Research
My work engages with the major themes of ancient ritual and foodways, animal domestication and management, and bone technology. I conduct most of my archaeological research in the Peruvian Andes.
Publications
Edited Volumes
| Ninja Column 1 | Ninja Column 2 |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Rosenfeld, S. and S. Bautista, editors. Rituals of the Past. Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology. University Press of Colorado. Website |
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
| Ninja Column 1 | Ninja Column 2 |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Rick, J, D. Contreras, V, Lema, J. Echeverria, G. Alva, S. Rosenfeld, and M. Sayre, “Prehispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol.122, No19, pp1-11.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425125122 |
| 2024 | Rosenfeld, S.A. Música, danza y arquitectura ritual en los recintos en forma de D de Conchopata. In Conchopata:Sociedad y Cultura en el Imperio Wari. Edited by I. Perez Calderon, Pp.163-178. Multiservicios R&B, Ayacucho. |
| 2023 | Sayre, M. and S. Rosenfeld. A River Runs through it: Ritual and Inequality in the La Banda Sector of Chavín de Huantar. In Reconsidering the Chavín Phenomenon in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Richard L. Burger and Jason Nesbitt., pp 61-79. Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University Press. Website |
| 2023 | Rosenfeld, S. Of Guinea Pigs and Mines: Changing Access to Animal Consumption at Chavín de Huántar (Peru). The Latin Americanist, 67(1), 62-77. Website |
| 2023 | Rosenfeld, S. A. Bone Craft Production at Chavin de Huantar, Peru. Senri, Ethnological Studies. New Perspectives on the Early Formation onf Andean Civilization. Chronology, Interaction, and Social Organization, ed. by Y. Seki 112: 89-106 Website |
| 2021 | Rosenfeld, S.A, B, Jordan, and M. Street Beyond Exotic Goods: Wari Elites and Regional Interaction in the Andes during the Middle Horizon (AD 600-1000). Antiquity Website |
| 2021 | Sayre, M. P. and S. A. Rosenfeld Pachamanca- a Celebration of Food and the Earth. In Andean Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Food and Culture., p.407-421. Edited by John E. Staller. Springer. Website |
| 2019 | Rosenfeld, S.A. review of An Introduction to Zooarchaeology by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez. Latin American Antiquity 30 (3): 661-662. doi:10.1017/laq.2019.57 |
| 2017 | Rosenfeld, S. and S. Bautista Rituals and Archaeology. In Rosenfeld, S. and S. Bautista, editors. Rituals of the Past. Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology. University Press of Colorado. |
| 2016 | Rosenfeld, S. and M. Sayre Llamas on the Land. Production and Consumption of Meat at Chavín de Huántar, Peru. Latin American Antiquity 27 (4): 497-511 Website |
| 2016 | Sayre, M., M. Miller and S. Rosenfeld Isotopic Evidence for the Trade and Production of Exotic Marine Mammal Bone Artifacts at Chavín de Huántar, Peru. Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences, 8 (2): 403-417. Website |
| 2014 | Rosenfeld, S. Guinea pig: Domestication. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by C. Smith, pp. 3172-3175. Springer, New York Website |
| 2012 | Rosenfeld, S. Wealth Display and Local Power in the Wari Empire. Ñawpa Pacha 32 (1): 131-164 Website |
| 2008 | Rosenfeld, S. Delicious Guinea Pigs: Seasonality studies and the use of fat in the pre-Columbian Andean diet. Quaternary International, 180: 127-134 Website |
| 2004 | Lanata, J., M. Cardillo, V. Pineau, and S. Rosenfeld La Reaccion de la Decada de 1980 y la Diversidad Teorica Post-procesual. In Explorando Algunos Temas de Arqueología, edited by A. Aguerre and J. L. Lanata: pp. 35- 82. Editorial Gedisa. Barcelona |
| 2001 | Elkin, D. and S. Rosenfeld La Explotación de Camélidos en Pintoscayoc 1 (Jujuy). In El Uso de los Camélidos a Través de Tiempo, edited by G. Mengoni, D. Olivera and H. Yacobaccio: pp. 29-64. Ediciones del Tridente, Buenos Aires |