Andrew Sharpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 293284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Sharpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharpe |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3568-1734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Postclassic political conflict and isotope analysis in the central Peten lakes area, Guatemala
Isotopes of strontium, oxygen, and carbon were analyzed in human tooth enamel from two Postclassic sites in the central Peten lakes region, Guatemala, to examine patterns of mobility and diet during a time of social unrest. Excavations at both sites, Ixlu and Zacpeten, have revealed evidence for purposeful dismemberment and interment of individuals. This study examines a possible shrine surrounded by rows of skulls at Ixlu, and a mass grave of co…
Isotopic Evidence Supports Existence of Late Holocene Bison Herds in West Central New Mexico
Modern bison (Bison bison) populations have experienced dramatic shifts in the last millennium, resulting from climatic fluctuations, human settlement growth, and overhunting. While bison populations are rebounding in some parts of the Southwest, the original extent of their range in this region is not clear. In west central New Mexico, the presence of bison bones at Prehispanic sites could indicate the presence of local herds, but they could als…
Aproximación isotópica a las prácticas de lactancia y destete en tres sitios prehispánicos de Panamá
Research on breastfeeding and weaning practices has great potential in bioarchaeology, as it not only enables the analysis of cross-cultural diversity in these childrearing practices among different populations but also provides insights into how various factors-such as biological, sociocultural, environmental, demographic, and economic-affect these processes. This work represents the first study on infant feeding in pre-Hispanic populations of P…
An isotopic examination of Maya Preclassic and Classic animal and human diets at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines the carbon (δ13C), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes from the dental enamel of 63 animals and compares these data to the carbon signatures from 21 humans from the Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala. Comparing both domestic dogs and non-domestic species over a history spanning two millennia, we find that subsistence strategies and interregional relationships between Ceibal and other areas changed over time, likely b…
Assessing the diet of modern and archaeological guanacos from the Great Chaco in Córdoba, Argentina, through stable isotope analysis (δ 13 C, δ 15 N) of bone and dentin collagen: Implications for pale…
The application of stable isotope analyses allows a diachronic characterisation of species habitat and feeding behaviour, information of utmost importance for zooarchaeological research. In South America, the former distribution of the guanaco ( Lama guanicoe) encompassed a much larger territory than the current one. Within the Argentinean Great Chaco, only a small native population persists in Northwestern Córdoba province, Central Argentina, wh…
Lithic and Faunal Evidence for Craft Production Among the Middle Preclassic Maya at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines artifact production using lithic, animal bone, and shell materials at the lowland Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala, to explore the emergence and societal role of early crafting specialists. During the Middle Preclassic period (1000–350b.c.), ancient Maya society went through a critical transition to sedentary settlements, including the development of large-scale monumental construction endeavors for ceremonial activities, increa…
Radiocarbon dates of burials from Ceibal and other Pasión Maya sites, Guatemala, and the examination of freshwater reservoir effect through diet reconstruction
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change
Comparison of human and faunal enamel isotopes reveals diverse paleodiet and exchange patterns at the highland Maya Site of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala
This study provides an isotopic examination of both human and animal paleodiets and mobility patterns at a highland Maya community. Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, was a large Prehispanic center located in a distinctly cooler, drier setting compared with the majority of Maya sites in the surrounding lowlands. Previous archaeological research at Kaminaljuyu revealed it played an important political and economic role in the Maya region, assisting in the ob…
Dogs for the Gods, Fish for the Feast: The Ceremonial Role of Animals at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala
This study examines the ritual and socioeconomic significance of animals in ceremonial contexts at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala. Kaminaljuyu was once the largest and most politically powerful highland Maya center. We compare faunal remains from different contexts, including burials and dedicatory offerings in and around monumental features, to better understand the role of animals in these deposits. We then compare ceremonial activities across Mesoamer…
A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama
This study uses carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes to infer the diets and mobility patterns of pre-Columbian humans from seven archaeological sites in Panama: Cerro Mangote, Sitio Sierra, and Cerro Juan Díaz in central Pacific Panama; Cerro Brujo and Sitio Drago along Panama’s northwest Caribbean coast; Jicarita Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí; and Pedro González Island in the Gulf of Panama. Our init…
Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Classic Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala
Large material accumulations from single events found in the archaeological record are frequently defined as evidence of ritual. They are interpreted as generalized deposit categories that imply rather than infer human motivations. While useful in the initial collection of data, these categories can, over time, become interpretations in and of themselves. The emic motivations behind the formation process of ‘ritual deposits’ ought to be considere…
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobil…
Throughout much of the pre-Hispanic Andes, bioarchaeological and iconographic evidence shows that the decapitation, dismemberment, and display of human heads were important aspects of ritual practices. Researchers have debated about the social identities of these decapitated heads-were they revered local ancestors, non-local enemies captured in raids or war, or locals injured in distant combat partially repatriated for home burial-answers which h…
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar
The Ancient Shell Collectors: Two Millennia of Marine Shell Exchange at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines 2,000 years of marine trade to the ancient Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala. Located almost 150 kilometers from the nearest coast in Belize, Ceibal was a large community spanning the Middle Preclassic through early Postclassic periods (1000b.c.–a.d.1200). It therefore provides an excellent opportunity to assess the marine resources imported through the southern Maya lowlands over many centuries, offering insight into trade netwo…
Early Maya Ritual Practices and Craft Production: Late Middle Preclassic Ritual Deposits Containing Obsidian Artifacts at Ceibal, Guatemala
This article examines Preclassic Maya ritual practices and craft production by means of a study of ritual deposits containing obsidian artifacts dated mostly to the late Middle Preclassic period (700–350 b.c.) at Ceibal, Guatemala. New ritual practices developed at Ceibal during this period, possibly through political interactions and negotiation involving emerging elites and other diverse community members. Common objects in ritual deposits in t…
Public Ritual and Interregional Interactions: Excavations of the Central Plaza of Group A, Ceibal
The probable E-Group assemblage was a primary focus of our investigation at the lowland Maya center of Ceibal. Tunnel excavation into Structure A-20 (the western structure of this complex) demonstrated that the Ceibal residents built the earliest version (Structure Ajaw) by carving natural marl around 950b.c.The earliest version of the eastern platform (Structure Xa'an) was also made at the same time out of the natural marl layer. Through a serie…
Testing osteometric and morphological methods for turkey species determination in Maya faunal assemblages
Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru
Initial Spanish colonization of the Central Andes and efforts to transform indigenous society were highly dependent on local social and geographic conditions. In the Colca Valley of southern Peru, Franciscan friars established a series of doctrinas (settlements for the conversion and doctrinal instruction of the indigenous population) at former Inka imperial outposts during the mid-1540s. The inhabitants of one of thesedoctrinas-the site today kn…
Differential animal use within three Late Classic Maya states: Implications for politics and trade
Shifting Patterns of Maya Social Complexity through Time: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Results from San Bartolo, Guatemala
Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun 258 12.3.The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display 259 12.4.Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works 262 FIGURES xiv 12.5.A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang 12.6.Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead 12.7.Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin 13.1.Locations disc…
A Reexamination of the Birds in the Central Mexican Codices
Eduard Seler's 1909 analysis of the various birds and their associated symbolism in the Mexican codices is one of the most thorough undertakings of its kind; however, although numerous revelations have been made in the realm of codex research over the past century, no comprehensive attempt has been undergone to revise Seler's initial identifications. The present study reviews the major bird species from Seler's original essay. Seven codices from …
The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s
English Transgender Law Reform and the Spectre of Corbett
International Comparisons of Trends in Economic Well-being
Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy: Review and Agenda for Research
Early Maya Ritual Practices and Craft Production: Late Middle Preclassic Ritual Deposits Containing Obsidian Artifacts at Ceibal, Guatemala
This article examines Preclassic Maya ritual practices and craft production by means of a study of ritual deposits containing obsidian artifacts dated mostly to the late Middle Preclassic period (700–350 b.c.) at Ceibal, Guatemala. New ritual practices developed at Ceibal during this period, possibly through political interactions and negotiation involving emerging elites and other diverse community members. Common objects in ritual deposits in t…
Public Ritual and Interregional Interactions: Excavations of the Central Plaza of Group A, Ceibal
The probable E-Group assemblage was a primary focus of our investigation at the lowland Maya center of Ceibal. Tunnel excavation into Structure A-20 (the western structure of this complex) demonstrated that the Ceibal residents built the earliest version (Structure Ajaw) by carving natural marl around 950b.c.The earliest version of the eastern platform (Structure Xa'an) was also made at the same time out of the natural marl layer. Through a serie…
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar
Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru
Initial Spanish colonization of the Central Andes and efforts to transform indigenous society were highly dependent on local social and geographic conditions. In the Colca Valley of southern Peru, Franciscan friars established a series of doctrinas (settlements for the conversion and doctrinal instruction of the indigenous population) at former Inka imperial outposts during the mid-1540s. The inhabitants of one of thesedoctrinas-the site today kn…
Differential animal use within three Late Classic Maya states: Implications for politics and trade
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobil…
Throughout much of the pre-Hispanic Andes, bioarchaeological and iconographic evidence shows that the decapitation, dismemberment, and display of human heads were important aspects of ritual practices. Researchers have debated about the social identities of these decapitated heads-were they revered local ancestors, non-local enemies captured in raids or war, or locals injured in distant combat partially repatriated for home burial-answers which h…
English Transgender Law Reform and the Spectre of Corbett
Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy: Review and Agenda for Research
Les indices de qualité de vie et les politiques publiques: Revue de la littérature et perspectives de recherche. Plusieurs gouvernements et institutions publiques ont développé des indices de qualité de vie, indices statistiques destinés à établir une mesure de la qualité de vie à l'échelon national ou régional. Nous utilisons 14 critères afin de déterminer la validité et l'utilité de tels indices à des fins de politiques publiques. Nous passons …
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change
Comparison of human and faunal enamel isotopes reveals diverse paleodiet and exchange patterns at the highland Maya Site of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala
This study provides an isotopic examination of both human and animal paleodiets and mobility patterns at a highland Maya community. Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, was a large Prehispanic center located in a distinctly cooler, drier setting compared with the majority of Maya sites in the surrounding lowlands. Previous archaeological research at Kaminaljuyu revealed it played an important political and economic role in the Maya region, assisting in the ob…
Dogs for the Gods, Fish for the Feast: The Ceremonial Role of Animals at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala
This study examines the ritual and socioeconomic significance of animals in ceremonial contexts at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala. Kaminaljuyu was once the largest and most politically powerful highland Maya center. We compare faunal remains from different contexts, including burials and dedicatory offerings in and around monumental features, to better understand the role of animals in these deposits. We then compare ceremonial activities across Mesoamer…
The Ancient Shell Collectors: Two Millennia of Marine Shell Exchange at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines 2,000 years of marine trade to the ancient Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala. Located almost 150 kilometers from the nearest coast in Belize, Ceibal was a large community spanning the Middle Preclassic through early Postclassic periods (1000b.c.–a.d.1200). It therefore provides an excellent opportunity to assess the marine resources imported through the southern Maya lowlands over many centuries, offering insight into trade netwo…
The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s
International Comparisons of Trends in Economic Well-being
A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama
This study uses carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes to infer the diets and mobility patterns of pre-Columbian humans from seven archaeological sites in Panama: Cerro Mangote, Sitio Sierra, and Cerro Juan Díaz in central Pacific Panama; Cerro Brujo and Sitio Drago along Panama’s northwest Caribbean coast; Jicarita Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí; and Pedro González Island in the Gulf of Panama. Our init…
A Reexamination of the Birds in the Central Mexican Codices
Eduard Seler's 1909 analysis of the various birds and their associated symbolism in the Mexican codices is one of the most thorough undertakings of its kind; however, although numerous revelations have been made in the realm of codex research over the past century, no comprehensive attempt has been undergone to revise Seler's initial identifications. The present study reviews the major bird species from Seler's original essay. Seven codices from …
Testing osteometric and morphological methods for turkey species determination in Maya faunal assemblages
Lithic and Faunal Evidence for Craft Production Among the Middle Preclassic Maya at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines artifact production using lithic, animal bone, and shell materials at the lowland Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala, to explore the emergence and societal role of early crafting specialists. During the Middle Preclassic period (1000–350b.c.), ancient Maya society went through a critical transition to sedentary settlements, including the development of large-scale monumental construction endeavors for ceremonial activities, increa…
Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Classic Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala
Large material accumulations from single events found in the archaeological record are frequently defined as evidence of ritual. They are interpreted as generalized deposit categories that imply rather than infer human motivations. While useful in the initial collection of data, these categories can, over time, become interpretations in and of themselves. The emic motivations behind the formation process of ‘ritual deposits’ ought to be considere…
TransgenderJurisprudence and theSpectre ofHomosexuality
Canada's Productivity Performance
Aproximación isotópica a las prácticas de lactancia y destete en tres sitios prehispánicos de Panamá
Research on breastfeeding and weaning practices has great potential in bioarchaeology, as it not only enables the analysis of cross-cultural diversity in these childrearing practices among different populations but also provides insights into how various factors-such as biological, sociocultural, environmental, demographic, and economic-affect these processes. This work represents the first study on infant feeding in pre-Hispanic populations of P…
An isotopic examination of Maya Preclassic and Classic animal and human diets at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines the carbon (δ13C), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes from the dental enamel of 63 animals and compares these data to the carbon signatures from 21 humans from the Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala. Comparing both domestic dogs and non-domestic species over a history spanning two millennia, we find that subsistence strategies and interregional relationships between Ceibal and other areas changed over time, likely b…
Youth Unemployment in Canada, 1976-1998
par la suite, et ce principalement chez les adolescents. (II) Cette forme est le résultat de deux phénomènes: une amélioration relative chez les non-étudiants vers la fin des années 70 et 80 ainsi qu’une détérioration relative, durant les années 90, chez les étudiants à temps plein se cherchant du travail à temps partiel. (III) Sans la taille décroissante de la cohorte des jeunes, le ratio du chômage jeunes-adultes aurait été susbtantiellement pl…
Canada's Productivity Performance
Vanishing Jobs: Canada's Changing Workplaces
Pat Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism
Pat Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism." Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 9(3), pp. 341–342
Youth Unemployment in Canada, 1976-1998
par la suite, et ce principalement chez les adolescents. (II) Cette forme est le résultat de deux phénomènes: une amélioration relative chez les non-étudiants vers la fin des années 70 et 80 ainsi qu’une détérioration relative, durant les années 90, chez les étudiants à temps plein se cherchant du travail à temps partiel. (III) Sans la taille décroissante de la cohorte des jeunes, le ratio du chômage jeunes-adultes aurait été susbtantiellement pl…
Fiscal Targets and Economic Growth
TransgenderJurisprudence and theSpectre ofHomosexuality
Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy: Review and Agenda for Research
Les indices de qualité de vie et les politiques publiques: Revue de la littérature et perspectives de recherche. Plusieurs gouvernements et institutions publiques ont développé des indices de qualité de vie, indices statistiques destinés à établir une mesure de la qualité de vie à l'échelon national ou régional. Nous utilisons 14 critères afin de déterminer la validité et l'utilité de tels indices à des fins de politiques publiques. Nous passons …
Quality of Life Indexes for National Policy: Review and Agenda for Research
English Transgender Law Reform and the Spectre of Corbett
International Comparisons of Trends in Economic Well-being
The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s
Shifting Patterns of Maya Social Complexity through Time: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Results from San Bartolo, Guatemala
Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun 258 12.3.The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display 259 12.4.Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works 262 FIGURES xiv 12.5.A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang 12.6.Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead 12.7.Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin 13.1.Locations disc…
A Reexamination of the Birds in the Central Mexican Codices
Eduard Seler's 1909 analysis of the various birds and their associated symbolism in the Mexican codices is one of the most thorough undertakings of its kind; however, although numerous revelations have been made in the realm of codex research over the past century, no comprehensive attempt has been undergone to revise Seler's initial identifications. The present study reviews the major bird species from Seler's original essay. Seven codices from …
Differential animal use within three Late Classic Maya states: Implications for politics and trade
Testing osteometric and morphological methods for turkey species determination in Maya faunal assemblages
Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru
Initial Spanish colonization of the Central Andes and efforts to transform indigenous society were highly dependent on local social and geographic conditions. In the Colca Valley of southern Peru, Franciscan friars established a series of doctrinas (settlements for the conversion and doctrinal instruction of the indigenous population) at former Inka imperial outposts during the mid-1540s. The inhabitants of one of thesedoctrinas-the site today kn…
Early Maya Ritual Practices and Craft Production: Late Middle Preclassic Ritual Deposits Containing Obsidian Artifacts at Ceibal, Guatemala
This article examines Preclassic Maya ritual practices and craft production by means of a study of ritual deposits containing obsidian artifacts dated mostly to the late Middle Preclassic period (700–350 b.c.) at Ceibal, Guatemala. New ritual practices developed at Ceibal during this period, possibly through political interactions and negotiation involving emerging elites and other diverse community members. Common objects in ritual deposits in t…
Public Ritual and Interregional Interactions: Excavations of the Central Plaza of Group A, Ceibal
The probable E-Group assemblage was a primary focus of our investigation at the lowland Maya center of Ceibal. Tunnel excavation into Structure A-20 (the western structure of this complex) demonstrated that the Ceibal residents built the earliest version (Structure Ajaw) by carving natural marl around 950b.c.The earliest version of the eastern platform (Structure Xa'an) was also made at the same time out of the natural marl layer. Through a serie…
The Ancient Shell Collectors: Two Millennia of Marine Shell Exchange at Ceibal, Guatemala
This study examines 2,000 years of marine trade to the ancient Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala. Located almost 150 kilometers from the nearest coast in Belize, Ceibal was a large community spanning the Middle Preclassic through early Postclassic periods (1000b.c.–a.d.1200). It therefore provides an excellent opportunity to assess the marine resources imported through the southern Maya lowlands over many centuries, offering insight into trade netwo…
A preliminary multi-isotope assessment of human mobility and diet in pre-Columbian Panama
This study uses carbon (δ13C), nitrogen (δ15N), oxygen (δ18O), and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotopes to infer the diets and mobility patterns of pre-Columbian humans from seven archaeological sites in Panama: Cerro Mangote, Sitio Sierra, and Cerro Juan Díaz in central Pacific Panama; Cerro Brujo and Sitio Drago along Panama’s northwest Caribbean coast; Jicarita Island in the Gulf of Chiriquí; and Pedro González Island in the Gulf of Panama. Our init…
Revisiting the Past: Material Negotiations between the Classic Maya and an Entombed Sweat Bath at Xultun, Guatemala
Large material accumulations from single events found in the archaeological record are frequently defined as evidence of ritual. They are interpreted as generalized deposit categories that imply rather than infer human motivations. While useful in the initial collection of data, these categories can, over time, become interpretations in and of themselves. The emic motivations behind the formation process of ‘ritual deposits’ ought to be considere…
Non-Local Enemies or Local Subjects of Violence: Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and Lead (206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb) Isobiographies to Reconstruct Geographic Origins and Early Childhood Mobil…
Throughout much of the pre-Hispanic Andes, bioarchaeological and iconographic evidence shows that the decapitation, dismemberment, and display of human heads were important aspects of ritual practices. Researchers have debated about the social identities of these decapitated heads-were they revered local ancestors, non-local enemies captured in raids or war, or locals injured in distant combat partially repatriated for home burial-answers which h…
Origins and spread of formal ceremonial complexes in the Olmec and Maya regions revealed by airborne lidar
Radiocarbon dates of burials from Ceibal and other Pasión Maya sites, Guatemala, and the examination of freshwater reservoir effect through diet reconstruction
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change
Geography (21 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Biology (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Maya (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works)