Members of the Latin American Archaeology Laboratory engage in collaborative research to understanding the deep history of the region. It is led by Professor David Carballo, whose field and lab work focuses primarily on central Mexico, with comparative interests in urbanism, households, collective action, craft production and exchange, religion and ritual, and community archaeology. Projects within Mexico include the Tlajinga Teotihuacan Archaeology Project and others focused at the early city of Teotihuacan. A previous field project focused on the Formative period site of La Laguna, Tlaxcala, and the lab houses a small collection of ceramics from that state that have been incorporated into student research projects. Other campus based student projects incorporate Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
The laboratory has longstanding collaborations with the Archaeological Prospection Laboratory of Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). Other collaborations include research on cultural astronomy with BU alumnus Luis Ruzo at the site of Marcahuasi, Peru, and collective action in craft production studied by the Reverseaction project in Colombia.
Location: Stone Science 351
PI: Professor David M. Carballo, PhD
Graduate Students:
Samantha Nadel
Claudia Servin Rosas
A. Gabriel Vicencio
