Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

Kohut, Lauren E., Steven A. Wernke, and Justin Dunnavant (2025). “Modeling Marronage: GIS Heuristics of Refuge Affordances in Colonial St. Croix.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 32(2).

Arkush, Elizabeth, Lauren E. Kohut, Romuald Housse, Ryan D. Smith, Steven A. Wernke (2024). “A new view of hillforts in the Andes: expanding coverage with systematic imagery survey.” Antiquity 98(397): 172-192.

Dunnavant, Justin P., Steven A. Wernke, and Lauren E. Kohut (2023). “Counter-Mapping Maroon Cartographies: GIS and Anticolonial Modeling in St. Croix.” ACME 22(5): 1294-1319.

Kohut, Lauren (2022). “Warfare and Alliance: A Human-Scale GIS Analysis of Defensive Alliances in the Colca Valley, Peru.” In Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare, edited by Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz, 247–72. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2018) “A Multidirectional Approach to Modeling Mobility Affordance in Past Landscapes.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19:239-247.

Wernke, Steven A. and Lauren E. Kohut (2017) “Spatial Hegemony and Evangelization: A Network-Based View of an Early Franciscan Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru,” in Religion and Space in the Atlantic World, edited by John Corrigan, David Bodenhamer, and Trevor Harris. South Carolina University Press.

Wernke, Steven A., Gabriela Oré Menéndez, Carla Hernández Garavito, Scotti M. Norman, Lauren E. Kohut, Lawrence Waller, Violetta Vylegzhanina, and Giancarlo Marcone Rosas (2017). “Ejes de articulacion: analisis de la red espacial del Qhapaq Nan en el sur del Peru.” In Nuevas tendencias en el studio de los caminos, edited by Sofía Chacaltana, Elizabeth Arkush, and Giancarlo Marcone, pp. 124-143. Ministerio de Cultura, Lima.

Wernke, Steven A., Lauren E. Kohut, and Teddy Abel Traslaviña Arias (2017). “A GIS of affordances: Movement and visibility at a planned colonial town in Highland Peru,” Journal of Archaeological Science 84: 22-39.

Dissertation

Kohut, Lauren Elizabeth (2016). Cooperation through War : Late Intermediate Period Warfare and Community Formation in the South-Central Andes. Nashville, Tenn: Vanderbilt University.

Presentations

Kohut, Lauren E., BrieAnna S. Langlie, Matthew C. Velasco, Nelly Antonella Rivera Tames (2024). “Agriculture and Security in the Late Intermediate Period Colca Valley (Arequipa, Peru).” Paper accepted for the Southern Andean Saturday Symposium (November 2, Charlotte, NC).

BrieAnna S. Langlie, Lauren E. Kohut, Matthew C. Velasco, Nelly Antonella Rivera Tames (2024). “Preliminary Insights on Field Diversity in Achoma, Colca Valley, Peru” Paper accepted for the Northeastern Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (October 26, Rochester, NY).

Kohut, Lauren E., Ryan Smith, Romuald Housse, Elizabeth N. Arkush, Steven A. Wernke. (2024) “Pukaras to Polities: Exploring Late Prehispanic Andean Hillforts through Large-Scale Network Analysis.” Paper presented at the 89^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (April 21, New Orleans, LA).

Kohut, Lauren E. (2023). “Farming Landscapes under Stress: Modeling Access to Pastures and Fields in the Late Intermediate Period Colca Valley (1100 – 1450 CE Arequipa, Peru).” Poster presented at the 87^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (March 26-April 2, Portland, OR).

Langlie, BrieAnna, Lauren E. Kohut, Matthew C. Velasco (2023). “Quinoa, Potatoes, and Camelids: Multispecies Demands and Affordances in the Late Intermediate Period Andes.” Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (February 25-26, St. Louis).

Kohut, Lauren E. (2022). “Altitude isn’t Everything: Modeling Farming Suitability in Extreme Environments with Insights from Archaeology and Ethnography.” Paper presented at Research Symposium on Andean Archaeology at University of North Carolina, Charlotte (November 15, Charlotte).

Kohut, Lauren E., Ryan Smith, Elizabeth Arkush, and Steven A. Wernke (2022). “Landscapes of conflict across the south-central Andes: an inter-regional view of hillfort distribution and variation through systematic imagery survey.” Paper presented in the symposium GeoPACHA: Expanding Scales of Archaeological Analysis through Imagery-Based Survey in the Andes, organized by Steven Wernke and Parker VanValkenburgh for the 86^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (March 30-April 3, Chicago).

Dunnavant, Justin, Lauren E. Kohut, and Steven A. Wernke (2021) “Locating Maroon Settlements in Colonial-era St. Croix.” Paper presented in the symposium Fugitivity as Method, organized by Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen and Alex A. Moulton for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (April 7-11, Virtual).

Kohut, Lauren E. (2020) “Centering the Provincial in Inka Provincial Landscapes: A Case Study from the Colca Valley (Arequipa, Peru).” Paper presented in the symposium Navigating Imperialisms: Netotiated Communities and Landscapes of the Inka Provinces, organized by Lynn Kim for the 85^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (Cancelled).

Kohut, Lauren E. (2019) “Constructing difference: Defense, Sensory Experience, and Social Difference in a Late Prehispanic Hillfort (1000 – 1535 CE; Arequipa, Peru).” Paper presented in the symposium Beyond the Roundhouse, organized by Elizabeth Arkush and Anna Guingerich at the 84^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerquer, NM.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2018) “Legacies of war: fortified landscapes and political transformation during the late prehispanic in the Colca Valley (Arequipa, Peru).” Paper presented in the symposium Landscapes of Warfare: A Comparative Perspective, organized by Hugo Ikehara and Juan Carlos Vargas at the 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington D.C.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2017) “Thinking outside the map: Alternative approaches to data visualization.” Paper presented in the symposium Archaeological Epistemology in the Digital Age, organized by Rebecca Bria and Michael Ashley at the 82^nd Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2017) “Fortifications, mobility, and understanding prehispanic warfare in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Mississippi Academy of Science, Hattiesburg, MS.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2016) “At the intersection of autonomy and collectivity: Coalition-building and horizontal complexity during a time of war in the highland Andes of Peru.” Paper presented in the symposium What does it mean to be complex? organized by Lauren E. Kohut and Kasia Szremski at the 115^th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2016) “Surveillance and control in a landscape of war: An examination of mobility and fortification in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented in the symposium E pur si muove: Exploring Mobilities in Latin America, organized by Jamie Forde and Danny Zborover at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2015) “Fortified lookouts and border patrol in the Late Intermediate Period Colca Valley, Peru.” Poster presented at the 80^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2015) “Legacies of war: the transformation of hilltop fortifications during the Late Horizon, Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the 43^rd Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Nashville.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2014) “Scales of analysis and spaces of interaction: Understanding conflict and alliance during the Late Intermediate Period in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented in the symposium Beyond the Horizons: Exploring social integration during periods of political diversity in the ancient Andes at the 79^th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2012) “GIS-Based approaches to conflict and cooperation during the Late Intermediate Period in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Paper presented at the Archaeological Sciences of the Americas Symposium, Nashville.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2012) “Visibility in a landscape of war: GIS-based viewshed analysis of fortified sites in the Colca Valley, Peru.” Poster presented at the 77th Annual Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, TN. April 20.

Kohut, Lauren E. (2009) “Archaeological Applications of Spatial Network Analysis: A Case Study from Malata, a Colonial Mission Site in the Southern Peruvian Highlands,” Paper presented at the GIS Day Symposium, organized by the GIS and Census Information Service Center, Vanderbilt University.

Kohut, Lauren E. and Verity Whalen (2009) “Religious Affiliation? Defining Relationships between Religious and Domestic Architecture at Malata” Paper presented in the symposium Investigating Ritual and Domestic Spaces and Practices at an Early Colonial Mission in Highland Peru, organized by Steven A. Wernke, at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.

research reports

Informe Técnico Proyecto Arqueológico Pukaras de Colca, Segunda Temporada. Final report to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima, Peru. 2014.

Informe Técnico Proyecto Arqueológico Pukaras de Colca, Primera Temporada. Final report to the Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima, Peru. 2013.

published cartography

The Mountain Embodied: Head Shaping and Personhood in the Ancient Andes, by Matthew C. Velasco. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2025.

What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us, by Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. 2011.