Christopher T Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 93622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher T Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher T |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3358-5415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Port by Any Other Name: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Ancient Infrastructural Landscapes and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil
Complex human-environmental processes form identifiable, lasting features on the landscape that can illuminate past human behavior and human-environment interactions. We examine the anthropogenic landscape of the ancient port of Macurany, located along the middle Amazon River in Parintins, Brazil, and identify four classes of anthropogenic landscape features at the site: wharfs, middens, terra preta (dark or black earths), and cultural forests. M…
Israel and the Crisis of Radical Blackness
This article examines the reach of Black Internationalism, a dialogue on race, politics, and modernity nurtured by Black nationalists in the United States, between 1971 and 1974. It focuses on Israel’s encounter with the topic and how Israeli political leaders neutralize its effects. Israel, one of America’s closes Cold War allies, faced three explosive movements with ties to the discourse and politics of Black Internationalism—the Israeli Black …
Contribution of the calvaria bones thickness arrangements to the diagnosis and the differentiation of artificial cranial modifications in pre-Hispanic West Mesoamerican populations
Identifying and differentiating artificial cranial modifications (ACM) is of major concern for (bio)archaeologists as such information can shed light on the social and/or cultural identity of an individual. Yet, this remains challenging as archaeological contexts are rarely suitable to an excellent preservation of bones. It has been proposed that under mechanical constraints such as in ACM, the growth of the brain is constrained in certain direct…
Evaluating the efficiency of isolated calvaria bones shape changes in the identification and differentiation of artificial cranial modification techniques among pre-Hispanic western and central Mesoam…
A Typology of Ancient Purépecha (Tarascan) Architecture from Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico
The morphological study of architectural features, the building arrangement within urban spaces, and multiscalar variation are critical for understanding urbanism as a process. Building types and architectural typologies form the foundational blocks of urban morphology and are essential for identifying architectural patterning. We use a process-typological approach to present an architectural typology from the ancient Purépecha (Tarascan) city of…
Geochemical analysis and spatial trends of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
Petrographic analysis of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
The application of airborne mapping LiDAR for the documentation of ancient cities and regions in tropical regions
The Tarascan (Purépecha) Empire
At the time of European contact, western Mexico was dominated by the Tarascos, who spoke a language called Purépecha. Never defeated by the bordering Aztec Empire, the Purépecha Empire instituted a bureaucratic system that was designed to extract tribute from subjects and to control political, economic, and social life throughout their territory. Archaeological research shows that existing societies in west Mexico were quickly co-opted by Purépec…
Geospatial revolution and remote sensing LiDAR in Mesoamerican archaeology
The application of light detection and ranging (LiDAR), a laser-based remote-sensing technology that is capable of penetrating overlying vegetation and forest canopies, is generating a fundamental shift in Mesoamerican archaeology and has the potential to transform research in forested areas world-wide. Much as radiocarbon dating that half a century ago moved archaeology forward by grounding archaeological remains in time, LiDAR is proving to be …
Moral Purpose is the Important Thing’: David Lilienthal, Iran, and the Meaning of Development in the US, 1956–63
‘“Moral Purpose is the Important Thing”: David E. LiIienthal, Iran, and the Meaning of Development in the US, 1956–63,’ examines the complex history of postwar development policy and thought. Instead of focusing exclusively on economic growth, technological innovation, and poIitics in US modernization efforts, it addresses the role of private interests and the question of intentionality, meaning, and ethics. David Lilienthal's work in Khuzestan, …
Climate, agriculture, and cycles of human occupation over the last 4000 yr in southern Zacatecas, Mexico
Scholars attribute the growth and decline of Classic period (AD 200–900) settlements in the semi-arid northern frontier zone of Mesoamerica to rainfall cycles that controlled the extent of arable land. However, there is little empirical evidence to support this claim. We present phytolith, organic carbon, and magnetic susceptibility analyses of a 4000-yr alluvial record of climate and human land use from the Malpaso Valley, the site of one such C…
Intensification, Innovation, and Change: New perspectives and future directions
Agricultural Intensification in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin: Landesque capital as statecraft
Seeking a Richer Harvest: An introduction to the archaeology of subsistence intensification, innovation, and change
Seeking a richer harvest: The archaeology of subsistence intensification, innovation, and change
Seeking a Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change
The Illusion of Progress
This article examines the relationship between pacification and modernization theory during Lyndon B. Johnson's stewardship of the Vietnam War. It uses Johnson's South Vietnamese pacification program, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to reveal the hopes, intentions, and limitations of the administration's approach. This article contends that CORDS represented Johnson's attempt to define the Vietnam conflict as a pro…
Nation Building and the Vietnam War
The literature on U.S. participation in the Vietnam War has recently undergone a quiet revolution due to use of the concept of nation building. Since the early 1950s nation building has been the subtext, if not the excuse, for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but in the last ten years it has also become useful as a method of inquiry. This article contends that new insights regarding the signi cance of ideologies and paradigms, particularly mo…
The Dangers of Ignoring the Evidence: Hurricanes, Hazards and Survival
Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico: Abandoning the Garden
Land degradation is frequently cited as a factor in the collapse of ancient complex societies. Implicit in these tales of ecological suicide is the assumption that land degradation is an ecological rather than a social problem. Here, I discuss how land degradation can be reconceptualized as a social-environmental dialectic. I then discuss the implications of this perspective using evidence from a recent landscape project exploring diachronic rela…
"Introduction to "Landscapes over Time
There is a growing recognition that modern environmental problems bear striking resemblance to those faced by past societies and that to understand the environmental present we must consider the total sweep of anthropogenic environmental change on specific landscapes. This "In Focus" assembles five articles encompassing diverse time periods and different global regions to make the case that long-term perspectives on the relationship between peopl…
Special section Dynamic landscapes and socio-political process: The Topography of Anthropogenic Environments in Global Perspective
Sander Van Der Leeuw, in his recent plenary address at the 1998 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, suggested that archaeology as a discipline has moved its emphasis from site to settlement pattern, and now to the landscape. Though a landscape focus is not new, especially for the social sciences (Coones 1994; Cosgrove 1984; Glacken 1967; Jackson 1994}, the landscape approach in archaeology (Wagstaff 1987) is still in its infancy
Intensive agriculture and socio-political development in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico
Intensive agriculture played a pivotal role in the development of archaic states, but there is considerable debate concerning its relationship to population growth, climatic variability, and centralization
Archaeology and Public Policy
Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico: Abandoning the Garden
Land degradation is frequently cited as a factor in the collapse of ancient complex societies. Implicit in these tales of ecological suicide is the assumption that land degradation is an ecological rather than a social problem. Here, I discuss how land degradation can be reconceptualized as a social-environmental dialectic. I then discuss the implications of this perspective using evidence from a recent landscape project exploring diachronic rela…
"Introduction to "Landscapes over Time
There is a growing recognition that modern environmental problems bear striking resemblance to those faced by past societies and that to understand the environmental present we must consider the total sweep of anthropogenic environmental change on specific landscapes. This "In Focus" assembles five articles encompassing diverse time periods and different global regions to make the case that long-term perspectives on the relationship between peopl…
Seeking a richer harvest: The archaeology of subsistence intensification, innovation, and change
Intensive agriculture and socio-political development in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico
Intensive agriculture played a pivotal role in the development of archaic states, but there is considerable debate concerning its relationship to population growth, climatic variability, and centralization
A Typology of Ancient Purépecha (Tarascan) Architecture from Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico
The morphological study of architectural features, the building arrangement within urban spaces, and multiscalar variation are critical for understanding urbanism as a process. Building types and architectural typologies form the foundational blocks of urban morphology and are essential for identifying architectural patterning. We use a process-typological approach to present an architectural typology from the ancient Purépecha (Tarascan) city of…
Special section Dynamic landscapes and socio-political process: The Topography of Anthropogenic Environments in Global Perspective
Sander Van Der Leeuw, in his recent plenary address at the 1998 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, suggested that archaeology as a discipline has moved its emphasis from site to settlement pattern, and now to the landscape. Though a landscape focus is not new, especially for the social sciences (Coones 1994; Cosgrove 1984; Glacken 1967; Jackson 1994}, the landscape approach in archaeology (Wagstaff 1987) is still in its infancy
The Illusion of Progress
This article examines the relationship between pacification and modernization theory during Lyndon B. Johnson's stewardship of the Vietnam War. It uses Johnson's South Vietnamese pacification program, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to reveal the hopes, intentions, and limitations of the administration's approach. This article contends that CORDS represented Johnson's attempt to define the Vietnam conflict as a pro…
Nation Building and the Vietnam War
The literature on U.S. participation in the Vietnam War has recently undergone a quiet revolution due to use of the concept of nation building. Since the early 1950s nation building has been the subtext, if not the excuse, for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but in the last ten years it has also become useful as a method of inquiry. This article contends that new insights regarding the signi cance of ideologies and paradigms, particularly mo…
Moral Purpose is the Important Thing’: David Lilienthal, Iran, and the Meaning of Development in the US, 1956–63
‘“Moral Purpose is the Important Thing”: David E. LiIienthal, Iran, and the Meaning of Development in the US, 1956–63,’ examines the complex history of postwar development policy and thought. Instead of focusing exclusively on economic growth, technological innovation, and poIitics in US modernization efforts, it addresses the role of private interests and the question of intentionality, meaning, and ethics. David Lilienthal's work in Khuzestan, …
Petrographic analysis of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
A Port by Any Other Name: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Ancient Infrastructural Landscapes and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil
Complex human-environmental processes form identifiable, lasting features on the landscape that can illuminate past human behavior and human-environment interactions. We examine the anthropogenic landscape of the ancient port of Macurany, located along the middle Amazon River in Parintins, Brazil, and identify four classes of anthropogenic landscape features at the site: wharfs, middens, terra preta (dark or black earths), and cultural forests. M…
Evaluating the efficiency of isolated calvaria bones shape changes in the identification and differentiation of artificial cranial modification techniques among pre-Hispanic western and central Mesoam…
Geochemical analysis and spatial trends of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
Archaeology and Public Policy
Special section Dynamic landscapes and socio-political process: The Topography of Anthropogenic Environments in Global Perspective
Sander Van Der Leeuw, in his recent plenary address at the 1998 Society for American Archaeology Meetings, suggested that archaeology as a discipline has moved its emphasis from site to settlement pattern, and now to the landscape. Though a landscape focus is not new, especially for the social sciences (Coones 1994; Cosgrove 1984; Glacken 1967; Jackson 1994}, the landscape approach in archaeology (Wagstaff 1987) is still in its infancy
Intensive agriculture and socio-political development in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico
Intensive agriculture played a pivotal role in the development of archaic states, but there is considerable debate concerning its relationship to population growth, climatic variability, and centralization
Nation Building and the Vietnam War
The literature on U.S. participation in the Vietnam War has recently undergone a quiet revolution due to use of the concept of nation building. Since the early 1950s nation building has been the subtext, if not the excuse, for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but in the last ten years it has also become useful as a method of inquiry. This article contends that new insights regarding the signi cance of ideologies and paradigms, particularly mo…
The Dangers of Ignoring the Evidence: Hurricanes, Hazards and Survival
Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Mexico: Abandoning the Garden
Land degradation is frequently cited as a factor in the collapse of ancient complex societies. Implicit in these tales of ecological suicide is the assumption that land degradation is an ecological rather than a social problem. Here, I discuss how land degradation can be reconceptualized as a social-environmental dialectic. I then discuss the implications of this perspective using evidence from a recent landscape project exploring diachronic rela…
"Introduction to "Landscapes over Time
There is a growing recognition that modern environmental problems bear striking resemblance to those faced by past societies and that to understand the environmental present we must consider the total sweep of anthropogenic environmental change on specific landscapes. This "In Focus" assembles five articles encompassing diverse time periods and different global regions to make the case that long-term perspectives on the relationship between peopl…
Seeking a Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change
The Illusion of Progress
This article examines the relationship between pacification and modernization theory during Lyndon B. Johnson's stewardship of the Vietnam War. It uses Johnson's South Vietnamese pacification program, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to reveal the hopes, intentions, and limitations of the administration's approach. This article contends that CORDS represented Johnson's attempt to define the Vietnam conflict as a pro…
Intensification, Innovation, and Change: New perspectives and future directions
Agricultural Intensification in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin: Landesque capital as statecraft
Seeking a Richer Harvest: An introduction to the archaeology of subsistence intensification, innovation, and change
Seeking a richer harvest: The archaeology of subsistence intensification, innovation, and change
Climate, agriculture, and cycles of human occupation over the last 4000 yr in southern Zacatecas, Mexico
Scholars attribute the growth and decline of Classic period (AD 200–900) settlements in the semi-arid northern frontier zone of Mesoamerica to rainfall cycles that controlled the extent of arable land. However, there is little empirical evidence to support this claim. We present phytolith, organic carbon, and magnetic susceptibility analyses of a 4000-yr alluvial record of climate and human land use from the Malpaso Valley, the site of one such C…
Moral Purpose is the Important Thing’: David Lilienthal, Iran, and the Meaning of Development in the US, 1956–63
‘“Moral Purpose is the Important Thing”: David E. LiIienthal, Iran, and the Meaning of Development in the US, 1956–63,’ examines the complex history of postwar development policy and thought. Instead of focusing exclusively on economic growth, technological innovation, and poIitics in US modernization efforts, it addresses the role of private interests and the question of intentionality, meaning, and ethics. David Lilienthal's work in Khuzestan, …
Geospatial revolution and remote sensing LiDAR in Mesoamerican archaeology
The application of light detection and ranging (LiDAR), a laser-based remote-sensing technology that is capable of penetrating overlying vegetation and forest canopies, is generating a fundamental shift in Mesoamerican archaeology and has the potential to transform research in forested areas world-wide. Much as radiocarbon dating that half a century ago moved archaeology forward by grounding archaeological remains in time, LiDAR is proving to be …
The Tarascan (Purépecha) Empire
At the time of European contact, western Mexico was dominated by the Tarascos, who spoke a language called Purépecha. Never defeated by the bordering Aztec Empire, the Purépecha Empire instituted a bureaucratic system that was designed to extract tribute from subjects and to control political, economic, and social life throughout their territory. Archaeological research shows that existing societies in west Mexico were quickly co-opted by Purépec…
The application of airborne mapping LiDAR for the documentation of ancient cities and regions in tropical regions
Geochemical analysis and spatial trends of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
Petrographic analysis of ceramics and clay from Angamuco, Michoacán
A Typology of Ancient Purépecha (Tarascan) Architecture from Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico
The morphological study of architectural features, the building arrangement within urban spaces, and multiscalar variation are critical for understanding urbanism as a process. Building types and architectural typologies form the foundational blocks of urban morphology and are essential for identifying architectural patterning. We use a process-typological approach to present an architectural typology from the ancient Purépecha (Tarascan) city of…
Evaluating the efficiency of isolated calvaria bones shape changes in the identification and differentiation of artificial cranial modification techniques among pre-Hispanic western and central Mesoam…
Israel and the Crisis of Radical Blackness
This article examines the reach of Black Internationalism, a dialogue on race, politics, and modernity nurtured by Black nationalists in the United States, between 1971 and 1974. It focuses on Israel’s encounter with the topic and how Israeli political leaders neutralize its effects. Israel, one of America’s closes Cold War allies, faced three explosive movements with ties to the discourse and politics of Black Internationalism—the Israeli Black …
Contribution of the calvaria bones thickness arrangements to the diagnosis and the differentiation of artificial cranial modifications in pre-Hispanic West Mesoamerican populations
Identifying and differentiating artificial cranial modifications (ACM) is of major concern for (bio)archaeologists as such information can shed light on the social and/or cultural identity of an individual. Yet, this remains challenging as archaeological contexts are rarely suitable to an excellent preservation of bones. It has been proposed that under mechanical constraints such as in ACM, the growth of the brain is constrained in certain direct…
A Port by Any Other Name: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Ancient Infrastructural Landscapes and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil
Complex human-environmental processes form identifiable, lasting features on the landscape that can illuminate past human behavior and human-environment interactions. We examine the anthropogenic landscape of the ancient port of Macurany, located along the middle Amazon River in Parintins, Brazil, and identify four classes of anthropogenic landscape features at the site: wharfs, middens, terra preta (dark or black earths), and cultural forests. M…
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