I haven’t watched #AncientApocolypse, but have read enough to be disappointed with @netflix giving a platform for the delusions of one man rather than the teams who have studied #Cholula for decades, led recently by Mexican women. Here’s some of their excellent work. 1/6 Cholula’s great pyramid is very securely dated to the first millennium CE, generally contemporaneous with those of #Teotihuacan. Here, Uruñela and Plunket (2020) present it’s early construction phases in relation to Teo’s Moon Pyramid. 2/6

It’s a great pleasure to announce the arrival of #CollisionofWorlds out through @OUP_press. My aim was to provide a novel take on the invasion of Mesoamerica and creation of New Spain through a transatlantic, long-term perspective emphasizing material culture. 1/9 The first chapter lays out the deep-history perspective, which looks to archaeological stratigraphy and the fact that the deeper we dig the further back in time we get. It frames the palimpsest history of places like Cholula, where millenia of Mesoamerican history is visible. 2/9