Maria Codlin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Boston University Department of Archaeology. Her areas of scholarly interest include social complexity, subsistence; and zooarchaeology.
She studies human-animal and human-landscape interactions and how they relate to social and economic structures. Her dissertation research “Feeding a city: Urban hunting and animal husbandry at Teotihuacan” is funded through an NSF DDIG award and examines the role of animals in the early urban economy at Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of America’s earliest metropolitan centers. She uses stable isotope analysis and ZooMS to reconstruct animal acquisition patterns over the city’s history, including the importance of animals procured from anthropogenic and natural environments. In 2017, she was named the recipient of an Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award.
Learn more about her activities and research at her profile on the website of the BU Environmental Archaeology Lab.
She is a Fall 2020 Writing Fellow with the Core Curriculum.