Our short article on 🧩 Games in #Mesoamerica ⚽️ was published in the Toledo Howler, the newsletter 📃 for the Toledo district of Belize. We highlight three games 🎲 drawing on archaeological, ethnohistoric, and modern examples: pok-a-tok or ulama (the ball game), tambuchi, & patolli. #archaeology

Back in 2021, I collaborated with watercolorist extraordinaire Aaron Alfano to produce this amazing reconstruction of the support area of the Later Classic Maya palace of La Corona, Guatemala. I still love this piece very much. #archaeology #watercolor #ancientmaya #palace #reconstruction

In my Sustainable #Maya Geographies at UT, we discussed how aspects of sacred spaces are embedded in Maya & Mesoamerican games 🎲, such as the ball game and patolli. Students played a version of Patolli that was created by the BEAST archaeological project outreach team #archaeogaming #geography

Teaching writing to #archaeology graduate #students? In an article in @saa-aap.bsky.social, @archaeologyamy.bsky.social et al guide us on how to engage students in the #publication process in class, with digital reviews: doi.org/10.1017/aap..... Let's see if this post is picked up by @altmetric.com!

(reposting w/ slight CFP change!) Just Announced! The next #ConnectedPast in 2025 will take place in Coimbra Portugal! You have until March 15 to submit your abstracts! Share widely amongst your networks! @fionacoward.bsky.social #networks #archaeology more details: www.connectedpast.net

Contributed to the "City space and inequality" workshop hosted by @clusterroots.bsky.social last week. It was a great opportunity to share evidence of egalitarian economies in the past, and think about how they can help us envision a fairer future. Looking forward to next steps!

I participated in a workshop on #inequality in #urban spaces hosted by @clusterroots.bsky.social at U of Kiel. I shared my insights on multi-scalar inequality in ancient #Maya cities. It was a fantastic workshop and I’m looking forward to this new collaboration with scholars from around the world.

Next week, an international workshop at #UniKiel will address the topic of "City space and #inequality from #prehistory to #earlymodern period". If you want to join the discussion please contact our colleague Paweł Cembrzyński. More information and the complete programme 👇 🏺 🗃️

Digitizing ancient #Maya houses documented during pedestrian survey on our #NSF funded project! During the survey 🥾 team members take #GPS points, draw sketch maps, and take distance 📏 and direction 🧭 measurements that are translated into a #GIS in the SEA Lab 🔬in UT Austin Geography Department

Kicked off my research leave semester with two fantastic workshops in early January. One on Maya and Sustainability & one on lidar in NW Belize 🇧🇿! 📸: BEAST lidar team (from TTU anthro + UT Austin geography) and collaborators from MARI (Tulane), UTSA anthro, & San Antonio College natural sciences

Thinking about teaching grad students writing for publication? Read this new OA article about 3 students who published digital reviews in @saa-aap.bsky.social for a UTAustin course. The cover image of the latest AAP , containing the article, features the students at work: doi.org/10.1017/aap....

Our digital reviews editor worked with a classroom in Austin,TX to offer students real world experience in publishing. Here’s how it went.

🧵While teaching my first grad seminar at UTAustin in Sp22, I integrated learning how the peer review process works & writing for publication into the course. Students had the option of writing a book review or a digital review (DR) for Advances in Archaeological Practice (AAP) @saa-aap.bsky.social

Happy new year! My first post on Bluesky is to introduce myself: I’m an anthropological #archaeologist & #geographer who studies human-environment interactions and #inequality among the ancient #Maya using #GIS, #lidar, and multi-proxy chronology building (c14, ceramics, glyphs).