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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 4d

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

Mural from Teotihuacan, Mexico, depicting a colorful tropical bird with footprints around it

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 18d

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

David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 28d

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

https://engage.metmuseum.org/events/educati…

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · Sep 5

🇺🇲 La Administración Trump demanda a la ciudad de Boston, como parte de su campaña nacional contra las políticas de las ciudades santuario, las cuales limitan la cooperación de las fuerzas locales con las autoridades federales de inmigración dozz.es/kfafq5

La Administración Trump demanda a Boston en su última escalada en el enfrentamiento con las ciudades santuario

La alcaldesa Michelle Wu calificó la demanda como extralimitada e inconstitucional: “Esta es nuestra ciudad y defenderemos enérgicamente nuestras leyes”

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EL PAÍS México @elpaismexico.bsky.social · Sep 5

🇺🇲 La Administración Trump demanda a la ciudad de Boston, como parte de su campaña nacional contra las políticas de las ciudades santuario, las cuales limitan la cooperación de las fuerzas locales con las autoridades federales de inmigración dozz.es/kfafq5

La Administración Trump demanda a Boston en su última escalada en el enfrentamiento con las ciudades santuario

La alcaldesa Michelle Wu calificó la demanda como extralimitada e inconstitucional: “Esta es nuestra ciudad y defenderemos enérgicamente nuestras leyes”

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · Aug 19

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.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Una yuxtaposición del Zocalo durante #Mexico-Tenochtitlan 700

Photo of cathedral of Mexico City with Aztec Sun Stone projected on front

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

The Colorful Tale of Mexico's A-maize-ing Grain - Gastropod

The past, present, and future of corn: a story that involves empires, vampires, and generations of women chained to the (literal) grindstone.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World

www.nytimes.com

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

Illustration of Aztec men sharing a meal from the Florentine Codex

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life

YouTube video by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · May 27

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

In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · May 8

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)

Painting of a romanticized Aztec warrior and princess who embody the volcanoes depicted behind them (Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl)

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

www.revistas.inah.gob.mx

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Apr 6

Proud of these ladies in their 80s showing up

Two grandmothers protesting the current administration in Boston

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Mar 22

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...

Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

Sunrise in Dragoon Arizona seen through an arch

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · Mar 5

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

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thanks Ben, and good to see you on here!

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Maria C. Codlin @mcodlin.bsky.social · Feb 16

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

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · Feb 14

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.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · Feb 10

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

Article information including DOI, title, authors, abstract and keywords.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Feb 5

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

Cover of journal Urban Studies showing Eastern Hemisphere at night from space.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Jan 22

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.

Map of southern Gulf of Mexico showing archaeological sites dating from 3500-1000 years ago. La Perla del Golfo relief carving shows mix of Veracruz figures and Maya style hieroglyphs. Mural from Las Hibueras shows person swimming in blue water with fish. Map and sculpture from Budar et al (2021)

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Dec 29

Could be. This is just a measure of what percentage of sites were occupied in sequential phases in the northern Tlaxcala chronology

David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Dec 28

Data from Merino Carrion (1989) and we published in JAA (Carballo and Pluckhahn 2007)

David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · Dec 28

I did this for the northern Tlaxcala (PANT) survey data and published as a line chart rather than table. It's the top left "multi-phase sites" and the big disjunctures come with Teo (makes sense) and in the middle of the Epiclassic (??). Seems like a simple way to highlight major regional change

Line chart showing archaeological site continuity in percentage from one ceramic phase to another using data from Merino Carrion (1989) from northern Tlaxcala, Mexico

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