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2-4pm on Thursday
Nicholas received his Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from Loyola University Chicago in 2019. He is an archaeology Ph.D. student who specializes in the ancient Maya. His advisor is Dr. Sarah Kurnick. He is a member of the Punta Laguna Archaeological Project, at the site of Punta Laguna, Mexico. Nicholas鈥� research interests include community archaeology, inequality, adaptations to climate change, and religion. He has conducted excavations in Oaxaca, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. His research analyzes how small communities endured the socio-political and climatological transformations of the Terminal Classic period (900-1000CE). His forthcoming MA paper 鈥淩elations of Stone and Water: Postclassic Maya interactions in miniature masonry shrines,鈥� analyzes one way that the ancient Maya may have adapted to these changes by decentralizing religious practices that involved rain beckoning rituals in the form of miniature masonry shrines.听