The article presents new data on the history of a Mesoamerican musical instrument, which is
a notched human bone used as a friction idiophone, today, held at the Pigorini Museum in …

We use excavations of low-status houses to explore Postclassic political and economic
transformations in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Following the collapse of Classic …

Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist
Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain …

This article discusses the Descrittione dell'India occidentale, a neglected Italian sixteenth-
century anonymous and undated text that describes a set of Mesoamerican artifacts brought …

My dissertation research explores the types of shared community identity that existed
between the residents of Greater La Amontonada, a cluster of archaeological sites, forming …

Current research in the Mixteca region of Mexico has revealed that Formative communities
were as populous as in other Mesoamerican regions. Evidence of emerging social …