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COMPARATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY

University of Pittsburgh

Opening Doors to the Study of Long-Term Social Change

The Center for Comparative Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to fostering the comparative study of ancient social change world-wide, strengthening connections among an international community of scholars, and supporting the long-term preservation of open-access archaeological data

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Lower Dover Late Classic Pottery Production Dataset

Mineralogical analyses of sherd samples from 9 households in the Lower Dover Maya polity, Belize.

by Yijia Qiu

Comparative Archaeology Database

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Elizabeth Arkush elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Earlier this year, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced that 250 outstanding individuals had been elected to join the academy in 2024. The Center for Comparative Archaeology is honored to announce that one of them is CCA's Director: Elizabeth Arkush.

She will be inducted the weekend of September 20-22 along with all other new members, which include four Pitt colleagues, and a range of artists, scholars, scientists and leaders in the public, nonprofit and private sectors.

June 25, 2024

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Seven Pitt undergrads attended archaeology field schools in summer 2024

Field schools are the first hands-on archaeology field experience for most undergrad students, and a required first step for more serious involvement.

Thanks to grants from the CCA and the Department of Anthropology, students carried out fieldwork in Belize, Germany, Mongolia, Ohio (USA), Romania, and Spain.

September 13, 2024

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