Ollas, jars, pots, and vases are just some examples of the incredible variety of pottery forms abundantly recovered in Teotihuacan. These sherds carry an astounding amount of information that archaeologists can recover through patient re-piecing of the data. Below we discuss other applications beyond relative chronology that are utilized in ceramic analyses. Evolution of typology: Changes in ceramic style across time among the recovered pottery assemblage illustrate what the trends at Teotihuacan were in each phase and the rate of these…
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During field seasons, archaeologists unearth remains of ancient households, plazas, and other buildings made of stone and earth. These remains give us a snapshot of how these spaces looked like and how people used to live many years ago. But archaeologists want to know more details and not just limited on where and how those people lived. They want to know about food and diet, of course! Human diet is composed of two main food groups: animal- and plant-based. Among…
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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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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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