Charles S. Spencer

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Charles S. Spencer

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Sidney Spencer is an American curator, researcher, and anthropologist. He serves as the Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He has over 110 publications to date, including books, chapters, and articles.

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Charles S. Spencer's Published Works

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Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization (2017) (141)
Human agency, biased transmission, and the cultural evolution of chiefly authority (1993) (135)
On the tempo and mode of state formation: Neoevolutionism reconsidered (1990) (117)
Territorial expansion and primary state formation (2010) (103)
Multilevel Selection and Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, 500–100 B.C. (2001) (95)
Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Approach to Political Evolution [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (93)
PRIMARY STATE FORMATION IN MESOAMERICA (2004) (80)
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (75)
The Cuicatlan Canada and Monte Alban: A Study of Primary State Formation (1982) (74)
A Mathematical Model of Primary State Formation (1998) (62)
Chiefdoms at the threshold: The competitive origins of the primary state (2012) (59)
War and early state formation in Oaxaca, Mexico (2003) (57)
Implications of new petrographic analysis for the Olmec "mother culture" model. (2005) (56)
Prehispanic chiefdoms of the western Venezuelan Ilanos (1992) (55)
Evolutionary approaches in archaeology (1997) (53)
On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies (2006) (51)
Factional competition and political development in the New World: Factional ascendance, dimensions of leadership, and the development of centralized authority (1994) (46)
Militarism, Resistance, and Early State Development in Oaxaca, Mexico (2003) (43)
Drained Fields at La Tigra, Venezuelan Llanos: A Regional Perspective (1994) (42)
Expansionary dynamics of the nascent Monte Albán state (2010) (40)
Archaeology of the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca (1997) (31)
Ceramic provenance and the regional organization of pottery production during the later Formative periods in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico: Results of trace-element and mineralogical analyses (2016) (31)
The Chronology of Conquest: Implications of New Radiocarbon Analyses from the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca (2001) (27)
Prehispanic Causeways and Regional Politics in the Llanos of Barinas, Venezuela (1998) (22)
Ancient palace complex (300–100 BC) discovered in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (2017) (22)
A Late Monte Albán I Phase (300–100 B.C.) Palace in the Valley of Oaxaca (2004) (21)
A Macroregional View of Cycling Chiefdoms in the Western Venezuelan Llanos (2008) (21)
Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation: The Zapotec Case (2009) (16)
Ceramic Microtypology and the Territorial Expansion of the Early Monte Albán State in Oaxaca, Mexico (2008) (16)
Rituals of Sanctification and the Development of Standardized Temples in Oaxaca, Mexico (2008) (15)
Archaeological survey in the high llanos and Andean piedmont of Barinas, Venezuela. [1] ; Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 86 (2007) (13)
Statecraft and expansionary dynamics: A Virú outpost at Huaca Prieta, Chicama Valley, Peru (2016) (10)
6. PrehispanicWater Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning (2000) (10)
Homology, Analogy, and Comparative Research in Archaeology (1992) (8)
An Introduction to Seshat (2019) (8)
‘M GLOW BLUE’: ARCHAEOMETRIC RESEARCH AT MICHIGAN'S FORD NUCLEAR REACTOR (2007) (7)
Appendix Ii: Description Of Ceramic Categories (1978) (6)
Dual organization and social inequality in a Venezuelan chiefdom, AD 550–1000 (2015) (6)
Modeling the Evolution of bureaucracy: political-economic reach and administrative complexity (2014) (6)
Early (300−100 B.C.) temple precinct in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (2013) (6)
Lightning and Jaguars (2000) (6)
Cultural Macroevolution and Social Change (2019) (5)
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier (2007) (5)
Food Scarcity, Rural Poverty, and Agricultural Development in Latin America: Issues and Evidence (2000) (5)
A pre-Hispanic chiefdom in Barinas, Venezuela : excavations at Gaván-complex sites (2014) (4)
Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research (2018) (3)
Recent Studies in Andean Prehistory and Protohistory: Papers from the Second Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1985) (2)
Anglo-Jewish Artists: The Migrant Generations (2013) (2)
Yaxcaba and the Caste War of Yucatan: An Archaeological Perspective (review) (2006) (1)
Spatial Variation of Debris at Guilá Naquitz: A Descriptive Approach (2021) (1)
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians. Vol. 2. Linguistics (1985) (1)
Althorp: The Story of an English House (1998) (1)
Ceramic exchange and the shifting political landscape in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, 700 BCE-200 CE (2019) (1)
Epstein: His Achievements and Failings (2013) (0)
ISRAEL'S NEW NATIONAL MUSEUM (2013) (0)
Shortcomings and Failures (2013) (0)
The Quality of Difference (2013) (0)
PNAS Plus Significance Statements (2013) (0)
Jews in Publishing (2013) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Ideology and Pre‐Columbian Civilizations. Arthur A. Demurest and Geoffrey W. Conrad, eds (1993) (0)
London's New Artistic Landmark (2013) (0)
A Man of Vision (2013) (0)
THE FACE OF BRITISH JEWRY (2013) (0)
Cultural Exchanges with Israel (2013) (0)
Ghisha Koenig—Sculptress in a Factory (2013) (0)
Arnold Wesker as a Playwright (2013) (0)
Archaeology of the Cañada de Cuicatlán, Oaxaca. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; no. 80 (1997) (0)
Ambassador Extraordinary: the Collection of Sir George Labouchere, British Ambassador to Spain (1964) (0)
The Spencer Family (1999) (0)
Pinter in print (2013) (0)
The second part is a review of the Muslim political literatures in the Persian and Greek traditions, and Ismaili and Sunni theory, of the period (2006) (0)
New roles, new rules (2021) (0)
Mané-Katz and L'Ecole Juives (1955) (0)
The Origin of Ancient American Cultures. Paul Shao. Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1983. ix + 374 pp., figures, biblio. $42.75 (cloth). (1986) (0)
The Triumph of Mordecai Ardon (2013) (0)
Book Review: Marlborough: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Hero of Blenheim (2006) (0)
Pamela Mary Spencer (née Bacon) (2011) (0)
Rediscovery of a Sculptor (2013) (0)
A disenchanted view of Anglo-Jewry (2013) (0)
The Limits of Artistic Expressions (2013) (0)
Contemporary Soviet Art (2013) (0)
The Henriques' Guide to Vanishing Stepney (2013) (0)
Ten Years of Anglo-Jewish Art (2013) (0)
Russian Experimental Art 1900–1925 (2013) (0)
S ANNUAL REVIEW (2016) (0)
4: Young Painters (2013) (0)
The growth of modern Art (1963) (0)
The Place of The Arts in Israel (2013) (0)
Archeology: Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns. Wendy Ashmore (1982) (0)
Blenheim: Battle for Europe (2004) (0)
Some trens in modern Dutch art (1962) (0)
The Work of the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel (2013) (0)
Two Israeli artists (2013) (0)
Essays in Maya Archaeology. Gordon R. Willey, with a foreword by Jeremy A. Sabloff. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1987. xiv + 245 pp., biblio., index. $13.95 (paper); $27.50 (cloth). (1990) (0)
Yaxcab and the Caste War of Yucatn: An Archaeological Perspective. By Rani T. Alexander (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2004) 207 pp. $49.95 (2006) (0)
Towards a definition of Jewish Art (2013) (0)
Evolution of Elite Residence at San Martín Tilcajete, 500-100 B.C. (2017) (0)

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