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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Discussing our collaborative study of autocratic vs collective governance over deep time

David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"When the baby had arrived on earth, then the midwife shouted; she gave war cries, which meant that the woman had fought a good battle, had become a brave warrior." (Florentine Codex 6). Happy Mother's Day!

Image of midwife and mother bathing baby

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A new comparative article on political organization in deep time out through Science Advances. And, yes, this map highlights that we are missing key regions and even continents, so DM me if you'd like to contribute cases in the future www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time

Democratic practice in the premodern world was not the exclusive domain of Greece and Rome.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense. Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever. I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Venus of Willendorf, about 30k years old #Vienna

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Exciting advances in distinguishing #bird species in the archaeological record, including at #Teotihuacan

Mural from Teotihuacan, Mexico, depicting a colorful tropical bird with footprints around it

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We can still push back against fascism: a song sung to the tune of the ABCs

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Starting soon, New Discoveries/New Directions in the Archaeology of the Ancient Americas at @metmuseum with livestream here engage.metmuseum.org/events/educati…

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Orgulloso de la alcaldesa: “Esta es nuestra ciudad y defenderemos enérgicamente nuestras leyes”

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 19/08/2025

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

This is probably obvious, but things dictators like to do is fire people who tell truths they don't like and "disrupt" (as the kids say) norms of civil statutes. This is why the events of this week matter profoundly for the future of the country

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Una yuxtaposición del Zocalo durante #Mexico-Tenochtitlan 700

Photo of cathedral of Mexico City with Aztec Sun Stone projected on front

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Para los quienes andan por #Teotihuacan o quieren viajar desde #Tlaxcala. Este martes a las 7 presencial en el centro comunitario NECOC. Luego lo suben al YouTube de Teotihuacan en Casa

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Probable Teotihuacan-Maya relations 750 miles apart and decades before the military "entrada" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

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Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

An enjoyable conversation with @Gastropodcast on the deep history of #Mexican food www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect...

Illustration of Aztec men sharing a meal from the Florentine Codex

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

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In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Seems like the right day to post this painting with #WhiteSmoke hanging in the National Museum of Mexican Art in #Chicago by Jesus Helguera (1940)

Painting of a romanticized Aztec warrior and princess who embody the volcanoes depicted behind them (Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl)

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Nueva edición de #Arqueologia con artículos en homenaje a la carrera distinguida de Linda Manzanilla www.revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/ar...

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Proud of these ladies in their 80s showing up

Two grandmothers protesting the current administration in Boston

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Una charla en vivo en Harvard y en modo virtual el 2 de abril Gordon Willey Lecture on April 2 in person and online peabody.harvard.edu/event/teotih...

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Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ciudad Perdida (Teyuna), #Colombia is a jewel of a site a and trek through beautiful country earlier dedicated to growing drugs, thanks partially to support from #USAID

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The beautiful Amerind Foundation for a productive workshop on comparative governance in past societies. Looking forward to writing team publications, and returning here

Sunrise in Dragoon Arizona seen through an arch

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 05/03/2025

If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.

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Maria C. Codlin @mcodlin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

At Teotihuacan, a major Mesoamerican city, we’ll be using our new database of avian proteins (doi.org/10.21203/rs....) to identify fragmented bones and eggshells and reconstruct the role of wild and domesticated birds in the subsistence strategies of the city’s residents. #paleoproteomics #MSCA

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com · 10/02/2025

Mesoamerican urbanism: Indigenous institutions, infrastructure, and resilience by @dmcarballo.bsky.social Gary M Feinman and Aurelio López Corral buff.ly/4jRgyY4 #urbanism #Indigenous #resilience

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New special issue of Urban Studies with cases from #archaeology "Long-Term Intergenerational Perspectives on Urban Sustainability Transitions" journals.sagepub.com/toc/USJ/curr...

Cover of journal Urban Studies showing Eastern Hemisphere at night from space.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

There's a deep history to the #GulfofMexico with maritime contacts going back 1500 years or more. Lourdes Budar of the U Veracruzana in #Mexico excavated a sophisticated port town La Perla del Golfo with clear ties to Maya populations farther east.

Map of southern Gulf of Mexico showing archaeological sites dating from 3500-1000 years ago. La Perla del Golfo relief carving shows mix of Veracruz figures and Maya style hieroglyphs. Mural from Las Hibueras shows person swimming in blue water with fish. Map and sculpture from Budar et al (2021)

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Nuevo libro de acceso libre, Homanaje a Rubén Cabrera, un muy destacado y querido arqueólogo 🇲🇽 mediateca.inah.gob.mx/repositorio/...

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

For all those hosting friends and family for #Thanksgiving here's a model from sixteenth century Mexico: decorative serving wares and embroidered manta with #Turkey in the center. Feliz accion de gracias!

Illustration from Florentine Codex with Aztec man and woman on either end and turkey in center

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Many congrats to an incredible guy who tells powerful truths! #NationalBookAward

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

That's a big head! Olmec colossal head #6 from San Lorenzo #Mexico (c. 1000 BCE) at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#Democracy: a Greek term but institutions of participatory governance not only from the west. Striking formal similarities between the Athenian Tholos, for rotating Boule chairs, and ancestral Muskogean council houses as deliberative spaces for monitoring and co-participation. Our legacy to protect.

Photos (top) and plan illustrations (bottom) of council chambers from Athenian Agora and Ocmulgee site in Georgia. Both were round buildings designed to accommodate about 50 people for joint deliberations and decisions seated in a circle.

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David Carballo @dmcarballo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hi all. Am slowly migrating here from the darker place renamed by a car salesman. Currently in #Mexico where I do #Archaeology and am recording stuff I excavated 15 years ago when we didn't have fun toys like lidar and photogrammetry on iPads. Be well.

Photo set up for recording 2000 year old pots. Plus a more modern coffee pot

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