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Fond Farewell to DC; Dispatch from New York
Farewell to James Doyle — Dumbarton Oaks. I was kindly invited by Dumbarton Oaks to contribute to the newsletter to […]
Central American and Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks
…or, the catalog formerly known as the Intermediate Area Catalog. From January 12th to 19th, the Pre-Columbian Studies department held […]
Why Archaeology Matters Podcast
Why Archaeology Matters, November 13, 2013 The episode of Indiana Jones: Myth, Reality and 21st Century Archaeology, titled “Why Archaeology […]
Why Archaeology Matters: A Crisis in Federal Funding of Archaeological Research
Originally posted on Trowel Points:
Tune in at 6PM ET tonight to hear us discuss the recent attacks on National Science…
Notes from the Cenote
While at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, we saw some very special materials made of […]
Peabody Museum Connections – Costa Rica and Panama
This past week, some members of the Dumbarton Oaks catalog team (Colin, Juan Antonio, and myself) joined leading scholars in […]
Why Research on Mayan Architecture Saves Lives
“With limited funding, we must prioritize. Congress is right to ask why NSF chooses to fund research on Mayan architecture […]
Profiling the “Axe-Gods”
In class, while discussing Olmec art, we took a look at the “Kunz” jadeite axe in the collection of the American […]
Intermediate Area Catalog, Beginnings
Since beginning at Dumbarton Oaks in July, I’ve begun traveling intellectually south from the Maya area and into the Intermediate […]
