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Jeffrey R. Parsons
Jeffrey R. Parsons is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and
Curator of Latin America Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology. He has
pioneered and expanded the scope of settlement patterns analysis in archaeology and
conducted extensive surveys in Central Mexico, Peru, and Argentina.
The Latin American Range houses ceramic and lithic collections from throughout Middle
and South America, plus a large quantity of notes, maps, photographs, and slides
associated with Museum-sponsored field research over the past 55 years in Mexico and
Peru. Some archaeological and ethnographic collections from South America were
assembled as early as the late 19th century. The collections are particularly strong for
central and southern Mexico: these include systematic surface collections made by james
Griffith during the 1940s in the valley of Mexico and the valley of Oaxaca. Of additional
special significance is a complete type collection of Viru Valley, Peru ceramic types
assembled by James A. Ford during the late 1940s.
Selected publications
2000 Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and tarma Drainages,
Junin, Peru: Vol. 1: The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Parts 1 & 2. Memoir No.
34, University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Ann Arbor (With C. Hastings and
R. Matos).
1997 Rebuilding the State in Highland Peru: herder-Cultivator Interaction during the Late
Intermediate Period in the Taram-Chinchaycocha Region. Latin American
Antiquity 8: 317-341. (with C. Hastings and R. Matos).
1990 Maguey Utilization in highland Central mexico: An Archaeological
Ethnography. Anthropological paper No. 82, University of Michigan Museum of
Anthropology, Ann Arbor (with M.H. Parsons)
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