Brown Bags

Brown Bag Events invite guest speakers to host seminars at MARI on a wide variety of topics related to the archaeology, history and etnography of Mesoamerica and other world areas. Brown bag events typically take place on Fridays around noon and can be delivered in English and Spanish. Attendants are encouraged to bring lunch!

Academic Year 2019-2020

You Better Belize It: Missing Mayas, Misunderstood Maroons, a Made-Up Battle, and Other Myths & Mysteries of the Land of Make Belize

Matthew Restall
Director of Latin American Studies, Penn State
February 14, 2020
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Maya Blue and the Reception of Triune Theology in Sixteenth-Century Yucatan

Amara Solari
Penn State
February 7, 2020
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

"From Dusk Till Dawn," and Much More Mesoamerica in Movies and on Film Festivals

Viola König
Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
January 31, 2020
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Remote Sensing for a Better Future

Žiga Kokalj
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
December 6, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Automatic Orthorectification and True Orthoimage Generation from VHR

Aleš Marsetič
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
December 6, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Chosen For Death: Preliminary Results from a Study of Human Sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru

Rachel Witt
Tulane Anthropology
November 15, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

The Encounter of Two Mesoamerican Cultures During the Early Classic Period (250-550 A.D.)

Edwin Román-Ramírez
Proyecto Arqueológico del Sur de Tikal
November 1, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

A Study of Word Associations in Kaqchikel

Rebecca Moore
Linguistics, Tulane University
October 25, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

The Latest Finds from Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan

Chris Rodning
Anthropology, Tulane University
October 4, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

La bóveda en la arquitectura maya

Laura Gilabert Sansalvador
Instituto Universitario de Restauración del Patrimonio at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
September 27, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Técnicas de documentación para la investigación del patrimonio arquitectónico maya

Riccardo Montuori
Polytechnic University of Valencia
September 6, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Academic Year 2018-2019

Floors, Platforms, Earth Offerings? Excavations in the Actuncan E-Group Plaza

Borislava Simova
Anthropology, Tulane University
April 26, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

A Macroregional Perspective on Early Urbanism in Formative Central Mexico: A View from Tlalancaleca, Puebla

Dr. Tatsuya Murakami
Anthropology, Tulane University
April 5, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Why Provenance Research Matters

Viola Königl
Freie Universität Berlin
March 29, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

The Sacred Cavity of the World: Cultural Survival in the Age of Extreme Mining

Dr. Shefa Siegel
Pearson College of the Pacific
March 22, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Feast or No Feast? A Comparative Analysis of Maya Ceramic Assemblages

Caroline A. Parris
Anthropology, Tulane University
March 15, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Gleaning the Most Information from Old Excavations: The Case of Regourdou

Trenton Holliday
Anthropology, Tulane University
February 8, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

How to Avoid Gerrymandering the Past: Characterizing Settlement Density and Boundaries in Landscape-Scale Data

Luke Auld-Thomas
Anthropology, Tulane University
February 1, 2019
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Ancient Lowland Maya Complexity as Revealed by Airborne Laser Scanning of Northern Guatemala

Marcello A. Canuto, Francisco Estra-Belli, and Luke Auld-Thomas
Anthropology, Tulane University
October 5, 2018
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

The Tzimin Jades of Paso del Macho: Description and Analysis of a Middle Preclassic Maya Plaza Offering

Evan Parker, PhD Candidate
Anthropology, Tulane University
September 21, 2018
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Academic Year 2017-2018

Entangled Cultural Politics: Museum Artifacts, Heritage Regimes, and Narratives of National Identity in Honduras

Cordelia Frewen
Doctoral Candidate, University of British Columbia
May 4, 2018
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Cochasqui, Ecuador: Recent Research & Future Directions

Ryan Hechler
Anthropology Doctoral Student, Tulane University
April 27, 2018
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

The Late Intermediate Period and the Late Horizon on the South Coast of Peru: a view from Tambo Colorado

Cléa Moulin
Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia
April 20, 2018
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

Interpreting the Integrative Strategies of the Classic Period Copan Polity on its Southern Frontier in Western Honduras

Erlend Johnson
Anthropology, Tulane University
April 6, 2018
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute

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