David J Rue

Biographic Data

ID150585
NAMEDavid J Rue
GIVEN NAMESDavid J
FAMILY NAMERue
SIGNATURERUE D J
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS96
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX6

  • Early Zea Cultivation in Honduras: Implications for the Iltis Hypothesis

    Open AccessDavid Webster, David J Rue et al.ARTICLEEconomic Botany2005Cited by: 5References: 21

  • Late Holocene Fire and Agriculture in the Copan Valley, Honduras

    Open AccessDavid J Rue, David Rue et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2002Cited by: 7

    Pollen and charcoal analysis of a 5.3-m sediment core from Aguada Petapilla, a peat bog, provides evidence of late Holocene vegetation and fire history in the Copan Valley, Honduras. Low concentration and preservation problems characterized the pollen flora, but there are taxa present indicative of major agricultural trends, including Zea mays. Microscopic charcoal fragments are well represented and record continued burning in the region since th…

  • Human-Environment Interactions in a Tropical Watershed: The Paleoecology of Laguna Tamarindito, El Petén, Guatemala

    Nicholas P Dunning, Nicholas Dunning et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1998Cited by: 2References: 20

    Questions of past human-environment interactions are best addressed by a research agenda that recovers complementary archaeological and paleoenvironmental data. We have used such an approach in our investigations at Laguna Tamarindito, a small lake located in the SW part of the Peten rainforest of Guatemala. In 1991, a sediment core was taken from the lake as part of a larger program of research examining the history of human-environment interact…

  • Human-Environment Interactions in a Tropical Watershed: The Paleoecology of Laguna Tamarindito, El Peten, Guatemala

    Nicholas P Dunning, Nicholas Dunning et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1998Cited by: 6

    Nicholas Dunning, David J. Rue, Timothy Beach, Alan Covich, Alfred Traverse, Human-Environment Interactions in a Tropical Watershed: The Paleoecology of Laguna Tamarindito, El Petén, Guatemala, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer, 1998), pp. 139-151

  • The Paleoecology and Ancient Settlement of the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala

    Open AccessNicholas P Dunning, Nicholas Dunning et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica1997Cited by: 34References: 18

    The Petexbatun region has a series of upland ridges surrounded by lowland wetlands. In Preclassic times, ancient Maya peoples began colonizing the region along waterways. Although few in number, they cleared large areas of upland tropical forest for agriculture and induced significant soil erosion. Population contracted in the region during the Early Classic, and mature tropical forest growth returned. During the Late Classic, population expanded…

  • The Obsidian Hydration Dating Project at Copan: A Regional Approach and Why It Works

    Open AccessDavid Webster, Anncorinne Freter et al.ARTICLELatin American Antiquity1993Cited by: 18References: 22

    Settlement research at Copán, Honduras, since 1984 has produced the largest set of obsidian-hydration dates from excavated contexts available for Mesoamerica (Webster and Freter 1990). Geoffrey Braswell (1992) has criticized the methodology underlying our research, specific associations of our published data, and particularly our reconstruction of a demographic and political decline at Copán that extended well beyond A.D. 900. Braswell has incorr…

  • The Caverns of Copan Revisited: Preclassic Sites in the Sesesmil River Valley, Copan, Honduras

    David J Rue, Anncorinne Freter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1989Cited by: 3

    David J. Rue, AnnCorinne Freter, Diane A. Ballinger, The Caverns of Copán Revisited: Preclassic Sites in the Sesesmil River Valley, Copán, Honduras, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 395-404

  • Archaic Middle American Agriculture and Settlement: Recent Pollen Data from Honduras

    David J RueARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1989Cited by: 8References: 16

    Data on Late Archaic period (5000–1000 B.C.) agriculture and settlement in SE Mesoamerica and Lower Central America are reassessed in view of recent findings. Pollen data from Lake Tojoa in western Honduras are presented to support a re-synthesis of views on the development of food production systems in the region. Traditional interpretations of the cultural sequence suggest that the area was colonized by agriculturalists relatively late (1000 B.…

  • The Caverns of Copán Revisited: Preclassic Sites in the Sesesmil River Valley, Copán, Honduras

    David J Rue, Anncorinne Freter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1989Cited by: 13References: 4

    In 1896–1897 George Byron Gordon investigated a series of caves in the Sesesmil River Valley, just north of the Late Classic Maya center of Copán, Honduras. His investigations revealed that at least one of these caves was utilized during the Preclassic period, and that several individuals had been cremated and interred in that cave. In 1983, as part of the Sesesmil settlement pattern survey of the Proyecto Arqueologico Copán, Phase II, the Sesesm…

  • The causes and consequences of deforestation among the prehistoric Maya

    Open AccessElliot M Abrams, David J RueARTICLEHuman Ecology1988