CURRICULUM VITA

Jeffrey P. Blomster

Office: Dept. of Anthropology George Washington University 2110 G St., NW Washington, DC 20052 Phone: (202) 994-4880; FAX: (202) 994-6097 e-mail: [email protected]

Education: Doctor of Philosophy Yale University, Anthropology, May 1998. Title: At the Bean Hill in the Land of the Mixtec: Early Formative Social Complexity and Interregional Interaction at Etlatongo, , .

Master of Philosophy: Yale University, May 1990 Subject: Anthropology

Bachelor of Arts: Washington & Lee University, June 1987 (Summa Cum Laude) Double Major: Politics/Anthropology

Awards, Distinctions, and Activities: Chair & Organizer, Symposium “From Early Formative to Postclassic in the Mixteca of Oaxaca: The Formative Etlatongo Project, 2015-17,” at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2018. Co-curator (coordinator/head curator, N. Robles García), Ñuu Dzahui, Señores de la Lluvia, Galería de Palacio Nacional, Mexico City. Exhibit opened December, 2017. Discussant, Symposium “Mapping out Pottery Production and Exchange in the Late Classic Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico,” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2015. Discussant, Symposium “Mixtec Polities: Variations, Developments, and Transformations Spanning the Postclassic to Colonial Periods,” at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2014. Co-Chair (with R. Markens and C. López Martínez), Symposium “Late Middle through Terminal Formative Transformations in Oaxaca: Urbanism, Production, and Imagery,” at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2013. Chair, Session on Oaxaca Archaeology at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 2012. Co-organizer (with Kym Rice) of a University Seminar on Heritage and Antiquities: A New World, from 2010-2011. Co-organizer (with David Cheetham), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington, DC. Roundtable - “The San Lorenzo Olmec and their Neighbors: Material Manifestations.” November, 2009. Nominated for Service Excellence Award (parent choice), George Washington University, November 2009. Reviewer, National Science Foundation; Latin American Antiquity; Journal of Archaeological Science; Archeometry; Ancient ; Cambridge Archaeological Journal; Anthropological Quarterly; Blackwell; Routledge; University Press of California; University Press of Colorado. Blomster, 2

Chair and Co-organizer (with David Cheetham) of the Society for American Archaeology symposium, “The Olmec and their Early Formative Neighbors.” April, 2006. Co-chair and Co-organizer (with Geoffrey McCafferty) of the Society for American Archaeology symposium, “Changing Cloud Formations: Late Classic/Postclassic Sociopolitical Transformations in Oaxaca, Mexico.” April, 2003. Dissertation nominated and accepted as “distinguished” (the highest honor awarded) by Yale University, 1998. Scholar, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cultural Exploration “The Cloud People of Oaxaca,” 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007; “The Olmec,” November 1999. Editor, Yale Graduate Journal of Anthropology, 1989-1990. Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society; inducted in 1987.

Positions Held: 2011 George Washington University: Department of Anthropology, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, Fall 2011 until present. Secondary appointments in Department of Fine Arts and Art History, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and Elliott School of International Affairs. 2005 George Washington University, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor, Spring 2005 through Summer 2011. 2004 Sainsbury Center for Visual Culture, University of East Anglia, Research Fellow, Fall 2004. 2001-03 Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology, Lecturer, Fall 2001 through Summer 2003. 2000-01 Muhlenberg College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Instructor, Spring 2000 through Summer 2001. 1998-00 Kittatinny Archaeological Research, Inc., Project Archaeologist, Fall 1998 through Fall 2000. 1995-96 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Research Archaeologist, Summer 1995 through summer 1996. 1994-95 Yale University, Peabody Museum, Curatorial Assistant.

PUBLICATIONS Books: 2017 The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica: The Material Record (editor, with D. Cheetham). Cambridge University Press. 2008 After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico (editor). University Press of Colorado. Revised/reprinted in paperback in 2017. 2004 Etlatongo: Social Complexity, Interaction and Village Life in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico. Harcourt Brace/Wadsworth. ms La fase Yucuita y los orígenes del urbanismo en la Mixteca Alta de Oaxaca (1st author with M. Winter). Monograph in preparation.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters: ms Olmec Kings and Oaxacan Chiefs: Formative Interaction in Three Regions of Oaxaca (1st author, with M. Winter). Manuscript under review at Journal of World Prehistory. nd Funerary Treatment and Increasing Social Complexity in Formative period Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (3rd author, with R. Higelin Ponce de León, V. Pérez Rodríguez, A. Martínez Tuñón. In Crafting the Complex: Material Culture and the Rise of Complexity in Blomster, 3

Formative Mesoamerica, edited by L. DeLance. University Press of Florida. Accepted for publication. 2017 Mesoamerica – Highland Formative (Early to Middle Formative) Figurines. In Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, edited by T. Insoll, pp. 273-297. Oxford University Press. 2017 Materializing the Early Olmec Style in the Nochixtlán Valley, Oaxaca. In The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica: The Material Record (editor, with D. Cheetham), pp. 148-192. Cambridge University Press. 2017 Defining Early Olmec Style Pottery: Techniques, Forms, and Motifs at San Lorenzo (1st author, with D. Cheetham, C. Pool, and R. Joyce). In The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica: The Material Record (editor, with D. Cheetham), pp. 37-64. Cambridge University Press. 2017 Materializing the San Lorenzo (2nd author, with D. Cheetham). In The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica: The Material Record (editor, with D. Cheetham), pp. 9-36. Cambridge University Press. 2017 Living on the Dead in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (1st author, with R. Higelin Ponce de León). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13:719-728. Published on-line, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.11.037. 2014 Etlatongo, los Olmecas y la Complejidad Social en la Mixteca Alta durante el Preclásico Temprano. In Panorama Arqueológica: Dos Oaxacas, edited by M. Winter and G. Sánchez Santiago, pp. 31-42. Centro INAH Oaxaca, Mexico. 2014 The Naked and the Clothed: Embodiment and Fluid Identities in Early Formative Oaxaca. In Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, edited by H. Orr and M. Looper, pp. 79-114. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 2012 Searching for Tollan: Authority and Urbanism in Oaxaca after Monte Albán. In Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, edited by D. Nichols and C. Pool, pp. 335- 347. Oxford University Press, New York. 2012 Early Evidence of the Ballgame in Oaxaca, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 109(21): 8020-8025. 2011 Antes de Monte Albán: los orígenes de la complejidad sociopolítica e iconografía en Oaxaca. In Monte Albán en la encrucijada regional y disciplinaria: Memoria de la Quinta Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán, edited by N. Robles García and I. Rivera Guzmán, pp. 119-138. INAH, Mexico City. 2011 Obsidian Procurement in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico: Diachronic Changes in Political Economy and Interregional Interaction (1st author, with M. Glascock). Journal of Field Archaeology 36(1):21-41. 2011 Bodies, Bones and Burials: Corporeal Constructs and Enduring Relationships in Oaxaca, Mexico. In Living with the Dead: Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica, edited by J. Fitzsimmons and I. Shimada, pp. 102-160. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2010 Procurement and Consumption of Obsidian in the Early Formative Mixteca Aalta: a view from the Nochixtlán Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico (1st author, with M. Glascock). In Crossing the Straits: Prehistoric Obsidian Source Exploitation in the Pacific Rim, edited by Y. Kuzmin and M. Glascock, pp. 183-200. B.A.R. International Series 2152, Archeopress, Oxford. 2010 Complexity, Interaction and Epistemology: Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Olmecs in Early Formative Mesoamerica. Ancient Mesoamerica 21(1):135-149. 2010 Rethinking the Olmec and Early Formative Mesoamerica: Introduction (2nd author, with D. Cheetham). Ancient Mesoamerica 21(1):92-94. Blomster, 4

2009 Identity, Gender and Power: Representational Juxtapositions in Early Formative Figurines from Oaxaca, Mexico. In Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-scale Indexes of Large-scale Social Phenomena, edited by C. Halperin, K. Faust, and R. Taube, pp. 119- 148. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2008 Religión e Interación: Oaxaca y los Olmecas (2nd author, with M. Winter). In Olmeca: balance y perspectivas. Memoria de la Primera Mesa Redonda Olmeca, Vol. 1, edited by M. T. Uriarte and R. B. González Lauck, pp. 205-226. UNAM-INAH-Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo, Mexico City. 2008 Legitimization, Negotiation, and Appropriation in Postclassic Oaxaca: Mixtec Stone Codices. In After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico, edited by J. Blomster, pp. 295-330. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 2008 Changing Cloud Formations: The Socio-politics of Oaxaca in Late Classic/Postclassic Mesoamerica. In After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico, edited by J. Blomster, pp. 3-46. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 2006 Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics. (2nd author, with H. Neff, M. Glascock, R. Bishop, M. Blackman, M. Coe, G. Cowgill, A. Cyphers, R. Diehl, S. Houston, A. Joyce, C. Lipo, and M. Winter). Latin American Antiquity 17(1):104-118. 2006 Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics. (2nd author, with H. Neff, M. Glascock, R. Bishop, M. Blackman, M. Coe, G. Cowgill, R. Diehl, S. Houston, A. Joyce, C. Lipo, B. Stark, and M. Winter). Latin American Antiquity 17(1):54-76. 2005 The Origins of Olmec Civilization: Response to Meggers. Science 309:556. 2005 Olmec Pottery Production and Export in Ancient Mexico Determined through Elemental Analysis (1st author, with H. Neff and M. Glascock). Science 307:1068-1072. 2002 What and Where is Olmec Style? Regional Perspectives on Early Formative Hollow Figurines in Mesoamerica. Ancient Mesoamerica 13(2):171-195. 1998 Cult, Context, and Early Formative Public Ritual in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico: Analysis of a Hollow-baby Figurine from Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 9(2):309-326. 1994 Structure Two: The Academy Building. In An Archaeological and Historical Assessment of the Liberty Hall Academy Complex 1782 - 1803, edited by J. McDaniel, K. Russ, and P. Potter, pp. 70-83. Liberty Hall Press, Lexington, Virginia. 1987 Exploring Material Culture Patterning at an Eighteenth Century Virginia Academy (with K. Russ and J. McDaniel). Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia 42:133-145.

Essays, Non-peer reviewed articles, reviews, and reports: ms Etlatongo en el Formativo: Temporada 2017 (PEF-17). Technical report presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, (1st editor, with V. Salazar). In preparation. 2018 Formación de los primeros pueblos y centros urbanos: Preclásico temprano a tardío. In Ñuu Dzahui, Señores de la Lluvia, edited by N. Robles Garcia, pp. 263-264. Galería de Palacio Nacional, Mexico City. 2018 Final Report on the Project: Socio-political Complexity, Interaction, and Community Ritual at Formative Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Report submitted to and accepted by the National Science Foundation. February. 2016 Etlatongo en el Formativo: Temporada 2016 (PEF-16). Technical report presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, December 9, 2016 (1st editor, with V. Salazar). 523 pages. Blomster, 5

2015 Etlatongo en el Formativo: Temporada 2015 (PEF-15). Technical report presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, December 10, 2015 (1st author, with V. Salazar). 324 pages. 2015 El Proyecto Etlatongo: Informe Final Trabajo del campo 1992 y análisis laboratorio 1998, 2001-2011. Final report presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, February 20, 2015. 733 pages. 2015 Review of The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: Ancient Times to the Present, by R. Spores and A. Balkansky. Journal of Anthropological Research 71:120-122. 2014 Informe Técnico del Proyecto Etlatongo: trabajo de campo. Informe técnico presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, July 28, 2014. 2014 Review of Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca, edited by A. Joyce. Latin American Antiquity 25(1):117-119. 2013 Fingerprinting the Olmec. Dig 15(3):16-17. 2011 Review of The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery, edited by W. Fash and L. López Luján. The Americas 68(1):134-137. 2011 Proyecto Etlatongo 1992: Informe sobre el resultado de las muestras de obsidiana que se exportarán en noviembre de 2003. Informe técnico presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, December 13, 2011. 2011 Proyecto Etlatongo 1992: Informe sobre el resultado de las 164 muestras que se exportarán en agosto de 1993. Informe técnico presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, November 15, 2011. 2011 Proyecto Etlatongo 1992: Informe de las actividades que se han llevado a cabo en el Exconvento de Cuilapan durante 1998, 2001-2011. Informe técnico presented to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, October 11, 2011. 2010 Review of The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited by T. Ardren and S. Hutson. Latin American Antiquity 21(4):467-468. 2009 Review of Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations, by N. Yoffee. American Antiquity 74(1):206-207. 2008 Ceramics: Olmec Pottery. In Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, edited by H. Selin, pp. 72-77. Springer, New York. 2007 Early Mesoamerican Cultures. In The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, edited by A. Cremin, pp. 298-299. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. 2007 San José Mogote and Etlatongo, Mexico. In The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, edited by A. Cremin, p. 300. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. 2007 Olmec Colossal Heads, Mexico. In The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, edited by A. Cremin, p. 301. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. 2007 , Mexico. In The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, edited by A. Cremin, pp. 302-303. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. 2007 Chalcatzingo. In The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, edited by A. Cremin, p. 304. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. 2007 Monte Albán, Mexico. In The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The World’s Most Significant Sites and Cultural Treasures, edited by A. Cremin, p. 305. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. Blomster, 6

2005 Following the Path of the Olmec Dragon: Early Mesoamerican Civilization and Interaction Reconsidered. Smoking Mirror 13(3):2-7. 2004 Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses of Obsidian Procurement in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Final Report submitted to the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., for FAMSI Project #02044. 2004 Art, War and Empire: North and Central America 500 BC – AD 600. In Atlas of World Art, edited by J. Onians, pp. 54-55. Laurence King, London; Oxford University Press, New York. 2004 Art, Religion and the Ruler: Central America 600 – 1500. In Atlas of World Art, edited by J. Onians, pp. 98-99. Laurence King, London; Oxford University Press, New York. 2002 Archaeological Investigations of the Planned Structural Repair and Environment Stabilization Project, Troxell-Steckel House, Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (with P.A. Perazio and K.M. Presler). Final Report submitted to the Lehigh County Historical Society, Allentown, Pennsylvania. 2001 Etlatongo. In Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Susan T. Evans and David L. Webster, p. 248. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York. 2000 A Phase I Archaeological Investigation of the Planned PP&L South Fogelsville Substation Property, Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (with P.A. Perazio). Final Report submitted to PP&L, Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania. 1998 At the Bean Hill in the Land of the Mixtec: Early Formative Social Complexity and Interregional Interaction at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Yale University Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology. 1996 Report on 1995 Excavations at Woods Canyon Pueblo (5MT11842), Montezuma County, Colorado (with M. Churchill). Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. 1987 Archaeological Investigations of a Nineteenth Century Appalachian Farmstead: The Barger-Riddlebarger Farm in Botetourt County, Virginia (with K. Russ and J. McDaniel). Occasional Papers in Anthropology, No. 23. Laboratory of Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2018 University Facilitating Fund Award. University Committee on Research, George Washington University. Support for project: Embodiment and Aesthetics of Ancient Mexican Figurines. $15,726. 2016 Luther Rice Fellowship, George Washington University, “The Color of Influence: Style and Interaction in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico;” mentor for Alexis Clark. $6,000. 2012 National Science Foundation Grant. Funds for a 3 year project, “Socio-political Complexity, Interaction, and Community Ritual at Formative Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico,” to start in academic year 2013-14. $267,605. 2012 Columbian College Facilitating Fund. Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University. Research support for 2012-13. $6,670. 2009 University Facilitating Fund Award. University Committee on Research, George Washington University. Support for project: Interaction and Socio-political Complexity in Ancient Mexico. $14,979. 2009 Research/Conference Grant. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington, DC. Grant for Roundtable, “The San Lorenzo Olmec and their Neighbors: Material Manifestations,” organized with D. Cheetham. November, 2009. Aprox. $10,000. Blomster, 7

2007 University Facilitating Fund Award. University Committee on Research, George Washington University. Support for project: Production and Consumption: Pottery and Urbanism in Oaxaca, Mexico. $5,649. 2004 Research Fellowship. Sainsbury Center for Visual Culture, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. Semester-long fellowship to pursue research relating to Early Formative aesthetics and interaction. 2003 Research Grant. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. Funds for exploring changing patterns of obsidian procurement in Oaxaca. 2002-03 Jane’s Grant, Council on Latin American Studies, Brandeis University. Funded summer research and student teaching/mentoring in Oaxaca, Mexico. 1996-98 Charles MacCurdy Grant, Yale University. Support for petrographic analysis of ceramics at both the Yale University microprobe center and the University of Missouri Research Reactor. 1992-93 Mellon Grant, Yale University. Support for writing. 1992 Fulbright Grant, Institute for International Education. Funded dissertation research in Oaxaca, Mexico. 1988-93 Josef Albers Research Grant in Anthropology, Yale University. Funded summer research in Mexico. 1985-87 James G. Leyburn Grant in Archaeology, Washington & Lee University. Funded summer research, analysis, and writing.

PAPERS & POSTERS PRESENTED

2018 Public Space, Sacred Place: Early Monumental Architecture and Corporate Identity in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (1st author with V. Salazar). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, April. 2018 The Materiality and Creation of Constructed Space at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico (3rd author with V. Salazar Chavez and C. Vidal-Guzman). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, April. 2018 Geochemical Analysis of the Soils and Floors of Ancient Activity Areas at the Site of Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico (2nd author with R. Terry and D. Bair). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, April. 2018 Importation, Distribution, and Crafting of Obsidian at Formative Etlatongo (2nd author with D. Oliveira and M. Glascock). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, April. 2018 Skeletal Health and the Impact of Agriculture within the Mixtec Population from Etlatongo, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca during the Middle Formative (3rd author with R. Higelin Ponce de León and A. Gonzales). Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, April. 2018 Taphonomic Examination of the Skeletal Collection from Etlatongo, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2nd author with A. C. Gonzales and R. Higelin Ponce de León). Poster presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC, April. 2017 About the Use of Lead and Strontium Isotopes as Tracers in Pottery Provenance Studies (4nd author with V. Renson, H. Neff, D. Cheetham, J. Guthrie, and M. Glascock). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Seattle, October. 2017 Cerámica local y de importación entre Etlatongo, Mixteca Alta y Olmán durante el Preclásico Temprano. Invited paper presented at the Colloquium “Tercer Ciclo Anual de Conferencias de Arte Indígena en Oaxaca y Áreas Vecinas,” Oaxaca, May. Blomster, 8

2017 Inscription, Replication, and Production of Olmec Imagery and Regional Identities. Invited paper presented at symposium “Molding Matter: Technologies of Reproduction in the Pre-Columbian Americas,” 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, April. 2017 Early Formative Public Architecture and Corporate Identity in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca (2nd author, with V. Salazar). Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, April. 2016 Production, Consumption, and Multi-crafting in the Formative Mixteca Alta, Mexico (1st author, with V. Salazar). Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, April. 2016 Social Complexity in the Central Andean Region: the Initial Period. Invited discussion at the Symposium “Social Complexity in the Central Andean Region: Current Research on the Initial Period and Early Horizon,” 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, April. 2015 El Proyecto Etlatongo en el Formativo: PEF-15 (1st author, with F. Méndez Sobel). Paper presented to the community of Etlatongo, Oaxaca, September. 2015 Living on the Dead in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Paper presented at the Symposium “The Bioarchaeology of Oaxaca: Talking with the Dead,” 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April. 2015 Comparing Compositional and Petrographic Methods. Invited discussant at the Symposium “Mapping out Pottery Production and Exchange in the Late Classic Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico,” 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, April. 2015 Play Ball: The Origins of the Mesoamerican Ballgame. Paper presented to the Classics and Archaeology Club, George Washington University, Washington, DC, April. 2015 Rethinking the Olmec: Pottery and Interaction. Invited lecture presented at the Art Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March. 2015 Materializing the Olmec: Technique and Practice in Early Formative Oaxaca. Invited lecture presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, March. 2014 Rethinking the Postclassic Mixteca: Random, Unaligned, and Stratified Thoughts. Invited discussant at the Symposium “Mixtec Polities: Variations, Developments, and Transformations Spanning the Postclassic to Colonial Periods,” 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April. 2013 Rethinking the Olmec in Early Horizon Mesoamerica. Invited paper presented at the Archaeological Institute of America, Gladys Callahan-Vocci-Justice Lecture, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. October. 2013 Urbanism and Production in the Mixteca Alta: the Yucuita Phase at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paper presented at the Symposium “Late Middle through Terminal Formative Transformations in Oaxaca: Urbanism, Production, and Imagery,” 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, April. 2012 Being in Postclassic Oaxaca: Elite Interaction and Leadership Strategies After Monte Albán. Invited paper to the Pre-Columbian Society, Washington, DC, May. 2012 Figurines, Ritual, and Social Complexity: Diachronic Shifts in Quantity and Content in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico (1st Author, with K. Short). Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, April. 2012 Ballplaying and Early Social Complexity in Ancient Mexico. Lecture presented to the Archaeology Club, George Washington University, April. 2011 The Olmec and Oaxaca: a Regional Perspective. Invited lecture presented at the Art Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, February. Blomster, 9

2011 Buscando al Tollán: Autoridad y Urbanismo Postclásico en la Mixteca Alta. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Homenaje a Michael Lind,” Noveno Simposio Internacional de Estudios Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, July. 2010 Olmec and Early Formative Archaeology: Revising the Past, Negotiating the Future. Invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, October. 2010 The Naked and the Clothed: Embodiment, Gender and Social Identity in Early Formative Oaxaca. Invited paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, April. 2009 Materializing the Olmec Style in the Nochixtlán Valley, Oaxaca. Paper presented at “The San Lorenzo Olmec and Their Neighbors: Material Manifestations: A Roundtable at Dumbarton Oaks,” Washington, DC, November. 2009 Antes de Monte Albán: los Orígenes de la Complejidad Sociopolítica e Iconografía en Oaxaca. Invited paper for the 5th Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico, September. 2009 The Emergence of Status and Power in Oaxaca: A View from the Nochixtlán Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium “Jerarquía Social y el Poder en el Oaxaca Prehispánico de México,” at the 53rd Annual Congress of Americanists, Mexico City, July. 2008 Oaxacan Perspectives on Olmec Interaction in Early Formative Mesoamerica. Invited paper for the Pre-Columbian Society of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology. September. 2008 Six degrees of Olmec: Comparisons of Interaction with Olman in Oaxaca and Soconusco (1st author, with D. Cheetham). Invited paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, March. 2007 Being Toltec in Oaxaca: Postclassic Strategies of Legitimization in the Nochixtlán Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. Invited paper presented at the Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, March. 2007 Sex in the First Mesoamerican City: A re-examination of Olmec sex and gender and Early Formative Figurines. Invited paper presented at the 2nd Braunstein Symposium: Figurines of Ancient Mesoamerica – Power and Guidance, Las Vegas, January. 2006 Radioactive Were-Jaguars: Power and Practice in Olmec Archaeology. Invited paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, Yale University, November. 2006 Olmec Rulers and Oaxacan Chiefs: Beyond Peer Polity Models of Interaction (1st author, with M. Winter). Paper presented at the symposium “El Desarrollo de las Sociedades Complejas: Convergencias y Divergencias del Fenómeno Estatal y Urbano en Mesoamérica, El caso de La Cultura Olmeca,” at the 52nd Annual Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain, July. 2006 Agency and Interaction in Early Formative Oaxaca, Mexico: Mixtecs, Zapotecs and Olmecs. Paper presented at the symposium “The Olmec and their Early Formative Neighbors,” at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April. 2006 The Emergence of Socio-Political Complexity in the Nochixtlán Valley: The Mixteca in Mesoamerica. Invited paper presented at the Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, March. 2006 Changes in Ceramic Production at Formative Etlatongo, Mixteca Alta: An Assessment of Standardization (2nd author, with J. Hedgepeth). Contributed paper at the Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, March. 2006 Identity, Gender and Power: Representational Juxtapositions in Early Formative Figurines from Oaxaca, Mexico. Invited Paper presented at the 1st Braunstein Symposium: Figurines of Ancient Mesoamerica – Power and Guidance, Las Vegas, January. Blomster, 10

2005 Indigenous Archaeologies and Olmec Revivals in Oaxaca, Mexico: Referencing the Past, Negotiating the Present. Paper presented at the symposium “Ancient Archaeologies: Reoccupation and Reuse in Mesoamerica and the Andes,” at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December. 2005 Pathways to Complexity: The Emergence of the Olmecs. Invited Seminar, Part 1, presented at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October. 2005 The San Lorenzo Olmec and Their Neighbors. Invited Seminar, Part 2, presented at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October. 2005 Following the Path of the Olmec Dragon: Early Mesoamerican Civilization and Interaction Reconsidered. Invited paper presented at the Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, October. 2005 Synchronic and Diachronic Changes in Obsidian Procurement in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico (1st author, with M. Glascock). Paper presented at the symposium “Crossing the Straits: Prehistoric Obsidian Source Exploitation in the Pacific Rim,” at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, April. 2005 Religión e Interación: Oaxaca y los Olmecas (2nd author, with M. Winter). Invited presentation at the Mesa Redonda Olmecas: Balance y perspectives, Mexico City, March. 2005 Beyond Style: Radioactive Dragons and the Olmec in Mesoamerica. Presentation for the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, February. 2004 Voices from the Periphery: Early Social Complexity and Interregional Interaction in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico. Presentation for the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, March. 2004 Style, Interaction and Complexity in Ancient Mexico: the Olmec. Invited presentation at the World Art Seminar, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, September. 2004 Cerámica temprana de la Mixteca Alta: estilo, intercambio y producción durante el Formativo. Invited presentation at the 4th Mesa Redonda de Monte Albán: Programa del Taller de Cerámica, Oaxaca, July. 2004 Notes from the Periphery: Early Social Complexity and Interregional Interaction in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico. Presentation for the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, April. 2003 Postclassic Sociopolitical Transformation and Image Manipulation in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Paper presented in the symposium “Changing Cloud Formations: Late Classic/Postclassic Transformations in Oaxaca, Mexico,” at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, April. 2003 Ceramic Variable Associations from Formative Period Etlatongo, Oaxaca (with R. Arp). Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, April. 2003 Ceramic Production in the Mixteca Alta: Diachronic Changes in the Formative Period (with J. Hedgepeth). Paper presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Milwaukee, April. 2002 Obsidian Exchange in Formative Period Oaxaca: A View from the Mixteca Alta (with M. Glascock). Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, March. 2001 What Lies Beneath: Prehistory in Historic Contexts (with K. Presler). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, April. 2001 Transformation and Syncretism: Native Art and Culture under Spanish Influence. Invited lecture at the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, March. Blomster, 11

2000 Prehistory at the Troxell-Steckel House: Method and Theory (with P. Perazio). Invited lecture presented at the Monthly Meeting of the Forks of the Delaware Chapter of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, Easton, October. 1999 The Emergence of Complex Society in Mesoamerica: A View from Oaxaca. Invited paper presented to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University. Bethlehem, April. 1999 The Olmec and the Mixteca Alta: Neutron Activation Analysis of Conejo Orange-on- White and Xochiltepec White Ceramics from the Gulf Coast and Oaxaca (with M. Glascock, S. Herrera, and H. Neff). Paper presented at the Symposium, “Recent Investigations on the Olmec,” at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, April. 1999 The Archaeology of Formative Oaxaca. Invited lecture presented at the Monthly Meeting of the Forks of the Delaware Chapter of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. Easton, March. 1998 New Ritual Paraphernalia and Its Impact on Early Formative Period Society in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, May. 1996 From Formative to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta: A Case Study from the Nochixtlán Valley. Invited paper at the Third Annual Mixtec Gateway Conference, Las Vegas, March. 1995 Micro-settlement Patterning and Demographic Change at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May. 1994 Of Mixtecs and Bean Temples: Excavations at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Invited lecture, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, May. 1994 More than a Hill of Beans: Monumental Constructions from Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paper presented in the symposium “Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory: Papers in Honor of Michael D. Coe,” Yale University, New Haven, May. 1993 Tortilla Press Dreams: Formative Period Developments and Interaction in the Mixteca Alta. Archaeology Lecture Series, Yale University Department of Anthropology, New Haven, April. 1992 Exploraciones arqueológicas en Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Paper presented at the 3rd Cholula Round Table, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, August. 1991 Early Pottery Production in Eastern Virginia: an Examination of its Extent and Development (with K. Russ). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Richmond, January. 1989 The Altar Vase: Context and Interpretations. Paper presented at the Seminar on Maya Pictorial Ceramics, Yale University Departments of Anthropology and Art History, New Haven, December. 1986 Artifact patterning at an Eighteenth Century Academy Building. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Virginia, October.

FIELD AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2015-present Principal Investigator, Formative Etlatongo Project, 3 year NSF-funded archaeological project. Oaxaca, Mexico. 2004-11 Principal Investigator, Early Formative Ceramics from the Nochixtlán Valley. Analysis and initial preparation of monograph on Early Formative pottery from the Mixteca Alta. Research conducted at Cuilapan, Oaxaca, Mexico. 2005 Principal Investigator, “What Binds, What Breaks: A Study of Rural Oaxacan Social Institutions.” Fieldwork conducted by A. Ferking, George Washington University. Blomster, 12

2004 Principal Investigator. Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses of Obsidian Procurement in Formative Oaxaca, Mexico. Analysis and sourcing of approximately 400 obsidian samples from sites in the Mixteca Alta, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the Valley of Oaxaca. Sourcing conducted at University of Missouri Research Reactor under the supervision of M. Glascock. 2003 Principal Investigator, Urbanism in the Mixteca Alta: the Ceramic Legacy. Analysis of ceramics from Late Formative villages in Oaxaca, including the teaching and mentoring of two undergraduates from Brandeis University. Research conducted at Cuilapan, Mexico. 2002 Principal Investigator, Ceramic Production and Exchange: From Early to Late Formative in Oaxaca, Mexico. Analysis of Etlatongo ceramics, including the teaching and mentoring of one undergraduate and one graduate student, Brandeis University. Research conducted at Cuilapan, Mexico. 2002 Director. Excavations at a Historic House, Brandeis University, Massachusetts. Supervised field school as part of methods course. 2000 Project Archaeologist, Excavations at the Troxell-Steckel House, Egypt, Pennsylvania. Research conducted for the Lehigh County Historic Society by Kittatinny Archaeological Research, Inc. 1999 Project Archaeologist, Phase II Cultural Resource Investigations of the Country Club of the Pocono’s Project Area, Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Research conducted by Kittatinny Archaeological Research, Inc. 1998 Principal Investigator, Overview of Formative Ceramics from the Mixteca Alta. Assessment of material from different contexts recovered by the 1992 Yale University Project at Etlatongo. Research conducted Cuilapan, Oaxaca, Mexico. 1997 Co-Principal Investigator, Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from Formative Mesoamerica. Research under the supervision of Dr. Hector Neff, Missouri University Research Reactor. 1997 Principal Investigator, Microprobe Analysis of Ceramics from Formative Period Mexico. Research conducted in the Microprobe Laboratory in the Yale University Geology Department. 1996 Co-Principal Investigator, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Obsidian from Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Research under the supervision of Dr. Michael Glascock, Missouri University Research Reactor. 1995-96 Research Archaeologist, Excavations at Woods Canyon Pueblo, Colorado. Research conducted by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. 1994 Field Assistant, Phase I survey, Ledyard, Connecticut. Research conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services, East Haven, Connecticut. 1993 Principal Investigator, Ceramic Analysis of Materials from Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Research conducted at Cuilapan, Oaxaca, Mexico. 1992 Principal Investigator/Director, Archaeological Investigations at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico. Yale University dissertation research. 1991 Supervisor, Excavations at Kenzie Dawn Pueblo, Colorado. Research conducted by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Colorado. 1991 Field Assistant, Excavations at Cerro de las Minas, Huajuapan, Oaxaca, Mexico. Research directed by Marcus Winter, Centro Regional de Oaxaca, INAH. 1990 Field Assistant, Excavations at Huamelulpan, Oaxaca, Mexico. Research directed by Marcus Winter, Centro Regional de Oaxaca, INAH. 1989 Field Assistant, Salvage Excavations at El Rosario, Oaxaca, Mexico. Research directed by Marcus Winter, Centro Regional de Oaxaca, INAH. Blomster, 13

1989 Field Assistant, Excavations at Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico. Research directed by Marcus Winter, Centro Regional de Oaxaca, INAH. 1987 Field Assistant, Archaeological Evaluation conducted by Washington & Lee University Laboratory of Anthropology of Two Prehistoric Activity Areas located within Route 252 Project Area in Radford, Virginia, for Anderson and Associates, Blacksburg, Virginia. 1987 Assistant Site Supervisor, Archaeological Investigations of the Robinson’s Gap Site, 44AH10, Amherst County, Virginia, by Washington & Lee University Laboratory of Anthropology, under cooperative agreement with the U.S.D.A. George Washington National Forest. 1986 Field Assistant, Archaeological Investigations at the Barger-Riddlebarger Farmstead, Botetourt County, Virginia, by Washington & Lee University Laboratory of Anthropology.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Member of Dissertation Committee: 2015 Guy Hepp, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder (advisor: Dr. A. Joyce). Defended, and passed, March.

Courses Offered: 2005-15 George Washington University, Department of Anthropology: 2014-2015: of Mexico; Proseminar in Archaeology; Ancient Mexican Civilizations; Graduate Seminar: Power and Violence in Oaxaca. 2013-2014: Theory and Practice in Archaeology; Rise of the State and Urban Society. 2012-2013: Theory and Practice in Archaeology; Olmecs and their Neighbors: Rise of Complex Societies; Proseminar in Archaeology; Mesoamerican Archaeology. 2011-2012: Power & Violence in New World Societies; Proseminar in Archaeology. 2010- 2011: Inkas, Moche, Chavín and their Ancestors: An Archaeology of the Andes; Proseminar in Archaeology; Graduate Seminar: Power and Resistance in Oaxaca; Theory and Practice in Archaeology. 2009-2010: Mesoamerican Archaeology; Proseminar in Archaeology; Theory and Practice in Archaeology; Rise of the State and Urban Society. 2008-2009: Proseminar in Archaeology; The Olmec and their Neighbors; Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Summer 2008:Mesoamerican Field Research. 2007-2008: Archaeology of Mesoamerica; Proseminar in Archaeology; Introduction to Archaeology; Theory and Practice in Archaeology. 2006-2007: The Aztecs of Mexico; Proseminar in Archaeology; Theory and Practice in Archaeology; Rise of the State and Urban Society. 2005-2006: Theory and Practice in Archaeology; Proseminar in Archaeology; Archaeology of Mesoamerica; Graduate Seminar: Power and Resistance in Oaxaca.

In addition, I have directed museum internships from 2006 until present.

2001-03 Brandeis University, Department of Anthropology: Anth 5a, Human Origins/World Archaeology; Anth 60a, Field Methods in Archaeology; Anth 110a, Human Evolution; Anth 123a, Topics and Issues (Theory) in Archaeology; Anth 136a, State Formation in Comparative Perspective; Anth 147b, Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization.

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REFERENCES Dr. Richard Burger, Professor Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University P.O. Box 208277 New Haven, CT 06520-8277 (203) 432-3752 [email protected]

Dr. Michael D. Coe, Emeritus Professor Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University P.O. Box 208277 New Haven, CT 06520-8277 [email protected]

Dr. Arthur Joyce, Professor Department of Anthropology University of Colorado, Boulder Hale Bldg., 233 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0233 (303) 735-3055 [email protected]

Dr. Marcus Winter, Investigator Centro INAH Oaxaca Pino Suárez 715 Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mexico [email protected]