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My research is based in the northern Andes between Ecuador and southwestern Colombia as well as in the U.S. Southwest. I study the development of late Pre-Columbian Barbacoan identity and complexity as well as the transitional colonial experiences faced under the Inkas and subsequently the Spanish. I am a Director and Founder of Proyecto Arqueológico Cochasquí-Mojanda. Lately I have researched late Pre-Columbian to early Spanish Colonial transformations of Andean notions of difference, particularly disability and gender. Within my professional work in New Mexico, I study the “non-Pueblo” world – understanding Pre-Columbian cultural developments of hunter-gatherer societies, their interregional relationships with Pueblo societies, and the subsequent impacts of the colonial Spanish, Mexican, and American governments on the Apache, particularly the Mescalero and Chiricahua societies. I am an archaeological anthropologist that actively incorporates ethnohistory into my research.

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Works (9)

Cara

Database of Religious History, University of British Columbia
2024-06-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Ryan Hechler
Source: Self-asserted source
Ryan Scott Hechler

Machu Picchu

Database of Religious History, University of British Columbia
2024-06-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Ryan Hechler
Source: Self-asserted source
Ryan Scott Hechler

Quijos… ¿quiénes?: desenmarañando las identidades de los períodos de Integración Tardía y de colonialismo español de la Alta Amazonía del norte de Ecuador

Strata: Revista Ecuatoriana de Arqueología y Paleontología
2023-05-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler
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Ryan Scott Hechler

Ellos podrían ser gigantes: una etnografía arqueológica sobre los procesos histórico de racionalización del mastodonte, la megafauna y las primeras interacciones humanes en Ecuador

Revista Antropología Cuadernos de Investigación
2023-03-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1390-4256
Part of ISSN: 2631-2506
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler; Daniel Zurita-Altamirano
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Ryan Scott Hechler

Cochasquí, 1532 a 1932: 400 años de resiliencia histórica

Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia
2023-02-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1390-079X
Part of ISSN: 2773-7381
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler; Will Pratt; Andrea E. Chávez Chuquimarca
Source: Self-asserted source
Ryan Scott Hechler

The Fourth Lifeway: Recognizing the Legacy of Bodily Difference and Disability within the Inka Empire

Disability Studies Quarterly
2022-01-21 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2159-8371
Part of ISSN: 1041-5718
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler
Source: Self-asserted source
Ryan Scott Hechler

Over the Andes and through Their Goods: Late Pre-Columbian Political Economic Relations in Northern Ecuador

The Archaeology of the Upper Amazon: Complexity and Interaction in the Andean Tropical Forest
2021-09-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler
Source: Self-asserted source
Ryan Scott Hechler

The Azotea Peak Ring Midden Survey: A Cultural Landscape of Subsistence and Feasting around the Azotea Mesa of the Permian Basin, Eddy Co., NM

NewsMAC: Newsletter of the New Mexico Archeological Council
2020-05 | Newsletter article
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler
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Ryan Scott Hechler

Alternative Inka Imperial Strategies in Northern Ecuador

Department of Anthropology, McGill University
2014 | Dissertation/Thesis
Contributors: Ryan Scott Hechler
Source: Self-asserted source
Ryan Scott Hechler