J D Gunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J D Gunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | J D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunn |
| SIGNATURE | GUNN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3276-2929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico
Applied Perspectives on Pre-Columbian Maya Water Management Systems: What Are the Insights for Water Security?
Water security is a fundamental global challenge for humanity. Suggesting that scholars, water management engineers, and policy-makers draw from a wide range of examples, this chapter argues that knowledge gained from archaeological research provides unique insights into the long-term function and efficacy of water management systems. This chapter presents six cases of water management systems in the pre-Columbian Maya lowlands, from the Yalahau,…
Growing the Ancient Maya Social-Ecological System from the Bottom Up
Archaeological data can be represented in quantitative models to test theories of societal growth, development, and resilience. This chapter describes the results of simulations employing integrated agent-based, cellular automata, and network models to represent elements of the ancient Maya social-ecological system. The purpose of the model is to better understand the complex dynamics of the Maya civilization and to test quantitative indicators o…
A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: Its Rises, Falls, and Changes
Gunn, J. D., V. L. Scarborough, W. J. Folan, C. Isendahl, A. F. Chase, J. A. Sabloff, and B. Volta. 2016. A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: its rises, falls, and changes. Ecology and Society 22(1):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08931-220120
Calakmul: Power, Perseverance, and Persistence
Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space
Archaeologists have begun to understand that many of the challenges facing our technologically sophisticated, resource dependent, urban systems were also destabilizing factors in ancient complex societies. The focus of IHOPE-Maya is to identify how humans living in the tropical Maya Lowlands in present-day Central America responded to and impacted their environments over the past three millennia, and to relate knowledge of those processes to mode…
Calakmul: Agent Risk and Sustainability in the Western Maya Lowlands
Great attention has been focused on the southern trade routes across the Yucatan Peninsula through Tikal but little to the potential for crossing through Calakmul further to the north. This chapter shows that a combination of topography and politics make the Calakmul corridor the more efficient transit route. The political turmoil generated by Teotihuacan's involvement in Lowland trade following C.E. 378 cascaded into centuries of conflict betwee…
The Influence of Enhanced Post-Glacial Coastal Margin Productivity on the Emergence of Complex Societies
We analyze the dynamics of post-glacial coastal margin (CM) productivity and explore how it affected the emergence of six complex CM societies. Following deglaciation, global relative sea level stabilized after ∼7000 BP and CM productivity significantly increased in many areas. Primary and secondary productivity (fish) likely increased by an order of magnitude or more. Aquatic animals were readily available in the CM providing sources of polyunsa…
Las ruinas de Oxpemul: Un sitio fortificado en la frontera entre el Petén campechano y el río Bec
Las ruinas de Oxpemul representan una corte real fortificada plasmada en la Cuenca de Calakmul adentro del Petén Campechano, ubicado unos 25 kms. al norte del centro regional de Calakmul. El grupo Principal de Oxpemul está organizado sobre una meseta de 45.50 m de altura que forma su corte real con un patrón de asentamiento parecido a Calakmul y El Mirador. La Meseta Suroeste y otras más pequeñas están distribuidas alrededor del Bajo central. Oxp…
Bajo Sediments and the Hydraulic System of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico
Maya Lowlands climate researchers have set aside earlier beliefs that Maya civilization flourished in an unchanging environment. Analyses of river discharge, weather patterns, lake-bottom sediments, and settlement patterns reveal a highly variable climate, considerable diversity in local geology and soils, and a wide range of cultural adaptations tailored to distinctive subregional settings. Significant knowledge gaps remain. Among the unanswered…
Climate-Change Studies in the Maya Area: A Diachronic Analysis
The series of papers on climate change published in this issue are the result of the symposium “Environmental Change in Mesoamerica: Physical Forces and Cultural Paradigms in the Preclassic to Postclassic,” held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in March 2000 in Philadelphia. The authors bring their expertise in paleoclimatological studies to bear on the Maya Lowlands and Highlands from the beginning of the Holoce…
A landscape analysis of the candelaria watershed in mexico: Insights into paleoclimates affecting upland horticulture in the southern yucatan peninsula semi‐karst
Biocultural systems adapt to global climate change through its regional manifestations. Subsistence customs are the cultural interface between regional climate and culture at large. Swidden horticulturalists in Campeche, Mexico report that dry April followed by early onset of the wet season enhances the productivity of upland tropical gardens, or milpas. To relate regional seasonality of moisture to global climate, growing season discharge for Me…
The Middle Ground
Introduction: A perspective from the humanities-science boundary
Global temperature stability by rule induction: An interdisciplinary bridge
Climate: History, periodicity, and predictability, Michael R. Rampino, John E. Sanders, Walter S. Newman, and L.K. Konigsson (Eds.), 1987, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, xvii + 588 p., $67.9…
Paleoclimatological Patterning in Southern Mesoamerica
Paleoclimatological and archaeological data indicate a strong correlation between atmospheric and ground moisture and the political and socioeconomic prehistory and history of the Lowland Maya
Response to Benfer and Benfer
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
Climatic change, culture, and civilization in North America
Analysis of modern climatic data suggests a pattern of response to global cooling for precipitation in Mesoamerica and North America. Also research in palaeoclimatology has defined a series of globally warm and cold periods for the Holocene. This paper joins the study of modern and palaeoclimate into a time‐series model which appears to explain some of the florescences and declines of civilizations in the region during the last 3,000 years. Econo…
Yes Virginia, It Really is That Old: A Reply to Haynes and Mead
All of the presently available and processed data from Meadowcroft Rockshelter indicate that the radiocarbon dates for middle and lower Stratum IIa are not discordant with either the associated fauna, flora, and artifacts or with the known geological history of the Cross Creek drainage. Consequently, it is reiterated that the earliest occupations at this locality still represent the best evidence recovered to date for the presence of pre-Clovis o…
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 2
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The eleven well defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000, and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting …
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 1
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The eleven well defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000, and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting …
Upper Paleolithic Symbol Systems of the Russian Plain: Cognitive and Comparative Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
A microscopic examination of the engraved and carved artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic of the Russian plain in Soviet collections has revealed the presence of a number of complex symbol systems and modes of symbol use. These systems have not previously been noted or studied. The iconography has been found to be different from that in contemporaneous symbol systems in the Western European Upper Paleolithic, but the basic modes and strategies of…
Papers in Applied Archaeology
The papers presented in this volume are concerned not only with the public interest aspect of archaeology but also with alternative and direct practical benefits. The thinking presented was occasioned by a massive increase in public expenditure for archaeological investigation. The papers certainly do not exhaust the topic, but they provide a fairly well rounded view of practical archaeology in the state of Texas
The Individual in Prehistory: Studies in Variability in Style in Prehistoric Technologies
Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 1977: An Overview
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The 11 well-defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000 years and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting…
Upper Paleolithic Symbol Systems of the Russian Plain: Cognitive and Comparative Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
A microscopic examination of the engraved and carved artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic of the Russian plain in Soviet collections has revealed the presence of a number of complex symbol systems and modes of symbol use. These systems have not previously been noted or studied. The iconography has been found to be different from that in contemporaneous symbol systems in the Western European Upper Paleolithic, but the basic modes and strategies of…
A landscape analysis of the candelaria watershed in mexico: Insights into paleoclimates affecting upland horticulture in the southern yucatan peninsula semi‐karst
Biocultural systems adapt to global climate change through its regional manifestations. Subsistence customs are the cultural interface between regional climate and culture at large. Swidden horticulturalists in Campeche, Mexico report that dry April followed by early onset of the wet season enhances the productivity of upland tropical gardens, or milpas. To relate regional seasonality of moisture to global climate, growing season discharge for Me…
Paleoclimatological Patterning in Southern Mesoamerica
Paleoclimatological and archaeological data indicate a strong correlation between atmospheric and ground moisture and the political and socioeconomic prehistory and history of the Lowland Maya
Bajo Sediments and the Hydraulic System of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico
Maya Lowlands climate researchers have set aside earlier beliefs that Maya civilization flourished in an unchanging environment. Analyses of river discharge, weather patterns, lake-bottom sediments, and settlement patterns reveal a highly variable climate, considerable diversity in local geology and soils, and a wide range of cultural adaptations tailored to distinctive subregional settings. Significant knowledge gaps remain. Among the unanswered…
Climatic change, culture, and civilization in North America
Analysis of modern climatic data suggests a pattern of response to global cooling for precipitation in Mesoamerica and North America. Also research in palaeoclimatology has defined a series of globally warm and cold periods for the Holocene. This paper joins the study of modern and palaeoclimate into a time‐series model which appears to explain some of the florescences and declines of civilizations in the region during the last 3,000 years. Econo…
Yes Virginia, It Really is That Old: A Reply to Haynes and Mead
All of the presently available and processed data from Meadowcroft Rockshelter indicate that the radiocarbon dates for middle and lower Stratum IIa are not discordant with either the associated fauna, flora, and artifacts or with the known geological history of the Cross Creek drainage. Consequently, it is reiterated that the earliest occupations at this locality still represent the best evidence recovered to date for the presence of pre-Clovis o…
Automatic Classification: Projectile Points from West Texas
Stepwise discriminant function can be used for automatic classification of points. The classification is based on six measurements and can serve as an efficient aid to the typologist
Prehistoric and historic settlement patterns in western Cyprus (with a discussion of Cypriot Neolithic stone tool technology)
Intensive site survey in the Paphos District of western Cyprus indicates considerable variation in preferred settlement locus from the early Neolithic period to modern times. Settlement data for each major chronological period are summarized and related to factors of topography, elevation, available water, lithic sources, access to arable land, and potential for defence. Included is a discussion of Neolithic stone tool technology within the surve…
The Influence of Enhanced Post-Glacial Coastal Margin Productivity on the Emergence of Complex Societies
We analyze the dynamics of post-glacial coastal margin (CM) productivity and explore how it affected the emergence of six complex CM societies. Following deglaciation, global relative sea level stabilized after ∼7000 BP and CM productivity significantly increased in many areas. Primary and secondary productivity (fish) likely increased by an order of magnitude or more. Aquatic animals were readily available in the CM providing sources of polyunsa…
Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space
Archaeologists have begun to understand that many of the challenges facing our technologically sophisticated, resource dependent, urban systems were also destabilizing factors in ancient complex societies. The focus of IHOPE-Maya is to identify how humans living in the tropical Maya Lowlands in present-day Central America responded to and impacted their environments over the past three millennia, and to relate knowledge of those processes to mode…
Climate-Change Studies in the Maya Area: A Diachronic Analysis
The series of papers on climate change published in this issue are the result of the symposium “Environmental Change in Mesoamerica: Physical Forces and Cultural Paradigms in the Preclassic to Postclassic,” held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in March 2000 in Philadelphia. The authors bring their expertise in paleoclimatological studies to bear on the Maya Lowlands and Highlands from the beginning of the Holoce…
Hop Hill: Culture and Climactic Change in Central Texas
In the following discussions the paleoecology of Central Texas will be elucidated given the present state of knowledge. Global climatic variables and modern Fredericksburg weather data are used to obtain a better understanding of climatic change. At a more specific level, the environmental characteristics of Gillespie County are studied; and, finally, the environment and culture of the Hop Hill locality are conjoined to the whole
An Envirotechnological System for Hogup Cave
The habitat and technology of Hogup Cave, Utah, is one of the most complete, longest and well analyzed archaeological records in the world. In this paper, data from the Hogup Cave report are analyzed to determine how much cultural change in the subsistence system can be accounted for by environmental change. The model used is causal in concept. Path analysis suggests that approximately 50% of the cultural change at Hogup can be attributed to envi…
Response to Benfer and Benfer
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
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 1
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The eleven well defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000, and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting …
The Individual in Prehistory: Studies in Variability in Style in Prehistoric Technologies
Basketry and Basketmakers at Antelope House
Preliminary analysis of the large and somewhat atypical Pueblo III basketry assemblage from Antelope House suggests the possibility of isolating individual basketmakers and groups of basketmakers within the Antelope House population. Observations are offered on the methodology of distinguishing individual basket-makers at this site. The assemblage as a unit is compared to other Pueblo III basketry collections
Climate and agricultural history from the Petén Campechano in the Late Holocene Maya lowlands of southern Mexico
A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: Its Rises, Falls, and Changes
Gunn, J. D., V. L. Scarborough, W. J. Folan, C. Isendahl, A. F. Chase, J. A. Sabloff, and B. Volta. 2016. A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: its rises, falls, and changes. Ecology and Society 22(1):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08931-220120
Tool Kit Hypotheses: A Case of Numerical Induction
(1976). Tool Kit Hypotheses: A Case of Numerical Induction. Lithic Technology: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 31-40
The Use of Computer Programs for Mapping Archaeological Data
Drawing table methods of mapping artifacts prohibit extensive experimentation with artifact distribution patterns. A digital computer may be used to map efficiently and economically. A program for plotting artifacts by geological levels is presented. Preparation of the data and use of the program is explained
Automatic Classification: Projectile Points from West Texas
Stepwise discriminant function can be used for automatic classification of points. The classification is based on six measurements and can serve as an efficient aid to the typologist
Prehistoric and historic settlement patterns in western Cyprus (with a discussion of Cypriot Neolithic stone tool technology)
Intensive site survey in the Paphos District of western Cyprus indicates considerable variation in preferred settlement locus from the early Neolithic period to modern times. Settlement data for each major chronological period are summarized and related to factors of topography, elevation, available water, lithic sources, access to arable land, and potential for defence. Included is a discussion of Neolithic stone tool technology within the surve…
Basketry and Basketmakers at Antelope House
Preliminary analysis of the large and somewhat atypical Pueblo III basketry assemblage from Antelope House suggests the possibility of isolating individual basketmakers and groups of basketmakers within the Antelope House population. Observations are offered on the methodology of distinguishing individual basket-makers at this site. The assemblage as a unit is compared to other Pueblo III basketry collections
An Envirotechnological System for Hogup Cave
The habitat and technology of Hogup Cave, Utah, is one of the most complete, longest and well analyzed archaeological records in the world. In this paper, data from the Hogup Cave report are analyzed to determine how much cultural change in the subsistence system can be accounted for by environmental change. The model used is causal in concept. Path analysis suggests that approximately 50% of the cultural change at Hogup can be attributed to envi…
Tool Kit Hypotheses: A Case of Numerical Induction
(1976). Tool Kit Hypotheses: A Case of Numerical Induction. Lithic Technology: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 31-40
Hop Hill: Culture and Climactic Change in Central Texas
In the following discussions the paleoecology of Central Texas will be elucidated given the present state of knowledge. Global climatic variables and modern Fredericksburg weather data are used to obtain a better understanding of climatic change. At a more specific level, the environmental characteristics of Gillespie County are studied; and, finally, the environment and culture of the Hop Hill locality are conjoined to the whole
Papers in Applied Archaeology
The papers presented in this volume are concerned not only with the public interest aspect of archaeology but also with alternative and direct practical benefits. The thinking presented was occasioned by a massive increase in public expenditure for archaeological investigation. The papers certainly do not exhaust the topic, but they provide a fairly well rounded view of practical archaeology in the state of Texas
The Individual in Prehistory: Studies in Variability in Style in Prehistoric Technologies
Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 1977: An Overview
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The 11 well-defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000 years and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting…
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 1
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The eleven well defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000, and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting …
Upper Paleolithic Symbol Systems of the Russian Plain: Cognitive and Comparative Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
A microscopic examination of the engraved and carved artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic of the Russian plain in Soviet collections has revealed the presence of a number of complex symbol systems and modes of symbol use. These systems have not previously been noted or studied. The iconography has been found to be different from that in contemporaneous symbol systems in the Western European Upper Paleolithic, but the basic modes and strategies of…
Yes Virginia, It Really is That Old: A Reply to Haynes and Mead
All of the presently available and processed data from Meadowcroft Rockshelter indicate that the radiocarbon dates for middle and lower Stratum IIa are not discordant with either the associated fauna, flora, and artifacts or with the known geological history of the Cross Creek drainage. Consequently, it is reiterated that the earliest occupations at this locality still represent the best evidence recovered to date for the presence of pre-Clovis o…
Meadowcroft Rockshelter — Retrospect 1977: Part 2
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified multicomponent site in Washington County, southwestern Pennsylvania. The eleven well defined stratigraphic units identified at the site span at least 16,000, and perhaps 19,000 years of intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North America. Throughout the extant sequence, the site served as a locus for hunting, collecting …
Response to Benfer and Benfer
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
Climatic change, culture, and civilization in North America
Analysis of modern climatic data suggests a pattern of response to global cooling for precipitation in Mesoamerica and North America. Also research in palaeoclimatology has defined a series of globally warm and cold periods for the Holocene. This paper joins the study of modern and palaeoclimate into a time‐series model which appears to explain some of the florescences and declines of civilizations in the region during the last 3,000 years. Econo…
Paleoclimatological Patterning in Southern Mesoamerica
Paleoclimatological and archaeological data indicate a strong correlation between atmospheric and ground moisture and the political and socioeconomic prehistory and history of the Lowland Maya
Climate: History, periodicity, and predictability, Michael R. Rampino, John E. Sanders, Walter S. Newman, and L.K. Konigsson (Eds.), 1987, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, xvii + 588 p., $67.9…
Introduction: A perspective from the humanities-science boundary
Global temperature stability by rule induction: An interdisciplinary bridge
A landscape analysis of the candelaria watershed in mexico: Insights into paleoclimates affecting upland horticulture in the southern yucatan peninsula semi‐karst
Biocultural systems adapt to global climate change through its regional manifestations. Subsistence customs are the cultural interface between regional climate and culture at large. Swidden horticulturalists in Campeche, Mexico report that dry April followed by early onset of the wet season enhances the productivity of upland tropical gardens, or milpas. To relate regional seasonality of moisture to global climate, growing season discharge for Me…
The Middle Ground
Bajo Sediments and the Hydraulic System of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico
Maya Lowlands climate researchers have set aside earlier beliefs that Maya civilization flourished in an unchanging environment. Analyses of river discharge, weather patterns, lake-bottom sediments, and settlement patterns reveal a highly variable climate, considerable diversity in local geology and soils, and a wide range of cultural adaptations tailored to distinctive subregional settings. Significant knowledge gaps remain. Among the unanswered…
Climate-Change Studies in the Maya Area: A Diachronic Analysis
The series of papers on climate change published in this issue are the result of the symposium “Environmental Change in Mesoamerica: Physical Forces and Cultural Paradigms in the Preclassic to Postclassic,” held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in March 2000 in Philadelphia. The authors bring their expertise in paleoclimatological studies to bear on the Maya Lowlands and Highlands from the beginning of the Holoce…
Las ruinas de Oxpemul: Un sitio fortificado en la frontera entre el Petén campechano y el río Bec
Las ruinas de Oxpemul representan una corte real fortificada plasmada en la Cuenca de Calakmul adentro del Petén Campechano, ubicado unos 25 kms. al norte del centro regional de Calakmul. El grupo Principal de Oxpemul está organizado sobre una meseta de 45.50 m de altura que forma su corte real con un patrón de asentamiento parecido a Calakmul y El Mirador. La Meseta Suroeste y otras más pequeñas están distribuidas alrededor del Bajo central. Oxp…
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