Alonso Gabriel Vicencio

(2019, 2024)

Gabriel is an archaeologist from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) with a master’s degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

He has worked in places like Yucatán, Tlaxcala, and Teotihuacan. He has specialized in lithic analysis; his bachelor’s thesis, entitled “The razors in Tepeticpac: analysis of obsidian in an architectural deposit at the site of Tepeticpac, Tlaxcala”, encompasses lithic technologies at the site, as well as geochemical studies for the identification of obsidian sources.

In 2015, he entered the Plaza of the Columns as a field archaeologist. After completing his master’s at UNAM in 2019, he rejoined the team as an obsidian specialist.

David Walton

(2019)

Dr. David Walton is a Mesoamerican Archaeologist and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lake-Sumter State College. His excavations and laboratory studies focus on investigating how humans create and negotiate intersecting domestic, ritual, and political economies in complex societies. He does this by employing a theoretical approach grounded in household archaeology and economic anthropology. He is a lithics expert, and his recent research has included experimental and archaeological studies of use-wear patterns on obsidian artifacts.

He joined the Plaza of the Columns Project in 2018-2019 by performing technological and high-magnification use-wear analyses on the obsidian artifacts recovered from Offering 4 in Front D.