David Carballo
@dmcarballo.bsky.social
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Archaeologist and Latin Americanist, Boston University.
"When the baby had arrived on earth, then the midwife shouted; she gave war cries, which meant that the woman had fought a good battle, had become a brave warrior." (Florentine Codex 6). Happy Mother's Day!
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No solo Grecia fue la cuna de la democracia: “Otras sociedades también dieron voz a la gente común”
El análisis de una treintena de sociedades de la Antigüedad encuentra herramientas de participación política muy lejos del Mediterráneo
https://elpais.com/ciencia/2026-03-18/no-solo-grecia-fue-la-cuna-de-la-democracia-otras-sociedades-tambien-dieron-voz-a-la-gente-comun.html
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A new comparative article on political organization in deep time out through Science Advances. And, yes, this map highlights that we are missing key regions and even continents, so DM me if you'd like to contribute cases in the future
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time
Democratic practice in the premodern world was not the exclusive domain of Greece and Rome.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec1426
about 2 months ago
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Joseph Rezek
5 months ago
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense. Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever. I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/books/review/thomas-paine-common-sense-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.423O.A3GCBB79aK7M&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Venus of Willendorf, about 30k years old
#Vienna
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6 months ago
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Talking Teo tomorrow afternoon
7 months ago
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Exciting advances in distinguishing
#bird
species in the archaeological record, including at
#Teotihuacan
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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We can still push back against fascism: a song sung to the tune of the ABCs
8 months ago
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Starting soon, New Discoveries/New Directions in the Archaeology of the Ancient Americas at @metmuseum with livestream here
engage.metmuseum.org/events/educati…
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8 months ago
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Orgulloso de la alcaldesa: “Esta es nuestra ciudad y defenderemos enérgicamente nuestras leyes”
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8 months ago
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭
9 months ago
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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This is probably obvious, but things dictators like to do is fire people who tell truths they don't like and "disrupt" (as the kids say) norms of civil statutes. This is why the events of this week matter profoundly for the future of the country
9 months ago
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Una yuxtaposición del Zocalo durante
#Mexico-Tenochtitlan
700
10 months ago
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The colorful tale of Mexico's a-maize-ing grain
gastropod.com/the-colorful...
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The Colorful Tale of Mexico's A-maize-ing Grain - Gastropod
The past, present, and future of corn: a story that involves empires, vampires, and generations of women chained to the (literal) grindstone.
https://gastropod.com/the-colorful-tale-of-mexicos-a-maize-ing-grain/
10 months ago
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Para los quienes andan por
#Teotihuacan
o quieren viajar desde
#Tlaxcala
. Este martes a las 7 presencial en el centro comunitario NECOC. Luego lo suben al YouTube de Teotihuacan en Casa
10 months ago
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Probable Teotihuacan-Maya relations 750 miles apart and decades before the military "entrada"
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
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Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/americas/maya-tomb-caracol-belize.html?smid=bs-share
10 months ago
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An enjoyable conversation with @Gastropodcast on the deep history of
#Mexican
food
www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect...
11 months ago
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Willey Lecture from a couple of months ago:
youtu.be/VwN8mOYw6Cc?...
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Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life
YouTube video by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
https://youtu.be/VwN8mOYw6Cc?si=h93BBGGGb1DopvcW
11 months ago
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In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...
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In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/science/archaeology-trump-federal-budget.html?smid=bs-share
12 months ago
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Seems like the right day to post this painting with
#WhiteSmoke
hanging in the National Museum of Mexican Art in
#Chicago
by Jesus Helguera (1940)
about 1 year ago
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Nueva edición de
#Arqueologia
con artículos en homenaje a la carrera distinguida de Linda Manzanilla
www.revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/ar...
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about 1 year ago
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Proud of these ladies in their 80s showing up
about 1 year ago
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Una charla en vivo en Harvard y en modo virtual el 2 de abril Gordon Willey Lecture on April 2 in person and online
peabody.harvard.edu/event/teotih...
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Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
https://peabody.harvard.edu/event/teotihuacan-origins-urbanism-and-daily-life?occ_id=0&fbclid=IwY2xjawJLmXZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHejHzgh6xLPWtaaCeH6h1DafQOH1FP7qG_Dz63ZmfynZxEWbhNfb9iQfWw_aem_olhWiTaEJHTDE3j5DbPNXw
about 1 year ago
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Ciudad Perdida (Teyuna),
#Colombia
is a jewel of a site a and trek through beautiful country earlier dedicated to growing drugs, thanks partially to support from
#USAID
about 1 year ago
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The beautiful Amerind Foundation for a productive workshop on comparative governance in past societies. Looking forward to writing team publications, and returning here
about 1 year ago
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭
about 1 year ago
If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.
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about 1 year ago
At Teotihuacan, a major Mesoamerican city, we’ll be using our new database of avian proteins (
doi.org/10.21203/rs....
) to identify fragmented bones and eggshells and reconstruct the role of wild and domesticated birds in the subsistence strategies of the city’s residents.
#paleoproteomics
#MSCA
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SassyMetisChick
about 1 year ago
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Urban Studies Journal
over 1 year ago
Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience by
@dmcarballo.bsky.social
Gary M Feinman and Aurelio López Corral
https://buff.ly/4jRgyY4
#urbanism
#Indigenous
#resilience
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New special issue of Urban Studies with cases from
#archaeology
"Long-Term Intergenerational Perspectives on Urban Sustainability Transitions"
journals.sagepub.com/toc/USJ/curr...
over 1 year ago
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There's a deep history to the
#GulfofMexico
with maritime contacts going back 1500 years or more. Lourdes Budar of the U Veracruzana in
#Mexico
excavated a sophisticated port town La Perla del Golfo with clear ties to Maya populations farther east.
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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Excited to dig into this Xmas book
@jwhoopes2.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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Nuevo libro de acceso libre, Homanaje a Rubén Cabrera, un muy destacado y querido arqueólogo 🇲🇽
mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/...
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over 1 year ago
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For all those hosting friends and family for
#Thanksgiving
here's a model from sixteenth century Mexico: decorative serving wares and embroidered manta with
#Turkey
in the center. Feliz accion de gracias!
over 1 year ago
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Many congrats to an incredible guy who tells powerful truths!
#NationalBookAward
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over 1 year ago
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That's a big head! Olmec colossal head #6 from San Lorenzo
#Mexico
(c. 1000 BCE) at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia
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over 1 year ago
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#Democracy
: a Greek term but institutions of participatory governance not only from the west. Striking formal similarities between the Athenian Tholos, for rotating Boule chairs, and ancestral Muskogean council houses as deliberative spaces for monitoring and co-participation. Our legacy to protect.
over 1 year ago
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Hi all. Am slowly migrating here from the darker place renamed by a car salesman. Currently in
#Mexico
where I do
#Archaeology
and am recording stuff I excavated 15 years ago when we didn't have fun toys like lidar and photogrammetry on iPads. Be well.
over 1 year ago
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