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Volcanic Stone, Renaissance Fun Houses

Katherine Coty reimagines Italian villa gardens as experiments with the local landscape

Tracking Ancient Immigration through Teeth

Gina Buckley looks for skeletal traces of elite and working-class immigration at Teotihuacan

The Public and the Patriarch

Ivan Marić studies imperial power dynamics in 9th-century Byzantium

Surveying the Borderland

Patrick Mullins sees diversity, conflict, politics, and coca in an ancient frontier landscape

Revolutionary Churches Hewn from Rock

Mikael Muehlbauer identifies medieval churches in Ethiopia that evoke a lost Byzantium

Globalization in Guinea Pig Bones

Sarah Kennedy establishes why food is key to understanding power, identity, and status in colonial Peru

Cultivating Perfume

Christine Griffiths tells a story about plants, artisanal knowledge, and experimentation in early modern England

Making Empire Local

Carla Hernández Garavito shows how an Andean community used ritual to create a local history of their conquest by the Inca

Swamps, Skulls, and Aztec-Mexica Identity

Ángel González López reconstructs an empire from fragments of stone sculpture

The Garden at Balentine’s

Nicholas Serrano studies postwar landscape architecture in the American South