Vernon Scarborough
Biographic Data
| ID | 239645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vernon Scarborough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vernon |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarborough |
| SIGNATURE | SCARBOROUGH V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology
Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water
Hisat'sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water Christian E. Downum (Editor) School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2012 196 pp. $59.95 Cloth, $24.95 PaperThis is a well-written and beautifully illustrated volume focusing on a relatively small but geographically diverse portion of the US Southwest-the Sin Agua culture area on the Mogollon Rim and immediately east of the San Francisco Peaks and present-day Flagstaff, Arizona. The f…
Diversity, Resiliency, and Ihope-Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present
How can the past inform the present? Archaeologists working though IHOPE-Maya seek to address this question by using archaeological data and ecological reconstructions to explore human-nature couplings. Maya archaeologists are revitalizing and contemporizing the field to focus on issues relevant today: the socio-natural boundary and the coupled human-nature dynamic. The ancient Maya occupied a diverse range of tropical environments that permits a…
The Archaeology of Sustainability: Mesoamerica
The role of human ecology in a Mesoamerican context requires both rigor and imagination to assess the sophistication and accomplishment of the many diverse groups sharing its varied resources. Three overlapping and complementary ecological orientations from recent literature found generally elsewhere—outside the culture area—are (1) resilience and vulnerability of communities and their landscapes, (2) economic tasking logics, and (3) complexity t…
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica . Christopher A. Pool
Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization
The conjunctive use of paleoecological and archaeological data to document past human-environment relationships has become a theoretical imperative in the study of ancient cultures. Geographers are playing leading roles in this scholarly effort. Synthesizing both types of data, we argue that large karst depressions known as bajos in the Maya Lowlands region were anthropogenically transformed from perennial wetlands and shallow lakes to seasonal s…
Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: Ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize
Forty-three years later these words still ring true, but are too seldom followed (Fedick 1996). For several years, we have been engaged in a multidisciplinary programme of research in northwestern Belize and neighbouring areas of Guatemala, eliciting a comprehensive, integrated picture of changing ancient Maya landscapes (Scarborough & Dunning 1996; Valdezet al.1997). Our goals include a reconstructive correlation of environmental and cultural hi…
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
The rubber-ball game is a characteristic feature of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization. Masonry courts designed for variants of the game are relatively common at lowland Maya sites of the Late Classic period (660–900 A.C.). Before this period, ballcourts are extremely rare in this region; the developmental history of the game, therefore, remains obscure. Two masonry courts dating to the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C.–150 A.C.) have been di…
Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization
The conjunctive use of paleoecological and archaeological data to document past human-environment relationships has become a theoretical imperative in the study of ancient cultures. Geographers are playing leading roles in this scholarly effort. Synthesizing both types of data, we argue that large karst depressions known as bajos in the Maya Lowlands region were anthropogenically transformed from perennial wetlands and shallow lakes to seasonal s…
Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: Ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize
Forty-three years later these words still ring true, but are too seldom followed (Fedick 1996). For several years, we have been engaged in a multidisciplinary programme of research in northwestern Belize and neighbouring areas of Guatemala, eliciting a comprehensive, integrated picture of changing ancient Maya landscapes (Scarborough & Dunning 1996; Valdezet al.1997). Our goals include a reconstructive correlation of environmental and cultural hi…
Diversity, Resiliency, and Ihope-Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present
How can the past inform the present? Archaeologists working though IHOPE-Maya seek to address this question by using archaeological data and ecological reconstructions to explore human-nature couplings. Maya archaeologists are revitalizing and contemporizing the field to focus on issues relevant today: the socio-natural boundary and the coupled human-nature dynamic. The ancient Maya occupied a diverse range of tropical environments that permits a…
The Archaeology of Sustainability: Mesoamerica
The role of human ecology in a Mesoamerican context requires both rigor and imagination to assess the sophistication and accomplishment of the many diverse groups sharing its varied resources. Three overlapping and complementary ecological orientations from recent literature found generally elsewhere—outside the culture area—are (1) resilience and vulnerability of communities and their landscapes, (2) economic tasking logics, and (3) complexity t…
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
The rubber-ball game is a characteristic feature of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization. Masonry courts designed for variants of the game are relatively common at lowland Maya sites of the Late Classic period (660–900 A.C.). Before this period, ballcourts are extremely rare in this region; the developmental history of the game, therefore, remains obscure. Two masonry courts dating to the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C.–150 A.C.) have been di…
Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water
Hisat'sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water Christian E. Downum (Editor) School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2012 196 pp. $59.95 Cloth, $24.95 PaperThis is a well-written and beautifully illustrated volume focusing on a relatively small but geographically diverse portion of the US Southwest-the Sin Agua culture area on the Mogollon Rim and immediately east of the San Francisco Peaks and present-day Flagstaff, Arizona. The f…
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
The rubber-ball game is a characteristic feature of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization. Masonry courts designed for variants of the game are relatively common at lowland Maya sites of the Late Classic period (660–900 A.C.). Before this period, ballcourts are extremely rare in this region; the developmental history of the game, therefore, remains obscure. Two masonry courts dating to the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C.–150 A.C.) have been di…
Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: Ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize
Forty-three years later these words still ring true, but are too seldom followed (Fedick 1996). For several years, we have been engaged in a multidisciplinary programme of research in northwestern Belize and neighbouring areas of Guatemala, eliciting a comprehensive, integrated picture of changing ancient Maya landscapes (Scarborough & Dunning 1996; Valdezet al.1997). Our goals include a reconstructive correlation of environmental and cultural hi…
Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization
The conjunctive use of paleoecological and archaeological data to document past human-environment relationships has become a theoretical imperative in the study of ancient cultures. Geographers are playing leading roles in this scholarly effort. Synthesizing both types of data, we argue that large karst depressions known as bajos in the Maya Lowlands region were anthropogenically transformed from perennial wetlands and shallow lakes to seasonal s…
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica . Christopher A. Pool
The Archaeology of Sustainability: Mesoamerica
The role of human ecology in a Mesoamerican context requires both rigor and imagination to assess the sophistication and accomplishment of the many diverse groups sharing its varied resources. Three overlapping and complementary ecological orientations from recent literature found generally elsewhere—outside the culture area—are (1) resilience and vulnerability of communities and their landscapes, (2) economic tasking logics, and (3) complexity t…
Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water
Hisat'sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water Christian E. Downum (Editor) School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2012 196 pp. $59.95 Cloth, $24.95 PaperThis is a well-written and beautifully illustrated volume focusing on a relatively small but geographically diverse portion of the US Southwest-the Sin Agua culture area on the Mogollon Rim and immediately east of the San Francisco Peaks and present-day Flagstaff, Arizona. The f…
Diversity, Resiliency, and Ihope-Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present
How can the past inform the present? Archaeologists working though IHOPE-Maya seek to address this question by using archaeological data and ecological reconstructions to explore human-nature couplings. Maya archaeologists are revitalizing and contemporizing the field to focus on issues relevant today: the socio-natural boundary and the coupled human-nature dynamic. The ancient Maya occupied a diverse range of tropical environments that permits a…
Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Maya (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)