Many humans live in large, complex political centers, composed of multi-scalar communities
including neighborhoods and districts. Both today and in the past, neighborhoods form a …

In the past decade, Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) has fundamentally changed our
ability to remotely detect archaeological features and deepen our understanding of past …

More than eleven hundred years of settlement history at Uxbenká, a Classic Period Maya
polity (ca. 300 BC to AD 900) located in southern Belize (Figure 1), conform to a patterned …

Access to social capital and valued resources modulates household decision-making as
people seek to occupy the best-quality patches of land available. Prior occupancy …

Ancient communities are composed of social units at varying scales although these units
and the geospatial methods used to define them are rarely discussed in the archaeological …

Recent advances in spatial and remote sensing technology have led to new methods in
archaeological site identification and reconstruction, allowing archaeologists to investigate …

Utilitarian ceramic vessels form the bulk of artifact assemblages in the Maya Lowlands, but
little is known about their production beyond the likelihood that they were made in a …

The sociocultural factors related to immigrant health perceptions and practices have been
long flattened and essentialized in discussions of urban community health, leading to …

This chapter explores a community of food/health sovereigntists in peri-urban Mexico. In
Mexico, the biomedical medical system is hegemonic; thus it is important to study the …

My research explores the relationship between metabolic health and the rise of capitalist
food and labor systems, through interviews and long-term ethnographic research with Maya …