Areas of Interest/Research

Archaeology, ethnohistory, iconography, and epigraphy of Mesoamerica (focusing on Aztecs, Mayas, and Olmecs); kinship, kingship, and socio-political organization; cosmology and political ideologies; symbolic, structural, and semiotic anthropology; archaeological and social theory; the anthropology of history; the anthropology of art and technology.

Current Projects:  An Architectural Reconstruction of La Venta Complex A
Principles of 21st Century Archaeology (a textbook/workbook on contemporary archaeology)

NOTE TO THE PUBLIC:  I do not identify or authenticate presumed Pre-Columbian artifacts.  Doing so may conflict with the Code of Ethics of the Society for American Archaeology.