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Cyrus Banikazemi

Research Assistant

Pronouns: He/Him

Selected Publications

Academic:

2024    Reid, David A., Patrick Ryan Williams, Elizabeth Gravalos, Laure Dussubieux, Cyrus D. Banikazemi, and Kurt Rademaker. “Obsidian Procurement and Exchange at the Apogee of Empire: Wari Political Economy in Arequipa, Peru.” Latin American Antiquity 

2024    Elizabeth Klarich, Abigail Levine, Andrew Roddick, Jennifer Zovar, Cyrus D. Banikazemi, Laure Dussubieux and Colette Gabler. Diversity on the Altiplano: Geochemical Perspectives on 3,000 years of Potting Practices in the Lake Titicaca Basin. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

2023    Patrick Ryan Williams, Nicola Sharratt, Cyrus D. Banikazemi, Andrew Roddick, Michelle Koons, Steve Nash, Collette Gabler, and Ashley Vance. “Ceramic Production in the Tiwanaku Sphere: LA-ICP-MS in the Moquegua, Titicaca, and Cochabamba Regions.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

2023    Muro, Luis, Donna Nash, Alicia Gordan, Kevin Vaughn, Nino de la Sol, Cyrus D. Banikazemi, and Emilee Witte. The Colors of the Empire: Assessing Techno-Decorative Innovations in Local, Hybrid, and Intrusive Ceramic Pigments within the Wari Interaction Sphere, Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

Non-academic:

2014    Banikazemi, Cyrus D. “A Tentative Tale of Differential Comradery.” The Coraddi Literary Arts Magazine (Spring). Pp. 33-34

Notable Honors

2023, Award for Graduate Research (AGR) for "Community and Reorganization After the Fall of States: A Study of the Late Intermediate Period Communities in the Moquegua Region of Peru”, University of Illinois at Chicago

2020, Provost’s Graduate Research Award (PGRA) for "Investigating Trade, Resilience, and Reorganization in the Late Intermediate Period Community of Pukarani, Moquegua, Peru", University of Illinois at Chicago

2018, The Anthropology Alliance Summer Fieldwork Internship, The Field Museum of Natural History