Ruth Shady

Ruth Martha Shady Solís (Callao, December 29, 1946) is a Peruvian anthropologist, archaeologist and educator, recognized for her work revaluing and dating the archaeological site of Caral. as a teacher in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National University of San Marcos.

Biography

Training

She completed her secondary studies at the GUE Juana Alarco de Dammert. He entered the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in 1964, graduating in Education. Subsequently, he completed doctoral studies in the Anthropology and Archeology programs.He has done specialized internships in the United States and France. From 1975 to 1984 she served as head of research at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru, an institution of which she was director in 1984.

Professional Performance

Throughout his professional career he has directed different archaeological research projects on the coast, highlands and jungle of Peru, emphasizing the study of the development of complex sociopolitical organizations. He has conducted research in Végueta (Huaura), Maranga (Lima); Pacopampa and Chota (Cajamarca); Bagua (Amazon). The latter together with the archaeologist Hermilio Rosas LaNoire.

She has been the director of the Professional Academic School of Archeology of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and a research fellow at Dumbarton Oaks (Washington), during the years 1992-1993. She has been dedicated, in addition to research and university teaching, to directing the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, between the years 1997-2002, where she promoted scientific dissemination programs through exhibitions, conferences and publications. She was Dean of the Professional College of Archaeologists of Peru in the period 2006-2007. She was coordinator of the Master's Degree in Andean Archeology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos between 1999 and 2007, and in 2010. She was President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites-ICOMOS Peru between 2006 and 2012.

In 1994 he founded the Caral Archaeological Project, which began in 1994 with research in Caral-Supe (known at that time as Chupacigarro). Since 2003, he has directed the Caral-Supe Special Archaeological Project, with the purpose of investigating, conserving, and enhancing this important site, which has evidence of the formation of the pristine State, forms of urban life, and civilization. The work that he has been carrying out is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach and the link between the archaeological heritage and the current populations of the environment; scientific production and the execution of projects with social responsibility.

She is the author of numerous articles published in books and magazines, both Peruvian and foreign.

Works

• Bagua: from the formative period in the lower basin of the river Utcubamba (1971)
• Intensification of contacts between Andean societies as a prelude to the Huari movement of the Middle Horizon (1981)
• Nievery culture and social interaction in the Andean world in the Huari era (1982)
• Regional interaction during the Huari period (1988)
• Societies of the Peruvian Northeast during the training (1992)
• The Sacred City of Caral-Supe at the dawn of civilization in Peru (1997)
• The Sacred City of Caral-Supe
• The organization of the Andean civilization and the formation of the pristine state in the Late Ark (2003)
• Caral, the city of sacred fire (2004)
• The civilization of Caral-Supe: 5000 years of cultural identity in Peru (2005)
• The sacred city of Caral: cultural symbol of Peru (2006)
• «Caral-Supe and the North-Central Area of Peru: The History of Maize in the Land Where Civilization Came into Being», in the book Histories of Maize (2006)
• «America’s First City? The Case of Late Archaic Caral, in the magazine Andean Archaeology III (2006)
• The Sacred Land of Caral-Supe (2007)
• In Caral the story was born - Franklin Portales Dávila (2011)

Awards and recognitions

• National Prize for Women in Science 2018 by L'Oreal, Unesco and National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Concytec). 2019.
• Recognition by the BBC as one of the "100 most influential and inspiring women" 2020.