Keitlyn Alcántara

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University

Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows Latin American history and culture Gut microbiota and health Culinary Culture and Tourism Archaeology and Natural History

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Publishing since 2015

Research summary

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Keitlyn Alcántara studies the archaeology and history of food in central Mexico, focusing on Indigenous farming systems (the 'milpa,' a traditional maize-based agriculture) and how diet reflected social and political life in societies such as Postclassic Tlaxcallan. The work combines archaeological, biological, and cultural methods, including analysis of ancient bones, isotopes (chemical signatures that reveal past diets), and ancient DNA of oral bacteria.

Archaeology of food and diet (foodways)Indigenous Mesoamerican farming and milpa ecologiesBioarchaeology and isotopic diet reconstructionAncient DNA and paleogenomics of human microbesColonialism and resistance in central Mexico

Publication activity has been low and irregular, peaking around 2020 and averaging under one publication per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently

Recent publications

An Archaeology of Milpa Cultures: Maize and Ecological Worldbuilding in Central Mexico
University of Florida Press eBooks · 2025
A milpa isotopic foodweb in Tlaxcallan: More than just maize
Journal of Archaeological Science Reports · 2024
Milpa ecologies: Transgenerational foodways in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Elementa Science of the Anthropocene · 2023
Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods by Michelene E. Pensatubbee and Michael J. Zogry
Native American and Indigenous Studies · 2023
Not Lost but Found
Nature and Culture · 2021
Archaeological perspectives on the Spanish-Aztec War on its quincentennial
OpenBU (Boston University) · 2021
Paleogenomic insights into the red complex bacteria Tannerella forsythia in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial individuals from Mexico
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2020
Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Hispanic American Historical Review · 2020
Paleogenomic insights into the red complex bacteria Tannerella forsythia in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial individuals from Mexico: T. forsythia aDNA in Mexico
2020
Supplementary Tables S1-S9 from Paleogenomic insights into the red complex bacteria Tannerella forsythia in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial individuals from Mexico
Figshare · 2020
Supplementary Tables S1-S9 from Paleogenomic insights into the red complex bacteria Tannerella forsythia in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial individuals from Mexico
Figshare · 2020
Ingredients for Resistance: Foodways in Prehispanic and Colonial Tlaxcallan
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology · 2019
Conquering Aztecs and Resisting Tlaxcaltecas: The Body as a Site of Creating and Challenging State Narratives
The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology · 2018
"Eating locally" in Tlaxcallan: The Impacts of Political Economy on Postclassic Diets
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology · 2017
Burial Distribution as a Reflection of Social Organization in Late Postclassic Tlaxcallan
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology · 2016

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The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology×2
Figshare×2
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences×1
Elementa Science of the Anthropocene×1
University of Florida Press eBooks×1

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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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