Mesoamerican Studies On-Air

Catherine Nuckols is the founder and co-host of the podcast, but she is also a PhD candidate at Tulane University. In this episode, she discusses her doctoral research looking into full-figure inscriptions from the 8th-century Maya world.

Interested in learning glyphs from Catherine? You can register for her online glyphs course here- and be sure to use the code MESO20 for 20% off!

Paul Guinan, along with illustrator David Hahn, produce Aztec Empire, a historic webcomic about the conquest of Tenochtitlan that is free to read at Pual’s website bigredhair.com. Currently, Aztec Empire is up to 9 episodes with Cortes and his men currently in Veracruz. Aztec Empire has been nominated by both the Ringo and Eisner Awards for Best Digital Comic. In addition to Aztec Empire, Paul is a founding member of Helioscope Studio and is co-creator of other works such as Cargonauts, Heartbreakers, Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel, Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention, and the DC Comic Chronos.
www.patreon.com/guinan
https://www.bigredhair.com/

En este mini-episodio te traemos las nuevas noticias sobre la arqueología e historia del arte mesoamericana para el mes de septiembre!

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/el-inah-localiza-una-escultura-prehispanica-de-chac-mool-en-patzcuaro-michoacan

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/por-primera-vez-en-palenque-hallan-una-nariguera-debio-usarse-para-personificar-al-dios-maya-del-maiz

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/el-proyecto-templo-mayor-descubre-ofrenda-de-consagracion-de-la-epoca-de-moctezuma-ilhuicamina-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/localizan-escultura-de-atlante-en-sendero-que-conducira-a-nueva-seccion-de-chichen-itza

https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/

In this mini-episode we bring you the latest news in Mesoamerican archaeology and art history for the month of September!

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/09/archaeologists-discover-chacmool-statue-in-patzcuaro/148461

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/nose-ring-made-from-human-bone-found-by-archaeologists-at-palenque/148417

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/offerings-of-anthropomorphic-figurines-found-at-aztec-templo-mayor/148401

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/atlantean-type-sculpture-discovered-in-the-archaeological-zone-of-chichen-itza/148407

https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl/

In this episode we discuss a video game set in the Spanish-Aztec war, the dangers of inaccurate representation, and the importance of nuance when revisiting the past.

In this episode, Dr. Marijke Stoll shares her recent research incorporating both qualitative and quantitative analysis to reimagine the use of GIS in mapping modern and ancient pathways in Oaxaca. We talk about insights gleaned from interviews carried out on the trail, creative ways of using new technology, and bringing the human element into all aspects of our research.

Marijke Stoll received her PhD of Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2018. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow with the National Science Foundation and is based out of Indiana University-Bloomington.

En este episodio, platicamos con Alan Suárez Ortiz sobre su trabajo estudiando los hongos, los sistemas adivinatorios, y el imaginario ritual en Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Cuauhtémoc Vidal Guzmán es candidato al doctorado en la Universidad de George Washington. Estudió antropología en la Universidad de Albany-SUNY y luego estudió la maestría en antropología en la Universidad de Colorado Boulder. Ha participado en proyectos arqueológicos en los estados mexicanos de Yucatán, Chiapas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, y Oaxaca. Su tesis doctoral examina la transición del Clásico Tardío al Posclásico en Etlatongo, un sitio en la Mixteca Alta de Oaxaca. Sus intereses incluyen la persistencia indígena, la investigación participatoria, el nuevo materialismo, y la memoria social.

Cuauhtémoc Vidal Guzmán is currently a PhD candidate at the George Washington University. He studied his BA in anthropology at the University at Albany-SUNY. Then, he studied his MA, also in anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has participated in archaeological projects in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Chiapas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, and Oaxaca. His current dissertation research studies the Late Classic Postclassic transition at Etlatongo, a site in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. His interests gravitate around Indigenous persistence, participatory research, new materialism, and social memory.

Join Tony and Catherine as they discuss the recent article "Household salt production by the Late Classic Maya: underwater excavations at Ta'ab Nuk Na" by Heather McKillop and E. Cory Sills, and other examples of how salt appears in the archaeological and visual records of ancient Mesoamerica. We talk about the importance of salt and what it reveals and suggests about the lives of everyday people.

McKillop, Heather, and E. Cory Sills. "Household salt production by the Late Classic Maya: underwater excavations at Ta'ab Nuk Na." Antiquity 96, no. 389 (2022): 1232-1250.

Guernsey, Julia. "Water, maize, salt, and canoes: An iconography of economics at Late Preclassic Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico." Latin American Antiquity 27, no. 3 (2016): 340-356.

Williams, Eduardo. "Ancient West Mexico in the Mesoamerican Ecumene." Ancient West Mexico in the Mesoamerican Ecumene (2020): 1-466.

Williams, Eduardo. "Salt production in the coastal area of Michoacan, Mexico: An ethnoarchaeological study." Ancient Mesoamerica 13, no. 2 (2002): 237-253.

Williams, Eduardo. "Salt-Making in Mesoamerica: Production Sites and Tool Assemblages." Ancient Mesoamerica (2021): 1-23.

Williams, Eduardo. "Salt production and trade in Ancient Mesoamerica." In Pre-Columbian Foodways, pp. 175-190. Springer, New York, NY, 2009.