"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!

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/...

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 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Venus of Willendorf, about 30k years old #Vienna

Talking Teo tomorrow afternoon

Exciting advances in distinguishing #bird species in the archaeological record, including at #Teotihuacan

We can still push back against fascism: a song sung to the tune of the ABCs

Starting soon, New Discoveries/New Directions in the Archaeology of the Ancient Americas at @metmuseum with livestream here engage.metmuseum.org/events/educati…

Orgulloso de la alcaldesa: “Esta es nuestra ciudad y defenderemos enérgicamente nuestras leyes”

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.

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

Una yuxtaposición del Zocalo durante #Mexico-Tenochtitlan 700

The colorful tale of Mexico's a-maize-ing grain gastropod.com/the-colorful...

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

Probable Teotihuacan-Maya relations 750 miles apart and decades before the military "entrada" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

An enjoyable conversation with @Gastropodcast on the deep history of #Mexican food www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect...

Willey Lecture from a couple of months ago: youtu.be/VwN8mOYw6Cc?...

In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

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)

Nueva edición de #Arqueologia con artículos en homenaje a la carrera distinguida de Linda Manzanilla www.revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/ar...

Proud of these ladies in their 80s showing up

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...

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

The beautiful Amerind Foundation for a productive workshop on comparative governance in past societies. Looking forward to writing team publications, and returning here

If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.

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

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.

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

New special issue of Urban Studies with cases from #archaeology "Long-Term Intergenerational Perspectives on Urban Sustainability Transitions" journals.sagepub.com/toc/USJ/curr...

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.

Excited to dig into this Xmas book @jwhoopes2.bsky.social

Nuevo libro de acceso libre, Homanaje a Rubén Cabrera, un muy destacado y querido arqueólogo 🇲🇽 mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/...

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!

Many congrats to an incredible guy who tells powerful truths! #NationalBookAward

That's a big head! Olmec colossal head #6 from San Lorenzo #Mexico (c. 1000 BCE) at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia

#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.

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.