Heidelberg talks about Lessons on Sustainability and Conflict of the Maya

The topic will be:

From Sustainable Water Management to Violent Warfare –pre-Hispanic Maya sites in Mexico and their Messages to Modernity

The speaker will be Dr. Nicolaus Seefeld, Project Director at the Department for the Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he also obtained his MA and PhD degrees in Archaeology and Anthropology. Since 2018, he has directed the research project at the Uxul Mass Grave in Campeche/Mexico in collaboration with the Centro INAH Campeche and funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Nicolaus has carried out archaeological field and lab work in Maya sites in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize for over 20 years. His focus lies on the sociopolitical relevance of water management, the reciprocal power relations between different social strata and the function and context of ritual violence in Classic Maya society. Due to the global public interest in the Uxul mass grave, he has been widely present on radio/TV stations and in the press. He also works as a screenwriter, scientific consultant and host on archaeological topics in the Maya region. In January, he starred in the third Checker Tobi feature film, “The Secret Ruler of the Planet”, partially filmed at the Maya site of Calakmul/Mexico (N.B.: Checker Tobi is a popular German edutainment format for children).

Please register by e-mail at fk-rhein-neckar@daad-alumni.de and find out about previous HTO events on this website.