Wesley D Stoner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley D Stoner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley D |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoner |
| SIGNATURE | STONER W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 192 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Object-based image analysis for semi-automated detection of pre-hispanic gridded canal networks in Veracruz, Mexico
Pottery production and Granular White imports at Late Formative San José Cuautitlan
This study centers on a sample of ceramics ( n = 37) from the site of San José Cuautitlan and contextualized within a much larger database of Formative ceramics ( n = 1242), mostly from greater central Mexico. The sample was assayed through neutron activation analysis (NAA), with a subsample made into thin sections for petrographic analysis. In this article, we (1) situate the sample from San José within the longer history of ceramic traditions o…
Orange Ware production and exchange in formative central Mexico as an index of regionalization of pottery styles
Mixed Governance Principles in the Gulf Lowlands of Mesoamerica
With antecedents reaching back to the Olmec era (1500–600 BCE), complex societies from CE 300–900/1000 in the Gulf lowlands display architectural and material culture indications of both authoritarian and collective governance principles over two large areas, each with a distinctive version of a common architectural layout. The two areas include multiple polities adhering to particular layouts of structures providing key urban services. Our infor…
Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz
Comparing three sample preparation techniques for portable X-ray fluorescence
Between land and water
Before Teotihuacan—altica, Exchange, Interactions, and the Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico
For several decades, little research has been directed towards understanding the beginnings of complex society in the Teotihuacan Valley. Recent archaeological investigations at the Early–Middle Formative site of Altica provide a fresh perspective on dating the initial establishment of agricultural villages, early social and economic differentiation, and the development of intra-and interregional exchange networks to test comparative models of po…
Pottery Trade and the Formation of Early and Middle Formative Style Horizons as Seen From Central Mexico
We explore the relationship between long-distance pottery trade and the formation of Early and Middle Formative style horizons in Mesoamerica. A sample of 1,154 ceramics mostly from Early and Middle Formative contexts in the central Mexican highlands was irradiated at the University of Missouri Research Reactor with a subsample (n = 313) for petrographic analysis. We conclude that: (1) most sites and regions display more than one process for maki…
The Altica Project
The Altica Project that began in 2014 is an important step in addressing over two decades of limited problem-oriented research at Formative sites in the Basin of Mexico. Through this research, we demonstrate that Altica is the earliest known settled village in the Teotihuacan Valley and one of the only first-farming village sites in the Basin of Mexico that has not been engulfed by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. It represents the northward spre…
Risk, agricultural intensification, political administration, and collapse in the classic period gulf lowlands
Watching the Game
The ballgame, played in an open-air public facility, was an integral institution for most major Mesoamerican centers. Although its social roles likely included political and social mediation among polities or communities, who could witness a game? Our estimates of the numbers of viewers derive from lines of sight toward the playing alley from nearby construction and plazas or other open ground. Focusing on centers in south-central and southern Ve…
The analytical nexus of ceramic paste composition studies
The Trade in Cooking Pots Under the Aztec and Spanish Empires
Elizabeth Brumfiel studied the local production and exchange of pottery in Xaltocan as part of her ongoing efforts to study the link between women's work and political change. We give continuity to Brumfiel's work by presenting a chemical characterization study of Plain Ware and lead-glazed earthenware in Xaltocan, Mexico. These wares were mostly used by women for cooking and storage. The pattern shows that the people of Postclassic Xaltocan incr…
The Archaeology of Disjuncture
Reconstructing human interaction systems has been a major objective of archaeological research, but we have typically examined the topic in a conceptually limited manner. Most studies have-intentionally or unintentionally-focused on how trade, communication, conquest, and migration foster cultural similarities over long distances. It has largely been a positivistic endeavor that exclusively features groups linked through a single network but glos…
The emergence of Early-Middle Formative exchange patterns in Mesoamerica
Trade, tribute, and neutron activation
Taken with a Grain of Salt
Interpolity Pottery Exchange in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
Neutron activation analysis (NAA) of Coarse Orange jars demonstrates economic exchange among the Classic period political capitals of Totocapan, Matacapan, and Teotepec in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Matacapan, in particular, displays evidence of intensive pottery production at large workshops at the southern margin of the site. Comoapan (Area 411) and Area 199 present configurations of kilns, ceramic densities, and assembl…
Modeling and testing polity boundaries in the Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
The forest or the trees? Behavioral and methodological considerations for geochemical characterization of heavily-tempered ceramic pastes using NAA and LA-ICP-MS
Merging the social and the material
This article proposes a way to bridge the chasm dividing archaeological studies of material properties and materials analyses from those of materiality, i.e. the mutually constitutive relationships between people and objects. This approach is demonstrated through the reconstruction of the life histories of curated figurines from Xaltocan, Mexico. Critical to this inquiry is an understanding of the material properties of the figurines - including …
Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the Southeastern United States
Excavations at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring complex in Georgia produced a voluminous assemblage of St. Simons pottery and a small amount of pottery that appears to be of the Thom's Creek type. Known mainly from South Carolina, Thom's Creek ceramics have not been found this far south along the Georgia Coast (Williams and Thompson 1999:125–126). In this study, we investigate whether the ceramics found at Sapelo are more closely related to South Car…
Exchange of Coarse Orange pottery in the Middle Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
But Robert, Where Did the Pots Go? Ceramic Exchange and the Economy of Ancient Matacapan
Among Robert Santley's major contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology was the modeling of ancient economic systems. In particular, Santley proposed that the economies of Teotihuacan's dependents were organized as dendritic central-place systems geared toward the bulking and export of goods and materials. Ceramic production and exchange figured prominently in Santley's dendritic model for the economy of Matacapan and the Tuxtla Mountains. In this…
Exchange of Coarse Orange pottery in the Middle Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
The emergence of Early-Middle Formative exchange patterns in Mesoamerica
The analytical nexus of ceramic paste composition studies
Risk, agricultural intensification, political administration, and collapse in the classic period gulf lowlands
The Archaeology of Disjuncture
Reconstructing human interaction systems has been a major objective of archaeological research, but we have typically examined the topic in a conceptually limited manner. Most studies have-intentionally or unintentionally-focused on how trade, communication, conquest, and migration foster cultural similarities over long distances. It has largely been a positivistic endeavor that exclusively features groups linked through a single network but glos…
The forest or the trees? Behavioral and methodological considerations for geochemical characterization of heavily-tempered ceramic pastes using NAA and LA-ICP-MS
Watching the Game
The ballgame, played in an open-air public facility, was an integral institution for most major Mesoamerican centers. Although its social roles likely included political and social mediation among polities or communities, who could witness a game? Our estimates of the numbers of viewers derive from lines of sight toward the playing alley from nearby construction and plazas or other open ground. Focusing on centers in south-central and southern Ve…
Taken with a Grain of Salt
The Altica Project
The Altica Project that began in 2014 is an important step in addressing over two decades of limited problem-oriented research at Formative sites in the Basin of Mexico. Through this research, we demonstrate that Altica is the earliest known settled village in the Teotihuacan Valley and one of the only first-farming village sites in the Basin of Mexico that has not been engulfed by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. It represents the northward spre…
Interpolity Pottery Exchange in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
Neutron activation analysis (NAA) of Coarse Orange jars demonstrates economic exchange among the Classic period political capitals of Totocapan, Matacapan, and Teotepec in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Matacapan, in particular, displays evidence of intensive pottery production at large workshops at the southern margin of the site. Comoapan (Area 411) and Area 199 present configurations of kilns, ceramic densities, and assembl…
Merging the social and the material
This article proposes a way to bridge the chasm dividing archaeological studies of material properties and materials analyses from those of materiality, i.e. the mutually constitutive relationships between people and objects. This approach is demonstrated through the reconstruction of the life histories of curated figurines from Xaltocan, Mexico. Critical to this inquiry is an understanding of the material properties of the figurines - including …
Before Teotihuacan—altica, Exchange, Interactions, and the Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico
For several decades, little research has been directed towards understanding the beginnings of complex society in the Teotihuacan Valley. Recent archaeological investigations at the Early–Middle Formative site of Altica provide a fresh perspective on dating the initial establishment of agricultural villages, early social and economic differentiation, and the development of intra-and interregional exchange networks to test comparative models of po…
Between land and water
Pottery Trade and the Formation of Early and Middle Formative Style Horizons as Seen From Central Mexico
We explore the relationship between long-distance pottery trade and the formation of Early and Middle Formative style horizons in Mesoamerica. A sample of 1,154 ceramics mostly from Early and Middle Formative contexts in the central Mexican highlands was irradiated at the University of Missouri Research Reactor with a subsample (n = 313) for petrographic analysis. We conclude that: (1) most sites and regions display more than one process for maki…
Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the Southeastern United States
Excavations at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring complex in Georgia produced a voluminous assemblage of St. Simons pottery and a small amount of pottery that appears to be of the Thom's Creek type. Known mainly from South Carolina, Thom's Creek ceramics have not been found this far south along the Georgia Coast (Williams and Thompson 1999:125–126). In this study, we investigate whether the ceramics found at Sapelo are more closely related to South Car…
The Trade in Cooking Pots Under the Aztec and Spanish Empires
Elizabeth Brumfiel studied the local production and exchange of pottery in Xaltocan as part of her ongoing efforts to study the link between women's work and political change. We give continuity to Brumfiel's work by presenting a chemical characterization study of Plain Ware and lead-glazed earthenware in Xaltocan, Mexico. These wares were mostly used by women for cooking and storage. The pattern shows that the people of Postclassic Xaltocan incr…
Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz
Orange Ware production and exchange in formative central Mexico as an index of regionalization of pottery styles
Mixed Governance Principles in the Gulf Lowlands of Mesoamerica
With antecedents reaching back to the Olmec era (1500–600 BCE), complex societies from CE 300–900/1000 in the Gulf lowlands display architectural and material culture indications of both authoritarian and collective governance principles over two large areas, each with a distinctive version of a common architectural layout. The two areas include multiple polities adhering to particular layouts of structures providing key urban services. Our infor…
Comparing three sample preparation techniques for portable X-ray fluorescence
Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the Southeastern United States
Excavations at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring complex in Georgia produced a voluminous assemblage of St. Simons pottery and a small amount of pottery that appears to be of the Thom's Creek type. Known mainly from South Carolina, Thom's Creek ceramics have not been found this far south along the Georgia Coast (Williams and Thompson 1999:125–126). In this study, we investigate whether the ceramics found at Sapelo are more closely related to South Car…
Exchange of Coarse Orange pottery in the Middle Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
But Robert, Where Did the Pots Go? Ceramic Exchange and the Economy of Ancient Matacapan
Among Robert Santley's major contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology was the modeling of ancient economic systems. In particular, Santley proposed that the economies of Teotihuacan's dependents were organized as dendritic central-place systems geared toward the bulking and export of goods and materials. Ceramic production and exchange figured prominently in Santley's dendritic model for the economy of Matacapan and the Tuxtla Mountains. In this…
Merging the social and the material
This article proposes a way to bridge the chasm dividing archaeological studies of material properties and materials analyses from those of materiality, i.e. the mutually constitutive relationships between people and objects. This approach is demonstrated through the reconstruction of the life histories of curated figurines from Xaltocan, Mexico. Critical to this inquiry is an understanding of the material properties of the figurines - including …
Modeling and testing polity boundaries in the Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
The forest or the trees? Behavioral and methodological considerations for geochemical characterization of heavily-tempered ceramic pastes using NAA and LA-ICP-MS
Trade, tribute, and neutron activation
Taken with a Grain of Salt
Interpolity Pottery Exchange in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
Neutron activation analysis (NAA) of Coarse Orange jars demonstrates economic exchange among the Classic period political capitals of Totocapan, Matacapan, and Teotepec in the Tuxtla Mountains of southern Veracruz, Mexico. Matacapan, in particular, displays evidence of intensive pottery production at large workshops at the southern margin of the site. Comoapan (Area 411) and Area 199 present configurations of kilns, ceramic densities, and assembl…
The Archaeology of Disjuncture
Reconstructing human interaction systems has been a major objective of archaeological research, but we have typically examined the topic in a conceptually limited manner. Most studies have-intentionally or unintentionally-focused on how trade, communication, conquest, and migration foster cultural similarities over long distances. It has largely been a positivistic endeavor that exclusively features groups linked through a single network but glos…
The emergence of Early-Middle Formative exchange patterns in Mesoamerica
The analytical nexus of ceramic paste composition studies
The Trade in Cooking Pots Under the Aztec and Spanish Empires
Elizabeth Brumfiel studied the local production and exchange of pottery in Xaltocan as part of her ongoing efforts to study the link between women's work and political change. We give continuity to Brumfiel's work by presenting a chemical characterization study of Plain Ware and lead-glazed earthenware in Xaltocan, Mexico. These wares were mostly used by women for cooking and storage. The pattern shows that the people of Postclassic Xaltocan incr…
Risk, agricultural intensification, political administration, and collapse in the classic period gulf lowlands
Watching the Game
The ballgame, played in an open-air public facility, was an integral institution for most major Mesoamerican centers. Although its social roles likely included political and social mediation among polities or communities, who could witness a game? Our estimates of the numbers of viewers derive from lines of sight toward the playing alley from nearby construction and plazas or other open ground. Focusing on centers in south-central and southern Ve…
Before Teotihuacan—altica, Exchange, Interactions, and the Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico
For several decades, little research has been directed towards understanding the beginnings of complex society in the Teotihuacan Valley. Recent archaeological investigations at the Early–Middle Formative site of Altica provide a fresh perspective on dating the initial establishment of agricultural villages, early social and economic differentiation, and the development of intra-and interregional exchange networks to test comparative models of po…
Pottery Trade and the Formation of Early and Middle Formative Style Horizons as Seen From Central Mexico
We explore the relationship between long-distance pottery trade and the formation of Early and Middle Formative style horizons in Mesoamerica. A sample of 1,154 ceramics mostly from Early and Middle Formative contexts in the central Mexican highlands was irradiated at the University of Missouri Research Reactor with a subsample (n = 313) for petrographic analysis. We conclude that: (1) most sites and regions display more than one process for maki…
The Altica Project
The Altica Project that began in 2014 is an important step in addressing over two decades of limited problem-oriented research at Formative sites in the Basin of Mexico. Through this research, we demonstrate that Altica is the earliest known settled village in the Teotihuacan Valley and one of the only first-farming village sites in the Basin of Mexico that has not been engulfed by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. It represents the northward spre…
Comparing three sample preparation techniques for portable X-ray fluorescence
Between land and water
Mixed Governance Principles in the Gulf Lowlands of Mesoamerica
With antecedents reaching back to the Olmec era (1500–600 BCE), complex societies from CE 300–900/1000 in the Gulf lowlands display architectural and material culture indications of both authoritarian and collective governance principles over two large areas, each with a distinctive version of a common architectural layout. The two areas include multiple polities adhering to particular layouts of structures providing key urban services. Our infor…
Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz
Orange Ware production and exchange in formative central Mexico as an index of regionalization of pottery styles
Pottery production and Granular White imports at Late Formative San José Cuautitlan
This study centers on a sample of ceramics ( n = 37) from the site of San José Cuautitlan and contextualized within a much larger database of Formative ceramics ( n = 1242), mostly from greater central Mexico. The sample was assayed through neutron activation analysis (NAA), with a subsample made into thin sections for petrographic analysis. In this article, we (1) situate the sample from San José within the longer history of ceramic traditions o…
Object-based image analysis for semi-automated detection of pre-hispanic gridded canal networks in Veracruz, Mexico
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 works) · Archaeology (21 works) · Geography (20 works) · Pottery (10 works) · History (9 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Latin American history and culture (8 works) · Mesoamerica (8 works) · Political science (8 works)