Maria Codlin

Graduated Spring 2021

Website

http://sites.bu.edu/ealab/profile/maria-codlin/

Research Interests

Mexico; Polynesia; urban economies; social complexity; subsistence; zooarchaeology; ZooMS; stable isotopes; GIS

About

Maria Codlin studies human-animal and human-landscape interactions and how they relate to social and economic structures. Her dissertation research “Feeding a city: Urban hunting and animal husbandry at Teotihuacan” is funded through an NSF DDIG award and examines the role of animals in the early urban economy at Teotihuacan, Mexico, one of America’s earliest metropolitan centers. She uses stable isotope analysis and ZooMS to reconstruct animal acquisition patterns over the city’s history, including the importance of animals procured from anthropogenic and natural environments. 

Awards

• National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (NSF DDIG) (2018??)
• Short-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (2018? 2019?)

Publications

• McCoy, Mark D. and Maria C. Codlin. 2016. The Influence of Religious Authority in Everyday Life: A Landscape Scale Study of Domestic Architecture and Religious Law in Ancient Hawai’i. World Archaeology 48: 411-430.
• McCoy, Mark D. and Maria C. Codlin. 2015. Decoding the Rock Art of Old Hawai‘i: A brief report on petroglyphs in Manukā, Ka‘ū District, Hawai‘i Island. Hawaiian Archaeology 14: 31-43.
• McCoy, Mark D., Thegn N. Ladefoged, Maria C. Codlin, and Douglas G. Sutton. 2014. Does Carneiro’s circumscription theory help us understand Maori history? An analysis of the obsidian assemblage from Pouerua Pa, New Zealand (Aotearoa). Journal of Archaeological Science, 42(1), 467–475.