Thomas H Guderjan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 173100 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Thomas H Guderjan |
| PRENOMES | Thomas H |
| SOBRENOME | Guderjan |
| ASSINATURA | GUDERJAN T H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Tyler |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The carved monuments of La Milpa, Belize
La Milpa, situated in northern Belize, stands out as one of the region's largest archaeological sites, having served as the capital of an ancient Maya city-state. Its significance is indicated by extensive monumental architecture, with the epicenter covering approximately 8.8 ha. The site's corpus of monuments, comprising 23 stelae and several altars, underscores its prominence in northern Belize, rivaling the corpora of sites such as Nim li Puni…
Construction of Maya Space
Construction of Maya Space
Construction of Maya Space
A multimethod approach to the study of Classic Maya houselots and land tenure
Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene
Ancient Maya Commerce
Scott R. Hutson and his collaborators have produced an important volume that forces Mayanists to reconsider ancient markets and economies, trade, land tenure, and city locational principles. In place of the typical chapter-by-chapter summary, I will focus on the impacts of this volume on the highly dynamic study of the ancient Maya. The authors (Tony Andrews, Traci Ardren, Tim Beach, Chelsea Blackmore, Tara Bond-Freeman, Bruce Dahlin, Patrice Fer…
Ancient Maya wetland management in two watersheds in Belize
From Crafting to Caching
This paper presents technological and iconographic analyses of a Late Classic (a.d. 600–830) lithics cache recovered from the ancient Maya site of Blue Creek, Belize. The cache consisted of 21 obsidian prismatic blades and a number of chert artifacts, including 21 stemmed bifaces, a large laurel leaf biface, and a tridentate eccentric. The technological analysis of the stemmed bifaces identified three distinct stem production techniques that may …
Monumental Architecture and the Origins of Maya Civilization
Mayacene’ floodplain and wetland formation in the Rio Bravo Watershed of northwestern Belize
This is the first article to characterize the soil and fluvial geomorphology of the Rio Bravo’s fluviokarst watershed in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, northwestern Belize. Although the watershed has had little-altered tropical forest cover since c. 1000 BP, humans inhabited it for millennia, especially during the Maya Preclassic and Classic, c. 3000–1000 BP. We studied soils and floodplain formation in four excavation transects …
An Examination of Six “Nutting Stones” from East Texas for Plant Phytoliths
In this article we report on an examination of six nutting stones from East Texas sites as well as an exploratory examination of their possible functions. “Nutting stones” have long been presumed to have been used prehistorically for crushing nuts such as hickory, etc. as foodstuffs. In fact Davis described them as being: A small flat stone, usually made of limestone, sandstone or other sedimentary types of rock which could be carried by hand. Th…
Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community
Book Review| January 01 2012 Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community. By Arnold, Dean R.. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. 351 pp., foreword, preface, references, index. $70.00 cloth.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory …
Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala
Book Review| April 01 2011 Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala. Edited by Rice, Prudence M. and Rice, Don S.. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. 458 pp., preface, references, index. $22.95 paper.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohi…
Memory Work
Book Review| April 01 2010 Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices . Edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2008. xii + 300 pp., references, index. $34.95 paper.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 347–348. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-076 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
Archaeology Matters
An Archaeology of Black Markets
Book Review| July 01 2009 An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica By Mark W. Hauser. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2008. xxiii + 269 pp., preface, introduction, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 544–545. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-019 Cite Ico…
E-Groups, Pseudo–e-Groups, and the Development of the Classic Maya Identity in the Eastern Peten
The identity of the Classic Maya was expressed through public architecture and the creation of sacred landscape, which incorporated the landscape of creation and the concept of the world tree. Pyramids, plazas, stelae, and ballcourts were important components of this landscape. In the Peten, architectural complexes known as “E-groups” were another component. E-groups are well-known astronomical “orientation calendars” that were first built in the…
An Ancient Maya Dock and Dam at Blue Creek, Rio Hondo, Belize
A precolumbian Maya dock and dam complex was located on the Río Hondo in northwestern Belize near the site of Blue Creek. Survey and excavation showed a range of activities to be associated with the complex, including lithic raw material procurement and manufacture. The discovery also underscores Blue Creek's role in long-distance commercial exchange involving lowland riverine systems. Large quantities of exotic commodities, including jadeite fro…
Public Architecture, Ritual, and Temporal Dynamics at the Maya Center of Blue Creek, Belize
This paper summarizes more than a decade of excavations in the monumental core precinct of the Maya center of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Extensive and intensive excavations at Blue Creek have been undertaken since 1992. Consequently, a large database has been accumulated, particularly regarding the Early Classic period. Although occupation at Blue Creek dates to the Early Preclassic period (900 b.c.), complex society and, probably, the in…
Biosilicate analysis of residue in Maya dedicatory cache vessels from Blue Creek, Belize
Maya Settlement and Trade on Ambergris Caye, Belize
Archaeological fieldwork was conducted on Ambergris Caye, Belize, for three years beginning in 1986. Nineteen archaeological sites were identified during survey work. Intensive excavations were conducted at three sites and limited excavation at several others. In addition, a fourth site has been excavated by another party. This data base gives us the opportunity to examine the diachronic and functional variability of the archaeological record
Maya Maritime Trade and Sources of Obsidian at San Juan, Ambergris Cay, Belize
San Juan is a small Late and Terminal Classic transshipment point on the north end of Ambergris Cay, Belize. It was well situated to have participated in the Maya maritime trade network that served large population centers on Corozal and Chetumal bays and those communities linked to these bays by the New River and Rio Hondo. A sample of Terminal Classic obsidian was sourced using visual, x-ray fluorescence, and neutron activation techniques. Alth…
News and Short Contributions
Kostas Kotsakis, Anthony P. Andrews, Frank Asaro, Helen V. Michel, Fred H. Stross, Pura Cerrera Rivero, Thomas H. Guderjan, James F. Garber, Herman A. Smith, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 355-376
Maya Settlement and Trade on Ambergris Caye, Belize
Archaeological fieldwork was conducted on Ambergris Caye, Belize, for three years beginning in 1986. Nineteen archaeological sites were identified during survey work. Intensive excavations were conducted at three sites and limited excavation at several others. In addition, a fourth site has been excavated by another party. This data base gives us the opportunity to examine the diachronic and functional variability of the archaeological record
Public Architecture, Ritual, and Temporal Dynamics at the Maya Center of Blue Creek, Belize
This paper summarizes more than a decade of excavations in the monumental core precinct of the Maya center of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Extensive and intensive excavations at Blue Creek have been undertaken since 1992. Consequently, a large database has been accumulated, particularly regarding the Early Classic period. Although occupation at Blue Creek dates to the Early Preclassic period (900 b.c.), complex society and, probably, the in…
Biosilicate analysis of residue in Maya dedicatory cache vessels from Blue Creek, Belize
Maya Maritime Trade and Sources of Obsidian at San Juan, Ambergris Cay, Belize
San Juan is a small Late and Terminal Classic transshipment point on the north end of Ambergris Cay, Belize. It was well situated to have participated in the Maya maritime trade network that served large population centers on Corozal and Chetumal bays and those communities linked to these bays by the New River and Rio Hondo. A sample of Terminal Classic obsidian was sourced using visual, x-ray fluorescence, and neutron activation techniques. Alth…
An Ancient Maya Dock and Dam at Blue Creek, Rio Hondo, Belize
A precolumbian Maya dock and dam complex was located on the Río Hondo in northwestern Belize near the site of Blue Creek. Survey and excavation showed a range of activities to be associated with the complex, including lithic raw material procurement and manufacture. The discovery also underscores Blue Creek's role in long-distance commercial exchange involving lowland riverine systems. Large quantities of exotic commodities, including jadeite fro…
Mayacene’ floodplain and wetland formation in the Rio Bravo Watershed of northwestern Belize
This is the first article to characterize the soil and fluvial geomorphology of the Rio Bravo’s fluviokarst watershed in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, northwestern Belize. Although the watershed has had little-altered tropical forest cover since c. 1000 BP, humans inhabited it for millennia, especially during the Maya Preclassic and Classic, c. 3000–1000 BP. We studied soils and floodplain formation in four excavation transects …
E-Groups, Pseudo–e-Groups, and the Development of the Classic Maya Identity in the Eastern Peten
The identity of the Classic Maya was expressed through public architecture and the creation of sacred landscape, which incorporated the landscape of creation and the concept of the world tree. Pyramids, plazas, stelae, and ballcourts were important components of this landscape. In the Peten, architectural complexes known as “E-groups” were another component. E-groups are well-known astronomical “orientation calendars” that were first built in the…
A multimethod approach to the study of Classic Maya houselots and land tenure
Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene
From Crafting to Caching
This paper presents technological and iconographic analyses of a Late Classic (a.d. 600–830) lithics cache recovered from the ancient Maya site of Blue Creek, Belize. The cache consisted of 21 obsidian prismatic blades and a number of chert artifacts, including 21 stemmed bifaces, a large laurel leaf biface, and a tridentate eccentric. The technological analysis of the stemmed bifaces identified three distinct stem production techniques that may …
News and Short Contributions
Kostas Kotsakis, Anthony P. Andrews, Frank Asaro, Helen V. Michel, Fred H. Stross, Pura Cerrera Rivero, Thomas H. Guderjan, James F. Garber, Herman A. Smith, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 355-376
Maya Maritime Trade and Sources of Obsidian at San Juan, Ambergris Cay, Belize
San Juan is a small Late and Terminal Classic transshipment point on the north end of Ambergris Cay, Belize. It was well situated to have participated in the Maya maritime trade network that served large population centers on Corozal and Chetumal bays and those communities linked to these bays by the New River and Rio Hondo. A sample of Terminal Classic obsidian was sourced using visual, x-ray fluorescence, and neutron activation techniques. Alth…
News and Short Contributions
Kostas Kotsakis, Anthony P. Andrews, Frank Asaro, Helen V. Michel, Fred H. Stross, Pura Cerrera Rivero, Thomas H. Guderjan, James F. Garber, Herman A. Smith, News and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 355-376
Maya Settlement and Trade on Ambergris Caye, Belize
Archaeological fieldwork was conducted on Ambergris Caye, Belize, for three years beginning in 1986. Nineteen archaeological sites were identified during survey work. Intensive excavations were conducted at three sites and limited excavation at several others. In addition, a fourth site has been excavated by another party. This data base gives us the opportunity to examine the diachronic and functional variability of the archaeological record
Biosilicate analysis of residue in Maya dedicatory cache vessels from Blue Creek, Belize
Public Architecture, Ritual, and Temporal Dynamics at the Maya Center of Blue Creek, Belize
This paper summarizes more than a decade of excavations in the monumental core precinct of the Maya center of Blue Creek in northwestern Belize. Extensive and intensive excavations at Blue Creek have been undertaken since 1992. Consequently, a large database has been accumulated, particularly regarding the Early Classic period. Although occupation at Blue Creek dates to the Early Preclassic period (900 b.c.), complex society and, probably, the in…
E-Groups, Pseudo–e-Groups, and the Development of the Classic Maya Identity in the Eastern Peten
The identity of the Classic Maya was expressed through public architecture and the creation of sacred landscape, which incorporated the landscape of creation and the concept of the world tree. Pyramids, plazas, stelae, and ballcourts were important components of this landscape. In the Peten, architectural complexes known as “E-groups” were another component. E-groups are well-known astronomical “orientation calendars” that were first built in the…
An Ancient Maya Dock and Dam at Blue Creek, Rio Hondo, Belize
A precolumbian Maya dock and dam complex was located on the Río Hondo in northwestern Belize near the site of Blue Creek. Survey and excavation showed a range of activities to be associated with the complex, including lithic raw material procurement and manufacture. The discovery also underscores Blue Creek's role in long-distance commercial exchange involving lowland riverine systems. Large quantities of exotic commodities, including jadeite fro…
An Archaeology of Black Markets
Book Review| July 01 2009 An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica By Mark W. Hauser. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2008. xxiii + 269 pp., preface, introduction, maps, appendixes, bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (3): 544–545. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-019 Cite Ico…
Memory Work
Book Review| April 01 2010 Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices . Edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2008. xii + 300 pp., references, index. $34.95 paper.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 347–348. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-076 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
Archaeology Matters
Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala
Book Review| April 01 2011 Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala Identity, Migration, and Geopolitics of the Kowoj in Late Postclassic Petén, Guatemala. Edited by Rice, Prudence M. and Rice, Don S.. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. 458 pp., preface, references, index. $22.95 paper.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohi…
Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community
Book Review| January 01 2012 Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community. By Arnold, Dean R.. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008. 351 pp., foreword, preface, references, index. $70.00 cloth.) Thomas H. Guderjan Thomas H. Guderjan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory …
Mayacene’ floodplain and wetland formation in the Rio Bravo Watershed of northwestern Belize
This is the first article to characterize the soil and fluvial geomorphology of the Rio Bravo’s fluviokarst watershed in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area, northwestern Belize. Although the watershed has had little-altered tropical forest cover since c. 1000 BP, humans inhabited it for millennia, especially during the Maya Preclassic and Classic, c. 3000–1000 BP. We studied soils and floodplain formation in four excavation transects …
An Examination of Six “Nutting Stones” from East Texas for Plant Phytoliths
In this article we report on an examination of six nutting stones from East Texas sites as well as an exploratory examination of their possible functions. “Nutting stones” have long been presumed to have been used prehistorically for crushing nuts such as hickory, etc. as foodstuffs. In fact Davis described them as being: A small flat stone, usually made of limestone, sandstone or other sedimentary types of rock which could be carried by hand. Th…
Ancient Maya wetland management in two watersheds in Belize
From Crafting to Caching
This paper presents technological and iconographic analyses of a Late Classic (a.d. 600–830) lithics cache recovered from the ancient Maya site of Blue Creek, Belize. The cache consisted of 21 obsidian prismatic blades and a number of chert artifacts, including 21 stemmed bifaces, a large laurel leaf biface, and a tridentate eccentric. The technological analysis of the stemmed bifaces identified three distinct stem production techniques that may …
Monumental Architecture and the Origins of Maya Civilization
Ancient Maya Commerce
Scott R. Hutson and his collaborators have produced an important volume that forces Mayanists to reconsider ancient markets and economies, trade, land tenure, and city locational principles. In place of the typical chapter-by-chapter summary, I will focus on the impacts of this volume on the highly dynamic study of the ancient Maya. The authors (Tony Andrews, Traci Ardren, Tim Beach, Chelsea Blackmore, Tara Bond-Freeman, Bruce Dahlin, Patrice Fer…
A multimethod approach to the study of Classic Maya houselots and land tenure
Tropical wetland persistence through the Anthropocene
Construction of Maya Space
Construction of Maya Space
Construction of Maya Space
The carved monuments of La Milpa, Belize
La Milpa, situated in northern Belize, stands out as one of the region's largest archaeological sites, having served as the capital of an ancient Maya city-state. Its significance is indicated by extensive monumental architecture, with the epicenter covering approximately 8.8 ha. The site's corpus of monuments, comprising 23 stelae and several altars, underscores its prominence in northern Belize, rivaling the corpora of sites such as Nim li Puni…
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