Tag: Peru
Experience the music and dance traditions of Peru during a free performance scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Conexión Comunidad, 637 N. 11th St. in DeKalb. The Peruvian Folk Dance Center of Chicago will perform traditional dances in concert with Peruvian music played by Guitarra, Cajon y Zampona. This free community event is...
A new study by a team of archaeologists that includes Northern Illinois University anthropologist Winifred Creamer provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on agriculture – specifically the large-scale production of corn. For decades, researchers have debated whether the people who lived on or near the Pacific coast of Peru...
Charles Walker, professor of history and the director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California at Davis, will visit the NIU campus April 10 and April 11. Walker will deliver a lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, on “Natural Disasters and Society: Some Lessons from the 1746 Earthquake/Tsunami in...
