Featured

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 in September 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.

Over the 2023-24 academic year, the CCA “Gateways” program sponsored five undergrads to digitize residental architecture at pre-Columbian Andean hillfort setlements, and digitize drawings of ancient African stone tools.

Another successful year attending and showcasing the Center's publications and databases, as well as publications from partner Latin American presses!

The research fair, which took place on April 12th, was a successful event featuring recent undergrad and grad research!

Sponsored by Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society with assistance from the Center for Comparative Archaeology

The Center for Comparative Archaeology welcomes Dela Kuma, Jen Muller, and Steven Goldstein to Pitt!

The CCA celebrated the start of a new academic year with a welcome gathering for faculty, staff, and friends of the Center.

Thanks to grants fromt eh CCA and teh Department of Anthropologu, students carried out fieldwork in Greece, Belize, Poland, and Ireland.

Over the 2022-23 academic year, the CCA “Gateways” program sponsored a team of undergrads to analyze obsidian from Dr. Claire Ebert's excavations in Belize, with supervision from graduate student Nick Suarez.

Students and Faculty present their research in the 1^st Annual Pitt Archaeology Research Fair, hosted by the Center for Comparative Archaeology.

The CCA offers a range of opportunities to get hands on experience in comparative archaeological research as an intern or paid student worker.

"You Rock Science" event at the Carnegie Science Center

Dr. Claire Ebert and Ph.D. students from Pitt's Department of Anthropolgy showcase archaeological research at the Carnegie Science Center.

Dr. Jen Muller has joined the Anthropology faculty as the new Director of Undergraduate Studies. A bioarchaeologist who works with remains from historic poorhouse and African diaspora populations, she engages closely with contemporary descendant communities.

The CCA welcomes incoming archaeology faculty Steve Goldstein and Dela Kuma

Two new archaeologists of Africa, Steve Goldstein and Dela Kuma, will join the permanent Anthropology faculty in January 2023. We eagerly look forward to supporting their initiatives in research and education with the resources and programs of the CCA. It is an exciting time for archaeology at Pitt!

In May 2022, Elizabeth Arkush replaced long-term Director Dr. Robert Drennan to lead the Center for Comparative Archaeology.

The CCA honors the momentous legacy of Dr. Robert Drennan, who retired at the end of the 2022 spring term after 13 years leading the CCA and before that the Latin American Archaeology Program.

Artifact inventories and location of excavation units and test pits from research carried out in the area around the site of Barranca, Costa Rica.

by Mauricio Murillo Herrera and Felipe Sol Castillo

Artifact inventories and photos, field reports, descriptions of excavation profiles, burials, and the nature of surface collections, as well as the location of milpas, structures and excavations from research associated with the Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project (PEMY), field seasons 2001-2009, and the Mayapan Extra-Muralla Survey Project (MEMS).

by Marilyn A. Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Timothy S. Hare, and Bradley W. Russell

Artifact inventories and results of heavy fraction analyses from research carried out at the colonial period silver refinery, Trapiche Itapalluni, in the Puno Bay of Peru.

by Sarah A. Kennedy

edited by Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, Carlos Peraza Lope, and Bradley W. Russell

Regional settlement study of the Yuxi River Valley of Anhui, China

by Wenjing Wang and Weihong Wu