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SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 90TH ANNUAL MEETING

SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 90TH ANNUAL MEETING

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Come 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!

A Day in the Dirt at Teotihuacan

A Day in the Dirt at Teotihuacan

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by 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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“Animal Matter”

“Animal Matter”

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The 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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