Saburo Sugiyama

Saburo Sugiyama

Research Professor,
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
  • sugiyama@asu.edu
  • Phone: 520-661-2393
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  • Matthew's Center 211A ASU TEMPE, AZ 85287-2402
  • Mail code: 2402
    Campus: Tempe
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Saburo Sugiyama is research professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, professor emeritus of Aichi Prefectural University, and also a research affiliate of Okayama University, Japan. His major research focuses on the Mesoamerican social histories, particularly of Teotihuacan, ancient urbanism, iconography, and symbolism; theory and method, particularly cognitive archaeology. He has been the co-director of the Moon Pyramid Project, an Invited Professor for the Mexican National Institute projects at the Sun Pyramid in Teotihuacan; He is also a research member of the Templo Mayor Project in Mexico. He is recently coordinating an ambitious program "Cosmic Mesoamerican Cities in 3D" carrying out detailed and precise LiDAR mapping of ancient cities and monuments, connecting them to the data of sacrificial burials, art objects, etc. to explore human´s evolving cognitive capacities and their social dimensions, particularly social hierarchy and rulership.

Education
  • Ph.D. Anthropology, Arizona State University
  • B.S. Political Economy, Tokyo-Keizai University, Japan
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Curriculum Vitae
Research Website URL
http://ppcteotihuacan.org/en/home/
ORCID Profile ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4486-6514
Research Interests

Mesoamerican archaeology, especially Teotihuacan: Ancient complex societies and urbanism: Cognitive archaeology: Iconography and symbolism: Mortuary analysis.

Publications
  • De Anda Rogel, Michelle, Saburo Sugiyama and Leonardo López Luján. Hands (and Hearts) on the Job: New Visions from the Master Plan of Tenochtitlan. Mexico-Tenochtitlan: Dynamism at the Center of the World. Dumbarton Oaks (2025).
  • Freidel, David A., Saburo Sugiyama, and Nawa Sugiyama. The ideas and Images of Cities and Centers: Teotihuacan and the Lowland Maya. In The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order. University Press of Florida (2024).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, and Luis Rogelio Rivero Chong. Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacan: Informe parcial de la séptima temporada (2023) y Propuesta de la octava temporada (2024). INAH (2024).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa and Saburo Sugiyama. The Significance of the Spider Monkey Discovered at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Out of Eurasia News Letter (2023) (in Japanese)
  • De Anda Rogel, Michelle, Leonardo López Luján, and Saburo Sugiyama. El resurgimiento del Templo Mayor: Los proyectos arqueológicos en la pirámide principal de Tenochtitlan, Arqueología Mexicana (2023) .
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Takeshi Inomata, Leonardo López L., and others. Ancient Mexico: Maya, Aztec, and Teotihuacan. NHK, NHK Promotions, and the Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo. (2023) (in Japanese) 
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Mysteries of a Mexican Ancient City: Excavating at Teotihuacan. Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. (2023) (in Japanese) 
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Nelly Robles Garcia, and Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava. Proyecto Ciudades Cósmicas Mesoamericanas en 3D: Informe de la Segunda Fase de Estudios Comparativos en 2022: Cholula, Teotihuacan y Oaxaca. INAH (2023).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, and Luis Rogelio Rivero Chong. Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacan: Informe Parcial de la Sexta Temporada (2022). INAH (2023).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la novena temporada (fase 2022-2023) del Proyecto Templo Mayor. INAH (2023).
  • López Luján, Leonardo, Saburo Sugiyama, Michelle De Anda. Archeologia della sostituzione urbana in un mondo globalizzato: le capitali dell’Impero Mexica, della Nuova Spagna e della Repubblica Messicana. Integración del patrimonio edificado en ciudades con continuidad de vida en America y Europa Integrazione dell’edificato storico in città a continuità di vita in America ed Europa. Edizioni Quasar, Roma (2023).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Chapter 8: the Nature of Early Urbanism at Teotihuacan. In Early Mesoamerican Cities: New Perspectives on Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period. Cambridge University Press (2022).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Nelly Robles Garcia, and Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava. Proyecto Ciudades Cósmicas Mesoamericanas en 3D: Informe de la Primera Fase de Estudios Comparativos en 2021: Atzompa, Monte Albán y Teotihuacan. INAH (2022).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Resilient Ancient Civilizations in Mesoamerica: Strategies created for survivals in the New World. In Resilient Human Histories. Kyoto University Press. (in Japanese) (2022).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, S. Sugiyama, C. Cagnato, C. A. M. France, A. Iriki, K. S. Hughes, R. R. Singleton, E. Thornton, and C. A. Hofman. Earliest evidence of primate captivity and translocation supports gift diplomacy between Teotihuacan and the Maya. PNAS 2022   Vol. 119 No. 47 e2212431119. (2022).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la novena temporada (fase 2021-2022) del Proyecto Templo Mayor. INAH (2022).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, T. Catignani, ASZ. Chase, JC. Fernandez-Diaz. Humans as geomorphic agents: Lidar detection of the past, present and future of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0257550. (2021).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Nawa Sugiyama. Monumental Cityscape and Polity at Teotihuacan. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice. Wiley Blackwell (2021).
  • Matsumoto, Naoko, Saburo Sugiyama, and Claudia Garcia-Des L. Landscape, monuments, arts, and rituals out of Eurasia in bio-cultural perspectives. Proceedings of an international conference in Mexico, February 27-28, 2020.  Okayama University (2021).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Introduction to the “Out of Eurasia” Project: Theoretical Perspectives of Mesoamerican Landscape, Monument, and (Sacrificial) Ritual Studies. In Landscape, monuments, arts, and rituals out of Eurasia in bio-cultural perspectives. Okayama University (2021).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and García-Des Lauriers, Introduction - Mesoamerican Landscape, Monuments, and Rituals in Bio-Cultural Perspectives, In Landscape, monuments, arts, and rituals out of Eurasia in bio-cultural perspectives. Okayama University (2021).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama. Symbiotic People and Animals in Mesoamerica: A Paradigm Shift of “Domestication,” In Science Journal KAGAKU (Science)  (2021).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la novena temporada (fase 2020-2021) del Proyecto Templo Mayor, INAH (2021).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Nawa Sugiyama. Interactions between Ancient Teotihuacan and the Maya World. The Maya World, Routledge, (2020).
  • Nawa Sugiyama, William L. Fash, Barbara Fash and Saburo Sugiyama. The Maya at Teotihuacan? New insights into Teotihuacan-Maya interactions from Plaza of the Columns Complex. Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City.  (2020).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Monuments in the Ancient Mesoamerica: Worldview and Rulership Materialized, in Why Japanese Tumulus were so big? Comparative Archaeological Study of Ancient Monuments. Yoshikawa-Kobunkan Press (2020).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, Verónica Ortega, and William L. Fash. Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacan: Informe parcial de la Quinta Temporada (2019). INAH (2020).
  • Manrique-Ortega, M.D., A. Mitrani, E. Casanova-González, G. Pérez-Ireta, M.A. García-Bucio, I. Rangel-Chávez, V. Aguilar-Melo, O.G. de Lucio, J.L. Ruvalcaba-Sil, N. Sugiyama, & S. Sugiyama. Material study of green stone artifacts from a Teotihuacan complex: In Materials and Manufacturing Processes, VOL. 35, NO. 13 (2020).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la novena temporada (fase 2019-2020) del Proyecto Templo Mayor, INAH  (2020).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Formation History of Ancient Civilization in the Mexican Highlands. The World of Tropical Highlands, Nakanishiya Press, Kyoto. (in Japanese) (2019).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, Verónica Ortega, David Carballo, and William L. Fash.Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacan: Informe parcial de la Cuarta Temporada 2018.  INAH (2019).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la novena temporada (fase 2018-2019), INAH (2019).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, Veronica Ortega, David Carballo, and William L. Fash. Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacan: Informe Parcial de la Tercera Temporada (2017), INAH (2018).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Rise, Fall, and Resilience of Ancient Civilizations. Perspectives of Resilience: Challenges from Historical Anthropologies  (2018).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama and Alejandro Sarabia G. Revisiting the Sun Pyramid Ceramic and Radiocarbon Dates from Teotihuacan: Comment on Sload. Latin American Antiquity 29  (2018).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la octava temporada (fase 2017-2018). INAH  (2018).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Teotihuacan: Planned City with Cosmic Pyramids.  Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young  (2017).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacan: Monumentality and Sacrificial Burials. Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young  (2017).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera. Moon Pyramid and the Ancient State of Teotihuacan. Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young  (2017).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Leonardo López Luján. The Ritual Deposits in the Moon Pyramid at Teotihuacan. Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco de Young  (2017).
  • Fuzuki Mizuno, Masahiko Kumagai, Kunihiko Kurosaki, Michiko Hayashi, Saburo Sugiyama, Shintaroh Ueda and Li Wang. Imputation approach for deducing a complete mitogenome sequence from low-depth-coverage next-generation sequencing data: application to ancient remains from the Moon Pyramid, Mexico. Journal of Human Genetics  (2017).
  • Ortega,Verónica, Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, and David Carballo. Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacán: Informe de la Segunda Temporada (2016), Archive of INAH (2017).
  • Fuzuki Mizuno, Li Wang, Saburo Sugiyama, Kunihiko Kurosaki, Julio Granados, Celta Gomez-Trejo, Víctor Acuña-Alonzo & Shintaroh Ueda.  Characterization of complete mitochondrial genomes of indigenous Mayans in Mexico, Annals of Human Biology (2016).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la octava temporada (fase 2016-2017), INAH (2016).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, William Fash, Verónica Ortega, William Fash, Artistas mayas en Teotihuacan? INAH (2016).
  • Ortega, Verónica, Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, William Fash, Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas, Teotihuacán: Informe de la Primera Temporada 2015, INAH (2016).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al., Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la octava temporada (fase 2015-2016) / Propuesta para la realización de la octava temporada (fase 2016-2017), INAH (2016).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Worldview and Social Histories Materialized at Monuments in Teotihuacan, Mexico. In Bulletin of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum, Volume I (2015).
  •  Sugiyama, Saburo, Largest Ancient City of Teotihuacan in the New World. In Foundation for Civilization: Considering Sustainable Urban Societies from Ancient Civilizations, University of Tokyo Press (2015).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Una interpretación especulativa de cosmología plasmada en Teotihuacan. In Va Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan: Investigaciones Recientes, Centro y Periferia. INAH (2015).
  • López Luján, Leonado, Saburo Sugiyama, et al. Proyecto Templo Mayor: Informe de la octava temporada (fase 2014-2015) / Propuesta para la realización de la octava temporada (fase 2015-2016), INAH, (2015). 
  • López Luján, Leonardo and Saburo Sugiyama. Los expedicionarios de Malaspina llegan a Teotihuacan (1791). Arqueología Mexicana (2015).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Nawa Sugiyama, and Alejandro Sarabia. El interior de la Pirámide del Sol en Teotihuacan. Arqueología Mexicana (2014).
  • Sugiyama, Nawa, Saburo Sugiyama, and Alejandro Sarabia. Inside the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico: 2008-2011 Excavations and Preliminary Results. Latin American Antiquity (2013).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Shigeru Kabata, Tomoko Taniguchi, and Etsuko Niwa. Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Social Identity: 2,000 Years of Monumentality in Teotihuacan and Cholula, Mexico. (2013).
  • Inamura, Tetsuya and Saburo Sugiyama. Special Section "Messages from Past Societies on Biological Diversity: Exploration of Nature, Worldview, and Human Evolution". (2013).
  • López L., Leonardo, Saburo Sugiyama, and Amaranta Argúeles. Más reliquias teotihuacanas en ofrendas de Tenochtitlan. Arqueología Mexicana (2012).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Why Can’t We Live with Romance? Life of an Archaeologist Fascinated with Mexican Ancient Civilization. (2012).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Etsuko Niwa. Sacred Animals and Ancient Rulership. (2012).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Ideology, Polity, and Social History of the Teotihuacan State. The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology (Oxford Handbooks) (2012).
  •  Sugiyama, Saburo. Introduction: Sacred Animals and Ancient Rulership in Mesoamerica. Sacred Animals and Ancient Rulership, Journal of Cultural Symbiosis Research / Aichi Prefectural University: Cultural Symbiosis Research Institute (2012).
  • Sarabia, Alejandro and Saburo Sugiyama. Noticia: Se localizan una máscara y diversas ofrendas en la Pirámide del Sol. Arqueología Mexicana (2011).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Alejandro Sarabia. Teotihuacan: la ciudad con una cosmovisión mesoamericana. Arqueología Mexicana (2011).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Shigeru Kabata, and Shinya Watanabe. Introduction to Mesoamerican and Andean Civilizations. (2011).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Interactions between the Living and the Dead at Major Monuments in Teotihuacan. Living with the Dead: Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica (2011).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Sacrificios humanos dedicados a los monumentos principals de Teotihuacan. El sacrificio humano en la tradición religiosa mesoamericana (2010).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Teotihuacan City Layout as a Cosmogram: Preliminary Results of the 2007 Measurement Unit Study. The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies (2010).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo.  Field Note 2: Excavations at the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan. Journal of Cultural Symbiosis Research (2009).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. La Cosmologie, Le militarisme: Et Le Régime Politique À Tteotihuaca. Dossiers d’Archéologie (2009).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Tomoko Kashima, and Shigeru Kabata. Ancient Civilization and World Cultural Heritage in Mexico: Exploring Roots of Mexican Culture and Traditional Arts. (2009).
  • Cabrera Castro, Rubén, and Saburo Sugiyama. Fouilles de la Citadelle et du temple de Serpent á plumes. Teotihuacan Cité des Dieux (2009).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo.  Civilización antigua "viva" y patrimonio de la humanidad en México. Ancient Civilization and World Cultural Heritage in Mexico: Exploring Roots of Mexican Culture and Traditional Arts, Journal of Cultural Symbiosis Research/Aichi Prefectural University, Cultural symbiosis Research Institute (2009).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo.  Field Note 1: Excavations at the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan. Journal of Cultural symbiosis Research (2008).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Inter-Regional Studies: Image and Symbol. Encyclopedia of Archaeology (2007).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Leonardo López Luján. Dedicatory Burial/Offering Complexes at the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan: A Preliminary Report of 1998–2004 Explorations. Ancient Mesoamerica (2007).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Ruben Cabrera. The Moon Pyramid Project and the Teotihuacan State Polity: A Brief Summary of the 1998-2004 Excavations. Ancient Mesoamerica (2007).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Symbols of Religion and Power: The Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacán. Discovery!: Unearthing the New Treasures of Archaeology (2007).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Leonardo López Luján. Sacrificios de Consagración en la Pirámide de la Luna, Teotihuacan. (2006).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Leonardo López Luján. Sacrificios de Consagración en la Pirámide de la Luna, Teotihuacan. Sacrificios de Consagración en la Pirámide de la Luna (2006).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Leonardo López Luján. Simbolismo y funciones de los entierros dedicatorios de la Pirámide de la Luna en Teotihuacan. Arqueología e historia del Centro de México. Homenaje a Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (2006).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. El Proyecto Pirámide de la Luna 1998-2004: Conclusiones Preliminares. Sacrificios de Consagración en la Pirámide de la Luna (2006).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, and Rubén Cabrera Castro. Hallazgos recientes en la Pirámide de la Luna. Arqueología Mexicana (2005).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. Noticias: Se localiza otra insólita ofrenda en la Pirámide de la Luna, Teotihuacan. Arqueología Mexicana (2005).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership: Materialization of State Ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan. (2005).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Voyage to the Center of the Moon Pyramid: Recent Discoveries in Teotihuacan. (2004).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. The Moon Pyramid and the Planned City. Voyage to the Center of the Moon Pyramid: Recent Discoveries in Teotihuacan (2004).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. The Moon Plaza and Its Surroundings. Voyage to the Center of the Moon Pyramid: Recent Discoveries in Teotihuacan (2004).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. Voyage to the Center of the Moon Pyramid: Recent Discoveries in Teotihuacan. Voyage to the Center of the Moon Pyramid: Recent Discoveries in Teotihuacan (2004).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Rubén Cabrera Castro, and Leonardo López Luján. The Moon Pyramid Burials. Voyage to the Center of the Moon Pyramid: Recent Discoveries in Teotihuacan (2004).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Sacred Numbers in Mesoamerica. Archaeology Journal (2003).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo.  Chapter 7: Governance and Polity at Classic Teotihuacan. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice (2003).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Militarismo plasmado en Teotihuacan. Primera Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan: Ideología y Política a través de Materiales, Imágenes y Símbolos//Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia y Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2002).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo, Leonardo López Luján and Hector Neff. MilitarEl Vaso 9-Xi: Un Recipiente Teotihuacano Encontrado en las Ruinas de Tenochtitlan. Primera Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan: Ideología y Política a través de Materiales, Imágenes y Símbolos/Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia y Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2002).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Rulership and Warfare at Teotihuacan. Ancient Culture (2001).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Ideology and the State materialized at the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan: A Preliminary Report of the Excavations in 1998-1999. Ancient America (2000).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. Proyecto Pirámide de la Luna: algunos resultados de la segunda temporada 1999. Arqueología (2000).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Teotihuacan as an Origin for Postclassic Feathered Serpent Symbolism. Mesoamerica’s Classic Heritage: from Teotihuacan to the Aztecs (2000).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. L. López and H. Neff. The 9-Xi Vase: A Classic Thin Orange Vessel Found at Tenochtitlan. Mesoamerica’s Classic Heritage: from Teotihuacan to the Aztecs (2000).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. The Excavation of the Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Quarterly of Archaeological Studies (1999).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. Noticias: Se descubren dos ofrendas de notable importancia en la Pirámide de la Luna en Teotihuacan. Arqueología Mexicana (1999).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo and Rubén Cabrera Castro. Proyecto Arqueológico de la Pirámide de la Luna. Arqueología (1999).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Cronología de sucesos ocurridos en el Templo de Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacán. Los Ritmos de Cambio en Teotihuacán: Reflexiones y Discusiones de su Cronología (1998).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Termination Programs and Prehispanic Looting at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico. The Sowing and the Dawning: Termination, Dedication, and Transformation in the Archaeological and Ethnographic Record of Mesoamerica (1998).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Worldview Materialized in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity (1993).
  • López Austin, Alfredo, Leonardo López Luján, and Saburo Sugiyama. El Templo de Quetzalcóatl en Teotihuacán: Su posible significado ideológico. Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (1992).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Rulership, Warfare, and Human Sacrifice at the Ciudadela, Teotihuacan: An Iconographic Study of Feathered Serpent Representations. Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan (1992).
  •  López Austin, Alfredo, Leonardo López Luján, and Saburo Sugiyama. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacan: Its Possible Ideological Significance. Ancient Mesoamerica (1991).
  • Cabrera Castro, Rubén, Saburo Sugiyama, and George Cowgill. The Temple of Quetzalcoatl Project at Teotihuacan: A Preliminary Report. Ancient Mesoamerica (1991).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. El entierro central de la Pirámide de la Serpiente Emplumada: Implicaciones generales. Arqueología (1991).
  • Cabrera Castro, Rubén, Saburo Sugiyama, and George Cowgill. El Proyecto Templo de Quetzalcóatl y la práctica a gran escala del sacrificio humano. La época clásica: Nuevos hallazgos, nuevas ideas (1990).
  • Sugiyama, Saburo. Burials Dedicated to the Old Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan, Mexico. American Antiquity (1989).
Research Activity
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Exploring the Origin of Ancient City of Teotihuacan and the State Transformation Process.” US$40,833 (Indirect:US$9,423). Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)   21H04378. 2024-2025.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Exploring the Origin of Ancient City of Teotihuacan and the State Transformation Process.” US$ 57,931 (Indirect:US$17,379). JSPS 21H04378. 2023-2024.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. Creation of Artificial Landscape and Development of Spatiotemporal Cognition, sub-program for Transdisciplinary Research: Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia.” US$34,482 (Indirect: US$10,345). JSPS 19H05732. 2023-2024.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Exploring the Origin of Ancient City of Teotihuacan and the State Transformation Process.” US$ 61,428 (Indirect:US$18,428). JSPS 21H04378. 2022-2023.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. Creation of Artificial Landscape and Development of Spatiotemporal Cognition, sub-program for Transdisciplinary Research: Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia.” US$52,142 (Indirect: US$15,642). JSPS 19H05732. 2022-2023.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Organizational Committee program for Transdisciplinary Research: Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia." US$2,500. JSPS 19H05731. 2022-2023. 
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. Exploring the Origin of Ancient City of Teotihuacan and the State Transformation Process.” US$ 88,793 (Indirect:US$26,638). JSPS 21H04378.2021-2022.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Organizational Committee program for Transdisciplinary Research: Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia." US$2,500. JSPS 19H05731. 2021-2022.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Creation of Artificial Landscape and Development of Spatiotemporal Cognition,” sub-program for Transdisciplinary Research: Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia.” US$51,724 (Indirect: US$15,517). JSPS 19H05732.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. “Archaeological Research of the Plaza of Columns Complex in Teotihuacan.” US$286,992. JSPS 17H01650. 2017-2021
  • Sugiyama,Saburo. Creation of Artificial Landscape and Development of Spatiotemporal Cognition,” sub-program for Transdisciplinary Research: Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia.” Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. 2019-2020.
  • Sugiyama,Saburo*. Collaborative Research: Origins of Urbanization and State Formation. NSF-SBE(8/1/2015 - 7/31/2018).
  • Sugiyama,Saburo*. THE TEOTIHUACAN STATE AND THE MOON PYRAMID: EXCAVATIONS IN 1999 AND MATERIAL ANALYSES. NSF-SBE(7/1/1999 - 6/30/2001).
  • Sugiyama,Saburo*. THE MOON PYRAMID AND THE EARTHLY TEOTIHUACAN STATE POLICY. NATL GEOGRAPHIC SOC(1/11/1999 - 9/30/1999).
  • Sugiyama,Saburo*. THE MOON PYRAMID & THE TEOTIHUACAN STATE POLITY. NSF-SBE(5/26/1998 - 12/31/2000).
Presentations
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Mysteries of Ancient City in Mexico; Excavating Teotihuacan. Commemorative Conference of Kihachiro Okura by the Promotion of Academy and Art at Tokyo Keizai University, Tokyo (July, 2024). (in Japanese)
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Human Cognitive Systems, Exploring Sky, Cosmic Cities, and Arts in Mesoamerica. GRI Resident Fellow Conference. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. (April, 2024).
  • Naoko Matsumoto, Atsushi Iriki, and Saburo Sugiyama. Theory, Strategies, Objectives, and Preliminary Results of Transdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Consciousness on Time and Space out of Eurasia, at the symposium “Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping,” organized by Saburo Sugiyama in the 89th SAA Annual Meetings (April, 2024).  
  • Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, Kuninori Iwashiro, and Yuta Chiba. New Perspectives of Monte Albán-Atzompa Complex through New Lidar Mapping Survey, the 89th SAA Annual Meetings (April, 2024). 
  • Nelly Robles G., Saburo Sugiyama, Yuma Takada, Damián Martínez T., Miguel A. Galván B. New Perspectives of Monte Albán-Atzompa Complex through New Lidar Mapping Survey, the 89th SAA Annual Meetings (April, 2024).  
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Cognition of Time and Space in Mesoamerica and the Mechanism of the Emergence of Cityscape, The 10th Annual Meetings of Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia,” Okayama (March, 2024).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Creativities of the Ancient Mexican Civilization: Exploration of Monuments and Arts. Conference celebrating special exhibition “Ancient Mexico: Maya, Aztec, and Teotihuacan, ”The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, (February, 2024). (in Japanese)
  • Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama. Arqueología de Cielo, Tierra e Inframundo en Teotihuacan: Excavando Entrañas de las pirámides con el Profe. Rubén Cabrera Castro. Majestic conference in honor to Rubén Cabrera C. en XXVIII Simposio ROMÁN PIÑA CHAN. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City (October, 2023).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Exploraciones del Proyecto Pirámide de la Luna, Teotihuacan. Conferencia Homenaje al Maestro Rubén Cabrera Castro, Auditorio de Manuel Gamio, Teotihuacan, (August, 2023). 
  • Saburo Sugiyama. “The Dynamism of Rulership Materialized at Teotihuacan and beyond.” The 9th Annual Meetings of Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia," International symposium “The Creation of Royalty out of Eurasia: Exploring the Mechanism of the Emergence of Transcendent Power,” Tokyo (June 2023).
  • Saburo Sugiyama, Nelly Robles, Miguel Garvan, Yuma Takada, Ariel Texis, and Damían Martínez. Constructing LiDAR Maps of Monte Albán-Atzompa. The 8th Annual Meetings of Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia."  (Jan. 2023). 
  • Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, Kuninori Iwashiro. A New Approach for the Cognition of Time, Space, and Rulership in the Cosmic City of Teotihuacan. 87th SAA Annual Meetings  (April, 2022).
  • Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama. 2000-year History of Teotihuacan as a Palimpsest-Landscape. 4th Annual Meetings of Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia." (online conference) (January, 2021).
  • Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama. Interactions between Teotihuacan and the Maya: Results of the excavations at the Plaza of the Columns. 25th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Studies of Ancient America, Japan (online conference), (December, 2020).  
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Introducción Arqueología Cognitiva: Monumentos, Arte y Urbanismo en Mesoamerica. Foro de “Arqueología Cognitiva: Monumentos, Arte, y Cuerpo Humano, afuera de Eurasia. Monumentos y Tumbas como Lugar de Memoria Social,” Templo Mayor (February 2020).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Monuments, Elite Burials, Arts, and Rituals as Social Memories in Comparative Contexts. “Out of Eurasia, International Academic Meetings in Mexico,” Teotihuacan (February 2020).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Monuments, Elite Tombs, and Stratified Social Formation Process in Mesoamerica: Research Perspectives and Objectives. The 2nd Annual Meetings of Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia." (January 2020).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. New Data and New Perspectives of the Feathered Serpent Symbolism and Polity at Teotihuacan. 84th SAA Annual Meetings  (April 2019).
  • Nawa Sugiyama, Saburo Sugiyama, Tanya Catignani, and Ariel Texis. Urban Palimpsest Lancscapes: Interpreting the Teotihuacan LiDAR Map. 84th SAA Annual Meeting  (April 2019).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Conference: Urbanism, Arts, and Polity of Ancient Teotihuacan. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., (November, 2019).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Conferencia: Ultimas Perspectivas de la Antigua Ciudad de Teotihuacan y el Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas.), Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca (August 2019).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Ultimas Perspectivas de la Antigua Ciudad de Teotihuacan y el Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas. Teotihuacan, (July, 2019).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Conferencia Magistral: Descubrimientos Recientes en Teotihuacan: Excavaciones en la Plaza de las Columnas (Parte 1). Conferencias “La arqueología hoy,”  Colegio Nacional, México City (June, 2019).
  • Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Adrian Chase, Tanya Catignani, and Taylor Gibson. Methods of LiDAR Mapping in Urban Landscapes: Introducing the Teotihuacan LiDAR Map. 83rd SAA Annual Meetings (Oct. 2018).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Pyramids in Mesoamerica: Worldview Materialized and the Formation of Stratified Social Complexes. International symposium of the National Museum of Japanese History, “Why is Japanese Kofun so huge? Comparative Archaeological Study of Ancient Monuments.” Tokyo (April 2018). 
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Cosmic Monuments, Arts, and Polity at Teotihuacan. Lecture to celebrate temporal exhibition, Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire, at Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (Jan. 2018). 
  • Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Verónica Ortega, William Fash and David M. Carballo. Proyecto Complejo Plaza de las Columnas: investigación de un conjunto cívico-administrativo teotihuacano. 6ª mesa redonda Teotihuacan INAH (Oct. 2017).
  • Alejandro Sarabia G., Nawa Sugiyama, and Saburo Sugiyama. Fundación y transformación de la Pirámide del Sol, vista desde el interior de los túneles recién explorados. 6ª mesa redonda Teotihuacan. INAH (Oct. 2017).
  • Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Verónica Ortega, William Fash. Project Plaza of the Columns Complex, Teotihuacan: Scope, Goals and Expectations of a New International Project. 81st SAA Annual Meetings (April 2016).
  • Saburo Sugiyama, Michelle de Anda Rogel, and Leonardo López Luján. Estudio Preliminar de las Unidades de Medida Mexicas Aplicadas en el Recinto Sagrado de Tenochtitlan. First Round Table of Tenochtitlan, INAH  (July 2015). 
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Creación y transformación de monumentos en la antigua ciudad de Teotihuacan. In “Simposio a Ruben  Cabrera Castro: 50 Años de Trayectoria.” INAH, Teotihuacan, Mexico (August 2014). 
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Teotihuacan: Origin, Urban Impacts, and Legacy of an Ancient City. Symposium, Living in the Megacity, at Research Institute of Nature and Humanities in Japan (Jun 2014).
  • Etsuko Niwa and Saburo Sugiyama. Feathered Serpent and Flowering Trees: Interpreting Images of Foods and Reproduction Cycles in Teotihuacan. Session "Feeding Teotihuacan: Integrating approaches to studying food and foodways of the ancient me (Apr 2014).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. The Nature of Early Urbanism in Teotihuacan. Session "The Early Mesoamerican City, Urbanism in the Mesoamerican Formative Period", in 79th Annual (Apr 2014).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Social Identity: 2,000 Years of Monumentality in Teotihuacan and Cholula. Panel Session in 2012 AAA Annual Meetings in SF (Nov 2012).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Paths to Power: Strategies of Highland Mesoamerica’s Late Formative and Early Classic Rulers. Session at the 77th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in Memphis (Apr 2012).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Sacred Animals and Ancient Rulership. The Ancient Civilization Forum at Aichi Prefectural University and Seto Ceramic Museum (Jun 2011).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Messages from Past Societies on Biological Diversity: Exploitation of Nature, Worldview, and Human Evolution. The Ancient Civilization Forum (Oct 2010).
  • Saburo Sugiyama. Exploring Roots of Mexican Culture: Ancient Civilizations, Traditional Arts, and World Cultural Heritage. International Forum at Aichi Prefectural University and at the Mexican Embassy, Japan (Jul 2009).
Honors / Awards
  • 2024        Miembro corresponsal de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia, correspondiente de la Real de Madrid.  https://www.academiamh.com.mx/miembros/saburo-sugiyama/
  • 2023        “The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette” from the Japanese Emperor, the Imperial Household Agency. 
  • 2016       "H.B. Nicholson Award for Excellence in Mesoamerican Studies," from Moses Mesoamerican Archive and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
  • 2013        Research Award for "Human Sacrifices under the Temples of Quetzalcoatl, the Moon Pyramid and the Sun Pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico", in Shanghai Archaeology Forum, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. 
  • 2012        “Commendation from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan” for the academic achievement in Mexican Archaeology and related international social activities, Tokyo, Japan. 
  • 1992        "Best Article of 1992", from the Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences, for the publication of Sugiyama 1991f.
Professional Associations

Society for American Archaeology, American Anthropological Association, Society for Japanese Archaeology, Japan Society for the Studies of the Ancient America.

Service
  • 2024     Organizer and Chair of the symposium “Ancient Landscapes and Cosmic Cities out of Eurasia: Transdisciplinary Studies with New Lidar Mapping,” in 89th Annual Meetings in New Orleans: Society for American Archaeology, April 20, 2024. 
  • 2024     Participation in NHK scientific documentary“Frontier: Mystery of the Lost Civilization in Ancient Mexico.”April, 2nd, 2024. 
  • 2023     Excavating the Mysteries of Mexican Ancient City of Teotihuacan. Lecture of Asahi Culture Center, Tokyo, November, 4th, 2023. 
  • 2023-4  Special exhibition “Ancient Mexico: Maya, Aztec, and Teotihuacan” organized by Saburo Sugiyama as the guest curator at the National Museum of Tokyo, Kyushu National Museum, and Osaka National Museum of Arts.
  • 2018-9  Temporal Exhibition “City and Cosmos: The Arts of Teotihuacan” organized by Matthew H. Robb, Saburo Sugiyama, et al., March /2018– September/2018, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Then, moved to Phoenix Art Museum, to exhibit as “Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire,” in October/2018-January/2019.
  • 2017     Temporal Exhibition “City of Water, City of Fire: Art and Cosmos at Teotihuacan” organized by Matthew H. Robb, Saburo Sugiyama, et al., September /2017– January/2018, at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young.
  • 2017     Member of Academic Committee for the 6th Round Table of Teotihuacan, INAH, Mexico.
  • 2015~   Member of Consejo de Asesores for journal Arqueología Mexicana, INAH and Editorial Raíces, Mexico.
  • 2015~2022   Member of Academic Committee for the Conservation Project of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacan, INAH, Mexico.
  • Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City, Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History., coordinator of Temporal Exhibition "Teotihuacan: Three Pyramids in Ritual Landscape" (2013 - 2014)
  • 5a Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan, academic committee member (2011 - 2012)
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