Bruce Owen

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993; M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986; B.A., Anthropology, Yale University, 1983

Professional Registration: Registro Nacional de Arqueólogos, Perú (since 1988)

Experience: 39 years in archaeology, 17 years with ASC

BRUCE D. OWEN has conducted statistical data analyses for ASC since 2003, and is now the editor for ASC publications. Dr. Owen has directed research and archaeological salvage projects in southern Peru, including systematic archaeological site surveys and residential and mortuary excavations, and has conducted quantitative analyses of artifact collections from these and other projects. His publications and conference presentations range from site reports and interpretations, to broad reconstructions of prehistoric events, to analyses of ceramic assemblages, bronze artifacts from Machu Picchu and the rest of the Inka empire, metal production debris from the Chimu site of Chotuna, evidence of early agriculture in the valley of Ilo, the marine carbon reservoir and radiocarbon dates, analyses of mortuary gravelots and demographics, kite and drone aerial photography for mapping, GIS studies of prehistoric settlement patterns, and quantitative analyses of collections from ASC’s West Oakland Cypress Freeway Replacement, San Francisco West Approach, and Bayshore Viaduct projects.

Dr. Owen was the founding director of the Museo Contisuyo, a museum, curation, and research center in Moquegua, Peru, and he taught undergraduate courses in archaeology, cultural anthropology, and biological anthropology at Sonoma State University from 1996 through 2016. He is currently the Secretary and Treasurer of the Institute of Andean Studies.