Jessica MacLellan
@archaeolojess.bsky.social
Archaeologist🏺focused on Mesoamerica 🌎 Anthropology professor at Wake Forest University 👩🏼🏫
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Classic Maya board game, made from pottery fragments 🏺♟️
Dealing with Uniqueness: A Classic Period Maya Mosaic Ceramic Patolli Board from Naachtun, Guatemala | Latin American Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Dealing with Uniqueness: A Classic Period Maya Mosaic Ceramic Patolli Board from Naachtun, Guatemala
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Classic Maya board game, made from pottery fragments 🏺♟️
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Tamales & Teotihuacan! 🏺🫔🔬
Amorphous carbonized objects and their contribution to reconstructing ancient Mesoamerican cuisine: An innovative non-destructive methodological approach
Archaeobotanists often come across small, amorphous carbonized objects (ACOs) in their flotation samples. Although their identification remains difficult and requires a range of characterization techn...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Tamales & Teotihuacan! 🏺🫔🔬
www.scientificamerican.com/article/arch... "Archaeologists Uncover a Monumental Ancient Maya Map of the Cosmos" -- exciting news from Aguada Fénix, Tabasco! 🏺
There’s a Monumental Cosmic Map Hidden beneath Mexico’s Oldest Maya Site
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
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November 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
www.scientificamerican.com/article/arch... "Archaeologists Uncover a Monumental Ancient Maya Map of the Cosmos" -- exciting news from Aguada Fénix, Tabasco! 🏺
"LiDAR‐Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee," by Klehm & Westmont, open-access in American Anthropologist: t.co/3rFWIUFMRN 🏺
https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.70034
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November 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"LiDAR‐Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee," by Klehm & Westmont, open-access in American Anthropologist: t.co/3rFWIUFMRN 🏺
mused.com/guided/158/t... Explore monuments and excavations at the Classic Maya city of Copan, in 3D! 🏺
Temple 26 and Excavation Tunnels, Copan | Copán Ruinas
Since the 1930’s, archaeologists have tunneled into the acropolis at Copan to understand the many phases of construction throughout its history.
With investigations now mostly complete, the tunnels ...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
mused.com/guided/158/t... Explore monuments and excavations at the Classic Maya city of Copan, in 3D! 🏺
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Dani Triadan's review of early Maya monumentalism, featuring insights from Aguada Fénix and Ceibal 🏺
Early Maya Monumentalism
The time period ∼1200–1000 BCE was pivotal in the Maya area, which witnessed the adoption of ceramics, changes in subsistence practices, a decrease in mobility, and the first monumental constructions....
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October 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Dani Triadan's review of early Maya monumentalism, featuring insights from Aguada Fénix and Ceibal 🏺
The Anthropology Department at Wake Forest University is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Archaeology for next academic year. Apply by January 5! apply.interfolio.com/175804 🏺
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October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The Anthropology Department at Wake Forest University is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Archaeology for next academic year. Apply by January 5! apply.interfolio.com/175804 🏺
Wake Forest University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology! Apply by November 15: apply.interfolio.com/174678
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September 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wake Forest University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology! Apply by November 15: apply.interfolio.com/174678
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“The fact that the settlers and the evangelists and other rightwing Americans found each other a perfect match is not news. But this ceremony is just bad archaeology and another proof that the whole City of David archaeological park project has nothing to do with either archaeology or heritage.” 🏺
‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology to win US support for goals
Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity
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September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“The fact that the settlers and the evangelists and other rightwing Americans found each other a perfect match is not news. But this ceremony is just bad archaeology and another proof that the whole City of David archaeological park project has nothing to do with either archaeology or heritage.” 🏺
Content warning for (many) human remains ☠️ 🏺 "Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Content warning for (many) human remains ☠️ 🏺 "Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Jessica MacLellan
There's bit of discussion about wether freshly published #aDNA 🏺🧬 data from #Catalhöyük allows talking about matrilineally organised Neolithic community there - of course I couldn't help but join having an opinion:
www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com
www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com
Ancient 'female-centered' society thrived 9,000 years ago in proto-city in Turkey
Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.
www.livescience.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
There's bit of discussion about wether freshly published #aDNA 🏺🧬 data from #Catalhöyük allows talking about matrilineally organised Neolithic community there - of course I couldn't help but join having an opinion:
www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com
www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com
Reposted by Jessica MacLellan
“By tracing how ... archaeological objects were taken from their contexts, and where they traveled, we can start to understand how U.S. imperialism jumbles historical landscapes—and contemporary ones.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
June 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“By tracing how ... archaeological objects were taken from their contexts, and where they traveled, we can start to understand how U.S. imperialism jumbles historical landscapes—and contemporary ones.”
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Job for an archaeologist (working in Latin America) 🏺 careers.saa.org/jobs/ja/2144...
Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Nashville, TN for Vanderbilt University
Exciting opportunity in Nashville, TN for Vanderbilt University as a Research Assistant Professor...
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June 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Job for an archaeologist (working in Latin America) 🏺 careers.saa.org/jobs/ja/2144...
Very cool LiDAR study: www.science.org/content/arti... 🏺🌽
600 years before Europeans arrived, Great Lakes farmers transformed the land
Despite poor conditions, Indigenous growers used innovative techniques to grow large crops of corn, beans, and squash
www.science.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Very cool LiDAR study: www.science.org/content/arti... 🏺🌽