D Gillespie

Biographic Data

ID	3781
NAME	D Gillespie
GIVEN NAMES	D
FAMILY NAME	Gillespie
SIGNATURE	GILLESPIE D
AFFILIATIONS	University of Florida
ORCID	0000-0002-6697-4268
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	63
TOTAL CITATIONS	259
AUTHOR COUNT	63
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	7

Blocks, Bricks, and Material Practices of Intersubjectification at Pre-Columbian La Venta, Mexico
D Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2025References: 39
La Venta, a Middle Formative period (ca. 800–400 BC) Olmec regional center on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is famous for its ritual deposits of thousands of stacked serpentine blocks. These hypertrophic “massive offerings” were treated as evidence for an elite group who controlled this wealth and commanded the labor of countless commoners. The early appearance of social inequality evident by these greenstone objects provides an opportunity to investigate…
An archaeological evaluation of the Olmec “royal tombs” at La Venta, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Michael VolkARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2023Cited by: 1References: 16
At La Venta, Mexico, the Middle Formative Olmec regional center, the existence of individual leaders is interpreted from the evidence of monumental stone portraiture and several tombs believed to house the bodies of a sequence of kings late in La Venta's history. The status of these latter features as graves, however, has been debated since soon after they were excavated in the 1940s, especially because they generally lacked osteological material…
An archaeological evaluation of the Olmec “Royal Tombs” at La Venta, Mexico – Corrigendum
Open AccessD Gillespie, Michael VolkARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2023References: 1
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History
D Gillespie, Susan D GillespieBOOKAztec Kings2022
Jackson, Sarah E: Politics of the Maya Court. Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period
D Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAnthropos2014
Anthropos , Seite 701 - 702
A 3d model of Complex A, La Venta, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEDigital Applications in…2014Cited by: 5References: 6
Aspectos corporativos de la persona (personhood) y la encarnación (embodiment) entre los mayas del período clásico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEEstudios de Cultura Maya2013
Estudios recientes han clasificado la diversidad cultural de Mesoamérica según dos estrategias político-económicas opuestas. En la estrategia de red el poder es ejercido por individuos, mientras en la estrategia corporativa el poder es compartido entre grupos corporativos grandes. Se piensa que la civilización maya del periodo Clásico desarrolló la estrategia de red, mientras que Teotihuacan aprovechó la estrategia corporativa. Se considera como …
Early monumentality in North America: Another comparative perspective for Africa
D Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2013Cited by: 4References: 15
This article briefly considers early monumental constructions in North America, including Mesoamerica, presenting similarities and differences with the African examples in this special issue. Comparing monumentality in Africa with another major world area expands the potential types of archaeologically visible processes involved in building monumental or quasi-monumental structures, while still recognising their different material and historical …
Archaeological Drawings as Re-Presentations: The Maps of Complex A, La Venta, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLELatin American Antiquity2011Cited by: 8References: 55
Scientific drawings, including maps, are increasingly recognized as theory-laden media for conveying information. The degree to which this quality impacts archaeological interpretations is revealed in the history of the published maps of La Venta, a Formative period Mesoamerican regional center. La Venta is pivotal to understanding the Olmec culture of Mexico's Gulf Coast, yet archaeological knowledge is based primarily on one small portion of th…
HIV infection and contraceptive need among female Ethiopian voluntary HIV counseling and testing clients
Heather Bradley, Amy O Tsui et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2010
Despite political endorsement of voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT), and family planning integration in Ethiopia, little is known about the reproductive health needs of VCT clients. We estimated contraceptive prevalence and need among 646 Ethiopian female VCT clients. We compared socio-demographic characteristics of contracepting VCT clients to those with unmet need and examined how these characteristics are associated with having unmet c…
Maya Memory Work
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2010Cited by: 19References: 78
The critical role of social or collective memory in ongoing processes of societal reproduction and transformation is well acknowledged by anthropologists and is being increasingly modeled in archaeological interpretations as well. Investigating how social memory impacted the materialities and historical trajectories of the Maya civilization has great potential for advancing archaeological methodologies as well as enlarging our knowledge of the Ma…
Inside and Outside: Residential Burial at Formative Period Chalcatzingo, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2010Cited by: 4References: 18
At Chalcatzingo, Mexico, an early regional center, the common location for burials was under house floors, but some high-status burials occurred in more open spaces. These latter were also residential burials, interred within the landed domain of social units. Although both "inside" and "outside" burials drew on claims of ancestral continuity, it is important to explore the differences they entailed. Investigating how repeated mortuary practices …
The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule
D Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2010
The tira was a pictographic book painted on a strip of bark paper and used in late pre-Hispanic Mexico especially to record dynastic information for important cities. Tepechpan, however, was a minor settlement in the Aztec realm, under the hegemony of a major capital, Tetzcoco. How and why Tepechpan elites used the tira format to assert their claims to political legitimacy in reference to both pre-Hispanic Aztec and colonial Spanish domains is th…
Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution by Nicole Boivin
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2010
Janaab' Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler - Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2008
Archeology Division
Open AccessLisa J Lucero, Jerry D Moore et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Archeology Division
Open AccessLisa J Lucero, D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Archeology Division
Open AccessLisa J Lucero, D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2006
Commentary: The Future of Archaeological Anthropology
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2003
Chapter 15. Archaeology Is Anthropology
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2003Cited by: 1References: 34
Chapter 1. Is Archaeology Anthropology
Open AccessD L Nichols, R A Joyce et al.ARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2003References: 26
Chapter 8. Teaching Archaeology as Anthropology
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2003Cited by: 1References: 25
Middle Formative Domestic Ritual at Chalcatzingo, Morelos
David C Grove, D Gillespie et al.CHAPTERDomestic Ritual in Ancient…2002
Chapter 4. Body and Soul among the Maya: Keeping the Spirits in Place
Open AccessD GillespieARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2002Cited by: 28References: 33
The prehispanic Maya are known to have commonly interred their dead beneath the floors or within the platforms of domestic structures. This custom has been interpreted as part of a larger complex of rituals and beliefs associated with ancestor veneration. By continually curating the bones of deceased family members within their own domestic space, the surviving members of the household may have strengthened their rights to material property belie…
Archeology Division: Staley Book Prize Nominations Needed
Open AccessKenneth E Sassaman, D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2002

Rethinking Ancient Maya Social Organization: Replacing "Lineage" with "House
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2000Cited by: 100References: 89
Long-standing disagreements concerning prehispanic Maya kinship and social organization have focused on the nature of their corporate groups, generally presumed to have been lineages. Specific debates center on whether the lineages were patrilineal or incorporated some kind of double-descent reckoning, how descent was combined with locality to define a group, and the status of lineage-outsiders within a group. It is argued here that Maya social o…
Playing with Power: Ballcourts and Political Ritual in Southern Mesoamerica [and Comments and Reply]
John G Fox, Wendy Ashmore et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1996Cited by: 45
Chapter 4. Body and Soul among the Maya: Keeping the Spirits in Place
Open AccessD GillespieARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2002Cited by: 28References: 33
The prehispanic Maya are known to have commonly interred their dead beneath the floors or within the platforms of domestic structures. This custom has been interpreted as part of a larger complex of rituals and beliefs associated with ancestor veneration. By continually curating the bones of deceased family members within their own domestic space, the surviving members of the household may have strengthened their rights to material property belie…
Maya Memory Work
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2010Cited by: 19References: 78
The critical role of social or collective memory in ongoing processes of societal reproduction and transformation is well acknowledged by anthropologists and is being increasingly modeled in archaeological interpretations as well. Investigating how social memory impacted the materialities and historical trajectories of the Maya civilization has great potential for advancing archaeological methodologies as well as enlarging our knowledge of the Ma…
Archaeological Drawings as Re-Presentations: The Maps of Complex A, La Venta, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLELatin American Antiquity2011Cited by: 8References: 55
Scientific drawings, including maps, are increasingly recognized as theory-laden media for conveying information. The degree to which this quality impacts archaeological interpretations is revealed in the history of the published maps of La Venta, a Formative period Mesoamerican regional center. La Venta is pivotal to understanding the Olmec culture of Mexico's Gulf Coast, yet archaeological knowledge is based primarily on one small portion of th…
Llano del Jicaro: An Olmec monument workshop
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica1994Cited by: 8References: 2
Llano del Jícaro, Veracruz, is a workshop site where Olmec monuments were carved from exposed boulders of Cerro Cintepec basalt. The site, which lies in the hinterland of the major Olmec center of Laguna de los Cerros, was discovered in 1960 by Alfonso Medellín Zenil, who moved one of its unfinished monuments to the Museum of Anthropology in Jalapa. In 1991 more intensive archaeological investigations at Llano del Jícaro located nine additional b…
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History
Louise M Burkhart, D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1991Cited by: 8
Deity Relationships in Mesoamerican Cosmologies: The case of the Maya God L
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica1998Cited by: 7References: 43
The study of deity images in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artworks and pictographic texts has been dominated by a concern to classify them for identification of the individual gods. The usual approach has been taxonomic classification, emphasizing the attributes consistently shared by various images to distinguish them as members of a single class (i.e., a single deity). However, identifying criteria are shared by more than one deity class, and the…
Aztec and Maya Myths
D Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1995Cited by: 7
Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
D Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1994Cited by: 6
A 3d model of Complex A, La Venta, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEDigital Applications in…2014Cited by: 5References: 6
Early monumentality in North America: Another comparative perspective for Africa
D Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2013Cited by: 4References: 15
This article briefly considers early monumental constructions in North America, including Mesoamerica, presenting similarities and differences with the African examples in this special issue. Comparing monumentality in Africa with another major world area expands the potential types of archaeologically visible processes involved in building monumental or quasi-monumental structures, while still recognising their different material and historical …
Inside and Outside: Residential Burial at Formative Period Chalcatzingo, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2010Cited by: 4References: 18
At Chalcatzingo, Mexico, an early regional center, the common location for burials was under house floors, but some high-status burials occurred in more open spaces. These latter were also residential burials, interred within the landed domain of social units. Although both "inside" and "outside" burials drew on claims of ancestral continuity, it is important to explore the differences they entailed. Investigating how repeated mortuary practices …
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History
Jeffrey R Parsons, D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review1990Cited by: 4
The Rabbit on the Face of the Moon: Mythology in the Mesoamerican Tradition
D Gillespie, Susan Gillespie et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1998Cited by: 3
Eighteen essays provide an accessible, entertaining look into a system of millennia-old legends and beliefs.Mythology is one of the great creations of humankind. It forms the core of sacred books and reflects the deepest preoccupations of human beings, their most intimate secrets, their glories, and their infamies.In 1990, Alfredo Lopez Austin, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Mesoamerican thought, began a series of essays about mythology …
An archaeological evaluation of the Olmec “royal tombs” at La Venta, Mexico
Open AccessD Gillespie, Michael VolkARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2023Cited by: 1References: 16
At La Venta, Mexico, the Middle Formative Olmec regional center, the existence of individual leaders is interpreted from the evidence of monumental stone portraiture and several tombs believed to house the bodies of a sequence of kings late in La Venta's history. The status of these latter features as graves, however, has been debated since soon after they were excavated in the 1940s, especially because they generally lacked osteological material…
Chapter 15. Archaeology Is Anthropology
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D Gillespie et al.ARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2003Cited by: 1References: 34
Chapter 8. Teaching Archaeology as Anthropology
Open AccessD Gillespie, Susan D GillespieARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…2003Cited by: 1References: 25