Mesoamerican-Mississippian Connections in Medieval Times

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

My intellectual journey with Tim Pauketat began in early 2005 when we met at a School for Advanced Research short seminar on the archaeology of ritual, memory, and materiality. The seminar was as success and led to a long intellectual friendship, a common theme of which was our mutual interest in connections and interactions between ancestral peoples in the Mississippian world and Mesoamerica during the Medieval period (c. 800-1300 CE). As a Maya archaeologist, I had not forayed much into North American archaeology. That all changed based on discussions with Tim. In this paper, I detail this journey—a Mesoamerican-Mississippian meeting of the minds. I also discuss how Tim’s ideas have impacted mine throughout the years, especially since 2007 when I started a position at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The fundamental impact he has had on my research, his students, and colleagues globally is astounding, and more importantly, significant and enduring.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat

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Abstract Id(s): 50870