Michael Callaghan

Dr. Callaghan is an anthropological archaeologist who specializes in the research of complex societies of Mesoamerica.  Research interests include ceramic analysis, petrography, craft production and exchange systems, ritual economy, the rise of social complexity, socio-political and economic collapse, and gender in archaeology.

In Press Callaghan, Michael, Francisco Estrada-Belli, and Nina Neivens de Estrada.  Technological Style and Terminal Preclassic Orange Ceramics in the Holmul Region, Guatemala.  In Maya Ceramic Exchange and Stylistic Interaction. Edited by Jim Aimers. University of Florida Press: Gainesville.

2008    Callaghan, Michael. Technologies of Power: Ritual Economy and Ceramic Production in the Terminal Preclassic Period Holmul Region, Guatemala. PhD dissertation. Vanderbilt University department of Anthropology.  Available online at http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-11072008-091202/

2008    Callaghan, Michael. “Ceramica del Periodo Preclasico Terminal y ‘Tecnologia de Prestigio’ en la Region de Holmul, Peten”.   In XXI Simposio de Investigaciónes Arqueológicas en Guatemala. Edited by Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, and Héctor E. Mejía, pp. 703-718. Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Guatemala.

2007    Callaghan, Michael. “La Cerámica de la Región de Holmul, Peten: Análisis Preliminar”.  In XX Simposio de Investigaciónes Arqueológicas en Guatemala. Edited by Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, and Héctor E. Mejía, pp. 1346-1362. Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Guatemala.

2004    Callaghan, Michael, Cassandra Bill, Jeannette Castellanos, and Ronald Bishop. “Gris Fino Chablekal: Distribucion y Analysis Socio-Economico Preliminar en Cancuen”. In XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2003.  Edited by Barbara Arroyo and Juan Pedro Laporte, pp. 345-362. Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Guatemala.