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We will be posting information about all the ongoing developments on the Project. Please be sure to visit the different sections, each one contains information associated with the excavation seasons of the project, the team, our most recent findings, and more.
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April 14, 2026Blog / NewsCome join us at the Society for American Archaeology’s 2026 conference in San Francisco, California. Several team members are presenting papers, many of them included in a symposium organized by project directors. See you all there! SATURDAY, MAY 2 Symposium: Fourth Annual Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences Symposium Room: Golden Gate 6 (All Towers, Lobby Level)Time: 8:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.Chair(s): Sandra Lopez Varela and Charles Kolb 9:00 Ryohei Takatsuchi, Nawa Sugiyama, Wesley Stoner, and Ronald Bishop— Made in or Made out of…
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August 14, 2025Blog / NewsSome years ago, the project’s excavations discovered an adobe fragment with a red strip in a pit at the Plaza North of the Sun Pyramid Complex (see Results 2018-2019, located in Front F’s second “window”). The team decided to extract it as a block and took it to the laboratory. Afterwards, an arduous process of consolidation and conservation was undertaken. Once a portion of the block was turned over, we were surprised to see it was painted with a…
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August 12, 2025Blog / NewsAuthor: Edsel RoblesTranslation: Yun GeEditors: Thania Ibarra and Sol TéllezPhotographs: Mayté Espinoza The excitement of the visit from the Xochicalli School students One week before, our PI, Dr. Nawa Sugiyama, informed us that we would be receiving special visitors at the Plaza of the Columns. Our primary visitors are researchers, but this time they would be preschool and high school students. At first, we were a little hesitant, because none of us had studied pedagogy before, but the enthusiasm of…
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April 24, 2025Blog / NewsCome join us at the Society for American Archaeology’s 2025 conference in Denver, Colorado. This year some members of our team will present the following talk: SUNDAY, APRIL 27 Symposium: Complex Human-Animal Interactions in the Americas Room: Plaza Building Director’s Row HTime: 9:30 am Nawa Sugiyama, Christine France, Erin Thornton, Edsel Robles, andTeresa Hsu—Household-Level Management of Small Game atTeotihuacan, Mexico: Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Proxies from Plazaof the Columns Complex. See you all there! [...]
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February 17, 2025Blog / Newsby Justin Tran Introduction On the surface, archaeology appears simple – go to an archaeological site, start digging down, and haul out all the ancient ‘stuff’ that you can find. But in reality, archaeology involves a great degree of precise and hard work, alongside careful planning and execution in day-to-day operations. Much of the work on an excavation starts even before the first shovel hits the dirt. From simply setting up the excavation early in the morning, to survey and…
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November 13, 2024Blog / NewsThe book “Animal Matter. Ritual, Place, and Sovereignty at the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan” by Dr. Nawa Sugiyama is now available. It comprises zooarchaeological, isotopic, iconographic, and excavation information about the animals found in dedicatory caches at the Moon Pyramid. For a limited time, it is possible to read the first chapter for free at the following link: https://academic.oup.com/book/58206/chapter/481601981 This is the chapter’s abstract: This chapter introduces the main protagonists and the theoretical framework underpinning the study of nearly two…
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May 2, 2024Blog / NewsThis year, the 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology took place in New Orleans, from April 17th to 21st . Several members of the project participated with the following presentations: [...]
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June 28, 2023Blog / NewsHere is the poster of the conference “The Creation of Royalty in “Out of Eurasia” civilizations: Exploring the mechanism of the Emergence of Transcendent Power” that will take place from June 30th to July 2nd at the Meiji University. Some members of the project will be participating. [...]
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June 28, 2023Blog / NewsThe exhibition “Ancient Mexico: Maya, Aztec and Teotihuacan” was inaugurated at the Tokio National Museum. This temporary exhibition was managed and curated by Dr. Saburo Sugiyama and will last until September 3rd 2023. Here is the link to the exhibition’s website: Here Here are some videos of the exhibition: Moreover, if you speak Japanese and want to know more about Teotihuacan, you can check out this book written by Dr. Saburo Sugiyama. UPDATE. Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the…
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November 30, 2022Blog / NewsThe 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”. [...]
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