Speaker: Andrés Mejía Ramón, ICTA-UAB researcher on the DEMODRIVERS project
Date: Tuesday, 16 December 2026
Time: 7 p.m. Mexico – 3 a.m. Spain
Venue: Canal de Teotihuacan en Casa – Facebook
In this presentation, we will discuss the Neolithic transition: the period when societies began to adopt agriculture and pottery and settled in permanent settlements for the first time. However, methodological advances and new excavations allow us to reconsider this period on the continent. I will share the results of excavations at two Early Formative sites (before 1000 BC) -Altica in the Teotihuacan Valley, and La Chiripa in the Costa Rican highlands- demonstrating how these findings are forcing us to reinterpret the transition, considering rites and cyclical patterns in the lives of ancient Mesoamericans to be of greater importance.
