Arlen F. Chase

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Arlen F. Chase is affiliated with the following schools: Pomona College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Central Florida, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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PhD Anthropology University of Pennsylvania
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Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Arlen F. Chase is a Mesoamerican archaeologist and a faculty member in the anthropology department at Pomona College, Claremont CA. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and served a variety of administrative roles at the University of Central Florida over the course of his 32 year stay at that institution. He is noted for his long-term research at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, Belize and for exploring landscape traces of Maya civilization using lidar.

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Airborne LiDAR, archaeology, and the ancient Maya landscape at Caracol, Belize (2011) (410)
Geospatial revolution and remote sensing LiDAR in Mesoamerican archaeology (2012) (241)
Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (146)
More Than Kin and King: Centralized Political Organization among the Late Classic Maya (1996) (133)
The Classic Maya City: Reconsidering the “Mesoamerican Urban Tradition” (1990) (132)
Scale and Intensity in Classic Period Maya Agriculture: Terracing and Settlement at the "Garden City" of Caracol, Belize (1998) (125)
Questions of Political and Economic Integration: Segmentary Versus Centralized States among the Ancient Maya (1996) (123)
ANCIENT MAYA CAUSEWAYS AND SITE ORGANIZATION AT CARACOL, BELIZE (2001) (102)
Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment (1992) (101)
The Architectural Context of Caches, Burials, and Other Ritual Activities for the Classic Period Maya (as Reflected at Caracol, Belize) (1998) (98)
History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change (2018) (92)
Investigations at the Classic Maya City of Caracol, Belize: 1985-1987 (1987) (82)
Ancient Maya Regional Settlement and Inter-Site Analysis: The 2013 West-Central Belize LiDAR Survey (2014) (81)
The Use of LiDAR in Understanding the Ancient Maya Landscape (2014) (79)
Yucatec Influence in Terminal Classic Northern Belize (1982) (79)
Maya Multiples: Individuals, Entries, and Tombs in Structure A34 of Caracol, Belize (1996) (73)
External Impetus, Internal Synthesis, and Standardization: E Group Assemblages and the Crystallization of Classic Maya Society in the Southern Lowlands (1995) (71)
The Lowland Maya Postclassic. (1986) (69)
A Postclassic Perspective: Excavations at the Maya Site of Santa Rita Corozal, Belize (1988) (68)
Mesoamerican Elites: Assumptions, Definitions, and Models (1992) (57)
The Investigation of Classic Period Maya Warfare at Caracol, Belize (1989) (56)
DETECTION AND MORPHOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL BELOW-CANOPY CAVE OPENINGS IN THE KARST LANDSCAPE AROUND THE MAYA POLITY OF CARACOL USING AIRBORNE LIDAR (2011) (54)
ANCIENT MAYA MARKETS AND THE ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF CARACOL, BELIZE (2014) (53)
Elites and the Changing Organization of Classic Maya Society (1992) (51)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CLASSIC MAYA SOCIAL ORGANIZATION FROM CARACOL, BELIZE (2004) (48)
A contextual consideration of the Tayasal-Paxcaman Zone, El Petten, Guatemala (1983) (48)
Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society (2017) (48)
LiDAR for Archaeological Research and the Study of Historical Landscapes (2017) (48)
Maya Veneration of the Dead at Caracol, Belize (1994) (47)
Lasers in the Jungle: Airborne sensors reveal a vast Maya Landscape (2010) (44)
Terminal Classic Status-Linked Ceramics and the Maya ‘Collapse:’ De Facto Refuse at Caracol, Belize (2004) (42)
STATES AND EMPIRES IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA (2009) (42)
Studies in the Archaeology of Caracol, Belize (1994) (41)
A Mighty Maya Nation: How Caracol Built an Empire by Cultivating Its Middle Class (1996) (39)
A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: its rises, falls, and changes (2017) (34)
Exploring Ancient Economic Relationships at Caracol, Belize (2004) (34)
The Resilience and Vulnerability of Ancient Landscapes: Transforming Maya Archaeology through IHOPE (2014) (32)
The Royal Court of Caracol, Belize: Its Palaces and People (2001) (31)
Use of Airborne LiDAR to Delineate Canopy Degradation and Encroachment along the Guatemala-Belize Border (2012) (31)
Gender, power, and status in Classic Period Caracol, Belize (2008) (30)
Inferences about Abandonment: Maya Household Archaeology and Caracol, Belize (2000) (29)
Urbanism and Anthropogenic Landscapes (2016) (29)
Framing the Maya Collapse: Continuity, Discontinuity, Method, and Practice in the Classic to Postclassic Southern Maya Lowlands (2006) (28)
Progression and Issues in the Mesoamerican Geospatial Revolution (2016) (28)
Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands (2017) (27)
Late Classic Maya Political Structure, Polity Size, and Warfare Arenas (1998) (27)
Minor Centers, Complexity, and Scale in Lowland Maya Settlement Archaeology (2003) (27)
Details in the Archaeology of Caracol, Belize: An Introduction (1994) (26)
A Contextual Approach to the Ceramics of Caracol, Belize (1994) (26)
Archaeology and the Ethics of Collecting (1988) (25)
TEXTILES AND THE MAYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD (2008) (25)
Airborne LiDAR at Caracol, Belize and the Interpretation of Ancient Maya Society and Landscapes (2011) (24)
Three Terminal Classic Monuments from Caracol, Belize (1991) (24)
Ancient Maya Urban Development: Insights from the Archaeology of Caracol, Belize (2007) (23)
Texts and Contexts in Classic Maya Warfare: A Brief Consideration of Epigraphy and Archaeology at Caracol, Belize (2003) (23)
Status and Power: Caracol, Teotihuacan, and the Early Classic Maya World (2011) (22)
Postclassic Maya Elites: Ethnohistory and Archaeology (1992) (22)
Markets Among the Ancient Maya: The Case of Caracol, Belize (2015) (22)
1 Diversity, Resiliency, and IHOPE‐Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present (2014) (21)
An Archaeological Assessment of Mesoamerican Elites (1992) (21)
The Effect of Ancient Maya Agriculture on Terraced Soils of Caracol, Belize (1993) (20)
Polities, Politics, and Social Dynamics: “Contextualizing” the Archaeology of the Belize Valley and Caracol (2004) (20)
10 Path Dependency in the Rise and Denouement of a Classic Maya City: The Case of Caracol, Belize (2014) (20)
The Archaeology of the Belize Valley in Historical Perspective (2004) (20)
Offerings to the Gods: Maya Archaeology at Santa Rita Corozal (1986) (19)
Review of J. Shaw’s "White Roads of the Yucatan: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya" (2009) (19)
Ghosts amid the Ruins: Analyzing Relationships Between the Living and the Dead Among the Ancient Maya at Caracol, Belize (2011) (19)
Symbolic Egalitarianism and Homogenized Distributions in the Archaeological Record at Caracol, Belize: Method, Theory, and Complexity (2009) (18)
Ethics, New Colonialism, and Lidar Data: A Decade of Lidar in Maya Archaeology (2020) (18)
Before the Boom: Caracol's Preclassic Era (2006) (17)
Remote Sensing of Ancient Maya Land Use Features at Caracol, Belize related to Tropical Rainforest Structure (2010) (17)
Hermeneutics, Transitions, and Transformations in Classic to Postclassic Maya Society (2004) (17)
Belize Red Ceramics and Their Implications for Trade and Exchange in the Eastern Maya Lowlands (2012) (17)
Detection of Maya Ruins by LiDAR: Applications, Case Study, and Issues (2017) (17)
Troubled Times: The Archaeology and Iconography of the Terminal Classic Southern Lowland Maya (1985) (16)
E Groups and the Rise of Complexity in the Southeastern Maya Lowlands (2018) (16)
The Ancient Maya City: Anthropogenic Landscapes, Settlement Archaeology, and Caracol, Belize (2016) (16)
Tropical landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in time and space (2014) (16)
The Early Classic Period at Caracol, Belize: Transitions, Complexity, and Methodological Issues in Maya Archaeology (2005) (16)
Cycles of Time: Caracol in the Maya Realm," with an appendix on "Caracol 'Altar 21' (1991) (16)
Postclassic Temporal and Spatial Frames for the Lowland Maya: A Background (1985) (15)
Maya Archaeology and Population Estimates in the Tayasal-Paxcaman Zone, Peten, Guatemala (1990) (15)
The Organization and Composition of Classic Lowland Maya Society: The View from Caracol, Belize (1996) (15)
Low Density Urbanism, Sustainability, and IHOPE- Maya: Can the Past Provide more than History? (2012) (15)
The Use of LiDAR at the Maya Site of Caracol, Belize (2013) (14)
Routes of Trade and Communication and the Integration of Maya Society: The Vista from Santa Rita Corozal (1989) (13)
Jungle Surveying: Mapping the Archaeological Site of Caracol, Belize (1988) (13)
Adding Flesh to Bones: Using Zooarchaeology Research to Answer the Big-Picture Questions (2004) (13)
A Tale of Three Cities: Effects of the A.D. 536 Event in the Lowland Maya Heartland (2014) (13)
Time Depth or Vacuum: The 11.3.0.0.0. Correlation and the Lowland Maya Postclassic (1986) (12)
This is the End: Archaeological Transitions and the Terminal Classic Period at Caracol, Belize (2007) (12)
The Early Classic Period at Santa Rita Corozal: Issues of Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Stratification in Northern Belize (2005) (12)
Topoxte and Tayasal: Ethnohistory in Archaeology (1976) (12)
Regional Development in the Tayasal-Paxcaman Zone, El Peten, Guatemala: A Preliminary Statement (1979) (12)
Postclassic Peten Interaction Spheres: The View from Tayasal (1985) (12)
Growing the Ancient Maya Social-Ecological System from the Bottom Up (2016) (12)
Late Postclassic Ritual at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize: Understanding the Archaeology of a Maya Capital City (2008) (11)
Some Soils Common to Caracol, Belize and Their Significance to Ancient Agriculture and Land-Use (1994) (11)
Archaeology, Faunal Analysis and Interpretation: Lessons from Maya Studies (2004) (11)
Demystifying Collapse: Climate, environment, and social agency in pre-modern societies (2020) (10)
Contextualizing the Collapse: Hegemony and Terminal Classic Ceramics from Caracol, Belize (2006) (10)
Interpreting Form and Context: Ceramic Subcomplexes at Caracol, Nohmul, and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize (2013) (10)
Putting Together the Pieces: Maya Pottery of Northern Belize and Central Peten, Guatemala (1987) (9)
Changes in Maya Religious Worldview: Liminality and the Archaeological Record (2009) (9)
Ancient Maya Houses, Households, and Residential Groups at Caracol, Belize (2014) (9)
Glimmers of a Forgotten Realm: Maya Archaeology at Caracol, Belize (1987) (8)
Fish From Afar: Marine Resource Use at Caracol, Belize (2014) (8)
Temporal Cycles in the Archaeology of Maya Residential Groups from Caracol, Belize (2013) (8)
Archaeology in the Maya Heartland: The Tayasal - Paxcaman Zone, Lake Peten, Guatemala (1985) (8)
Maya Social Organization from a ‘Big Site’ Perspective: Classic Period Caracol, Belize and Tikal, Guatemala (2002) (8)
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups: A Historical Background and Introduction (2017) (7)
Remote Sensing of Below-Canopy Land Use Features from the Maya Polity of Caracol (2013) (7)
Intensive gardening among the Late Classic Maya: a possible example at Ixtutz, Guatemala (1983) (7)
The Ceramic Complexes of the Tayasal-Paxcaman Zone (1984) (6)
The Caracol Time Travel Project (2001) (6)
Classic Maya Warfare and Settlement Archeology at Caracol, Belize (2013) (6)
Methodological Issues in the Archaeological Identification of the Terminal Classic and Postclassic Transition in the Maya Area (2008) (6)
The Dawn of Maya Civilization: Preclassic Archaeology from Santa Rita Corozal (2006) (6)
The Domestic Economy of Caracol, Belize: Articulating with the Institutional Economy in an Ancient Maya Urban Setting (2015) (6)
Complex Societies in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Their Development and Florescence in the Archaeological Record (2012) (5)
Con Manos Arriba: Tayasal and Archaeology (1982) (5)
FINAL MOMENTS: CONTEXTUALIZING ON-FLOOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS FROM CARACOL, BELIZE (2020) (5)
Late Maya Mural Paintings from Quintana Roo, Mexico (1975) (5)
Contextual Implications of Pictorial Vases from Tayasal, Peten (1985) (5)
Archaeological Investigations at Nohmul and Santa Rita, Belize: 1979-1980 (1981) (5)
Archaeology and Heritage Management in the Maya Area: History and Practice at Caracol, Belize (2020) (4)
An Archaeological Consideration of Long-Term Socioecological Dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize (2013) (4)
A New Terminal Classic Carved Altar from Caracol, Belize (2015) (4)
The Causeways of Caracol (1996) (4)
Archaeological Myths of the Postclassic Period: Belizean Archaeology as 'Dragonslayer' (2008) (4)
Interpreting Form and Context (2013) (4)
6 THE DA WN OF MAYA CIVILIZA TION : PRECLASSIC PERIOD ARCHAEOLOGY FROM SANTA RITA COROZAL (2007) (3)
One Person's Impact on Archaeology (1995) (3)
New Town Ceramic Complex (1976) (3)
The Context of Ritual: Examining the Archaeological Record at Caracol, Belize (2010) (3)
Santa Rita Corozal: Twenty Years Later (2004) (3)
The Materialization of Classic Period Maya Warfare: Caracol Stranger-Kings at Tikal (2020) (3)
Ancient Maya Architecture and Spatial Layouts: Contextualizing Caana at Caracol, Belize (2017) (3)
Caracol’s Impact on the Landscape of the Classic Period Maya: (2019) (3)
Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society (2016) (2)
Sixth Century Change and Variation in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Integration and Disbursement at Caracol, Belize (2000) (2)
The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize (2020) (2)
Articulating with the Broader Economy: Chert Pressure Blade Technology in a Caracol Residential Group (2015) (2)
Ancient Maya Cave Use at Caracol, Belize (2011) (2)
Major Find From Maya Era Unearthed (1980) (2)
Refining Maya Prehistory: Archaeology at Santa Rita Corozal (1985) (2)
Thirty Years of Archaeology at Caracol, Belize: Retrospective and Prospective (2015) (2)
Mixing Archaeology and Touristic Development at Caracol (1991) (2)
More Than Kin and King : Centralized Political Organization Among the Ancient Maya (2017) (2)
The Maya city of Caracol, Belize (2020) (1)
Review of R. Sidrys' "Archaeological Excavations in Northern Belize, Central America" (1990) (1)
Interpreting Ancient Maya Society Through Residential Groups: Investigating Early Long-Distance Interaction in Caracol's Epicenter: Caracol Archaeological Project Investigations for 2017 (2017) (1)
Leaving the Quiet Jungle Path: Introduction to Maya Anthropological Archaeology (2021) (1)
The Transformation of Maya Rulership at Caracol, Belize (2021) (1)
Over Hill and Dale: Caracol 1994 (1994) (1)
Late Classic Ritual Variation in a Maya Community : Continued Investigation of Structures in and near Caracol ’ s Epicenter : 2007 Field Report of the Caracol Archaeological Project (2016) (1)
Complex Societies in the Southern Maya Lowlands (2012) (1)
Archaeological insight on the Contact period lowland maya (1986) (1)
Caracol’s Impact on the Landscape of the Classic Period Maya (2020) (1)
Terraces, Tunnels, and Transects: The Caracol Project 1995 (1995) (1)
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups (2018) (1)
The Rupture of Classic Maya Divine Kingship from the Perspective of Postclassic Archaeology, Iconography, and Ethnohistory (2021) (1)
Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale (2022) (1)
Tourists, Tombs, and Trash: The 1993 Field Season at Caracol (1993) (1)
Virtual drama as a learning medium: the Caracol Time Travel project (2000) (1)
Review of "'Pictures of Record' Archaeological Slide Sets: Mesoamerican Survey I and Mexican Series (The Olmecs, El Tajin, The Aztecs, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Xochicalco, Tula)" (1987) (1)
The Origins of Maya States, edited by Loa P. Traxler & Robert J. Sharer, 2016. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; ISBN 978-1-93453686-5; hardback £58.00 & $69.95; xxi+681 pp., 87 b/w illus., 37 maps, 3 tables (2017) (1)
Hallowed Fire in Caracol (1999) (1)
Tombs and Texts: New Discoveries at Caracol (1993) (1)
Caracol: Belize's National Treasure (1986) (1)
Review of C. Gallenkamp's "Maya: The Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization" (1986) (1)
Situating Preclassic Interments and Fire-Pits at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize (2018) (1)
The Southern Lowlands (1985) (1)
Photovoltaic Power for Remote Archaeological Research: A Case Study (1989) (1)
Searching for Caracol ' s Last Urbanites : Continued Investigation of Small Structures in and near Caracol ' s Epicenter : 2005 Field Report of the Caracol Archaeological Project (2016) (1)
White Roads of the Yucatan: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya by Justine M. Shaw (2009) (0)
An Interpretative Framework and Description of Ritualized Obsidian from Caracol, Belize (2019) (0)
Review of N. Davies' "The Aztec Empire: The Toltec Resurgence" (1988) (0)
Clarissa 'Carrie' Hunter-Tate (1996) (0)
Changes in Maya Rulership at the End of the Classic Period: (2021) (0)
Seventh Century Star Wars: Reassessing the Role of Warfare in Shaping Classic Period Maya Society in the Southern Lowlands (2015) (0)
Termini, Test Excavations, and Surprises: The 1998 Field Season at Caracol, Belize (1998) (0)
Sampling and Timeframes: Contextualizing the Protoclassic and Early Classic Periods at Caracol, Belize (2018) (0)
Obituary for Peter D. Harrison (2014) (0)
Archeology:The Aztec Empire: The Toltec Resurgence. Nigel Davies (1988) (0)
Mesoamerica: Classic Period in Mesoamerica (1996) (0)
Review of "The Monuments of Piedras Negras, An Ancient Maya City" by F. S. Clancy (2010) (0)
Residential Architecture at Caracol, Belize: Conjoined Buildings and Distributed Space (2015) (0)
Changing Perspectives on Caracol , Belize : Long-Term Archaeological Research and the Northeast Sector Settlement Program (2016) (0)
73 LIDAR DETECTION OF BELOW-CANOPY CAVE OPENINGS IN THE ANCIENT MAYA KARSTIC LANDSCAPE AROUND CARACOL , BELIZE (2010) (0)
New Finds at Santa Rita Show Corozal Site to Be Thriving Maya Center (1980) (0)
The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City. Flora Simmons Clancy (2010) (0)
An Archaeological Consideration of Long-Term Socio-Environmental Dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize (2014) (0)
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences. TIMOTHY A. KOHLER and MICHAEL E. SMITH, editors. 2018. Amerind Studies in Anthropology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ix + 337 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-3774-7. (2019) (0)
‘Limestone Bars’ as Power Objects among the Ancient Maya: a Consideration of Objects as Active Participants in Ritual Practice (2015) (0)
Glimmers of a Forgotten Realm (1987) (0)
The Rupture and Transformation of Maya Kingship: (2021) (0)
Invited Comment on 'Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry' by Scott Atran (1993) (0)
Contextualizing the Archaeology of Pacbitun, Belize: An Epilogue (2020) (0)
The Northern Lowlands (1985) (0)
We Remember Merle Greene Robertson (2011) (0)
Caracol: The Thirteenth Tun 1997 Season (1997) (0)
A Rich Past Produces a Rich Heritage (1984) (0)
The Use of LiDAR in Understanding the (2014) (0)
Monumental Landscapes of the Maya: (2019) (0)
The Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize (2016) (0)
Ancient Maya Underworld Iconography:Traveling Between Worlds (2010) (0)
List of Contributors (1976) (0)
Comparing Ancient Human-Nature Reslationships at Tikal, Guatemala and Caracol, Belize (2016) (0)
Monumental Landscapes of the Maya (2020) (0)
Sustainability and Climate Change in the Ancient Maya Area: Evidence from Remote Sensing and Long-Term Land Use (2018) (0)
Ground Survey Techniques (2016) (0)
Continued Investigation of Caracol ' s Social Organization : Report of the Spring 2002 Field Season at Caracol , Belize (2016) (0)
At Home in the South : Investigations in the Vicinity of Caracol ' s South Acropolis : 2003 Field Report of the Caracol Archaeological Project (2016) (0)
Ancient Maya Sustainability at Caracol, Belize: Implications for Past and Future (2019) (0)
The Role of Teamwork and Peer Mentoring in Undergraduate Research: An Archaeological Case Study (2008) (0)
Caracol-dynastic history (2016) (0)
Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Environment, Archaeology, and Change (2014) (0)
Ghosts Amid the Ruins: (2020) (0)
CONTINUED INVESTIGATION INTO EPICENTRAL PALACES : REPORT OF THE 2001 FIELD SEASON AT CARACOL , BELIZE (2016) (0)
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica: Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches edited by Shawn G.Morton and Meaghan M.Peuramaki‐BrownLouisville: University Press of Colorado, 2019. 308 pp. (2021) (0)
Iconographic Portraiture and Political Implications: Peter Harrison’s Contribution to Mayanists’ Understanding of Site Q (2015) (0)
TERMINI, TEST-PITS, AND ASSOCIATED "GREENERY:" REPORT OF THE 1998 FIELD SEASON AT CARACOL, BELIZE (2016) (0)

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