Website
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https://earlham.edu/faculty-staff/david-walton/ |
| Current CV |
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| Areas of Interest |
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Mesoamerica, North America, Materials Analysis, Experimental Archaeology, Economic Anthropology, Social Inequalities, Household Archaeology, Lithic Technologies, Ritual Practices, and Archaeology in the Media |
| Representative Publications |
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Walton, David P.
2022 Stone Tool Functions, Household Activities, and Formative Lithic Economies in Northern Tlaxcala, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536121000481.
Walton, David P.
2021 Bloodletting in Ancient Central Mexico: Using Lithic Analyses to Detect Changes in Ritual Practices and Local Ontologies. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 28: 274–306.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09454-x
Walton, David P.
2020 The Household Functions of Obsidian Tools from the Early-Middle Formative Village of Altica, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095653612000005X.
Walton, David P.
2019 An Experimental Program for Obsidian Use-Wear Analysis in Central Mexican Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26(3):895–942.
Walton, David P.
2017 Lithic Production and Consumption Patterns from the Great Platform at Late Postclassic Period (A.D. 1350-1525) Tzintzuntzan, Mexico. The Journal of Field Archaeology 42(2):97–114.
Walton, David P., and David M. Carballo
2016 The Domestic and Ritual Economies of Chipped-Stone Tools at La Laguna, Tlaxcala, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 27(1):109–132.
Carballo, David M., Luis Barba, Agustín Ortíz, Jorge Blancas, Nicole Cingolani, Jorge Toledo Barrera, David Walton, Isabel Rodríguez López, and Lourdes Couoh
2014 Suprahousehold Consumption and Community Ritual at La Laguna, Mexico. Antiquity 88:141–159. |
| How did your experience in the program shape your professional and personal life? |
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It prepared me with both hard skills in archaeological sciences and soft skills in leading presentations and working with a cohort of colleagues. Much of my experience in the BU Archaeology program directly compares to the working environments I have experienced in higher education and museum curation.
Most of all, I met my future wife, Dr. Kristen Wroth (2018), who teaches me about ancient plants, Classical Archaeology, and the latest discoveries in human evolutionary studies. |
| What interactions with members of the Archaeology faculty did you value most during your time in the program? |
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First and foremost, consulting various faculty and making the sensitive decision to switch PhD advisers was probably a top 5 decision of my life. I will be forever thankful for David Carballo’s professional mentorship. I will always value my time with Curtis Runnels, who unknowingly (or knowingly) recruited me to come to BU and specialize in stone tool analyses. Clemency Coggins gave me the academic challenge of a lifetime with a one-on-one graduate course in Aztec and Inka archaeology. Finally, Mary Beaudry pushed the departmental levers of power to give me teaching opportunities, which directly led to my first job in academia. |
| If you could give a piece of advice to your past self, what would it be? |
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Gain more direct experience with archaeology conducted in the US, especially some baseline CRM experience. CRM is bursting with job opportunities thanks to the federal infrastructure bill. It is my sense that CRM companies care most about direct experience in local/regional CRM, certainly much more than archaeological experience abroad. |
