Mark T Lycett
Biographic Data
| ID | 132079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark T Lycett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark T |
| FAMILY NAME | Lycett |
| SIGNATURE | LYCETT M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0662-0126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Finding Ashmounds: Identifying Large Buried Homogenous Anthropogenic Features with ERT
Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) is commonly used in geophysical and environmental surveys because it allows for rapid and high-quality resolution of large depositional features over a wide area. It is generally less able to resolve small anthropogenic features, however, so it has had a slower uptake among archaeologists despite several promising applications over the last two decades. Traditional soil resistivity (ER) surveys are generally…
Early water management in South Asia: Geochronology and micromorphology of rock pools and small‐scale water catchment features in Karnataka, India
Archaeologists and historians of South Asia have long emphasized the significance of large‐scale irrigation reservoirs to historical developments and precolonial land use. However, comparatively little attention has been directed at an extensive corpus of small‐scale water‐retention features, such as culturally modified weathering pans and rock pools. In this contribution, we provide the first geoarchaeological evidence from such features in sout…
Sudeshna Guha. Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts
In Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts, Sudeshna Guha sets out to interrogate the conditions of knowledge production in South Asian archaeology and allied disciplinary traditions. Drawing on a broad array of postcolonial theory in this provocative volume, she examines the intellectual frameworks, methodologies, and routine field practices that have enabled archaeologists and others to create, defend, and evaluate kn…
The “Fall” of Vijayanagara Reconsidered: Political Destruction and Historical Construction in South Indian History
The eponymous capital of Vijayanagara was largely abandoned following the defeat of the imperial army at Talikota in 1565. The city was burned and looted and its monumental temple complexes, gateways, and images left in ruins. Despite large-scale damage to architecture in the city, however, the level and focus of destruction was strikingly variable. In this paper, we draw on the material record of late Vijayanagara temple complexes and other arch…
Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India (review)
Reviewed by: Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India Mark Lycett Review of Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India. Zarine Cooper. Pune: Ravish Publishers, 1997. viii + 115 pp.; maps, illustrations, tables, index, bibliography. $34.40. ISBN: 8-1900-2941-X. This monograph, a revision of Cooper's 1983 Ph.D. thesis at Deccan College, includes two distinct but interrelated studies of the historical economy of Chitrakot, Bastar Distr…
Inscriptions as artifacts: Precolonial south india and the analysis of texts
On the Maya Collapse
The collapse of Late Classic Maya civilization involved more than the disintegration of political structure. It involved a total system failure in which both centers and dependent villages were abandoned by elites and commoners alike. The lowland rainforest habitat where Maya civilization developed was not significantly reoccupied until comparatively recent times. The collapse was differential, in that centers in coastal areas or drier regions su…
On the Maya Collapse
The collapse of Late Classic Maya civilization involved more than the disintegration of political structure. It involved a total system failure in which both centers and dependent villages were abandoned by elites and commoners alike. The lowland rainforest habitat where Maya civilization developed was not significantly reoccupied until comparatively recent times. The collapse was differential, in that centers in coastal areas or drier regions su…
Inscriptions as artifacts: Precolonial south india and the analysis of texts
Early water management in South Asia: Geochronology and micromorphology of rock pools and small‐scale water catchment features in Karnataka, India
Archaeologists and historians of South Asia have long emphasized the significance of large‐scale irrigation reservoirs to historical developments and precolonial land use. However, comparatively little attention has been directed at an extensive corpus of small‐scale water‐retention features, such as culturally modified weathering pans and rock pools. In this contribution, we provide the first geoarchaeological evidence from such features in sout…
The “Fall” of Vijayanagara Reconsidered: Political Destruction and Historical Construction in South Indian History
The eponymous capital of Vijayanagara was largely abandoned following the defeat of the imperial army at Talikota in 1565. The city was burned and looted and its monumental temple complexes, gateways, and images left in ruins. Despite large-scale damage to architecture in the city, however, the level and focus of destruction was strikingly variable. In this paper, we draw on the material record of late Vijayanagara temple complexes and other arch…
On the Maya Collapse
The collapse of Late Classic Maya civilization involved more than the disintegration of political structure. It involved a total system failure in which both centers and dependent villages were abandoned by elites and commoners alike. The lowland rainforest habitat where Maya civilization developed was not significantly reoccupied until comparatively recent times. The collapse was differential, in that centers in coastal areas or drier regions su…
Inscriptions as artifacts: Precolonial south india and the analysis of texts
Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India (review)
Reviewed by: Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India Mark Lycett Review of Prehistory of the Chitrakot Falls, Central India. Zarine Cooper. Pune: Ravish Publishers, 1997. viii + 115 pp.; maps, illustrations, tables, index, bibliography. $34.40. ISBN: 8-1900-2941-X. This monograph, a revision of Cooper's 1983 Ph.D. thesis at Deccan College, includes two distinct but interrelated studies of the historical economy of Chitrakot, Bastar Distr…
The “Fall” of Vijayanagara Reconsidered: Political Destruction and Historical Construction in South Indian History
The eponymous capital of Vijayanagara was largely abandoned following the defeat of the imperial army at Talikota in 1565. The city was burned and looted and its monumental temple complexes, gateways, and images left in ruins. Despite large-scale damage to architecture in the city, however, the level and focus of destruction was strikingly variable. In this paper, we draw on the material record of late Vijayanagara temple complexes and other arch…
Sudeshna Guha. Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts
In Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts, Sudeshna Guha sets out to interrogate the conditions of knowledge production in South Asian archaeology and allied disciplinary traditions. Drawing on a broad array of postcolonial theory in this provocative volume, she examines the intellectual frameworks, methodologies, and routine field practices that have enabled archaeologists and others to create, defend, and evaluate kn…
Early water management in South Asia: Geochronology and micromorphology of rock pools and small‐scale water catchment features in Karnataka, India
Archaeologists and historians of South Asia have long emphasized the significance of large‐scale irrigation reservoirs to historical developments and precolonial land use. However, comparatively little attention has been directed at an extensive corpus of small‐scale water‐retention features, such as culturally modified weathering pans and rock pools. In this contribution, we provide the first geoarchaeological evidence from such features in sout…
Finding Ashmounds: Identifying Large Buried Homogenous Anthropogenic Features with ERT
Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) is commonly used in geophysical and environmental surveys because it allows for rapid and high-quality resolution of large depositional features over a wide area. It is generally less able to resolve small anthropogenic features, however, so it has had a slower uptake among archaeologists despite several promising applications over the last two decades. Traditional soil resistivity (ER) surveys are generally…
Archaeology (6 works) · History (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Civilization (2 works)