David M. Carballo

David Carballo is Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies at Boston University. He received his BA in Political Science from Colgate University (1995) and his MA (2001) and PhD (2005) in Anthropology from UCLA. Carballo specializes in the archaeology of Latin America, with a geographic specialty in central Mexico and topical interests in households, urbanism, religion, stone tools, and working with contemporary communities in understanding ancient ones. Current investigations focus on Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga district, a cluster of non-elite neighborhoods on the periphery of what was then the largest city in the Americas.