The Mesoamerica Center

Thu. April 26

The Mesoamerica Center is proud to announce the following faculty, student and alumni who presented papers at the 77th Society for American Archeology Annual Conference.

Faculty

Symposium Virginia Fields, Museums, Scholarship, and her Multidisciplinary Approach to Recovering the Ancient American Past
Organizer: Dr. Julia Guernsey, Associate Professor Department of Art and Art History

Identity, iconography, and style in Mesoamerica: applying the methods of Virginia Fields
Dr. Julia Guernsey, Associate Professor Department of Art and Art History

Two Decades of Research Among the Ancient Maya of Northwest Belize
Dr. Fred Valdez, Professor Department of Anthropology

Students

Reassessing the Study of Preclassic Architecture in the Maya Lowlands
Meghan Rubenstein

Implementing a more Integral Methodology to Analyze Preclassic Lowland Maya Architecture
Anabella Coronado-Ruiz 

Women at Naranjo, Guatemala: What they show about Middle Preclassic Interactions 
Adriana Linares

Recent Results From The Preclassic: The Naranjo And Kaminaljuyu Projects
Barbara Arroyo, Lorena Paiz, Adriana Linares and Margarita Cossich

Revealing Reliefs: Approaching the Origins and Development of Maya Ideology through the Sculptural Record of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala
Lucia Henderson

Not So Quiet on the Western Front: The Comitán Valley in the Early Postclassic Period 
Caitlin Earley

Hunters or warriors? A Late to Terminal Classic Maya specialized wood workshop in Northwestern Belize
Maria Martinez, Michael Brandl and Estella Weiss-Krejci

Ruling from a defensive landscape: The rise of an Early Classic dynasty at El Zotz and its vicinity
Edwin Roman, Stephen Houston and Thomas Garrison

A Fortress in Heaven: Long-Term Regional Research at the Maya City of El Zotz, Guatemala
Stephen Houston, Thomas Garrison and Edwin Roman

Moving Outside the Fortress: Future Directions at El Zotz
Thomas Garrison, Stephen Houston and Edwin Román

Hun Tun Complexity
Robyn Dodge

Alumni

The Origins of Maya Kingship during the Middle Preclassic
Kathryn Reese-Taylor

Costume Correlations in Late Preclassic Mesoamerica
Matthew Looper

Hinterland Complexity at the Medicinal Trail Site, Northwestern Belize
David Hyde

Ancient Maya Household Organization: A Multi-Scale
Analysis from the Dos Hombres Hinterland, Northwestern Belize
Rissa Trachman

Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project: Inter-site Organization and Settlement Patterns
Marisol Cortes-Rincon