Pre-Columbian Studies

Swamps, Skulls, and Aztec-Mexica Identity

Ángel González López reconstructs an empire from fragments of stone sculpture

Simple Pottery Reveals a Society

James Zeidler illuminates 3,500 years of Ecuadorian history

Missing Tongues

Mary Kate Kelly examines language variation among the ancient lowland Maya

Spectacles of Death

Luis Muro Ynoñán studies Moche funerary rituals at Huaca La Capilla

Life in Classic Maya Royal Courts

Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire studies classic Maya royal spaces in La Corona, Guatemala

The Dispersed City

Gabriela Cervantes surveys the Sican capital in northern Peru

Difference and Home

Jerry Moore investigates domestic architecture in ancient South America

Divided No More

Ryan Clasby revisits the Andean-Amazonian divide at Huayurco

The Hidden Fields of Peru

Ari Caramanica searches for agricultural traces in the Pampa de Mocan

Blood on the Stones

Ximena Chávez Balderas Reinterprets Sacrificial Remains at Tenochtitlan

Revisiting the Codex

Lori Diel Parses the Images and Enigmas of the Codex Mexicanus

The Beads of Las Orquídeas

Eric Dyrdahl Investigates Pre-Columbian Craft Production in Ecuador

Theories of Ritual

Pre-Columbian Studies Junior Fellow Jessica MacLellan on Maya Stone Platforms and the Organization of Community

“The World Upside Down”

Byzantine Studies Fellow Eleni Kefala on Byzantium and America before and after the Age of Reason

“The Lord of Vilcabamba”

Pre-Columbian Studies Fellow Brian Bauer on the Wari Empire