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2018 Field Season

2018 Field Season

A Great Experience! What a successful experience this summer has been with the closing of the 2018 field season of the Project Plaza of the Columns Complex. Beginning July 2nd, a small army came together to accomplish quite a bit: six archaeologists carried out excavations in five key areas of interest, another archaeologist resumed his extensive survey of the Teotihuacan Valley, and two international students along with 23 fieldworkers and 13 lab personnel have supported the team during these important…

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And behind the archaeologists… the fieldworkers

And behind the archaeologists… the fieldworkers

by Adriana Sánchez It has been an intense week with the conclusion of the third field season (2017) of the PPCC. This includes putting the final touches on all pending fieldwork tasks: the last photo taken, the final line drawn, and the closing word of descriptions written in the notebook. We have just three days left for filling in the last four open excavation areas. The first of them extends over an area of 12 meters long by 3 meters…

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2018 SAA Conference = A Success!

2018 SAA Conference = A Success!

Hello, everyone! We had an amazing turnout at the SAA’s 83rd Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, and had a wonderful time sharing with you just a snippet of our multidisciplinary work at the Plaza of the Columns Complex. On behalf of the PPCC team – past, present, and future – thank you so much for all the support! We resume excavations this summer and hope to continue exploring and sharing our findings straight to you.

Society for American Archaeology 83rd Conference

Society for American Archaeology 83rd Conference

Come join us at the Society for American Archaeology’s 2018 conference in Washington, D.C., on April 14th from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM in Washington Room 1. The team will be hosting a symposium on Project Plaza of the Columns Complex: New Investigation of a Civic-Administrative Complex at the Heart of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Come see what we’ve discovered so far, directly from our very own directors, archaeologists, and specialists. We’ll be presenting on various subjects, including LiDAR mapping, murals, human…

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