Catherine J Golden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine J Golden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine J |
| FAMILY NAME | Golden |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDEN C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0371-4247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 279 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Diverse Perspectives on the Study of Precolonial Maya Human Remains
Ethics pertaining to the study of Maya skeletons are complex and vary widely across Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. The complexity stems in part from the diversity of views held by local and national stakeholders, archaeologists, and the governments that oversee their work. Our position is that the views of local stakeholders should, whenever possible, guide the excavation, analysis, and final disposition of human remains from Maya archa…
Ancient Civilizations: The Emergence of States and Empires
Ancient Civilizations: The Emergence of States and Empires offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in North Africa, Eurasia and the Amer…
Suitability Models of Ancient Maya Agriculture in the Upper Usumacinta River Basin of Mexico and Guatemala
Recent archaeological and remote sensing research in the Maya Lowlands has demonstrated evidence for extensive modification of the landscape in the forms of channeled fields and upland terraces. Scholars often assume these measures were taken primarily to intensify maize production; however, paleoethnobotany highlights a greater diversity of crops grown by the precolonial Maya. This study combines the growth requirements of 18 crops cultivated by…
The Sage Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology
Realizing Value in Mesoamerica: The Dynamics of Desire and Demand in Ancient Economies
Academic Health Centers and Humanitarian Crises: One Health System’s Response to Unaccompanied Children at the Border
University of California Health (UCH) provided a system-wide, rapid response to the humanitarian crisis of unaccompanied children crossing the southern U.S. border in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. In collaboration with multiple federal, state, and local agencies, UCH mobilized a multidisciplinary team to deliver acute general and specialty pediatric care to unaccompanied children at 2 Californian emergency intake sites (EISs). The r…
Google Earth Engine for archaeologists: An updated look at the progress and promise of remotely sensed big data
A wealth of remotely sensed data has accumulated over the past several decades and now constitutes an analytical resource primed for archaeological applications. To date, remotely sensed big data (RSBD) analytics in archaeology have focused on filling spatial gaps in the distribution of sites and features, characterizing environmental landscapes, and monitoring cultural heritage sites. The scientific promise of these data to expand our understand…
Regional household variation and inequality across the Maya landscape
Sculptural Traditionalism and Innovation in the Classic Maya Kingdom of Sak Tz'i', Mexico
In this article we analyze the content and form of 58 stone monuments at the archaeological site of Lacanjá Tzeltal, Chiapas, Mexico, which recent research confirms was a capital of the Classic Maya polity Sak Tz'i' (“White Dog”). Sak Tz'i' kings carried the titleajaw(“lord”) rather than the epithetk'uhul ajaw(“holy lord”) claimed by regional powers, implying that Sak Tz'i' was a lesser kingdom in terms of political authority. Lacanjá Tzeltal's c…
Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Val…
The lowland Maya settlement landscape: Environmental LiDAR and ecology
This paper presents the archaeological evaluation of 458 tiles of LiDAR collected by environmental scientists over southern Mexico using the G-LiHT system of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Specifically, this article describes the results of a full processing, inspection, and annotation of these data for the identification and baseline analysis of archaeological features. In this paper, we: 1) introduce the dataset and describe our efforts to…
Centering the Classic Maya Kingdom of Sak Tz’i’
In this article, we provide the results of preliminary archaeological and epigraphic research undertaken at the site of Lacanjá Tzeltal, Chiapas. Field research conducted in 2018, in collaboration with local community members, has allowed us to identify this archaeological site as the capital of a kingdom known from Classic period Maya inscriptions as "Sak Tz'i'" (White Dog). Because all previously known references to the kingdom came from looted…
Drone-Mounted Lidar Survey of Maya Settlement and Landscape
We conducted unmanned aerial vehicle lidar missions in the Maya Lowlands between June 2017 and June 2018 to develop appropriate methods, procedures, and standards for drone lidar surveys of ancient Maya settlements and landscapes. Three site locations were tested within upper Usumacinta River region using Phoenix Lidar Systems: Piedras Negras, Guatemala, was tested in 2017, and Budsilha and El Infiernito, both in Mexico, were tested in 2018. Thes…
True People, Foreigners, and the Framing of Maya Morality
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 39(3), pp. 247–248
Kukulcan's Realm: Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán - by Masson, Marilyn and Peraza Lope, Carlos
Landscapes, Lordships, and Sovereignty in Mesoamerica
Reanalyzing environmental lidar data for archaeology: Mesoamerican applications and implications
This paper presents a preliminary archaeological assessment of extensive transects of lidar recently collected by environmental scientists over southern Mexico using the G-LiHT system of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In particular, this article offers the results of a first phase of research, consisting of: 1) characterization and classification of the cultural and ecological context of the samples, and 2) bare earth processing and visual i…
Territory, Trust, Growth, and Collapse in Classic Period Maya Kingdoms
Drawing on theoretical understandings of the relationship between civil society and the state, the authors argue that the collapse of the kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan in the ninth century AD resulted from the same political processes that permitted the expansion of dynastic power in preceding centuries. Populations initially clustered around the dynastic capitals of these kingdoms, where daily spheres of interaction facilitated trust …
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture
Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture Lorraine Janzen Kooistra Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011 xiv + 305, 68 illustrations. ISBN 9
Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities
This article explores social memory and history as they pertain particularly to secondary political centers on the edges of the Classic Maya kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. Over the course of the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900) the rulers of Maya polities in the Usumacinta River basin increasingly relied on the subordinate lords who governed these secondary centers to patrol and control the boundaries of their territories. For the ru…
Introduction: Maya Archaeology and Social Memory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Remote Sensing as a Tool for Tropical Ecology
Tropical forests provide important habitat for a tremendous diversity of plant and animal species. However, limitations in measuring and monitoring the structure and function of tropical forests has caused these systems to remain poorly understood. Remote-sensing technology has provided a powerful tool for quantification of structural patterns and associating these with resource use. Satellite and aerial platforms can be used to collect remotely …
Tecolote, Guatemala: Archaeological Evidence for a Fortified Late Classic Maya Political Border
A newly discovered system of fortifications at Tecolote, Guatemala, a Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) Maya secondary center in the Yaxchilan polity, consists of a series of stone walls and hilltop watchtowers. The stone walls appear to have been used as foundations to secure wooden palisades, as suggested previously for other Classic Maya sites, and were used in concert with strategic settlement at the site to maximize overall defensibility. W…
Territory, Trust, Growth, and Collapse in Classic Period Maya Kingdoms
Drawing on theoretical understandings of the relationship between civil society and the state, the authors argue that the collapse of the kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan in the ninth century AD resulted from the same political processes that permitted the expansion of dynastic power in preceding centuries. Populations initially clustered around the dynastic capitals of these kingdoms, where daily spheres of interaction facilitated trust …
Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan: Divergent Political Trajectories in Adjacent Maya Polities
In this article we present a synthetic overview and preliminary analysis of the data collected by members of the Sierra del Lacandón Regional Archaeology Project (SLRAP) during four field seasons of research from 2003 to 2007. We examine the growth, development, and transformation of the Classic Maya polities of Piedras Negras, Guatemala, and Yaxchilan, Mexico, located in the Middle Usumacinta Basin. This analysis uses a conjunctive approach, inc…
Evaluating the use of Ikonos satellite imagery in lowland Maya settlement archaeology
Using in‐field phosphate testing to rapidly identify middens at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Recent studies have promoted using soil phosphate analysis to detect ancient Maya sites by delimiting areas of occupation based on decomposed organic matter. Refuse associated with human activity increases organic matter around areas of ancient human habitation. Theoretically, the highest concentration of organic matter—detectable by phosphate analysis—should be directly associated with areas of refuse disposal. Thus, the objective of this study …
Tecolote, Guatemala: Archaeological Evidence for a Fortified Late Classic Maya Political Border
A newly discovered system of fortifications at Tecolote, Guatemala, a Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) Maya secondary center in the Yaxchilan polity, consists of a series of stone walls and hilltop watchtowers. The stone walls appear to have been used as foundations to secure wooden palisades, as suggested previously for other Classic Maya sites, and were used in concert with strategic settlement at the site to maximize overall defensibility. W…
Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities
This article explores social memory and history as they pertain particularly to secondary political centers on the edges of the Classic Maya kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. Over the course of the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900) the rulers of Maya polities in the Usumacinta River basin increasingly relied on the subordinate lords who governed these secondary centers to patrol and control the boundaries of their territories. For the ru…
Reanalyzing environmental lidar data for archaeology: Mesoamerican applications and implications
This paper presents a preliminary archaeological assessment of extensive transects of lidar recently collected by environmental scientists over southern Mexico using the G-LiHT system of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In particular, this article offers the results of a first phase of research, consisting of: 1) characterization and classification of the cultural and ecological context of the samples, and 2) bare earth processing and visual i…
Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, vol. 2: Data and Case Studies
Book Review| October 01 2003 Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, vol. 2: Data and Case Studies Edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen D. Houston. (Boulder, :Westview Press, 2001. xx + 411 pp., preface, tables, figures, index, $39.00 paper.) Charles Golden Charles Golden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 745–747. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-745 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Drone-Mounted Lidar Survey of Maya Settlement and Landscape
We conducted unmanned aerial vehicle lidar missions in the Maya Lowlands between June 2017 and June 2018 to develop appropriate methods, procedures, and standards for drone lidar surveys of ancient Maya settlements and landscapes. Three site locations were tested within upper Usumacinta River region using Phoenix Lidar Systems: Piedras Negras, Guatemala, was tested in 2017, and Budsilha and El Infiernito, both in Mexico, were tested in 2018. Thes…
Where Does Memory Reside, and Why Isn't It History
Ancient soil resources of the Usumacinta River Region, Guatemala
Centering the Classic Maya Kingdom of Sak Tz’i’
In this article, we provide the results of preliminary archaeological and epigraphic research undertaken at the site of Lacanjá Tzeltal, Chiapas. Field research conducted in 2018, in collaboration with local community members, has allowed us to identify this archaeological site as the capital of a kingdom known from Classic period Maya inscriptions as "Sak Tz'i'" (White Dog). Because all previously known references to the kingdom came from looted…
The lowland Maya settlement landscape: Environmental LiDAR and ecology
This paper presents the archaeological evaluation of 458 tiles of LiDAR collected by environmental scientists over southern Mexico using the G-LiHT system of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Specifically, this article describes the results of a full processing, inspection, and annotation of these data for the identification and baseline analysis of archaeological features. In this paper, we: 1) introduce the dataset and describe our efforts to…
Introduction: Maya Archaeology and Social Memory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ethnic Variations in the Phenomenology of Emotions: I. Shame
As part of a larger series of investigations on ethnic variations in the connotative meaning of emotions, Americans of Japanese, Chinese and European ancestry were administered a twenty-scale semantic differential for various emotions including shame. Results were factor analyzed and yielded the following dimensions: evaluative, dynamism, synesthesia, awareness, arousal, and intensity. Ethnic group differences were found in the endorsement patter…
Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Val…
Suitability Models of Ancient Maya Agriculture in the Upper Usumacinta River Basin of Mexico and Guatemala
Recent archaeological and remote sensing research in the Maya Lowlands has demonstrated evidence for extensive modification of the landscape in the forms of channeled fields and upland terraces. Scholars often assume these measures were taken primarily to intensify maize production; however, paleoethnobotany highlights a greater diversity of crops grown by the precolonial Maya. This study combines the growth requirements of 18 crops cultivated by…
Google Earth Engine for archaeologists: An updated look at the progress and promise of remotely sensed big data
A wealth of remotely sensed data has accumulated over the past several decades and now constitutes an analytical resource primed for archaeological applications. To date, remotely sensed big data (RSBD) analytics in archaeology have focused on filling spatial gaps in the distribution of sites and features, characterizing environmental landscapes, and monitoring cultural heritage sites. The scientific promise of these data to expand our understand…
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843
The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843." Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 39(3), pp. 247–248
A comparison of treatments for prefrontal muscle contraction headache
A comparison of hypnotic analgesia, frontalis electromyographic feedback, and frontalis electromyographic feedback in conjunction with Jacobson progressive relaxation for treating chronic prefrontal muscle contraction headache was done. There were four 1‐hour treatment sessions for each type, and a follow‐up. Measures were the number of headache hours per week, a subjective estimate of pain intensity, and an objective ratio of pain intensity foun…
Crown Privilege and Executive Privilege: A British Response to an American Controversy
Ethnic Variations in the Phenomenology of Emotions: I. Shame
As part of a larger series of investigations on ethnic variations in the connotative meaning of emotions, Americans of Japanese, Chinese and European ancestry were administered a twenty-scale semantic differential for various emotions including shame. Results were factor analyzed and yielded the following dimensions: evaluative, dynamism, synesthesia, awareness, arousal, and intensity. Ethnic group differences were found in the endorsement patter…
Emotional, Intellectual and Physiological Predictors of Vocational Outcome of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Patients
Previous researchers have independently shown that pulmonary function measures, intelligence test scores, and a recently developed MMPI-derived scale can predict post-hospital employment among rehabilitation patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This study compared the effectiveness of the three variables in predicting employment among a group of vocational rehabilitation candidates with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Only …
A comparison of treatments for prefrontal muscle contraction headache
A comparison of hypnotic analgesia, frontalis electromyographic feedback, and frontalis electromyographic feedback in conjunction with Jacobson progressive relaxation for treating chronic prefrontal muscle contraction headache was done. There were four 1‐hour treatment sessions for each type, and a follow‐up. Measures were the number of headache hours per week, a subjective estimate of pain intensity, and an objective ratio of pain intensity foun…
Cognitive Analysis, Computer Models, and the Wais
Fulkerson and Cartwright (1984) have an interesting approach to how the human brain analyzes Similarity-type tasks. Like other models, theirs makes certain assumptions about how the brain works, assumptions which are rarely clearly articulated. One of these assumptions is the idea that che brain processes information in a linear, orderly, and incremental manner. In fact, evidence is growing that the brain processing of higher cognitive material i…
Neuropsychological evaluation in the assessment of personal injury
Neuropsychological evaluation offers unique potentials in the assessment of personal injury claims. Strengths and limitations of major approaches to testing are reviewed, and special attention is given to applications in the particular forensic areas of head injury, toxic environments, physical disease, and malpractice. The varieties of cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal damages which may occur with brain injury are described. Suggestions ar…
Orthomolecular therapy: Its history and applicability to psychiatric disorders
Beatrix Potter: Naturalist Artist
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
Development and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence
Using in‐field phosphate testing to rapidly identify middens at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Recent studies have promoted using soil phosphate analysis to detect ancient Maya sites by delimiting areas of occupation based on decomposed organic matter. Refuse associated with human activity increases organic matter around areas of ancient human habitation. Theoretically, the highest concentration of organic matter—detectable by phosphate analysis—should be directly associated with areas of refuse disposal. Thus, the objective of this study …
Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, vol. 2: Data and Case Studies
Book Review| October 01 2003 Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, vol. 2: Data and Case Studies Edited by Takeshi Inomata and Stephen D. Houston. (Boulder, :Westview Press, 2001. xx + 411 pp., preface, tables, figures, index, $39.00 paper.) Charles Golden Charles Golden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 745–747. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-4-745 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel
During the 19th century, as British citizens left England for the New Worlds, hearth and home were moved from the heart of the Empire to its very outskirts. This volume explores how this affected the ways in which Victorians both promoted and undermined the ideal of the domestic woman. Drawing upon works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Samuel Butler and Charles Dickens, it shows how the ideals of womanhood and home promoted by domestic id…
Three Visions of the Maya, Three Visions of Mayanists: Maudslay,proskouriakoff, and Schele
Review Article| April 01 2004 Three Visions of the Maya, Three Visions of Mayanists: Maudslay,proskouriakoff, and Schele Charles Golden Charles Golden Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 429–433. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-2-429 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Charles Golden; Three Visions of the Maya, Three Visions of Mayanists: Maudslay,proskour…
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" and Joseph Henry Hatfield's Original Magazine Illustrations
Golden discusses Joseph Henry Hatfield's original magazine illustrations. The January 1892 issue of New England Magazine includes the story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman along with Hatfield's realistic-style illustrations, typical of the late 19th century. More than a century after its publication, Gilman's story has become a classic, but Hatfield remains largely unknown. Despite the volume of criticism since the 1973 Feminist Press republication o…
Where Does Memory Reside, and Why Isn't It History
Ancient soil resources of the Usumacinta River Region, Guatemala
Bioterrorism and Smallpox
Journal Article Bioterrorism and Smallpox Get access Colleen Golden, Colleen Golden Hackettstown, NJ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Romel W. Mackelprang, DSW, MSW, LICSW Romel W. Mackelprang, DSW, MSW, LICSW Cheney, WA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 95–96, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/51.1.95 Publish…
Continuities and Changes in Maya Archaeology: Perspectives at the Millennium
This book presents the current state of Maya archaeology by focusing on the history of the field for the last 100 years, present day research, and forward looking prescription for the direction of the field
Evaluating the use of Ikonos satellite imagery in lowland Maya settlement archaeology
Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan: Divergent Political Trajectories in Adjacent Maya Polities
In this article we present a synthetic overview and preliminary analysis of the data collected by members of the Sierra del Lacandón Regional Archaeology Project (SLRAP) during four field seasons of research from 2003 to 2007. We examine the growth, development, and transformation of the Classic Maya polities of Piedras Negras, Guatemala, and Yaxchilan, Mexico, located in the Middle Usumacinta Basin. This analysis uses a conjunctive approach, inc…
Tecolote, Guatemala: Archaeological Evidence for a Fortified Late Classic Maya Political Border
A newly discovered system of fortifications at Tecolote, Guatemala, a Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) Maya secondary center in the Yaxchilan polity, consists of a series of stone walls and hilltop watchtowers. The stone walls appear to have been used as foundations to secure wooden palisades, as suggested previously for other Classic Maya sites, and were used in concert with strategic settlement at the site to maximize overall defensibility. W…
Frayed at the Edges: Collective Memory and History on the Borders of Classic Maya Polities
This article explores social memory and history as they pertain particularly to secondary political centers on the edges of the Classic Maya kingdoms of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. Over the course of the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900) the rulers of Maya polities in the Usumacinta River basin increasingly relied on the subordinate lords who governed these secondary centers to patrol and control the boundaries of their territories. For the ru…
Introduction: Maya Archaeology and Social Memory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Remote Sensing as a Tool for Tropical Ecology
Tropical forests provide important habitat for a tremendous diversity of plant and animal species. However, limitations in measuring and monitoring the structure and function of tropical forests has caused these systems to remain poorly understood. Remote-sensing technology has provided a powerful tool for quantification of structural patterns and associating these with resource use. Satellite and aerial platforms can be used to collect remotely …
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