The Power and Agency of Corporal Animal Forms:                                                                  … Continue reading →

New Flavors and Old Responses: El Niño, Disaster, and Resilience on the Coast of Peru Daniel Sandweiss, Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary and Climate Studies, Cooperating Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Global Policy, University of Maine "Evidence" of … Continue reading →

Storytelling in the Round: Architectural Form and Motif in Paracas Sculptural Ceramics Lisa DeLeonardis, Austen-Stokes Professor in Art of the Ancient Americas in the Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University Paracas Cavernas Artist, Ceremonial Vessel, earthenware with … Continue reading →

A Society of Kings: Deciphering Classic Maya Politics Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania Museum Photo: The noble Yok Ch'ich (?) Tal. Detail of a stone panel from Palenque Temple XIX. Photograph by Jorge Pérez de Lara Abstract: The political organization of the Classic … Continue reading →

Recovering the Floral Fragrance of Ancient Maya Ritual: Pollen Evidence from Copan, Honduras Cameron L. McNeil, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. Image courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.   Abstract: Clues to the creation of flower-laden spaces … Continue reading →

Rethinking Time and Cosmos in Central Mexico: New Insights from a Colonial Zapotec Corpus   David Tavárez,  Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College       left: Cosmological diagram in Manual 6. AGI México 882, 294r; right: Songbook 101. AGI México … Continue reading →

Jade, Gold, and the Iconography of Power in the Isthmo-Colombian    John W Hoopes,  Professor, Department of of Anthropology, University of Kansas   Jadeite pendant representing a snake, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks, … Continue reading →

  Sand, Wetlands, and Waves:        sea-level rise, ancient territories, and the marine socioenvironmental context of Pre-Columbian  Puerto Rico.   Isabel Rivera-Collazo, Director, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology and Associate Professor, Biological, Ecological and Human Adaptation to Climate … Continue reading →

"Castilla del Oro" and the Regional Evolution and Dissemination of Ancient Indigenous Metallurgic Iconography in the Isthmo-Colombian Area. Orlando Hernández Ying, Curatorial Associate, Hispanic Society Museum & Library Gold Eagle Pendant, 11th-16th century, Panama. Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum … Continue reading →

Severin Fowles, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College   Comanche Rock Art from New Mexico. Photo courtesy of Severin Fowles.   Abstract:  During the eighteenth century, an extraordinary artistic tradition arose among the Indigenous equestrian societies of the Great Plains. … Continue reading →