the Past, edited by Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos and Andrzej Antczak, pp. 132-152. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/world-archaeoprimatology/4E8C85C75C4B3954EE59D12A9CA6D087