ASU Teotihuacan Lab
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The Teotihuacan Research Laboratory is in San Juan, Teotihuacan (Mexico) & run by Arizona State University. We're a repository & provide working lab space.
Tempe, AZ & Teotihuacán, MX
Joined December 2015
Got free time? Check out this video about teotihuacan! https://t.co/nWjhGDteoQ
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This stone relief, now in a chapel wall in Calixtlahuaca, gives the year in both the Christian calendar ("1563 año") and the Aztec year-count (six reed). Its a late chapel (18th C?), so it was clearly taken from elsewhere. I'm giving a zoom lecture on Calix Sept 15. @asuteolab
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We hope for the Maya cities project to continue for a long time, as it has passed hands a few times as students graduate, and perhaps expand to more regions and geographic areas in the future!
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Happy Teo Tuesday! This week we’re are showcasing the Maya Cities Project. The project is led by Emilee Eddy and Anika Aluri, and we have a team of both online and in person students that also work on the project in various roles such as research, data analysis, and organization.
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It’s Teo Tuesday! 🗣️‼️ This week we are featuring the team that brings you these very cool and awesome informational posts. Read more about us in our most recent blog post! https://t.co/T6dcPJ1owb
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Hello Teo Tuesday lovers! Interns at the lab have been working on digitizing slides of excavations from 1993 as well as artifacts found at these excavations and uploading them online for future researchers!
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Happy Teo Tuesday everyone! This week we are highlighting a special man: George Lewis Cowgill. From Idaho to San Juan Teotihuacan, his impact continues through what is has been the Cowgill Books Project.
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This week’s #MayaMonday city is Coba! Coba is located in Quintana Roo, Mexico on the Yucatán Peninsula. To learn more about Coba, check out this link: https://t.co/9NzZTaAYYt
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ArcGIS will be used to measure spaces and perform analysis as part of the master’s project for PhD student and lab Administrative Associate, Jennifer Minish. Learn more about it in our most recent blog post!
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Cylese Solano (Research Lab Intern) interviewed Jennifer Minish (ASU Teotihuacan Laboratory Administrative Associate and PhD student) to learn more about Teotihuacan’s pyramids and apartment …
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Welcome to another Teo Tuesday! This week we are featuring our Apartment Compounds Project which takes a look at how ancient architecture reveals information on how communities lived.
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Nice article about our undergraduate research program: Happy mistake: Computer error brings ASU Online, on-campus students together to break new ground in research https://t.co/5ERC53kMhA
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At Teo Lab, we focus on graduate student Emily Thurman’s research in the Sonoran Region to explore the relevance and significance of its value in our surroundings. Read more about our work below! https://t.co/uvii2GLmSF
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Thurman at Barchet Sisters’ Cabin Site (New Harmony, Indiana)- 2023 Emily Thurman is a PhD student at ASU and her master’s project is focused on the use of Spondylus shells in the Sonoran Desert. W…
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Welcome back to Teo Tuesday! This week we’re focusing on the Sonoran Shell Project. Across various cultures, the Spondylus shell has held diverse significance in trade, consumption, ornamentation, and beyond.
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This week’s Maya City is Palenque! Palenque is a smaller, lower density Maya City, but is still internationally recognized! Research on Palenque is ongoing, as not much of it has been fully discovered. Learn more about Palenque, check out the UNESCO site! https://t.co/HZkN5qGxvV
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Publishing Archaeology: "Teotihuacan fracas: Pasztory claims she was ripped off and ignored by Millon and Cowgill" (blog post from 2017) @asuteolab
https://t.co/oy997ey0s8
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This Saturday is the ASU Open Door event! Come join us for an afternoon full of fun activities and learning. We will be located outside of the SHESC building and in SHESC 104. We hope to see you there!
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Learn more about this project and our progress in our blog post:
teotihuacanresearchlab.wordpress.com
Almenas are architectural adornments that were popular throughout Teotihuacan. A catalogue of a selection of these almenas is being assembled for upload to tDAR (the Digital Archeological Record) t…
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Introducing Teo Tuesdays, where we’ll be highlighting a few projects our interns are working on! Our first is the Almenas project where talented artists in the lab get to illustrate and document information about these sculpture-like objects.
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Happy Maya Monday! This week’s spotlight is on Tikal, located in the Petén region of Guatemala. To learn more about Tikal, check out the Tikal Project at UPenn: https://t.co/HvKNDaatzR
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Come join us for an afternoon full of learning, fun, and all things Teotihuacan! We will have activities for all ages for the ASU Open Door event on Tempe campus on Saturday, February 22nd from 1-5pm. We hope to see you there! - #teotihuacan #asu #asubeinghuman #anthropology
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