2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Luis Barba has received this year's Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research. To honor his long, prolific, and multifaceted career, we welcome research or review papers emphasizing the techniques, culture areas, and archaeological sites in which he has worked, including archaeological science studies in Mexican archaeology and Teotihuacan in particular, field geophysics, field geochemistry, and chemical residue analysis.

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  • Aportes de la prospección geofísica para entender los asentamientos en medios lacustres de la cuenca de Zacapu, Michoacán, México (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Pereira. Jorge Blancas. Agustin Ortiz.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hace más de tres décadas, Luis Barba y su equipo del laboratorio de prospección arqueológica del IIA, UNAM iniciaron una colaboración fructífera con investigadores del CEMCA en la cuenca de Zacapu (Michoacán) que continúa hasta nuestros días con instituciones francesas como el CNRS y la Universidad Paris 1/Panthéon-Sorbonne. En...

  • Arqueología y geofísica en Chicoloapan, México: Estudios colaborativos de la vida cotidiana y la organización comunitaria después de Teotihuacan (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Leonel Cruz Jimenez. Sarah Clayton.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se presenta una investigación colaborativa que examina la organización espacial y dinámica sociopolítica de Chicoloapan, un asentamiento en la Cuenca de México, que creció durante el periodo Epiclásico (550-850 dC), después del declive de Teotihuacan. Este proyecto combina métodos arqueológicos y geofísicos para investigar una...

  • Compositional Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan Using pXRF (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Diego Matadamas-Gomora. Jason Nesbitt. Rodolfo Aguilar Tapia. Leonardo López Luján. Tatsuya Murakami.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compositional analyses are fundamental in modern archaeological research. Recently, the introduction of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) equipment has motivated an even greater interest in integrating chemical composition and provenance studies of raw materials as one of the primary objectives in archaeological projects....

  • El legado del Laboratorio de Prospección Arqueológica de la UNAM en el estudio de residuos químicos en el Mediterráneo (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alessandra Pecci.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las técnicas de análisis de residuos químicos desarrolladas en el Laboratorio de Prospección Arqueológica de la UNAM se han aplicado también en contextos europeos y principalmente del Mediterráneo Occidental, favoreciendo un acercamiento interdisciplinario al estudio del uso del espacio y de los contenidos de los recipientes...

  • Interdisciplinary Investigations in Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga District: Disentangling Public and Private Uses of Space (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo. Daniela Hernández Sariñana. Agustín Ortiz. Jorge Blancas.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the project’s beginnings in 2012, Luis Barba has been a codirector of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT), helping to bring an interdisciplinary research program to studying neighborhood organization and domestic life on the southern periphery of this early Mexican metropolis. After first investigating...

  • Luis Barba: 2024 Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research Honoree (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Sternberg. Alessandra Pecci.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Luis Barba is the 2024 Fryxell Award honoree, in recognition of his excellence in interdisciplinary research contributing significantly to American archaeology. Luis started his career with academic degrees in chemical engineering, geology, and anthropology. His research interests and over 200 publications focus on...

  • The Past and Future of Archaeological Prospection (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett Parbus. Stephen Kowalewski.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological prospection refers to the identification of subsurface cultural features by non-intrusive techniques. The prospection literature exhibits a simple evolution from pioneering application of techniques to their more common use. The method developed by Luis Barba and colleagues at the Laboratorio de Prospección...

  • Prospección arqueológica en la Ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán: Consecuencias y oportunidades de la colaboración entre el Laboratorio de Prospección Arqueológica, el Municipio de Mérida y la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only José De Calasanz Ligorred Perramon.

    This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En nuestra ponencia presentaremos el fruto de años de relación entre el Laboratorio fundado por el doctor Luis Barba, que fue nuestro profesor en los años ochenta cursando la licenciatura en Arqueología en la ENAH de la Ciudad de México. Desde entonces, nos asomamos como arqueólogos al patrimonio invisible y/o abandonado...