{"id":142,"date":"2017-02-09T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:52:18","slug":"latin-american-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/latin-american-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>Departmental field and lab programs include ongoing research in Peru, conducted by Jean Hudson; analyses of ceramics from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, conducted by Jason Sherman; as well as past field projects in two regions of Mexico: southern Quintana Roo, co-directed by Laura Villamil and Jason Sherman, and Puebla, conducted by Melvin Fowler (emeritus) and John Richards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mesoamerica\">Mesoamerica<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ongoing Mesoamerican research includes a long-term collaborative study of the relationship between the regional ceramic economy and political organization in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, during the later Formative periods (700 BC-AD 200). Specifically, the study focuses on economic interaction and integration between sites and regions of the valley, and how the production and distribution of ceramics were shaped by inter-polity conflict, social negotiation, and the formation of the Monte Alb\u00e1n state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recently completed Proyecto Arqueol\u00f3gico Centro de Quintana Roo included several years of survey, excavation, and lab research at Margarita, a Preclassic to Classic Maya site located in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico\u2014an important but under-studied region of the Maya Lowlands. Graduate and undergraduate students helped supervise excavations at Margarita and analyzed many of the materials recovered during the field research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UWM graduate students have also conducted thesis research on various Mesoamerican collections, including Formative pottery from the Valley of Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico; Maya pottery from the Guatemalan Highlands housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum; and Lowland Maya figurines from Belize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-recent-theses\">Recent Theses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list uwm-c-list--cleanlist\">\n<li>Price, Cheri<br><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/1404\/\">To Temper or Not to Temper: A Petrographic Textural Study of Clays and Formative Ceramic Sherds from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico<\/a> (MS, 2016). Advisor: J. Sherman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Freeman, Allyse<br><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.uwm.edu\/etd\/355\/\">Investigating Sociopolitical Complexity through the Presentation of Food: An Analysis of Middle to Late Formative Ceramics from Amalucan, Mexico<\/a> (MS, 2014). Advisor: J. Sherman.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zweig, Christina<br>The Formative Ceramic Figurine Collection from the Site of Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize (MS, 2010). Advisor: J. Sherman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-1377\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/\">Research<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/pima\/\">Program in Midwestern Archaeology<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/historic-cemeteries\/\">Historic Cemeteries<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/old-world-program\/\">Old World Program<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/latin-american-program\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">Latin American Program<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/southwest-archaeology-program\/\">Southwest Archaeology Program<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/archaeology-laboratory\/research\/experimental-archaeology\/\">Experimental Archaeology<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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