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Arthur Demarest

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#546

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#214

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Archeology

#42

World Rank

#75

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#11

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According to Wikipedia, Arthur Andrew Demarest is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his studies of the Maya civilization. Career Demarest, a Louisiana Cajun, studied Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology at Tulane University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Dean's Medal. Demarest earned his M.A. and doctorate in anthropology and archaeology at Harvard University, he held the endowed Danforth Chair in Archeology, and was elected to the prestigious Harvard Society of Fellows. From 1984 to 1986 he served as assistant professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, US. In 1986 he was promoted to Full Professor and was named to the endowed Centennial Chair. He now holds the endowed chair of Ingram Professor of Anthropology and is the director of Mesoamerican archaeology and development.

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Arthur Demarest's Published Works

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The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation (2004) (157)
Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism (1984) (147)
Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization (2004) (139)
Classic Maya Defensive Systems and Warfare in the Petexbatun Region: Archaeological Evidence and Interpretations (1997) (126)
Radiocarbon Chronology for the Late Archaic and Formative Periods on the Pacific Coast of Southeastern Mesoamerica (1995) (85)
Ideology : and pre-Columbian civilizations (1995) (84)
The Vanderbilt Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project 1989–1994: Overview, History, and Major Results of a Multidisciplinary Study of the Classic Maya collapse (1997) (79)
Impacts of Climate Change on the Collapse of Lowland Maya Civilization (2016) (65)
Constructing Maya Communities: Ethnography for Archaeology (1996) (49)
The violent saga of a Maya kingdom (1993) (45)
The Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Maya Collapse (2006) (40)
Ideological Pathways to Economic Exchange: Religion, Economy, and Legitimation at the Classic Maya Royal Capital of Cancuén (2013) (40)
ECONOMY, EXCHANGE, AND POWER: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE LATE CLASSIC MAYA PORT CITY OF CANCUEN (2014) (37)
The Prehistory of Chalchuapa, El Salvador (1980) (36)
Viracocha: The Nature and Antiquity of the Andean High God (2004) (36)
The Origins and Evolution of Usulutan Ceramics (1982) (27)
Sources of Obsidian from El Mirador, Guatemala: New Evidence on Preclassic Maya Interaction (1989) (20)
Archaeological thought in America: Ideology and evolutionism in American archaeology: looking beyond the economic base (1989) (19)
14. Late Preclassic Ceramic Spheres, Culture Areas, and Cultural Evolution in the Southeastern Highlands of Mesoamerica (1986) (16)
The Evolution Of Complex Societies In Southeastern Mesoamerica: New Evidence From El Mesak, Guatemala (1991) (15)
The Collapse of The ClassiC Maya KingdoMs of The souThwesTern peTén : iMpliCaTions for The end of ClassiC Maya CivilizaTion (2013) (11)
Climatic Change and the Classic Maya Collapse: The Return of Catastrophism (2001) (9)
Ethics and Ethnocentricity in Interpretation and Critique (2007) (8)
The Collapses in the West and the Violent Ritual Termination of the Classic Maya Capital Center of Cancuen (2016) (8)
The Collapses in the West and the Violent Ritual Termination of the Classic Maya Capital Center of Cancuen:: Causes and Consequences (2016) (6)
Sympathetic Ethnocentrism, Repression, and Auto-repression of Q’eqchi’ Maya Blood Sacrifice (2012) (5)
The Dating and Cultural Associations of the “Potbellied” Sculptural Style: New Evidence from Western El Salvador (1982) (5)
Soil and slaughter: a geoarchaeological record of the ancient Maya from Cancuén, Guatemala (2017) (5)
MAYA ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE PROGRESS, THE PERILS, AND THE PROMISE (2009) (4)
AT WATER'S EDGE: RITUAL MAYA ANIMAL USE IN AQUATIC CONTEXTS AT CANCUEN, GUATEMALA (2019) (4)
[Comments and Replies] (1996) (3)
Chapter Five. The Political Acquisition of Sacred Geography (2003) (3)
Natufian Chipped Lithic Assemblage from Sunakh Near Petra, Southern Jordan (1997) (2)
Chapter 4 Sacred and Profane Mountains of the Pasión contrasting architectural paths to power (2006) (2)
Constructing Policy to Confront Collapse: Ancient Experience and Modern Risk (2022) (2)
A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics: (2020) (1)
Ideology and Pre-Colombian Civilizations (1995) (1)
THEVANDERBILT PETEXBATUN REGIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT 1989-1994 (2008) (1)
Studies in Middle American anthropology (1976) (1)
Correspondence: Referendum on Darkness in EI Dorado and Danger to Immunization Campaigns (2003) (1)
A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics (2020) (1)
Monumental Landscapes as Instruments of Radical Economic Change: (2019) (0)
Transformations in Political Economy and Routes of Exchange on the Eve of the Classic Maya Collapse: New Evidence from the Port Kingdom of Cancuen and the Classic Maya Frontier (2015) (0)
To the heart of an ancient empire (1988) (0)
"Commodification", Exchange, and Changes in Maya Political Economy on the Eve of the Classic Maya Collapse (2016) (0)
Changing Patterns of Production and Exchange in "Borderland" Economies: The Case of the Classic Maya Civilization (2018) (0)
Political and Economic Change on the Eve of the Classic Maya Collapse: Building on a "Ceramic Foundation" (2018) (0)
“Terminal” Termination Rituals and the Felling of A Forest of Kings: Past Struggles and Recent Triumphs of the Core Concepts of a Seminal Work (2020) (0)
Hirth, Kenneth G., and Joanne Pillsbury (eds.): Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World (2014) (0)
The Collapse of the Southern Lowland Classic Maya City-States: (2021) (0)
Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America by Heather Orr and Matthew G. Looper, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014. 544 pp. (2016) (0)
Archeology Division: For Whom the Trowel Toils (2003) (0)
Ceramic Chronology and Current Visions of the "Terminal Classic" and Collapse in the Southern Maya Lowlands: A Brief Desultory Philippic (2017) (0)
: The Toltecs: Until the Fall of Tula . Nigel Davies. ; The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants . Joseph W. Whitecotton. (1980) (0)
Investigations at San Andres Semetabaj and the Problematics of Middle to Late PreClassic Highland Archaeology (2017) (0)
Monumental Landscapes as Instruments of Radical Economic Change (2020) (0)
On The Frontier: Raxruha Viejo, a Late Classic Highland Exchange Center (2017) (0)
Lecture: War Crimes, Present and Past (2006) (0)
Ancient Maya: Civilization in a Tropical Rain Forest (2004) (0)
All Roads Lead to the Verapaz: The Northern Highlands as a Nexus of Classic Period Exchange (2019) (0)
Jeremy A. Sabloff. The cities of ancient Mexico: reconstructing a lost world. 224 pages, 152 illustrations. 1989. London: Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0-500-05053-8 hardback £12.95. (1990) (0)

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