Plaza of the Columns Complex

The Moving Maya Conference, organized by Clarissa Cagnato and Juliette Danfakha will take place on December 7th and 8th 2022 at the Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac, Paris, France.

Clarissa Cagnato and Nawa Sugiyama will present the paper “The Maya at Teotihuacan: local and foreign plant foods as proxies for interactions during the early 4th century CE”.

The Symposium “Proyecto Teotihuacan Sesenta Años 1962-2022” will take place on September 20th to 23rd 2022 from 16:00 to 19:00 at the Jaime Torres Bodet auditorium in the National Museum of Anthropology.

Dr. Nawa Sugiyama will present the paper “Construcción y simbolismo de la Pirámide del Sol de Teotihuacan” on Wednesday, September 21st at 17:30 (CT).

Come join us at the Society for American Archaeology’s 2022 conference in Chicago, Illinois. Our team members have prepared the following presentations this year:

SATURDAY, APRIL 2

SYMPOSIUM INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS OF URBANISM ,
POLITY , AND DAILY L IFE IN TEOTIHUACAN AND BEYOND :
S YMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF GEORGE COWGILL
Room: Lake Huron
Time: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chairs: Nawa Sugiyama, Sarah Clayton and Saburo Sugiyama
Participants:
9:00 Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi and Kuninori
Iwashiro—A New Approach for the Cognition of Time, Space, and
Rulership in the Cosmic City of Teotihuacan
9:15 Verónica Ortega Cabrera—Las ofrendas de la Plaza de la Luna
Teotihuacán, evidencias del complejo ritual
9:30 Emily McClung de Tapia and Laura Beramendi-Orosco—Landscape
Formation/Transformation in the Prehispanic and Colonial Teotihuacan
Valley
9:45 Nawa Sugiyama, Karl Taube, Saburo Sugiyama and Ariel Texis—
Pilgrimage from Center to Periphery: Petrographic Data from Cerro
Patlachique
10:00 Sarah Clayton, Nawa Sugiyama and Karl Taube—Inscribing Clay and
Stone: A Multimedia Study of Writing and Literacy at Teotihuacan
10:15 Jennifer Carballo and David Carballo—A Deep History of Central
Mexican Pottery: Daily Life and Diachronic Patterns
10:30 Destiny Crider—Listening to What the Sherds Tell Us: The Legacy of
George Cowgill on Epiclassic Ceramic Studies
10:45 Michael Smith—George Cowgill’s Approach to Comparative Urbanism
11:00 Alanna Ossa—Gulf Urbanism and the Ballcourt
11:15 Deborah Nichols—Discussant
11:30 Norman Yoffee—Discussant
11:45 Questions and Answers

SYMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF WENDY ASHMORE: LANDSCAPES OF
MEANING, BIOGRAPHIES OF PLACE, AND ARCHAEOLOGIES OF
COMPASSION, PART 1
Room: Lake Michigan
11:30 Karl Taube, Travis Stanton and Yun Ge—Living Mountains: Cosmology,
World Directions, Centering, and Community in Ancient Mesoamerica
and East Asia

SYMPOSIUM RECENT RESEARCH IN MESOAMERICA
Room: Continental B
3:45    Esther Aguayo, Nawa Sugiyama, Yen-Shin Hsu and Christine France—Teotihuacan and the Missing Staple: An Analysis of Deer Use at Plaza ofthe Columns Complex

See you all there!