John Marston interviewed for an article, “What Ancient Toilets Can Teach Us about Maya Life-and Tamales”
Identifying nixtamalization in residues
David Carballo, new evidence from both Teotihuacan and the Maya region in Science Magazine
“Maya travelers visiting Teotihuacan during the fourth century would have encountered a city like no other they had ever seen. Three enormous pyramids loomed over the main street, now known as the Avenue of the Dead, their shapes reflecting snow-capped volcanoes visible in the distance. An orderly grid of roads extended from the avenue, and the […]
David Carballo interviewed for Archaeology Magazine “The City of the Gods: Inside the neighborhoods of Teotihuacan, Mesoamerica’s first great metropolis”
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Congratulations to Mary Clarke
Congratulations to Mary Clarke. Her grant application to the Rust Foundation was approved. The award will support her research project project on “Production of Stone and State: The Intersection of Ancient Maya Domestic and Institutional Economies”.
Professor William Saturno BU CAS arts+sciences Magazine
The Writing on the Wall by Courtney Humphries In a former Maya city in the Guatemalan rain forest, a team of BU researchers discovered a buried room whose walls hold paintings and hieroglyphs dating from the ninth century. The writing includes complex numerical calculations for the Maya calendar. It was the first time such paintings […]
Skeletal remains found at site add to mystery…
Franco Rossi and Aviva Cormier find fragment of a human skull at the Professor William Saturno site in Xultún, Guatemala. Click here for the BU Today article dated 08/09/2012.