PPCC congratulates Dr. Yun Ge for completing his degree at the University of California, Riverside, and for his new position at the Shanghai Museum! You can check out the upcoming exhibit that he co-curated at the Shanghai Museum starting July 9th! There are a few fragments from PPCC on exhibit!
We are happy to announce that the 2026 field season has started. Our team of archaeologists and local field workers has started excavations. Hopefully they will have some interesting finds this season. Stay tuned to learn more about the results!
Come 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…
Some 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…