Collections & Research Staff
Justin Jennings
Curator
B.A., Archaeology & Anthropology, Tufts University, Boston, 1995
M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
Justin Jennings grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While working on his undergraduate degree in anthropology and archaeology, he excavated briefly in Greece at the Athenian Agora, but later turned his research focus to Peruvian archaeology during graduate school, where his interests continue to this day.
His current research centers on state expansion and consolidation in the Ancient Andes, and he has published on heritage tourism, ritual change, and the ancient uses of alcohol. Over the last twelve years, the focus of his fieldwork has been on the impact of the Wari (AD 600 - 1000) and Inca (AD 1430 - 1532) states in the Cotahuasi and Majes Valleys of southern Peru. His most recent books include Globalizations and the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Beyond Wari Walls (University of New Mexico Press, 2010).
Recent Publications
| 2011 | Globalizations and the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press, New York. |
| 2010 | Beyond Wari Walls: Exploring the Nature of Middle Horizon Peru away from Wari Centers. Edited by Justin Jennings. University of New Mexico Press. |
| 2010 | Beyond Wari Walls. In Beyond Wari Walls: Exploring the Nature of Middle Horizon Peru away from Wari Centers, edited by Justin Jennings. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. |
| 2010 | Becoming Wari: Globalization and the Role of the Wari State in the Cotahuasi Valley of Southern Peru. In Beyond Wari Walls: Exploring the Nature of Middle Horizon Peru away from Wari Centers, edited by Justin Jennings. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. |
| 2009 | Justin Jennings and Brenda Bowser (Eds.). Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. |
| 2009 | Mariusz Ziolkowski, Justin Jennings, and Luis Augusto Belen Franco (Eds.). Arqueología del Área Centro Sur Andina: Actas del Simposio Internacional 30 de Junio-2 de Julio de 2004, Arequipa Perú, Centro de Estudios Precolombinos, University of Warsaw, Warsaw. |
| 2009 | Justin Jennings and Willy Yépez Álvarez. The Inca Conquest and Consolidation of the Cotahuasi Valley of Southern Peru.” Ñawpa Pacha: An International Series for Andean Archaeology 29: 119-152. |
| 2009 | Justin Jennings and Melissa Chatfield. Pots, Brewers, and Hosts: Women´s Power and the Limits of Central Andean Feasting. In Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes, edited by Justin Jennings and Brenda Bowser, pp. 200-231. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. |
| 2009 | Justin Jennings. Drink, Power, and Society: An Introduction. In Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes, edited by Justin Jennings and Brenda Bowser, pp. 1-27. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. |
| 2009 | Justin Jennings and Willy Yépez Álvarez.“ El Intermedio Tardío en el valle de Cotahuasi, Peru.”In Arqueología del Área Centro Sur Andina: Actas del Simposio Internacional 30 de Junio - 2 de Julio de 2004, Arequipa Perú, edited by Mariusz Ziolkowski, Justin Jennings, and Luis Augusto Belen Franco, pp. 11-23. Centro de Estudios Precolombinos, University of Warsaw, Warsaw. |
| 2009 | Book Review of Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes, by Denise Y. Arnold and Christine A. Hastorf. Journal of Latin American Studies 41(1): 148-150. |
| 2008 | Merely Legend? The ROMs Crystal Skull. ROM: Magazine of the Royal Ontario Museum 41(2): 22. |
| 2008 | Justin Jennings and Adrienne Rand. Stemming the Tide: How Social Marketers can help in the Fight against Looted Antiquities. SAA Archaeological Record 8(3) (in press). |
Publications List (PDF)
Galleries
Shreyas and Mina Ajmera Gallery of Africa, the Americas and Asia-Pacific
ROM Images
The Americas
ROM magazine
ROM's 40 Influential Research Projects
Other Links
New Stories - Africa, Americas & Asia-Pacific
Archaeological Newsletter - Ancient Beer: or the wayward ethnographic wanderings of an archaeologist
University of Toronto Department of Anthropology
Podcasts
Marking the Moche: Tattoos and Body Modification in Ancient Peru April 12, 2007
Associate Curator Justin Jennings talks about Moche objects on loan to the ROM from the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
The Sicán Archaeological Project - March 15, 2007Video Podcast (19.6MB, 5m 37s)
Audio tour excerpt by Associate Curator Justin Jennings on the work of the Sicán Archaeological Project, including the 1995-1996 excavation of the West Tomb containing 23 individuals, and the 2006 discovery of a cemetery with 21 intact tombs.
Huaca Loro - March 15, 2007Audio Podcast (1.27MB, 2m 46s)
Audio tour excerpt by Associate Curator Justin Jennings on Sicán sacred places, huacas, their layout and function, and the rituals and ceremonies held on these platform mounds, especially at Huaca Loro.
Ancient Peru Unearthed: Preview - March 9, 2007Audio Podcast (1.26MB, 2m 45s)
AWilliam Thorsell (Director & CEO) and Justin Jennings (Associate Curator) address the audience at the media preview of the exhibition Ancient Peru Unearthed.
Audio Podcast (4MB, 6m 8s)
Contact Information
Department of World Cultures
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON
M5S 2C6
Fax: 416.586.5877
E-mail: World Cultures
Justin Jennings with sherds that he documented during a rafting trip down the Cotahuasi River to identify remote sites. These Inca vessels are from a looted tomb at the site of Cachemire. Photo by Didi Moscoe, © Bio Bio Expeditions.
Justin Jennings is the Associate Curator of New World Archaeology, here he is displaying a mask during a preparators workshop for the exhibition Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization.
