Archaeologist Dr. Nawa Sugiyama will be giving a presentation entitled “Transforming Dirt Mounds into Sacred Mountains: How Animals Materialized State-Ideologies at Teotihuacan, Mexico”

Monday, February 2, 2015 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Johnson Center, 240A

Archaeologist Dr. Nawa Sugiyama will be giving a presentation entitled “Transforming Dirt Mounds into Sacred Mountains: How Animals Materialized State-Ideologies at Teotihuacan, Mexico” on Monday, February 2, 10:30-noon, Johnson Center 240A (Robeson Room).  Sociology and anthropology faculty and students are invited to attend her talk.  Dr. Sugiyama’s research concerns zooarchaeological analysis of human-animal interactions and the fluid boundaries between the natural and cultural landscape in ritual and economic contexts in Mesoamerica, and specifically at sites of Teotihuacan.  Dr. Sugiyama received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2014 and currently holds a post-doctoral position at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of Natural History.