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…
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Author: 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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Thania Ibarra (2023-2025) Thania Ibarra Narváez is an archaeologist by the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, and she obtained her master’s degree in Conservation and Restoration of Immovable Cultural Herritage by the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía “Manuel del Castillo Negrete” (ENCRyM-INAH). She has specialized in the study of mesoamerican architecture from the perspective of material sciences, focusing particularly on artisanal production and construction techniques. Her research has been undertaken considering political ecology, and the study of environmental…
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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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