Meet the Team Linda M. Nicholas, M.A. Adjunct Curator of Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnology, The Field Museum Linda Nicholas has done extensive archaeological work in Oaxaca, Mexico, for more than 25 years. Linda’s early work focused on studies of land use and agriculture in the Valley of Oaxaca, and she currently helps supervise excavations at El Palmillo, a large hilltop terrace site in the eastern Valley of Oaxaca. A talented cartographer and photographer, Linda is responsible for most of the expedition's digital images and photographs. Scott Aubry Scott Aubry has been working in Mexico and Central America since 1996. He received his Master’s degree at Southern Illinois University with a focus on osteology and paleopathology. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. at Ohio State University with a focus on skeletal biology, population genetics, and anatomy. My dissertation research at OSU focuses on regional variation in dental morphology with the primary objective of determining biological relationships between the peoples of central Mexcio and the Maya area. He joins the El Palmillo team this year as the project’s bioarchaeologist. meet the team>>