The Biggest Treasure I Found After Five Decades in Archaeology
Flush with my newly minted university degree, I sat down for breakfast with my entrepreneurial grandfather who met me with the question, “So you want to study to be an…
Gary M Feinman
Advances in Archaeology Allow Us to Understand Political Evolution and Social Change in Deep Time
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Western society is largely in the grips of an entrenched mythology that premodern non-Western states and empires were organized despotically, markedly different…
We Can Interpret How Cooperative or Autocratic Mesoamerican Societies Were From Their Systems of Communication
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo The modes of communication that a society uses can tell us a lot about its political structure. A research study we published in…
Learning From History, If We Dare
The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times…
Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
by Gary M. Feinman and David M. Carballo Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world:…
What Google Street View Can Say About the Quality of Life in Your Neighborhood
In a remarkable new study, the broad-brush patterns between how we use and mark public space and our collective well-being were investigated in 2022 by Quynh C. Yue and colleagues who…
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