I have codirected the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Jahuay since 2017, alongside my co-directors Camille Weinberg and Lic. Kelita Pérez Cubas.

Jahuay was a littoral village of Topará fisherfolk which was occupied from approximately 200 BC to AD 150. Our research has provided new insights into the regional development of complementary community specialization, a unique economic system which as been ethnohistorically and archaeologically documented in late-prehispanic and early colonial contexts on the Peruvian coast. Based on these excavations, I have argued that Jahuay was a community of full-time maritime specialists who engaged in diverse subsistence activities including fishing, littoral and sub-tidal shellfish collection, and hunting of marine birds and mammals (especially pinnipeds). These products were not only consumed locally, but were also preserved on drying terraces and exchanged with other regional communities for agricultural products and craft goods. Additionally, we identified evidence that Jahuay maintained control over their essential means of production by practicing limited horticulture, growing their own cotton and bottle gourds which were used to produce fishing nets and net floats.