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We are preparing to go to Peru in mid-February 2025. Your donation will help us get there and then do the work to create a GPS history app for both the Saqsaywaman and Cusco archaeological sites. Our goal is $25K. We reach our fundraising goals one donation at a time. Thanks so much for your support! Maren Elwood
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Maren Elwood, project lead, will be heading up the 2025 expedition to Peru. She'd love to have you join her. Email her if you are interested: [email protected]
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A Different Way To Explore The World
ON-SITE EXPEDITIONS is an organization dedicated to bringing awareness to the amazing archaeological sites in Peru, including our base at the Parque Arqueologico de Saqsaywaman. We work with the Ministry of Culture to educate the public about this site, which used to be the epicenter of the Inca empire and is found just above the popular city of Cusco.
Goals for 2025: In February we will be in Peru working on an app that will educate the public on their mobile devices while at the sites of both Saqsaywaman and Cusco. People using the app will learn about these historic and truly enigmatic sites, the truly unique history of these sites and the latest in archaeological research that continues to this day to uncover the lives of the ancient Inca and pre-Inca cultures.
ON-SITE EXPEDITIONS is an organization dedicated to bringing awareness to the amazing archaeological sites in Peru, including our base at the Parque Arqueologico de Saqsaywaman. We work with the Ministry of Culture to educate the public about this site, which used to be the epicenter of the Inca empire and is found just above the popular city of Cusco.
Goals for 2025: In February we will be in Peru working on an app that will educate the public on their mobile devices while at the sites of both Saqsaywaman and Cusco. People using the app will learn about these historic and truly enigmatic sites, the truly unique history of these sites and the latest in archaeological research that continues to this day to uncover the lives of the ancient Inca and pre-Inca cultures.
We will also be working with National Geographic scholar and adventurer Peter Frost to bring his definitive travel guide "Exploring Cusco" to life on the app. By including information from "Exploring Cusco" tourists will also learn about the history of Tiwantinsuyu, the name of the ancient Inca empire that included Cusco, Saqsaywaman and various other historic sites in the Sacred Valley.
We are also offering tours to interested parties who will be able to experience these amazing sites through the eyes of a visual anthropologist and Peter Frost. You will explore indigenous cultures and to learn more about the contribution Peru makes to world heritage.
If you are interested in touring with us, please contact Maren Elwood at [email protected]
We are also offering tours to interested parties who will be able to experience these amazing sites through the eyes of a visual anthropologist and Peter Frost. You will explore indigenous cultures and to learn more about the contribution Peru makes to world heritage.
If you are interested in touring with us, please contact Maren Elwood at [email protected]
Details On Next Expedition:
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HISTORY OF PAST WORK ON SAQSAYWAMAN SITE
In 2010, Maren Elwood started a ethnographic film project as part of her Masters in Visual Anthropology program. This project initially started as a simple filming of a stakeholder's meeting on the archaeological site in Peru called Saqsaywaman. The original plan was to fly into Cusco and meet with the Ministry of Culture and the residents of the Quecha communities. The 5 communities find themselves living on an active archaeological site. The meeting was to discuss the problems that were arising because the Ministry of Culture wanted to relocate the residents so that serious excavations could begin outside the main Saqsaywaman complex.
That meeting never occurred. Instead, Maren Elwood and her small filming crew were asked to conduct ethnographic interviews within the Quecha communities. After filming the concerns the community members have, Maren was then to share that information with the Ministry of Culture.
The resulting research has become a longitudinal study of the role ethnographic film can play in solving conflicts on active archaeological sites.
This study has resulted in one award winning film "Stone & People" and is continuing as of 2016. Maren Elwood, as a Research Associate in the USC Department of Anthropology's Center For Visual Anthropology, has been conducting the study both in-situ and online since 2010.
In 2010, Maren Elwood started a ethnographic film project as part of her Masters in Visual Anthropology program. This project initially started as a simple filming of a stakeholder's meeting on the archaeological site in Peru called Saqsaywaman. The original plan was to fly into Cusco and meet with the Ministry of Culture and the residents of the Quecha communities. The 5 communities find themselves living on an active archaeological site. The meeting was to discuss the problems that were arising because the Ministry of Culture wanted to relocate the residents so that serious excavations could begin outside the main Saqsaywaman complex.
That meeting never occurred. Instead, Maren Elwood and her small filming crew were asked to conduct ethnographic interviews within the Quecha communities. After filming the concerns the community members have, Maren was then to share that information with the Ministry of Culture.
The resulting research has become a longitudinal study of the role ethnographic film can play in solving conflicts on active archaeological sites.
This study has resulted in one award winning film "Stone & People" and is continuing as of 2016. Maren Elwood, as a Research Associate in the USC Department of Anthropology's Center For Visual Anthropology, has been conducting the study both in-situ and online since 2010.