Beth Koontz Scaffidi

Excavations at Uraca were generously funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Explorer's Club Field Research Grant, the Tinker Foundation Fieldwork Grant, and the Vand...

Here's a piece in Spanish from Nat Geo about the trophy heads excavated from Uraca!http://www.nationalgeographic.com.es/articulo/historia/actualidad/10847/descubren_doce_cabezas_tro...

As we were looking back at some of the textile from the site, in light of the feline trophy head and the human trophy heads we found, I started thinking about the beautiful belts or head wrappings ...

When I tell people I used to be an Assistant District Attorney and am now a struggling grad student, they look at me like I'm crazy! I left a challenging but rewarding position as a lawyer in the c...

Strontium is incorporated into animal tissues from the food and water we consume. The bedrock of geologically-different regions has distinct levels of strontium, so different geolog...

Organized looting activity made it very difficult to understand how the individuals and artifacts we excavated were related to each other. With support of the Curb Center for Arts Policy of Vanderb...

We also found this little guy during excavations at Uraca, in a cache of 3 of the trophy heads from Sector II. The posterior portions of the skull are missing and broken off just like the human hea...

View from Uraca Sector IIC to the east looking at the modern town of Corire. An ancient path passed through the valley here, connecting Uraca and the petroglyphs at Toro Muerto to t...