University of Rochester October 26-27, 2024

Welcome to the website of the 41st annual Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (NCAAE)! We are excited to host the NCAAE at the University of Rochester this year and hope you will be able to join us! We are happy to announce that archaeologist and director of the Pachacamac Site Museum, Denise Pozzi-Escot, will deliver the keynote lecture on Saturday, October 26th. Click below to register for the conference, and program schedule can be viewed here.

Founded in 1982 at Cornell University by Dan Sandweiss, the NCAAE was intended to provide a more accessible venue for sharing current research and works-in-progress, at a time when Andeanist meetings were located mainly on the West Coast and Midwest. Since then, the NCAAE has grown into a vibrant intellectual community encompassing multiple research institutions and independent scholars in the Northeast, and beyond. The NCAAE is organized on an ad-hoc and volunteer basis, with the responsibility of hosting the conference rotating among different institutions, and typically decided 1-2 years in advance at our Business Meeting which occurs during the conference. The intimate scale of the conference provides ample opportunity for building professional connections and makes for a welcoming environment for junior scholars and graduate students to present and receive feedback on their work.

More information on the history of the NCAAE, including a publication by Richard E. Daggett and a chronological listing of papers curated by Daggett and Monica Barnes, can be found in the archives of Andean Past.