Professor Carballo and Claudia Servin completed a field session of a new project at Teotihuacan, Mexico
This summer, Professor Carballo and PhD student Claudia Servin completed a first field season of a new project at Teotihuacan, Mexico. The Proyecto Gran Conjunto Teotihuacan is a collaboration between BU, Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), and Harvard. Its focus is a large (over 20 hectare) architectural complex in the center of the city designated the Great Compound. It has been hypothesized to have either served as the city’s central marketplace, as a place for the storage and redistribution of goods, among other possible uses, but has thus far seen very limited investigations. We began with our UNAM collaborators with an initial season of geophysical and drone mapping in order to define buried architectural features and start to answer questions such as whether anyone resided in the compound and whether there are storage spaces or other features that could be excavated in the future.