Marcello A. Canuto Associate Professor Department of Anthropology Director Middle American Research Institute Tulane University 301 Dinwiddie Hall 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA, 70118 (504) 862-3051 [email protected] EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 1987-1991 A.B. magna cum laude with highest honors in Anthropology, Harvard University Senior Honors Thesis: Archaeology as Writing and Practice Advisor: Dr. Rosemary A. Joyce; Committee: Robert W. Preucel, Stephen Black 1991-2002 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation: A Tale of Two Communities: Social and Political Transformation in the Hinterlands of the Maya Polity of Copan Advisor: Robert J. Sharer; Committee: Wendy A. Ashmore, Clark Erickson RESEARCH INTERESTS archaeology; Mesoamerica; early complex societies; monumental architecture; urbanism; archaeological theory; settlement archaeology; community studies; remote sensing applications to archaeology TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS HELD 1992-1994 Writing Across the University Tutor (WATU), University of Pennsylvania 1993 WATU Course Assistant, Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania 1994 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1995 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1997 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1998 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages, Drexel University 1998 Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Pennsylvania 1997-2000 Field Instructor, Harvard Archaeological Field School, Copan, Honduras. 2000 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University 2000-2001 Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 2001-2002 Lecturer Convertible, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University 2002-2009 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University 2009-current Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Tulane University MUSEUM AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS HELD 2003-2009 Assistant Curator, Anthropology Division, Peabody Museum, Yale University 2009-current Director, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University 2 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE 1989 Excavator, Field School at Pueblo Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona State University 1990 Excavator, Field School at Carthage, Tunisia. University of Georgia 1991 Research Assistant, Pre-Proyecto Cacaxtla, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico. 1992-1993 Supervisor, El Cayo Survey Program, Proyecto El Cayo, University of Calgary. 1993 Researcher, Museo Etnologico, Vatican City, Italy. 1994 Survey and Excavation Supervisor, Proyecto Agro-Arquéologico del Beni, Bolivia, University of Pennsylvania. 1995 Excavation Supervisor, Rojdi Archaeological Project, India. University of Pennsylvania 1995-2000 Excavation Supervisor, Early Copan Acropolis Project. (ECAP), University of Pennsylvania 1999-2000 Co-Principal Investigator, Copan Area Ceramic Sampling Program, University of Pennsylvania 2000 Mapping Consultant, Program for the Restoration of the Hieroglyphic Stairway, Getty Foundation-Harvard University 2000 Mapping Consultant, Teotihuacan Project, Harvard University 2002-2010 Co-Director, El Paraíso Archaeological Project (PAREP), Yale/Tulane-CSU Stanislaus University 2003-2007 Director, Archaeological Project at the Henry Whitfield House Museum, Yale University 2007-current Co-Director, La Corona Regional Archaeological Project, Tulane University-Universidad del Valley Guatemala MUSEUM EXHIBITS 2008 Guest Curator, Las Artes de México, Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University 2008-2009 Consultant, New World Cultures exhibit, National Museum of the American Indian 2013-2018 Curator, Faces of the Maya, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University 2015-2016 Curator, Making M.A.R.I., Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University 2016-2018 Curator, Power in Ancient Chibchan, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University. 2019-2020 Co-Curator, The Trade of Kings: The Business of Being Maya, New Orleans Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Books Canuto, Marcello A. and Ellen E. Bell (editors) nd Excavations at El Paraíso, Copan, Honduras. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Canuto, Marcello A., Tomás Barrientos Q., and David Stuart in prep The Monuments of La Corona: Chronicle of a Classic Maya Empire. Manuscript in preparation for Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, San Francisco. Canuto, Marcello A. in prep Communities of Family and State: Explaining the Rise of Classic Maya Society. Manuscript to be submitted to University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Peer-Reviewed Coedited Volumes Canuto, Marcello A. and Jason Yaeger (editors) 2000 The Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective. Routledge Press, London. Bell, Ellen E., Marcello A. Canuto, and Robert J. Sharer (editors) MAC C.V. 7/11/2018 3 2004 Understanding Early Classic Copan: New Research and New Themes. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Canuto, Marcello A. and Tomás Barrientos Q. in prep The Golden Age of the Snake Kings: La Corona in the 7th and 8th Centuries. Manuscript to be submitted to special edition of Ancient Mesoamerica Canuto, Marcello A. and Maxime Lamoureux St-Hilaire in prep The Regimes of the Classic Maya: Toward an Archaeology of Political Communities. Manuscript to be submitted to Cambridge University Press Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Sharer, Robert J., Loa P. Traxler, David W. Sedat, Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and Christopher Powell 1999 Early Classic Architecture Beneath the Copan Acropolis: A Research Update. Ancient Mesoamerica 10:3-23 Bell, Ellen, Marcello A. Canuto, and Jorge Ramos 2001 El Paraíso: Punto Embocadero de la Periferia Sudeste Maya. Yaxkin 19:41-75. Canuto, Marcello A., and Ellen E. Bell 2008 The Ties that Bind: Administrative Strategies in the El Paraíso Valley, Department of Copan, Honduras. Mexicon XXX(1):10-20. Manahan, T. Kam and Marcello A. Canuto 2009 Bracketing the Copan Dynasty: Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic Settlements at Copan, Honduras. Latin American Antiquity 20(4):553-580. Canuto, Marcello A., James P. Charton, and Ellen E. Bell 2010 Let No Space Go To Waste: Comparing the Uses of Space between Two Late Classic Centers in the El Paraiso Valley, Copan, Honduras. Journal of Archaeological Science 37:30-41. Canuto, Marcello A., and Tomás Barrientos Q. 2011 La Corona: Un acercamiento a las políticas del Reino Kaan desde un centro secundario del Noroeste de Petén. Estudios de Cultura Maya XXXVIII:14-43 Canuto, Marcello A. and Ellen E. Bell 2013 Archaeological Investigations in the El Paraíso valley: the Role of Secondary Centers in the Multiethnic Landscape of Classic Period Copan Ancient Mesoamerica 24(1):1-24. Douglas, Peter, Mark Pagani, Marcello A. Canuto, Mark Brenner, David A. Hodell, Timothy I. Eglinton, and Jason H. Curtis 2015 Drought, agricultural adaptation and sociopolitical collapse in the Maya Lowlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(18):5607:5612 Douglas, Peter, Arthur A. Demarest, Mark Brenner, and Marcello A. Canuto 2016 Impacts of Climate Change on the Collapse of Lowland Maya Civilization. Manuscript accepted by Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Canuto, Marcello A. and Tomás Barrientos Q. in prep The atypical case of La Corona in the 7th and 8th Centuries. Manuscript to be submitted to special edition titled “The Golden Age of the Snake Kings: La Corona in the 7th and 8th Centuries” to Ancient Mesoamerica. Canuto, Marcello A. and Ellen E. Bell in prep From The Outside In: Political Integration and Dissolution in the Classic Maya Kingdom of Copan: A Case Study from the El Paraíso Valley, Honduras. Manuscript to be submitted to Latin American Antiquity. Canuto, Marcello A. in prep The Role of Community among the ancient Maya: The Case of Preclassic and Classic Copan, Honduras. Manuscript to be submitted to American Anthropologist. Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters Yaeger, Jason and Marcello A. Canuto 2000 Introducing an Archaeology of Communities. In The Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective, edited by Marcello A. Canuto and Jason Yaeger, pp. 1-12. Routledge, MAC C.V. 7/11/2018 4 London. Canuto, Marcello A. 2004 El asentamiento rural en los alrededores de Copán: Un desarrollo precoz. In Memoria del VII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras "Dr. George Hasemann", edited by C. J. Fajardo and K. R. Ávalos, pp. 75-89. IHAH, Tegucigalpa. Canuto, Marcello A. 2004 The Rural Settlement of Copan: Changes through the Early Classic. In Understanding Early Classic Copan, edited by Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and Robert J. Sharer, pp. 29-53. University of Pennsylvania Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Canuto, Marcello A. and William L. Fash 2004 The Blind Spot: Where the Elite and Non-Elite Meet. In Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology: Perspectives at the Millennium, edited by C.W. Golden and G. Borgstede, pp. 47-70. Routledge, New York. Canuto, Marcello A. Robert J. Sharer, and Ellen E. Bell 2004 Understanding Early Classic Copan: A Classic Maya Center and its Investigation. In Understanding Early Classic Copan, edited by Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and Robert J. Sharer, pp. 1-16. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. Canuto, Marcello A., and Anthony P. Andrews 2008 Memories, Meanings, and Historical Awareness: Post-Abandonment Behaviors among the Lowland Maya. In Ruins of the Past: The Use and