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Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, David Freidel is a U.S. archaeologist who studies the ancient Maya. He is known for his research at El Perú-Waka’ and his books with epigrapher Linda Schele. He is currently a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (1990) (469)
Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path (1995) (388)
An interim report (1986) (287)
Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya Lowlands: The Instruments and Places of Ritual Power (1988) (174)
An argument for Classic era Maya market exchange (2012) (111)
Ancient Maya political economies (2002) (99)
Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres: Contrasting Approaches to the Emergence of Civilization in the Maya Lowlands (1979) (84)
Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala. Gordon R. Willey general editor. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 14, numbers 1, 2, and 3. Harvard University, 1978. xiii + 250 pp., illus. No price given. (1979) (42)
Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America (1986) (33)
The Flesh of God: Cosmology, Food, and the Origins of Political Power in Ancient Southeastern Mesoamerica (2010) (33)
Sacred Bundles. Ritual Acts of Wrapping and Binding in Mesoamerica (2006) (31)
Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands (2017) (27)
Placing the Centre, Centring the Place: the Influence of Formative Sacbeob in Classic Site Design at Yaxuná, Yucatán (2005) (26)
Early to Terminal Classic Maya Diet in the Northern Lowlands of the Yucatán (Mexico) (2006) (24)
chapter 11 – Maritime Adaptation and the Rise of Maya Civilization: The View from Cerros, Belize (1978) (22)
Maya and the Idea of Empire (2018) (21)
Subsistence, Trade, and Development of the Coastal Maya (1982) (20)
Imagining a Complex Maya Political Economy: Counting Tokens and Currencies in Image, Text and the Archaeological Record (2016) (19)
Ideological lock-in and the dynamics of formative religions in mesoamerica (2003) (17)
Life and death in a Maya war zone (1998) (14)
Manipulating Memory in the Wake of Dynastic Decline at El Perú-Waka’: Termination Deposits at Abandoned Structure M13-1—Olivia (2011) (11)
Before Kukulkán: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná (2017) (9)
Mystery of the Maya facade (2000) (8)
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups: A Historical Background and Introduction (2017) (7)
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize (1982) (6)
Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica. C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky and Jeremy A. Sabloff. Benjamin-Cummings, Menlo Park, California, 1979. $12.95 (paper). (1981) (5)
New Light on the Dark Age: A Summary of Major Themes (1985) (5)
Resurrecting the Maize King (2010) (5)
Betraying the maya (2007) (4)
Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica (2021) (3)
Northern Maya Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology (1998) (3)
The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley. Vol. V: Excavations and Reconnaissance (1977) (3)
Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America. Volume 1. An Interim Report (1987) (3)
E Groups, Cosmology, and the Origins of Maya Rulership (2018) (2)
Lords of the Life Force and Their People:: Reflections on Ritual Violence and Reverence in the Maya Archaeological Record (2016) (2)
The Futures of Our Pasts: Ethical Implications of Collecting Antiquities in the Twenty-first Century (2012) (2)
Symbolic and Structural Archaeology. Ian Hodder, editor. Cambridge Seminar on Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, New Directions in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, England, 1982. viii + 188 pp., illus., biblio., index. $39.50 (cloth). (1984) (2)
Ancestors in Cosmologies (2010) (2)
Pecked Circles and Divining Boards: Calculating Instruments in Ancient Mesoamerica (2015) (1)
Maya Sacred Play: The View from El Perú-Waka’ (2017) (1)
The Mesoamerican World (1986) (1)
Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges (2020) (1)
He’s Maya, but He’s Not My Brother: He’s Maya, but He’s Not My Brother (2017) (1)
Prophecies and politics of the maya: heaven born merida and its destiny. (1987) (1)
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups (2018) (1)
A Conversation With Gordon Willey (1994) (1)
Water Mountains and Water Trails: The View from Northwest Peten (2016) (1)
Into the Woods: Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Iconography in Classic Maya Studies (2020) (0)
Middle Formative Origins of the Early Classic Period Stela Cult (2015) (0)
Cultural evolution in mesoamerica. (1982) (0)
Reading the Past: Maya Glyphs. S. D. Houston (1990) (0)
Archaeology: The Origins of Maya Civilization. Richard E. W. Adams (1979) (0)
Preface:: On the Path of the Sun (2017) (0)
War Owl Falling: Innovation, Creativity, and Culture Change in Ancient Maya Society. Marcus Eberl. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017, 308 pp. $95.00, cloth. ISBN 9780813056555. (2019) (0)
Documenting Classic Maya Urban Landscapes: Comparing and Integrating the Results of LiDAR and Topographic Survey at El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala (2017) (0)
The Evolution of Fragility: Setting the Terms. NORMAN YOFFEE, editor. 2019. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge. Digital (open access), ISBN 978-1-902937-88-5. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40692. (2020) (0)
Cave of the Jagua: The Mythological World of the Tainos. Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1989. xiii + 282 pp., figures, bibliography, index. $27.50 (cloth). (1993) (0)
Conclusion: The World as They Knew It: The Interaction Sphere Concept in Current Mesoamerican Archaeology (2019) (0)
Dwellings and power: household and community in the mesoamerican past. (1989) (0)
The once and future maya (2007) (0)
Quintessential Queen of Kaanul: K’abel of Waka’ in the age of empire. (2017) (0)
Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges: (2020) (0)
The real maya mystery. (1992) (0)
Uncommon Ground: Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period . Dorie Reents-Budet. (1995) (0)
Ancient Maya Queenship: (2019) (0)
Inland ports in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala, a preliminary assessment (2015) (0)
Maya at the Edge of the World:: Thoughts on Chetumal Bay (2016) (0)
A village reemergent. (1993) (0)
Lords of the Life Force and Their People (2016) (0)
Ancient Maya Queenship (2020) (0)
YAXUNA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY (2008) (0)
A maya site. (1980) (0)
Historical Consciousness and the Ancient Maya Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens : Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya (2001) (0)
The Maya (7th edition)– Michael D. Coe (2006) (0)
Book Reviews: Mesoamerican Sites and World Views by Elizabeth P. Benson, ed. (1984) (0)
The Origins and Development of Lowland Maya Civilisation (2014) (0)

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