Dr David Beresford-Jones

Affiliated Scholar of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. For over two decades he has directed archaeological investigations on the south coast of Peru. He has interests in the origins of agriculture, Pre-Colombian textiles and the synthesis of archaeology and other disciplines, particularly linguistics. He is the author of The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca, the co-editor of Archaeology & Language in the Andes and Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide and over 60 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and books.