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David M. Carballo
Department of Archaeology, Boston University
675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (617) 358-1660; Fax: (617) 353-6800; Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles, PhD in Anthropology, 2001-2005.
University of California, Los Angeles, MA in Anthropology, 1999-2001.
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, BA in Political Science, with honors, 1991-1995.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Archaeology, Boston University.
Programmatic appointment, Anthropology, Boston University.
Programmatic appointment, Latin American Studies Program, Boston University.
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Alabama, 2009 – 2010.
Lecturer, Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 2008 – 2009.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of West Georgia, 2007 – 2008.
Research Fellow, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2005 – 2010.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 2005 – 2006.
FELLOWSHIPS
Junior Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Boston University, 2013-2014.
Visiting Fellow, Center for U.S. – Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
RESEARCH GRANTS
National Science Foundation, Senior Research Grant, Archaeology (BCS-1522630), 2015-2018.
“Collaborative Research: Origins of Urbanization and State Formation: Investigations at the Plaza of
the Columns Complex at Teotihuacan, Mexico” ($77,717).
National Science Foundation, Senior Research Grant, Archaeology (BCS-1321247), 2013-2016.
“Collaborative Research: Urbanism, Neighborhood Organization, and Domestic Economy at the
Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico” ($188,238).
National Science Foundation, Senior Research Grant, Archaeology (BCS-0941278), 2009-2011.
“The Evolution of Community Ritual and Effects of State Expansion in Central Mexico at La
Laguna, Tlaxcala” ($81,579).
National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration (CRE-8634-09), 2009-2010.
“Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Ritualization and State Expansion in Prehispanic
Central Mexico” ($16,905).
UCMEXUS – CONACYT Collaborative Grant for U.S. and Mexican Researchers, 2007-2008.
Awarded jointly with Luis Barba, UNAM, for “Mapping the Evolution of Ceremonial Space in
Prehispanic Central Mexico: Remote Sensing and Archaeological Excavations at La Laguna,
Tlaxcala” ($24,970).
National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration (CRE-8057-06), 2006-2008.
“Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Proto-Urban Social Transformations and State
Expansion in Prehispanic Central Mexico” ($18,745).
Carballo 1 Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (#05018), 2005-2006. “ProtoUrban Social Transformations and Community Organization at La Laguna, Tlaxcala, During the Late
and Terminal Formative Periods” ($9,000).
University of California, Mexico and United States (UCMEXUS) Dissertation Grant, 2002-2004.
“Labor, Ideology, and the State: Obsidian Production at the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan, Mexico”
($12,000).
STUDENT GRANTS
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, Archaeology (BCD1533539), 2015-2017. “Lithic Technology and Microwear Analysis in Central Mexico.” Faculty PI
for doctoral student David Walton ($13,671).
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Authored
Carballo, David M.
2015 Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico. Oxford University Press, New York.
Carballo, David M.
2011 Obsidian and the Teotihuacan State: Weaponry and Ritual Production at the Moon Pyramid.
La obsidiana y el Estado teotihuacano: La producción militar y ritual en la Pirámide de la Luna.
University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology No. 21. Center for Comparative
Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, and Instituto de
Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Pittsburgh and
México, D.F.
Edited
Levine, Marc N., and David M. Carballo (eds.)
2014 Obsidian Reflections: Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica. University Press of
Colorado, Boulder.
Carballo, David M. (ed.)
2013 Cooperation and Collective Action: Archaeological Perspectives. University Press of
Colorado, Boulder.
Journal Articles
Anonymous Peer Review
Carballo, David M., and Gary M. Feinman
n.d. Cooperation Research in the Archaeology of Complex Societies. Evolutionary Anthropology,
under review.
Walton, David P, and David M. Carballo
n.d. Lithic Economies and Community Organization at La Laguna, Tlaxcala. Ancient Mesoamerica,
under review.
Carballo, David M.
n.d. Economía y ritual en Teotihuacan y su orbito. Americae: The European Journal of Americanist
Archaeology, in press.
Carballo, David M., and Brent Fortenberry
2015 Bridging Prehistory and History in the Archaeology of Cities. Journal of Field Archaeology
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1179/2042458215Y.00000000019
Carballo 2 Carballo, David M., Jennifer Carballo, and Richard G. Lesure
2014 Houses of Style: Consumption, Adornment, and Identity in Formative Tlaxcalan Households.
Ancient Mesoamerica 25(2): 459-476.
Carballo, David M., Paul Roscoe, and Gary M. Feinman
2014 Cooperation and Collective Action in the Cultural Evolution of Complex Societies. Journal of
Archaeological Method and Theory 21(1): 98-133.
Carballo, David M., Luis Barba, Agustín Ortíz, Jorge Blancas, Nicole Cingolani, Jorge Toledo
Barrera, David Walton, Isabel Rodríguez López, and Lourdes Couoh
2014 Suprahousehold Consumption and Community Ritual at La Laguna, Mexico. Antiquity
88(339): 141-159.
Lesure, Richard G., Thomas Wake, Aleksander Borejsza, Jennifer Carballo, David M. Carballo,
Isabel Rodríguez López, and Mauro de Angeles Guzmán
2013 Swidden Agriculture, Village Longevity, and Social Relations in Formative Central Tlaxcala:
Towards an Understanding of Macroregional Structure. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:
224-241.
Carballo, David M.
2012 Public Ritual and Urbanization in Central Mexico: Plaza and Temple Offerings from La
Laguna, Tlaxcala. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(3): 329-352.
Carballo, David M.
2011 Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica. Journal of
Archaeological Research 19: 133-189.
Carballo, David M.
2009 Household and Status in Formative Central Mexico: Domestic Structures, Assemblages, and
Practices at La Laguna, Tlaxcala. Latin American Antiquity 20(3): 473-501.
De León, Jason P., Kenneth G. Hirth, and David M. Carballo
2009 Exploring Formative Period Obsidian Blade Trade: Three Distribution Models. Ancient
Mesoamerica 20(1): 113-128.
Carballo, David M., and Thomas Pluckhahn
2007 Transportation Corridors and Political Evolution in Highland Mesoamerica: Settlement
Analyses Incorporating GIS for Northern Tlaxcala, Mexico. Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology 26(4): 607-629.
Carballo, David M.
2007 Effigy Vessels, Religious Integration, and the Origins of the Central Mexican Pantheon.
Ancient Mesoamerica 18(1): 53-67.
Carballo, David M.
2007 Implements of State Power: Weaponry and Martially Themed Obsidian Production near the
Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan. Ancient Mesoamerica 18(1): 173-190.
Carballo, David M., Jennifer Carballo, and Hector Neff
2007 Formative and Classic Period Obsidian Procurement in Central Mexico: A Compositional
Study Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. Latin American
Antiquity 18(1): 27-43.
Carballo 3 Editorial Review
Carballo, David M., Luis Barba, Agustín Ortiz, and Jorge Blancas
2015 La Laguna, Tlaxcala: un pueblo formativo del Altiplano Central. Arqueología Mexicana 135.
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba
2014 Se descubre una máscara de piedra en Tlajinga, Teotihuacan, estado de México. Arqueología
Mexicana 129: 10.
Carballo, David M., and Anthony F. Aveni
2012 Los vecinos del Preclásico en Xochitécatl y la institucionalización de la religión. Arqueología
Mexicana 117: 52-57.
Carballo, David M., Luis Barba, Agustín Ortiz, Jorge Blancas, Jorge Humberto Toledo Barrera, and
Nicole Cingolani
2011 La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Ritual y Urbanización en el Formativo. Revista Teccalli: Estudios
Puebla-Tlaxcala 1(2): 1-11.
Carballo, David M.
2009 Rituel et économie à Teotihuacan. Les Dossiers d’Archéologie 17: 32-35.
Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries
Anonymous Peer Review
Carballo, David M., Kenneth G. Hirth, and Daniela Hernández Sariñana
n.d. Excavaciones del Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacán, 2013-2014. In Homanaje a
Rubén Cabrera, edited by Verónica Ortega. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
City, under review.
Feinman, Gary M., and David M. Carballo
n.d. Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Variability and Resiliency of Early Complex
Societies in Mesoamerica. In edited volume by Ludomir Lozny. Springer, New York, under review.
Carballo, David M.
n.d. Religion, Urbanism, and Inequality in Ancient Central Mexico. In Beyond Integration: Religion
and Politics in the Precolumbian Americas, edited by Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce.
Routledge, New York, under review.
Carballo, David M.
2014 Obsidian Symbolism in a Temple Offering from La Laguna, Tlaxcala. In Obsidian Reflections:
The Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica, edited by Marc N. Levine and David M.
Carballo, pp. 195-221. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Lesure, Richard G., and David M. Carballo
2014 Tetel. In Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala: Volume 1, Excavations, Ceramics, and
Chronology, edited by Richard G. Lesure, pp. 51-69. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Carballo, Jennifer, and David M. Carballo
2014 Las Mesitas. In Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala: Volume 1, Excavations, Ceramics
and Chronology, edited by Richard G. Lesure, pp. 71-82. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Borejsza, Aleksander, and David M. Carballo
Carballo 4 2014 La Laguna: Overview of Site. In Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala: Volume 1,
Excavations, Ceramics, and Chronology, edited by Richard G. Lesure, pp. 83-88. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles.
Carballo, David M.
2014 La Laguna: Site Mapping and Domestic Excavations in Areas D and H. In Formative Lifeways
in Central Tlaxcala: Volume 1, Excavations, Ceramics, and Chronology, edited by Richard G.
Lesure, pp. 89-111. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles.
Lesure, Richard G., Aleksander Borejsza, Jennifer Carballo, David M. Carballo, and Isabel
Rodríguez López
2014 Contexts. In Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala: Volume 1, Excavations, Ceramics, and
Chronology, edited by Richard G. Lesure, pp. 169-182. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Lesure, Richard G., Isabel Rodríguez López, Aleksander Borejsza, Jennifer Carballo, and David M.
Carballo
2014 Pottery: Description and Typology. In Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala: Volume 1,
Excavations, Ceramics, and Chronology, edited by Richard G. Lesure, pp. 183-258. Cotsen Institute
of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles.
Lesure, Richard G., Jennifer Carballo, David M. Carballo, Aleksander Borejsza, and Isabel
Rodríguez López
2014 A Formative Chronology for Central Tlaxcala. In Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala:
Volume 1, Excavations, Ceramics, and Chronology, edited by Richard G. Lesure, pp. 315-362.
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles.
Carballo, David M.
2013 The Social Organization of Craft Production and Interregional Exchange at Teotihuacan. In
Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World, edited by Kenneth G. Hirth and
Joanne Pillsbury, pp. 113-140. Dumbarton Oaks and Trustees for Harvard University, Washington,
D.C.
Carballo, David M.
2013 Cultural and Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation in Archaeological Perspective. In
Cooperation and Collective Action: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by David M. Carballo, pp.
3-33. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Carballo, David M.
2013 Labor Collectives and Group Cooperation in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico. In Cooperation
and Collective Action: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by David M. Carballo, pp. 243-274.
University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Lesure, Richard G., Jennifer Carballo, and David M. Carballo
2012 Changing Social Practices as Seen from Household Iconic Traditions: A Case Study from
Formative Central Tlaxcala. In Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice: Case
Studies from Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by Eleanor Harrison-Buck, pp. 21-38. University of Utah
Press, Salt Lake City.
Carballo, David M., Richard G. Lesure, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Douglas J. Kennett, Stuart Tyson Smith,
Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock
2009 The Manufacture and Contents of Pottery Vessels in Early Formative Mazatán. In Settlement
and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco: El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage
Carballo 5 Variation, edited by Richard G Lesure, pp. 223-237. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Editorial Review
Pastrana, Alejandro, and David M. Carballo
2015 Aztec Obsidian Industries. In The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, edited by Deborah L.
Nichols and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría. Oxford University Press, New York, in press.
Carballo, David M.
2015 America. In Field Archaeology from Around the World, edited by Martin Carver, Bisserka
Gaydarska, and Sandra Montón-Subías, pp. 193-197. Springer, New York.
Carballo, David M.
2014 American Pioneers and Traditions. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by Claire
Smith, pp. 186-190. Springer, New York.
Carballo, David M.
2012 Trade Routes in the Americas before Columbus. In The Great Trade Routes: A History of
Cargos and Commerce Over Land and Sea, edited by Philip Parker, pp. 166-170. Conway
Publishing, London.
Carballo, David M.
2012 Households in Ancient Mesoamerica: Domestic Social Organization, Status, Economies, and
Rituals. In The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, edited by Deborah Nichols and
Christopher Pool, pp. 684-696. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Carballo, David M.
2012 La integración religiosa y la división social vistas por las unidades domésticas del Formativo en
La Laguna, Tlaxcala. In Arqueologías de la vida cotidiana: espacios domésticos y áreas de
actividad en el México antiguo y otras zonas culturales, edited by Guillermo Acosta Ochoa, pp. 109133. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Mexico City.
Conference Proceedings
Carballo, David M.
n.d. La religión y la transformación social formativo visto por La Laguna, Tlaxcala. In Tlaxcala
Pasado y Presente: Recientes Investigaciones Antropológicas, Tlaxcala, edited by Mari Carmen
Serra Puche and Hernán Salas Quintanal. Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, Mexico City,
in press.
Carballo, David M.
n.d. Las Ofrendas Rituales y la Urbanización Teotihuacana Visto Desde el Norte de Tlaxcala. In
Memoria de la 5ª Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan, edited by Sandra Riégo Ruíz. INAH, Mexico City,
in press.
Carballo, David M.
2013 Monuments, Movement, and Meaning: Comments on 2,000 Years of Monumentality at
Teotihuacan and Cholula. In Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Social Identity:
2,000 Years of Monumentality at Teotihuacan and Cholula, Mexico, edited by Saburo Sugiyama,
Shigeru Kabata, Tomoko Taniguchi, and Etsuko Niwa, pp. 133-138. Cultural Symbiosis Research
Institute, Aichi Prefectrual University, Japan.
Barba, Luís, Jorge Blancas, Agustín Ortiz, and David Carballo
Carballo 6 2009 Geophysical Prospection and Aerial Photography in La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Revue
d’Archéométrie 33: 17-20.
Comments and Reviews
Carballo, David M.
2015 Review of “The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient Times to the Present” by Ronald Spores and
Andrew K. Balkansky. Journal of Field Archaeology, in press.
Carballo, David M.
2015 Comment on “The Archaeology of Disjuncture: Classic Period Disruption and Cultural
Divergence in the Tuxtla Mountains of Mexico” by Wesley Stoner and Christopher Pool. Current
Anthropology 56(3): 385-420.
Carballo, David M.
2011 Review of “The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in
Architecture and Imagery” edited by William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján. Journal of Field
Archaeology 36(1): 53-58.
Carballo, David M.
2006 Review of “Obsidian Craft Production in Ancient Central Mexico” by Kenneth G. Hirth. Lithic
Technology 31(2): 156-158.
Technical Reports
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.)
2014 Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan: Temporada 2013. Manuscript on file at the
Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 141 pages.
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.)
2012 Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan: Temporada 2012. Manuscript on file at the
Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 52 pages.
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.)
2012 Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala, 2005-2012. Manuscript on file at the Consejo de
Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 434 pages.
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.)
2011 Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Temporada 2010. Manuscript on file at the
Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 204 pages.
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.)
2010 Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Temporada 2009. Manuscript on file at the
Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 200 pages.
Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.)
2009 Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala: Temporada 2008. Manuscript on file at the
Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 176 pages.
Carballo, David M.
2007 Avances del Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala: las excavaciones de 2006 y los
análisis de materiales de 2005-2006. Manuscript on file at the Consejo de Arqueología, INAH,
Mexico City, 265 pages.
Carballo, David M.
Carballo 7 2006 Informe Técnico Parcial del Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala. Manuscript on file
at the Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City, 119 pages.
Carballo, David M.
2006 Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala. Boletín del Consejo de Arqueología del INAH.
Internet report available at http://www.inah.gob.mx/index_.html
Carballo, David M.
2006 Proto-Urban Social Transformations and Community Organization at La Laguna, Tlaxcala,
During the Late Pre-Classic. Internet report available at
http://www.famsi.org/reports/05018/index.html
Carballo, David M.
1997 Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Cerro Chino, Honduras. Manuscript on file at the Instituto
Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa and Copán.
FIELD RESEARCH
Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan. Primary Investigator (PI) of project in southern
neighborhood of UNESCO World Heritage Site of Teotihuacan, Mexico. Research themes revolve
around ancient urbanism, domestic economy, ritual, and anthropogenic transformations of landscape.
Luis Barba, UNAM, Mexico, Co-Director on permit; Kenneth Hirth, Penn State, Co-PI on grant;
2012 – present.
Proyecto Arqueológico La Laguna, Tlaxcala. PI of project focusing on household economies, public
ritual, cooperation and competition, interregional contacts, and the rural impacts of urbanization and
state expansion at Formative period central Mexican town, 2005 – 2012 (Barba Co-Director 2008 –
2012).
Proyecto Pirámide de la Luna. Investigator involved in dissertation analyses, final analyses, database
construction, and dissemination projects for the Moon Pyramid Project, Teotihuacan. Co-PIs Saburo
Sugiyama, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, and Rubén Cabrera Castro, INAH, Mexico, 1999 –
2004.
UCLA Formative Apizaco Project, Mexico. Investigator at the sites Amomoloc, Tetel, Las Mesitas,
and La Laguna to explore issues pertaining to early sedentism and the impacts of the development of
regional polities and urban centers on rural communities, PI Richard Lesure, 1999 – 2004.
Taylor 1 and Vincent Beach sites, Chilmark, Massachusetts. Excavations at two endangered sites on
Martha's Vineyard with Late Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Contact Period occupation, PI
Elizabeth Chilton, Harvard University, 1999.
K'axob, Belize. Excavations of raised fields in Pulltrouser Swamp aimed at understanding their
formation and usage by a Maya community during the Formative and Classic periods, PI Patricia
McAnany, Boston University, 1998.
Copán, Honduras. Excavations at Group 9J-5, a Classic period elite residential complex, to assess
the relationship between its inhabitants and the Copán dynasty. Field director for excavations at the
nearby Protoclassic hilltop site of Cerro Chino. PIs William Fash and Alan Maca, Harvard
University, 1997.
Copán, Honduras. Harvard University Field School in Archaeology, led by William Fash, 1996.
Carballo 8 Central Mexico. Colgate University Field School in Archaeoastronomy, led by Anthony Aveni,
1995.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
External
Review Committee, Arqueología Mexicana, 2015-present.
Review Committee, Americae: The European Review of Americanist Archaeology, 2013-present.
Program Committee, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, 2009-2010.
Member: Society for American Archaeology (SAA), American Anthropological Association (AAA),
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Archaeology
(AIA), Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología (SMA).
University
Executive Committee, BU Latin American Studies Program, 2014 - present.
Jr. Faculty Social Science Colloquium, co-organizer, BU CAS, 2014 - present.
Graduate Studies Committee, BU Archaeology, 2014 - present.
Undergraduate Studies Committee, BU Archaeology, 2013 - present.
Faculty Adviser, BU Archaeology Society, 2012-present.
Faculty Adviser, BU Flintknapping Club, 2012-present.
Scholarship Committee, BU Archaeology, 2012-present.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, BU Archaeology, 2011-2013.
Advisory Committee on Graduate Curriculum, BU Archaeology, 2011-2013.
Reader for completed MA and PhD Theses (Boston University unless noted)
2015 Jessica Striebel MacLean (PhD), Franco Rossi (PhD), Jonathan Ruane (PhD), Jennifer
Wildt (PhD), Monica Blanco García Mendez (MA, UNAM)
2013 Laura Heath (MA), Adam Kaeding (PhD), Victor Castañeda (PhD, UNAM), Eliza Wallace
(PhD)
2012 Brent Fortenberry (PhD), Jorge Estanislao Blancas Vázquez (MA, UNAM)
2011 Eleanor Moriarty (PhD), Carl Anthony Smith (MA, University of Alabama)
2010 Satoru Murata (PhD)
Sackler/Hammond Lecture Advisory Committee, BU Archaeology, 2013.
BU Dean of Students, check-in calls for first year students, 2012.
Faculty Search Committee, BU Archaeology, 2011-2012.
Graduate Committee, Anthropology, University of Alabama, 2009-2010.
Bob Work Award Committee, Anthropology, University of Alabama, 2009-2010.
Undergraduate Curriculum and Affairs Committee, Anthropology, Penn State, 2008-2009.
Undergraduate Recruitment, Anthropology, University of West Georgia, 2007-2008.
PEER REVIEWS
American Anthropologist, article, 2015
Anales de Antropología, article, 2013, 2015
Ancient Mesoamerica, article, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 (x2), 2013
Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, article, 2011 (x2)
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, article, 2012, 2013
Cambridge University Press, book endorsement blurb, 2015
Colegio de Michoacan, book chapter, 2013
Current Anthropology, article, 2015
Ecological Modelling, article, 2011
Environmental Archaeology, article, 2014
Fieldania, book manuscript, 2012
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, article, 2012, 2014 (x2)
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, article, 2013 (x2)
Carballo 9 Journal of Archaeological Research, article, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
Journal of Field Archaeology, article, 2011, 2012, 2014
Latin American Antiquity, article, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 (x2)
National Geographic Society, grant, 2011 (x2), 2014, 2015 (x2)
National Science Foundation, Senior Research Grant, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014 (x2)
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award, 2010, 2011 (x3), 2012
(x2), 2013 (x2), 2014 (x2), 2015
Oxford University Press, book proposal, 2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, article, 2014
Quaternary Science Reviews, article, 2012
Research in Economic Anthropology, article, 2011
Routledge Press, book proposal, 2014
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant, 2013
Travaux et Recherches dans les Amériques du Centre, article, 2010
University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, Dissertation Grant, 2014 (x2)
University Press of Colorado, book manuscript, 2009, 2013
World Archaeology, article, 2015
INVITED LECTURES
“Desde arriba hacia abajo y abajo hacia arriba: la planificación urbana y la vida cotidiana visto por el
distrito de Tlajinga, Teotihuacán.” Homenaje Rubén Cabrera, Centro de Estudios Teotihuacanos,
November 2014.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.”
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, October 2014.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.” Arts,
Culture, and Ideas Series, BU Alumni Association, September 2014.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.” Burke
Museum, University of Washington, April 2014.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.”
Massachusetts Archaeology Society, Northeast Chapter, Philips Academy, March 2014.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.”
Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, February 2014.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.”
Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College, November 2013.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.”
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, October 2013.
“In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Daily Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico.” De
Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, October 2013.
“Ayer y Mañana in the City of the Gods: Recent Archaeology at Teotihuacan, Mexico.” Keynote
speaker, Latino Family Weekend, Organization of Latin American Affairs, Boston College, February
2013.
“La religión y la transformación social formativo visto por La Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Tlaxcala Pasado y
Presente: Recientes Investigaciones Antropológicas, Tlaxcala, Mexico, September 2012.
Carballo 10 “Ritual Offerings and Sacred Architecture in Ancient Central Mexico.” Department of
Anthropology, Brandeis University, March 28, 2012.
“Ritual Offerings and Sacred Architecture in Ancient Central Mexico.” Department of
Anthropology, University of Connecticut, March 22, 2012.
“Ritual Offerings and Sacred Architecture in Early Central Mexico.” Colgate University, November
8, 2011.
“Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Central Mexico.” University of Social Sciences, Vietnam
National University, Hanoi, March 2011.
“Recent Discoveries and Heritage Management in Mexico.” University of Social Sciences and
Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, March 2011.
“Ritual and Community in Formative Central Mexico.” Peabody Museum, Harvard University,
October 2010.
“Recientes Investigaciones Arqueológicas en La Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Department of Anthropology,
Universidad de Las Américas, Puebla, Mexico, August 2010.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
Session Organizer
“Archaeology of Tlaxcala, Mexico.” Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting,
Honolulu, April 2013.
“Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation.” American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) annual meeting, Washington, D.C., February 2011.
“Obsidian Reflections: Evaluating the Symbolic and Religious Dimensions of Obsidian for
Interpreting the Archaeological Record of Ancient Mesoamerica.” Co-organizer with Marc Levine,
SAA annual meeting, St. Louis, April 2010.
“Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation.” SAA annual meeting, Atlanta, April 2009.
“Teotihuacan Politics and Religion at the Moon Pyramid and Beyond: Analyses, Interpretations, and
Concluding Remarks of the Moon Pyramid Project.” Co-organizer with Saburo Sugiyama, SAA
annual meeting, Vancouver, March 2008.
“Formative Period Social Transformations in Western Mesoamerica: New Research.” Co-organizer
with Jennifer Carballo, SAA annual meeting, Salt Lake City, April 2005.
Invited Discussant
Session titled “Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Social Identity: 2,000 Years of
Monumentality at Teotihuacan in Cholula.” American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual
meeting, San Francisco, November 2012.
Session titled “Espacios Domésticos” (Domestic Spaces). Primera Jornada de Jóvenes Arqueólogos,
Centro de Estudios Francés Mexicanos y Centro Americanos (CEMCA), Mexico City, June 2010.
Papers in Invited Sessions (sole or first author unless noted)
Carballo 11 “La vida cotidiana y el Estado en Teotihuacan, México: Nuevos datos desde el distrito de Tlajinga.”
Paper co-authored with Luis Barba and Kenneth Hirth. SAA Conferencia Internacional, Lima,
August 2014.
“Everyone is Equal Except When They’re Not: Religion and Inequality in Formative Central
Mexico.” AAA annual meeting, Chicago, November 2013.
“Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Emergence and Variability of Early Complex
Societies.” Paper co-authored with Gary Feinman, AAA annual meeting, Chicago, November 2013.
“Mapping the Northeastern Tlajinga Barrio at Teotihuacan.” Paper co-authored with Luis Barba,
Agustín Ortiz, and Jorge Blancas, SAA annual meeting, Honolulu, April 2013.
“Detección de estructuras arqueológicas enterradas y determinación de áreas de actividad en La
Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Luis Barba, first author, SAA annual meeting, Honolulu, April 2013.
“Houses of Style: Adornment, Consumption, and Identity in Formative Central Mexican
Households.” Paper co-authored with Richard G. Lesure and Jennifer L. Carballo, AAA annual
meeting, San Francisco, November 2012.
“Public Architecture and Ritual Offerings during Central Mexico’s Later Formative Periods.” Paper
co-authored with Anthony F. Aveni and Laura E. Heath. SAA annual meeting, Memphis, April
2012.
“Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation: An Introduction.” AAAS annual meeting,
Washington, D.C., February 2011.
“The Social Organization of Craft Production and Interregional Exchange at Teotihuacan.”
Merchants, Trade, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.,
October 2010.
“Economía y ritual en la evolución de una esfera de interacción Formativa en el Altiplano Central.”
Paper co-authored with Luis Barba, XXIX Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología,
Puebla, Mexico, July 2010.
“Obsidian Symbolism in a Temple Offering from La Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Paper co-authored with
Alejandra Gómez Cortéz, SAA Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 2010
“Ritual, Economy, and Teotihuacan’s Sphere of Influence.” Colloque International Rituels et
Pouvoir à Teotihuacan, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, October 2009.
“Implementos del poder Estatal: La talla de obsidiana al lado de la Pirámide de la Luna.”
International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July 2009.
“Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation: An Introduction and Application to Central Mexico.” SAA
annual meeting, Atlanta, April 2009.
“The Formative Sequence of Central Tlaxcala.” Richard Lesure, first author, SAA annual meeting,
Atlanta, April 2009.
“Teotihuacan State Expansion and Political Meddling Abroad Viewed from the Moon Pyramid and
Recent Research Outside of the City.” Paper co-authored with Claudia García-Des Lauriers, SAA
annual meeting, Vancouver, March 2008.
Carballo 12 “La integración religiosa y la división social visto por las unidades domésticas del Formativo en La
Laguna, Tlaxcala.” VII Coloquio Pedro Bosch-Gimpera, Mexico City, March 2008.
“Interregional Contacts, Teotihuacano Expansion, and the Formative to Classic Period Transition in
Northern Tlaxcala.” SAA annual meeting, Austin, April 2007.
“Iconic Traditions and Social Memory in Formative Central Tlaxcala.” Richard Lesure, first author,
SAA annual meeting, Austin, April 2007.
“La Laguna, Tlaxcala, and the Proto-Urban Central Mexican Landscape of the Terminal Formative.”
SAA annual meeting, Salt Lake City, April 2005.
“Militarism, Early State Expansion, and Obsidian Specialization at Teotihuacan.” SAA annual
meeting, Montreal, March 2004.
“Technology and Access: Chipped Stone from Middle Formative Tlaxcala, Mexico.” Jason De
León, first author, SAA annual meetings, Milwaukee, March 2003.
“La Producción Artesanal y Estructuras Asociadas a la Pirámide de la Luna.” Paper co-authored
with Jennifer Carballo. XXVI Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas,
Mexico, July 2001.
“Craft Production and Structures Associated with the Pyramid of the Moon.” Paper co-authored
with Jennifer Smit. SAA annual meeting, New Orleans, April 2001.
Papers in General Sessions (sole or first author unless noted)
“Employing Micromorphology at the Tlajinga district in Teotihuacan to Investigate Site Formation
Processes and Household Activities.” Mareike Stahlschmidt, first author (poster), SAA annual
meeting, San Francisco, April 2015.
“Estudios geofísicos en el barrio de Tlajinga, Teotihuacan.” Jorge Blancas, first author, Unión
Geofísica Mexicana, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, November 2013.
“Geofísica, química y arqueología. Estudios arqueométricos en La Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Agustín
Ortiz Butrón, first author, XVII Simposio Román Piña Chán, Mexico City, October 2012.
“La geofísica en la detección de estructuras arqueológicas enterradas y el uso de la química para la
determinación de áreas de actividad en pisos de La Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Agustín Ortiz Butron, first
author. Unión Geofísica Mexicana annual meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, October 2012.
“Percepción remota y prospección arqueológica en La Laguna, Tlaxcala.” Jorge Blancas Vázques,
first author.
Unión Geofísica Mexicana annual meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, October 2012.
“Las ofrendas rituales y la urbanización teotihuacana visto desde el norte de Tlaxcala.” 5ª Mesa
Redonda Teotihuacán, San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico, October 2011.
“Metodología para el estudio de sitios Arqueológicos desde la superficie y excavación: La
aplicación de técnicas químicas en La Laguna, Tlaxcala. México.” Agustín Ortiz Butrón, first autor,
XVII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Universidad de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, October 2010.
Carballo 13 “La metodología para el estudio de sitios Arqueológicos desde la superficie: La aplicación de
técnicas geofísicas en La Laguna, Tlaxcala, México.” Jorge Blancas, first author, XVII Congreso
Nacional de Arqueología, Universidad de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, October 2010.
“Integrated Remote Sensing Studies at La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico.” Jorge Blancas, first author,
38th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Tampa, May 2010.
“Geophysical Prospection and Aerial Photography in La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico”. Luis Barba,
first author, 8th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, September 2009.
“Prehispanic Political Evolution and the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, Mexico: A GIS Study.” Poster coauthored with Thomas Pluckhahn, SAA annual meetings, San Juan, April 2006.
“Ritual Violence and Political Control in Early States: A Case Study from Teotihuacan and CrossCultural Comparisons.” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, December
2004.
“Militarism and Economic Control in Early States: A View from Teotihuacan’s Obsidian Industry.”
Complex Societies Research Group biannual meeting, UCLA, November 2003.
“Geochemical Approaches to Understanding Mesoamerican Ceramics.” SAA annual meeting,
Denver, April 2002.
“Ancient Maya Pilgrimage and Power: A View from the Copan Valley.” Paper co-authored with
Jennifer Smit. Third Annual Graduate Archaeology Conference, Boston University, November 1997.
OUTREACH & SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Guest speaker in schools: Mason Rice School, Newton, MA, 5/19/11; San José Laguna, Tlaxcala,
Mexico, 7/7/11; Woodrow Wilson School, Framingham, MA, 1/31/12; Pine Village Preschool,
Brighton, MA, 3/16/12; Robert F. Kennedy Lancaster School, Lancaster, MA, 2/1/13; Boston
University Children’s Center, Boston, MA 2/1/13; Edward Devotion School, Brookline MA, 4/4/14.
Guest lectures in other courses: BU – AN/AR 510, AR 101, AR 290 (x2), AR 307, AR 706 (x5), HI
175, IR410/UA590 (x2), LS 580; Harvard – AN 1182
Participation in Academic Program Review as inter-departmental collaborator: Anthropology (2013),
Romance Studies (2015)
Interdisciplinary talks and workshops at BU:
Multicultural weekend for CAS recruitment, mock classroom lecture 4/10/15
Junior Faculty Social Science Colloquium, panel on cities and urbanism, 10/8/14
Latin American Studies Program, mini-conference on urbanism in Latin America, 3/9/14
Archaeology Department, workshop on comparative social organization, 2/18/14
Junior Faculty Research Seminar (“Tertulia”), 11/26/13
Comparative Study of the Pre-Modern World Initiative, workshop on premodern cities, 12/1/11
Bilingual project webpages and blogs: http://sites.bu.edu/patt/,
http://www.dcarballo.org/PALL.en.html, http://pallblog.blogspot.com/
Popular media: Quoted comments to “Science” and “Live Science” regarding research by colleagues
on early urbanism, 2/20/2015.
Article “Ancient Urbanites” on project for American Archaeology magazine, 18(4):26-31.
Carballo 14 Appearance in BBC television program “The Place Where Time Began” for series “Lost Kingdoms
of Central America,” 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMLx0ZPaKM&app=desktop
Appearance in “Knapping Rocks” video, BU Today, 2013.
http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/knapping-rocks/
Appearance in “Plundering History” DVD extras to 1950s movie “Plunder of the Sun,” re-released in
2006.
Carballo 15