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 ethnography 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 2022-2023
U.W. 105 Hominin Limb Skeletal Material: Application of Traditional and Digital Morphological Methods in Species Identification
Lukas Friedl
Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia
April 28, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
The Place of Sajal Title-holders in the Classic Maya Regime
Marc Zender & Mary Kate Kelly
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
April 14, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Death that Endures: A Bioarchaeological and Biochemical Study of Human Sacrifices from the Moche Valley, Peru
Rachel Witt
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
April 14, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Authorship and Practice in Guatemalan Archaeology through an Intersectional Lens
Jocelyne Ponce
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
April 14, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Reverse Engineering Intensive Agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon
John H. Walker
Department of Anthropology, University of Central Florida
February 10, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Dating Wooden Buildings to Reconstruct the Ancient Maya Salt Industry
Heather McKillop
Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
February 3, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Making Great Coffee: Third Wave Tastemakers, Maya Farmers, and the Creation of Value
Edward F. Fischer
Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
January 27, 2023
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
On Storytelling: How to Communicate History and Archaeology to the Public
Patrick Wyman
History Podcaster and Writer, Ph.D. University of Southern California
November 4, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
De Landa and Decipherment: Revisiting the 16th-century Relación Manuscript
Marc Zender
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
October 21, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Reshaping the Bajo Laberinto
Kathryn Reese-Taylor
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
October 14, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Fine Threads: Reading Women’s Voices in Contemporary Mayan Literatures
Hannah Palmer
Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University
September 30, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Working on an Old Excavation and Its Fragmented Records: The Case of the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
Emilia Oddo
Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University
September 22, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
No Hieroglyphic Stairway but Some Great Archaeology: Recent Fieldwork on the North Coast of Peru
John Verano
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
September 9, 2022
12:30 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Academic Year 2021-2022
A (Proposed) Residue Analysis of Blanco Levantado. A New World Amphora; Evidence for Its Use to Collect and Distribute Miel de Maguey in the Tula Region (AD 900-1150)
Dan Healan
Tulane University
April 29, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Early Monumentality in the Puuc Region, Yucatan
Melissa Galván-Bernal
Tulane University
April 29, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Reappraising the Chronology of the Initial Period in the Central Andes
Jason Nesbitt
Tulane University
April 29, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Shifting Practices and Institutions of Governance in Formative Central Mexico
Tatsuya Murakami & Alexander Jurado
Tulane University
April 15, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Diversity and Complexity across Settlement Densities at the Classic Maya Center of La Corona
Jocelyne Ponce & Marcello Canuto
Tulane University
April 15, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Reconstructing Ancient Diet: Stable Isotope Values from La Corona and El Peru-Waka
Erin Patterson
Tulane University
April 15, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Vaulting Technique in Ancient Maya Architecture
Laura Gilabert Sansalvador
Universitat Politècnica de València
March 25, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
Preclassic Maya Communities in Yaxnocah and Aguada Fénix, Mexico (1000 BCE-200 CE)
Verónica Amellali Vázquez López
Doris Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies
March 18, 2022
12:00 P.M.
305 Dinwiddie Hall, Middle American Research Institute
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