In this dissertation I address the timing of and interrelatedness between initial Early
Formative period (2000-1500 BCE) transitions in residential mobility, subsistence, and …

This paper examines the social context of music and musical instruments in pre-Columbian
Mesoamerica through the detailed analysis of a late Terminal Formative period (ad 100 …

Abstract The Mesoamerican Formative period (1600 bce–ce 250) saw the establishment of
sedentism, dietary transformations and the development of ceramic technologies for …

Perishable remnants of ancient dress and ornamentation are frequently lost in
Mesoamerican archaeological assemblages. Taking this reality as a point of departure …

Since early in the history of the discipline, archaeology has exhibited a bias toward the
grandiose. Mesoamericanist research is one example, but by no means the only example, of …

La etapa aldeana tiene un interés particular para la arqueología porque representa el fin de
una forma de vida basada principalmente en la caza, la recolección, el nomadismo, el inicio …