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Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n

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Websites<\/h4>\n

<\/a>Personal Website<\/a>
\nAcademia.edu Website<\/a>
\nPlaza of the Columns<\/a>
\nTlajinga-Teotihuacan Project Website<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Areas of Interest<\/h4>\n

Mesoamerican archaeology; households; ritual; political evolution; urbanism; cooperation and conflict; craft production and exchange; GIS; archaeometry; lithic analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

Excavations and Fieldwork<\/h4>\n

David Carballo is a specialist in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico. Currently ongoing projects at the ancient city of Teotihuacan include the Proyecto Arqueol\u00f3gico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan (PATT), and the Proyecto Plaza de las Columnas. The first seeks to understand urbanization, neighborhood organization, and the daily life of commoners through excavations and geophysical prospection within a southern district of the city. The second is focused on a palace compounds and is aimed at understanding the city\u2019s political economy.<\/p>\n

Representative Publications<\/h4>\n

Books<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h5>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2020\u00a0Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain. Oxford University Press, New York. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hirth, Kenneth G., David M. Carballo, and Barbara Arroyo (eds.)
\n<\/span>2020 Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City<\/i>.\u00a0 Dumbarton Oaks and Trustees of Harvard University, Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2016\u00a0Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico<\/i>. Oxford University Press, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Levine, Marc N., and David M. Carballo (eds.)
\n2014\u00a0Obsidian Reflections: Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica<\/i>. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M. (ed.)
\n2013\u00a0Cooperation and Collective Action: Archaeological Perspectives.<\/i>\u00a0University Press of Colorado, Boulder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2011\u00a0Obsidian and the Teotihuacan State: Weaponry and Ritual Production at the Moon Pyramid<\/i>. University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology No. 21. Center for Comparative Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, and Instituto de Investigaciones Antropol\u00f3gicas, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, Pittsburgh and Mexico City.<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected Articles and Chapters<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h5>\n

Carballo, David M., Kenneth G. Hirth, Daniela Hern\u00e1ndez Sari\u00f1ana, Gina M. Buckley, Andr\u00e9s G. Mej\u00eda Ram\u00f3n, and Douglas J. Kennett
\n<\/span>2019 New Research at Teotihuacan\u2019s Tlajinga District, 2012-2015.\u00a0 Ancient Mesoamerica<\/i> 30: 95-113.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feinman, Gary M., and David M. Carballo
\n2018 Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Variability and Resiliency of Large-Scale Societies in Mesoamerica.\u00a0\u00a0Economic Anthropology<\/i>\u00a05(1): 7-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M., and Gary M. Feinman
\n2016 Cooperation, Collective Action, and the Archaeology of Large-Scale Societies.\u00a0\u00a0Evolutionary Anthropology<\/i>\u00a025: 288-296.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M., and Brent Fortenberry
\n2015 Bridging Prehistory and History in the Archaeology of Cities.\u00a0Journal of Field Archaeology
\n<\/i>http:\/\/www.maneyonline.com\/doi\/pdfplus\/10.1179\/2042458215Y.00000000019<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M., Paul Roscoe, and Gary M. Feinman
\n2014 Cooperation and Collective Action in the Cultural Evolution of Complex Societies. \u00a0Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory<\/i>\u00a021(1): 98-133.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M., Jennifer Carballo, and Richard G. Lesure
\n2014 Houses of Style: Consumption, Adornment, and Identity in Formative Tlaxcalan Households.\u00a0Ancient Mesoamerica<\/i>\u00a025(2): 459-476.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2014 American Pioneers and Traditions. In\u00a0Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology<\/i>, edited by Claire Smith, pp. 186-190. Springer, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M., Luis Barba, Agust\u00edn Ort\u00edz, Jorge Blancas, Nicole Cingolani, Jorge Toledo Barrera, David Walton, Isabel Rodr\u00edguez L\u00f3pez, and Lourdes Couoh
\n2014 Suprahousehold Consumption and Community Ritual at La Laguna, Mexico.\u00a0Antiquity<\/i>\u00a088(339): 141-159.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2013 The Social Organization of Craft Production and Interregional Exchange at Teotihuacan. In\u00a0Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World<\/i>, edited by Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury, pp. 113-140. Dumbarton Oaks and Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2012 Public Ritual and Urbanization in Central Mexico: Plaza and Temple Offerings from La Laguna, Tlaxcala.\u00a0Cambridge Archaeological Journal<\/i>\u00a022(3): 329-352.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2011 Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica.\u00a0Journal of Archaeological Research<\/i>\u00a019: 133-189.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M.
\n2009 Household and Status in Formative Central Mexico: Domestic Structures, Assemblages, and Practices at La Laguna, Tlaxcala.\u00a0Latin American Antiquity<\/i>\u00a020(3): 473-501.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carballo, David M., and Thomas Pluckhahn
\n2007 Transportation Corridors and Political Evolution in Highland Mesoamerica: Settlement Analyses Incorporating GIS for Northern Tlaxcala, Mexico.\u00a0Journal of Anthropological Archaeology<\/i>\u00a026(4): 607-629.<\/span><\/p>\n

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