Marc N Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 634726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc N Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc N |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8145-6402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Making the Mold: Replicating a Lost-Wax Casting Technique from Late Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
Lost-wax casting is a metallurgical technology that emerged independently in several regions of the ancient world. This general process is well understood, but less attention has been paid to variability in the particular methods, materials, and techniques utilized across cultures through time. Studies of this variability, and the reasoning behind it, can deepen our understanding of ancient technology, but also lead to a host of cultural insights…
Monte Alban's Hidden Past: Buried Buildings and Sociopolitical Transformation - Addendum
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Monte Albán's Hidden Past: Buried Buildings and Sociopolitical Transformation
In this article, we present the most significant results of the Monte Albán Geophysical Archaeology Project. Using ground-penetrating radar, gradiometry, and electrical resistance, we carried out a systematic survey of the site's Main Plaza to identify buried prehispanic features that might shed light on Monte Albán's early history. The most important discoveries include three buried structures dating between the Danibaan (500-300 BC) and Nisa ph…
Ceramic Molds for Mixtec Gold: A New Lost-Wax Casting Technique from Prehispanic Mexico
Economic growth in Mesoamerica: Obsidian consumption in the coastal lowlands
Polychrome Pottery Economics and Ritual Life in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
Tututepec was a regional capital that dominated much of southern Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1100-1522). This article synthesizes the results of compositional (neutron activation and petrography), stylistic, and iconographic analyses of pottery from commoner household excavations at Tututepec to address questions concerning ceramic production and distribution and also to shed light on aspects of political economy and …
Obsidian Reflections: Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoame
Obsidian Obsessed? Examining Patterns of Chipped-Stone Procurement at Late Postclassic Tututepec, Oaxaca
Political Transformations and the Everyday in Postclassic Oaxaca
We use excavations of low-status houses to explore Postclassic political and economic transformations in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Following the collapse of Classic period political institutions, commoners experienced greater economic and political autonomy. Residential excavations at Río Viejo indicate that commoners took advantage of the absence of regional authority to gain greater control over surplus craft products, especially cott…
Examining Ceramic Evidence for the Zapotec Imperialism Hypothesis in the Lower Río Verde Region of Oaxaca, Mexico
Anthropology: Unearthing the Human Experience
This is Chapter 7 of the comprehensive history of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, published in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science Annals vol. 4
Museum salvage: A case study of Mesoamerican artifacts in museum collections and on the antiquities market
Museum salvage refers to critical studies of museum collections with little or no provenience information that seek to glean useful archaeological information from these artifacts and examine the nature of their origins and possible connections to the illicit antiquities trade and the art market. Our case study focuses on artifacts from Mesoamerica and objects from the ancient capital of Teotihuacan in particular. We take a multi-scalar approach,…
Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. By Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions, eds
Shifting Patterns of Obsidian Exchange in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
In this paper, we present a diachronic analysis of obsidian procurement patterns during the Postclassic period in the Lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca. The study is based on x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and visual analysis of obsidian artifacts from excavated household contexts at Early Postclassic (a.d.800–1100) Río Viejo and Late Postclassic (a.d.1100–1522) Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa). We report the presence of at least six sources of obsidian imported t…
Negotiating Political Economy at Late Postclassic Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa), Oaxaca, Mexico
Scholarship of ancient Mesoamerica has traditionally focused on ruling institutions and elite culture, contributing to the often-unchallenged assumption that elites dominated their unwitting commoner subjects. Similarly, the political economy is typically conceived of as an exclusive product of elite strategies. Researchers are now paying greater attention to commoner lives, yet many continue to think of social relationships dichotomously, in ter…
Identifying Barriers to Emergency Contraception Use Among Young Women from Various Sociocultural Groups in British Columbia, Canada
Women's ability to benefit from emergency contraception is hampered by lack of knowledge and conservative cultural or social mores. Serious contextual and structural shifts are required before woman-centered approaches to provision of the method become the norm
Commoner Power: A Case Study from the Classic Period Collapse on the Oaxaca Coast
The Cambridge University Archaeological Expedition to Iran 1969, Excavations in the Zagros Mountains: Houmian, Mir Malas, and Barde Spid
R. H. Bewley, M. Levine, A. Leroi-Gourhan, C. Green, The Cambridge University Archaeological Expedition to Iran 1969, Excavations in the Zagros Mountains: Houmian, Mir Malas, and Barde Spid, Iran, Vol. 22 (1984), pp. 1-38
Commoner Power: A Case Study from the Classic Period Collapse on the Oaxaca Coast
Negotiating Political Economy at Late Postclassic Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa), Oaxaca, Mexico
Scholarship of ancient Mesoamerica has traditionally focused on ruling institutions and elite culture, contributing to the often-unchallenged assumption that elites dominated their unwitting commoner subjects. Similarly, the political economy is typically conceived of as an exclusive product of elite strategies. Researchers are now paying greater attention to commoner lives, yet many continue to think of social relationships dichotomously, in ter…
Shifting Patterns of Obsidian Exchange in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
In this paper, we present a diachronic analysis of obsidian procurement patterns during the Postclassic period in the Lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca. The study is based on x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and visual analysis of obsidian artifacts from excavated household contexts at Early Postclassic (a.d.800–1100) Río Viejo and Late Postclassic (a.d.1100–1522) Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa). We report the presence of at least six sources of obsidian imported t…
Identifying Barriers to Emergency Contraception Use Among Young Women from Various Sociocultural Groups in British Columbia, Canada
Women's ability to benefit from emergency contraception is hampered by lack of knowledge and conservative cultural or social mores. Serious contextual and structural shifts are required before woman-centered approaches to provision of the method become the norm
Political Transformations and the Everyday in Postclassic Oaxaca
We use excavations of low-status houses to explore Postclassic political and economic transformations in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Following the collapse of Classic period political institutions, commoners experienced greater economic and political autonomy. Residential excavations at Río Viejo indicate that commoners took advantage of the absence of regional authority to gain greater control over surplus craft products, especially cott…
The Cambridge University Archaeological Expedition to Iran 1969, Excavations in the Zagros Mountains: Houmian, Mir Malas, and Barde Spid
R. H. Bewley, M. Levine, A. Leroi-Gourhan, C. Green, The Cambridge University Archaeological Expedition to Iran 1969, Excavations in the Zagros Mountains: Houmian, Mir Malas, and Barde Spid, Iran, Vol. 22 (1984), pp. 1-38
Monte Albán's Hidden Past: Buried Buildings and Sociopolitical Transformation
In this article, we present the most significant results of the Monte Albán Geophysical Archaeology Project. Using ground-penetrating radar, gradiometry, and electrical resistance, we carried out a systematic survey of the site's Main Plaza to identify buried prehispanic features that might shed light on Monte Albán's early history. The most important discoveries include three buried structures dating between the Danibaan (500-300 BC) and Nisa ph…
Museum salvage: A case study of Mesoamerican artifacts in museum collections and on the antiquities market
Museum salvage refers to critical studies of museum collections with little or no provenience information that seek to glean useful archaeological information from these artifacts and examine the nature of their origins and possible connections to the illicit antiquities trade and the art market. Our case study focuses on artifacts from Mesoamerica and objects from the ancient capital of Teotihuacan in particular. We take a multi-scalar approach,…
Ceramic Molds for Mixtec Gold: A New Lost-Wax Casting Technique from Prehispanic Mexico
The Cambridge University Archaeological Expedition to Iran 1969, Excavations in the Zagros Mountains: Houmian, Mir Malas, and Barde Spid
R. H. Bewley, M. Levine, A. Leroi-Gourhan, C. Green, The Cambridge University Archaeological Expedition to Iran 1969, Excavations in the Zagros Mountains: Houmian, Mir Malas, and Barde Spid, Iran, Vol. 22 (1984), pp. 1-38
Commoner Power: A Case Study from the Classic Period Collapse on the Oaxaca Coast
Identifying Barriers to Emergency Contraception Use Among Young Women from Various Sociocultural Groups in British Columbia, Canada
Women's ability to benefit from emergency contraception is hampered by lack of knowledge and conservative cultural or social mores. Serious contextual and structural shifts are required before woman-centered approaches to provision of the method become the norm
Cave, City, and Eagle's Nest: An Interpretive Journey through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2. By Davíd Carrasco and Scott Sessions, eds
Shifting Patterns of Obsidian Exchange in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
In this paper, we present a diachronic analysis of obsidian procurement patterns during the Postclassic period in the Lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca. The study is based on x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and visual analysis of obsidian artifacts from excavated household contexts at Early Postclassic (a.d.800–1100) Río Viejo and Late Postclassic (a.d.1100–1522) Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa). We report the presence of at least six sources of obsidian imported t…
Negotiating Political Economy at Late Postclassic Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa), Oaxaca, Mexico
Scholarship of ancient Mesoamerica has traditionally focused on ruling institutions and elite culture, contributing to the often-unchallenged assumption that elites dominated their unwitting commoner subjects. Similarly, the political economy is typically conceived of as an exclusive product of elite strategies. Researchers are now paying greater attention to commoner lives, yet many continue to think of social relationships dichotomously, in ter…
Examining Ceramic Evidence for the Zapotec Imperialism Hypothesis in the Lower Río Verde Region of Oaxaca, Mexico
Anthropology: Unearthing the Human Experience
This is Chapter 7 of the comprehensive history of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, published in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science Annals vol. 4
Museum salvage: A case study of Mesoamerican artifacts in museum collections and on the antiquities market
Museum salvage refers to critical studies of museum collections with little or no provenience information that seek to glean useful archaeological information from these artifacts and examine the nature of their origins and possible connections to the illicit antiquities trade and the art market. Our case study focuses on artifacts from Mesoamerica and objects from the ancient capital of Teotihuacan in particular. We take a multi-scalar approach,…
Obsidian Reflections: Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoame
Obsidian Obsessed? Examining Patterns of Chipped-Stone Procurement at Late Postclassic Tututepec, Oaxaca
Political Transformations and the Everyday in Postclassic Oaxaca
We use excavations of low-status houses to explore Postclassic political and economic transformations in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Following the collapse of Classic period political institutions, commoners experienced greater economic and political autonomy. Residential excavations at Río Viejo indicate that commoners took advantage of the absence of regional authority to gain greater control over surplus craft products, especially cott…
Polychrome Pottery Economics and Ritual Life in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
Tututepec was a regional capital that dominated much of southern Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1100-1522). This article synthesizes the results of compositional (neutron activation and petrography), stylistic, and iconographic analyses of pottery from commoner household excavations at Tututepec to address questions concerning ceramic production and distribution and also to shed light on aspects of political economy and …
Economic growth in Mesoamerica: Obsidian consumption in the coastal lowlands
Ceramic Molds for Mixtec Gold: A New Lost-Wax Casting Technique from Prehispanic Mexico
Monte Alban's Hidden Past: Buried Buildings and Sociopolitical Transformation - Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Monte Albán's Hidden Past: Buried Buildings and Sociopolitical Transformation
In this article, we present the most significant results of the Monte Albán Geophysical Archaeology Project. Using ground-penetrating radar, gradiometry, and electrical resistance, we carried out a systematic survey of the site's Main Plaza to identify buried prehispanic features that might shed light on Monte Albán's early history. The most important discoveries include three buried structures dating between the Danibaan (500-300 BC) and Nisa ph…
Making the Mold: Replicating a Lost-Wax Casting Technique from Late Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico
Lost-wax casting is a metallurgical technology that emerged independently in several regions of the ancient world. This general process is well understood, but less attention has been paid to variability in the particular methods, materials, and techniques utilized across cultures through time. Studies of this variability, and the reasoning behind it, can deepen our understanding of ancient technology, but also lead to a host of cultural insights…
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