Teotihuacan in the northeastern Basin of Mexico was an unusually large and influential
early city and state. This article reviews recent research trends in Teotihuacan from its …

E-group architectural assemblages, constructed and used for more than a millennium in the
Maya Lowlands, are among the most distinctive and enduring forms in Mesoamerican …

Emerging leaders may replicate and expand traditional rituals to integrate increasingly
larger numbers of people, advance political agendas, and situate political change within …

This paper presents strontium and oxygen isotopic measurements on archaeological human
teeth from the ancient Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala, that illuminate the role that migration …

Known for its spectacular tombs and adobe talud–tablero architecture, the highland
Guatemalan city of Kaminaljuyu is key to models of long distance interaction in …

Interaction between distant, culturally distinct, complex societies can significantly impact the
sociopolitical development of the societies involved. In Classic period Mesoamerica, the …

We present strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope ratios derived from the tooth enamel of 16
individuals from the Classic Maya city of Pusilha, located in southern Belize. Carbon isotope …

Powder X-ray diffraction and petrographic analyses of reservoir sediments from Tikal,
Guatemala have identified significant quantities of decomposed volcanic ash in the form of …

Teotihuacan was the most influential city in the Classic Mesoamerican world-system. Like
other influential cities in the ancient world, however, Teotihuacan did not homogenously …

Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means
of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda …