Professor David Carballo NSF Grant recipient
Boston University Department of Archaeology Professor David Carballo is part of a new collaborative research grant through NSF titled “Origins of Urbanization and State Formation: Investigations at the Plaza of the Columns Complex at Teotihuacan, Mexico.” The total grant is ca. $300k of which ca. $78k will come to BU. The project will investigate a likely palace at Teotihuacan, which thus far has not seen any scientific excavations. The complex is located between the Sun and Moon Pyramids. Collaborating institutions are the Smithsonian Institute, Arizona State University, Harvard University, and Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia.