D L Nichols

Biographic Data

ID3920
NAMED L Nichols
GIVEN NAMESD L
FAMILY NAMENichols
SIGNATURENICHOLS D L
AFFILIATIONSDartmouth College
ORCID0000-0001-9500-8299
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS390
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX12

  • A hierarchical typology of multimodal scientific writing in early primary grades

    Open AccessD L Nichols, Ted Neal et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    Introduction Scientific literacy in early education depends on both content knowledge and young learners' ability to organize and express scientific ideas across linguistic and visual-graphical modes. This integrative ability, known as multimodal competency, enables children to construct and communicate scientific understanding by coordinating text structure, language, and visual representation. Methods In this study, 1,705 science writing sample…

  • The Basin of Mexico: Revisiting Pre-Hispanic Population

    L J Gorenflo, Ian G Robertson et al.CHAPTERAncient Mesoamerican Population…2024

  • The risk of sleep-related death in an inclined sleep environment

    Open AccessLaura Sangaré, Laura R Sangaré et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    This novel analysis fills a longstanding gap in risk assessments of inclined infant sleep products. More timely risk analyses may improve the safety of the marketplace

  • Orange Ware production and exchange in formative central Mexico as an index of regionalization of pottery styles

    Open AccessWesley D Stoner, D L NicholsARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Cited by: 1References: 14

  • Learning to eRead: A qualitative exploration of young children's developing eReader practices

    Open AccessKelly L Schmitt, Lisa B Hurwitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Computer Assisted…2022

  • Jeffrey R. Parsons (October 9, 1939–march 19, 2021): A Regional Perspective…and Beyond

    Open AccessL J Gorenflo, D L Nichols et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2022

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  • Aztec Otumba, AD 1200-1600: Patterns of the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Ceramic Products

    Thomas H Charlton, Cynthia L Otis Charlton et al.CHAPTERPottery Economics in Mesoamerica2022

  • Closet Chickens

    Open AccessJ Watkins, D L NicholsCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Beyond Screen Time: A Synergistic Approach to a More Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure During Early Childhood

    Open AccessRebecca Barr, Rachel Barr et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2020

    Digital media availability has surged over the past decade. Because of a lack of comprehensive measurement tools, this rapid growth in access to digital media is accompanied by a scarcity of research examining the family media context and sociocognitive outcomes. There is also little cross-cultural research in families with young children. Modern media are mobile, interactive, and often short in duration, making them difficult to remember when ca…

  • George L. Cowgill, December 19, 1929–July 31, 2018

    Open AccessMichael E Smith, Oralia Cabrera Cortés et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2020References: 17

    George L. Cowgill had a major influence on the study of the ancient city of Teotihuacan and the development and promotion of quantitative methods in archaeology. His wit, teaching, and research influenced many in the profession. We draw on two published autobiographical works (Cowgill 2008a, 2013a), some unpublished autobiographical notes (Cowgill 1983), his many publications, and our own associations with George

  • Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archaeological Perspectives

    D L NicholsARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2020Cited by: 2

    Superior European technology is often uncritically invoked as key in the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica. Drawing on archaeological investigations that eschew the historic/pre-Hispanic dichotomy, this volume offers a sociomaterial approach to understand why some indigenous technologies changed little and others significantly with transfers, adaptations, and reconfigurations of Eurasian technologies. Editor Rani Alexander frames the volume with an…

  • Before Teotihuacan—altica, Exchange, Interactions, and the Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico

    Open AccessD L Nichols, Wesley D StonerARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2019Cited by: 8References: 66

    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

    Open AccessWesley D Stoner, D L NicholsARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2019Cited by: 7References: 58

    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: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico

    Open AccessWesley D Stoner, D L NicholsARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2019Cited by: 9References: 43

    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…

  • Closet Chickens

    Open AccessJ Watkins, D L NicholsCHAPTEREncyclopedia Of Global Archaeology2018

  • Rethinking Huitzilopochtli's Conquest: Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Social Theory, and the Aztecs of Mexico

    Open AccessD L NicholsARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2016Cited by: 1References: 36

    Elizabeth M. Brumfiel began work in Aztec studies by tackling nothing less than the economic symbiotic model of Aztec exchange and specialization. Her findings at Huexotla and Xico questioned this model and in its place Brumfiel focused on the politics of exchange and strategies of both state power and commoner households. Her long-term archaeological project at Xaltocan built on and expanded those themes by applying social theories to understand…

  • Teotihuacan

    Open AccessD L NicholsARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Research2015Cited by: 28References: 129

  • Intensive Agriculture and Early Complex Societies of the Basin of Mexico: The Formative Period

    Open AccessD L NicholsARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2015Cited by: 9References: 101

    Intensive agriculture was a key feature in the development of early complex societies in the Basin of Mexico. In this paper, I review the theoretical underpinnings of archaeological understandings of agriculture change, its relationship to culture change, and how these theoretical perspectives have shifted between top-down and bottom up perspectives. Next I examine current knowledge of intensive agriculture within the dynamic context of the Forma…

  • The emergence of Early-Middle Formative exchange patterns in Mesoamerica: A view from Altica in the Teotihuacan Valley

    Open AccessWesley D Stoner, D L Nichols et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2015Cited by: 21References: 30

  • Cerro Portezuelo: States and Hinterlands in the Pre-Hispanic Basin of Mexico

    Open AccessD L Nichols, Hector Neff et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2013Cited by: 19References: 74

    George Brainerd directed excavations at Cerro Portezuelo in the mid-1950s to understand the Classic to Postclassic transition and the questions he asked are still salient. We have undertaken a reanalysis of the artifacts, survey, and excavation data from Brainerd's project to better understand the nature of relations between the Early Classic period city of Teotihuacan, its immediate hinterlands, and the change from the Teotihuacan state system t…

  • Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends

    D L Nichols, Christopher A PoolCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of…2012

    This article provides an overview of recent trends in Mesoamerican archaeology. It discusses the various paradigms that have shaped the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. It describes the field's contributions to the understanding of human-environmental interactions, settlement-pattern research and cultural-resource management, ancient Mesoamerican economics and politics, society and polity, and beliefs and rituals. This is followed by a discussi…

  • Elizabeth M. Brumfiel (1945–2012)

    Open AccessJeffrey R Parsons, D L NicholsARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2012

    With Elizabeth Brumfiel's death on January 1, 2012, in Evanston, Illinois, anthropology lost one of its outstanding practitioners, a true generalist who pursued her long, productive, and distinguished career during a period that witnessed increasing subdisciplinary specialization.Her broad-based orientation demonstrated how a generalized perspective can provide the best foundation from which to make original and enduring contributions that speak …

  • Complementary Compositional Analysis of Formative Period Ceramics From the Teotihuacan Valley

    Open AccessBridget A Alex, D L Nichols et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2012Cited by: 9References: 29

    During the Classic Period, Teotihuacan was an economic centre of central Mexico, but little is known about the development of this system. This paper presents a pilot study in multi‐method analysis of Formative Period (1500/1400 bc – ad 150) ceramics from the Teotihuacan Valley. Pottery was characterized by instrumental neutron activation analysis, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, thermal ionization mass spectrometry a…

  • Thomas H. Charlton (1938–2010)

    Open AccessD L Nichols, Jeffrey R ParsonsARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2011

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  • Aztec Studies

    Open AccessD L Nichols, Susan Toby EvansARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2009Cited by: 3

    Aztec culture provides a gateway to Mesoamerican studies because it represents the connecting point between the pre-Hispanic past and the globalized present. Current research on the Aztecs comes from several disciplines: anthropology, history, art history, religion, and literature. The nearly fifty articles on the Aztecs published by Ancient Mesoamerica since its inception in 1990 encompass the various branches of Aztec scholarship. In this artic…