Why you have (probably) never heard of the Gulf of Fonseca, and what that means for its archaeology

Thinking about the media, colonialization, nation-building discourses and their impact on the reconstruction of the precolonial past in Southern Central America.

Not the Aztecs, not the Inca, not the Maya…then who? Doing archaeology in Southern Central America

The public eye suffers from a bad case of tunnel-vision when it come to archaeology in Central America. But archaeology is complicated. So, what are the things you should know and were never told? One of the first questions I always get when I say I work in Central America is “so, what is that?