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 […]
Knapping Rocks, Bostonia Article
Archaeology students make stone tools with stone tools Eight people sit in a circle, mostly mute, intently cutting or chopping chunks of obsidian on their laps with tools—which, like the obsidian, are stone. Occasional banter and a chorus of chip-chip-chip-CRACK break the quiet, … Click here for more
National Science Foundation Grant Award Recipients
Professors Christopher Roosevelt and Christina Luke, co-Principal Investigators, awarded National Science Foundation for their research, Cultural Dynamics and Overlapping Interaction Spheres in the Marmara Lake Basin, Western Turkey, $202,124 Professor David Carballo, awarded National Science Foundation Grant for his research, Urbanism, Neighborhood Organization, and Domestic Economy at the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan, Mexico, $188,238 Research Assistant […]
Professor David Carballo awarded the Junior Fellowship from the Center for Humanites
Congratulations to Professor Carballo! Center for Humanities Junior Fellowship awarded to Professor David Carballo for academic year 2013/14 to do his research. Religion and Urbanization in Ancient Central Mexico. Five centuries ago Hernán Cortes and the conquistadors encountered teeming Aztec cities that served as the centers of ritual spectacles for a religious system that to […]
Professor David Carballo published a new book “Cooperation and Collective Action Archaeological Perspectives”
Congratulations to Professor Carballo! His new book Cooperation and Collective Action Archaeological Perspectives is published by University Press of Colorado. Click here for details.
Professor David Carballo Daily Free Press article
The Daily Free Press Article: BU faculty evaluations depend on school Written by Rachel Riley Published Oct 18, 2012 Boston University archaeology professor David Carballo said BU’s faculty evaluation program is slightly different from the three schools where he used to teach. click here for more