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My research interests focus on the study of the sociopolitical development of small sedentary societies and societies that were more hierarchically organized, as well as prehistoric economic systems. Methodologically I specialize in ceramic technology, provenance studies, and the integration of material analyses into archaeological research. To pursue my research interests, I have been conducting extensive field and laboratory research in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.

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Courses
  • WA
    World Archaeology

  • NWCC
    Non-Western Cultures and Civilizations

  • PP
    Patterns in Prehistory

  • AC
    Ancient Civilizations

Grants
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    Investigating the Origins of Social Complexity

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $297.1K
    Active
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    Origins of Maya Civilization in the Middle Usumacinta Region

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $125.0K
    Active
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    Origins of Mesoamerican Complex Society

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $158.8K
    Active
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    Tracing the Origins of Maya Civilization:Inter-Regional Investigations Along the Usumacinta River, Guatemala and Mexico

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $359.8K
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    Tracing the Origins of Maya Civilization:Inter-Regional Investigations along the Usumacinta River, Guatemala and Mexico

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $173.4K
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    Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: The Role of Spatial Clustering In Group Organization

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $14.4K
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    Ceibal, Guatemala Project

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $267.1K
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    Tracing the Origins of Maya Civilization: Archaeological Investigations at Ceibal

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2012

    $240.0K
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    Wadsworth Fellowship for Jose Raul Ortiz Vallejos

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2012

    $52.5K
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    Community-Building in the Preclassic Maya Lowlands: Archaeological Investigations at Ceibal, Guatemala

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2010

    $220.0K
News
  • UArizona-Led Team Finds Nearly 500 Ancient Ceremonial Sites in Southern Mexico

    2021

  • Largest, Oldest Maya Monument Suggests Importance of Communal Work

    2020

  • Laser Technology Takes Maya Archaeologists to New Places

    2018

  • Archaeologists Uncover New Clues to Maya Collapse

    2017

  • Archaeologists Discover Maya 'Melting Pot'

    2015

  • Archaeologists Unearth New Information on Origins of Maya Civilization

    2013

  • Ceramics Tell the Story of an Ancient Southwest Migration

    2012

  • UA Anthropologists Studying Human Subjects Process

    2003

Publications (4)
  • Political Collapse and Dynastic Origins in the Maya Lowlands: High-precision Radiocarbon Dating at Ceibal, Guatemala

    2017

  • The Development of Sedentary Communities in the Maya Lowlands: Co-Existing Mobile Groups and Public Ceremonies at Ceibal, Guatemala

    2015

  • Los Primeros Centros de Petén: Ceibal

    2015

  • Middle Preclassic Caches from Ceibal, Guatemala

    2015

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