{"id":575,"date":"2025-04-16T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/?p=575"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:48:34","slug":"ari-caramanica-featured-in-the-conversation-on-perus-irrigation-agriculture-and-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/2025\/04\/16\/ari-caramanica-featured-in-the-conversation-on-perus-irrigation-agriculture-and-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Caramanica featured in &#8216;The Conversation&#8217; on Peru&#8217;s irrigation, agriculture, and archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/04\/16163743\/AriSpotlight_0425-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/04\/16163743\/AriSpotlight_0425-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/04\/16163743\/AriSpotlight_0425-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/04\/16163743\/AriSpotlight_0425.png 938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drone\u2019s view of sugarcane fields shows a pre-Hispanic adobe aqueduct on the right and small feeder canals in the modern fields.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ari Caramanica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ari Caramanica, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, highlights the importance of culture and Indigenous knowledge in Peru&#8217;s irrigation and agricultural systems. Read more in her feature in <em>The Conversation<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/perus-ancient-irrigation-systems-succeeded-in-turning-deserts-into-farms-because-of-the-culture-without-it-the-systems-failed-251199\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari Caramanica, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, highlights the importance of culture and Indigenous knowledge in Peru&#8217;s irrigation and agricultural systems. Read more in her feature in The Conversation here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/04\/16163743\/AriSpotlight_0425.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}