George Cowgill

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George Cowgill is affiliated with the following schools: Brandeis University, Arizona State University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, George L. Cowgill was an American anthropologist and archaeologist. He was a professor of anthropology at Arizona State University from 1990-2005, and research professor emeritus from 2005 until his death. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1963 with a dissertation on The Post-Classic Period in the Southern Maya Lowlands. Most of his career was devoted to research at the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán. He taught at Brandeis University between 1960 and 1990. Cowgill made important contributions in a number of areas, including the archaeology of Mesoamerica, the comparative study of early states and cities, and quantitative methods in archaeology.

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On Causes and Consequences of Ancient and Modern Population Changes (1975) (278)
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations (1989) (266)
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF URBANISM: Archaeological Perspectives (2004) (251)
The Development of Social Stratification in Bronze Age Europe [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (242)
STATE AND SOCIETY AT TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO (1997) (191)
Emotion in Archaeology (2000) (120)
Distinguished Lecture in Archeology: Beyond Criticizing New Archeology (1993) (107)
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1963) (103)
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics (2006) (86)
Ancient Teotihuacan: Early Urbanism in Central Mexico (2015) (78)
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (75)
Archaeological Applications of Factor, Cluster, and Proximity Analysis (1968) (57)
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics (2006) (51)
Ethnic and Class Clustering through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Urban Neighbourhood Social Patterns (2011) (51)
The Teotihuacán map (1973) (50)
The Trouble with Significance Tests and What We Can Do About It (1977) (47)
An update on Teotihuacan (2008) (42)
The Templo de Quetzalcoatl Project at Teotihuacan: A Preliminary Report (1991) (39)
Population Pressure as a Non-Explanation (1975) (38)
The Urban Organization of Teotihuacan, Mexico (2007) (36)
The End of Classic Maya Culture: A Review of Recent Evidence (1964) (34)
Why Pearson's r is Not a Good Similarity Coefficient for Comparing Collections (1990) (34)
Some Sampling and Reliability Problems in Archaeology (1970) (33)
Service Access in Premodern Cities (2016) (31)
The Central Mexican Highlands From The Rise Of Teotihuacan To The Decline Of Tula (2000) (25)
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca: A Regional Perspective [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (24)
The Selection of Samples from Large Sherd Collections (1964) (22)
Were Cities Built as Images? (2000) (22)
CERRO PORTEZUELO: STATES AND HINTERLANDS IN THE PRE-HISPANIC BASIN OF MEXICO (2013) (20)
“Rationality” and contexts in agency theory (2014) (20)
POSSIBLE MIGRATIONS AND SHIFTING IDENTITIES IN THE CENTRAL MEXICAN EPICLASSIC (2013) (20)
Ritual of the Bacabs, A Book of Maya Incantations (1966) (19)
4 Teotihuacan, Internal Militaristic Competition, and the Fall of the Classic Maya (1979) (18)
The Internal Dynamics of the Early State [and Comments and Reply] (1984) (14)
Statistics and Sense: More on the Purum Case (1964) (13)
Archaeological thought in America: Formal approaches in archaeology (1989) (11)
Concepts of Collapse and Regeneration in Human History (2012) (11)
The Debated Role of Migration in the Fall of Ancient Teotihuacan in Central Mexico (2015) (10)
Comments on Andrew Sluyter: Long-Distance Staple Transport in Western Mesoamerica: Insights Through Quantitative Modeling (1993) (9)
Some Things I Hope You Will Find Useful Even if Statistics Isn't Your Thing (2015) (6)
THE TEOTIHUACAN MAPPING PROJECT: EXPERIENCES WITH DATA FILES, BIG QUESTIONS, AND SOME RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR TEOTIHUACAN (2015) (5)
Making Ancient Cities. Space and place in Early Urban societies, edited by Andrew T. Creekmore III & Kevin D. Fisher, 2014. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; ISBN 978-1-107-04652-8 hardback, £65 & $99; xxi+419 pp., 86 figs, 4 tables (2017) (4)
Getting Bayesian ideas across to a wide audience (2002) (4)
Bad news: is it true? (1980) (4)
We Need Better Chronologies: Progress in Getting them (2015) (4)
[Comments and Replies] (1996) (3)
Albert Spaulding and Archaeological Method and Theory (1977) (3)
Herencia de arcilla (2008) (2)
Review of Computer Analysis of Chronological Seriation, By Frank Hole and Mary Shaw (1968) (2)
Debating Oaxaca Archaeology. Joyce Marcus (1992) (2)
Past , Present , and Future of Quantitative Methods in United States Archaeology (2012) (2)
Demographic Diversity and Change in the Central American Isthmus (1998) (2)
Central Mexico Classic (2001) (2)
Computer Analysis of Archeological Data from Teotihuacan, Mexico (2017) (2)
HOW I GOT TO WHERE I AM NOW (2008) (2)
Electronic Files from the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (2012) (2)
Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology. J.E. Doran and F. R. Hodson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1975. xi + 381 pp., illus. $18.00. (1977) (1)
Journal Contents (1965) (1)
Teotihuacan Supremacy in the Basin of Mexico: 1–100 CE (2015) (1)
A Quantitative Method for Deriving Cultural Chronology. James A. Ford (1963) (1)
“Interesting Times”: Teotihuacan Comes Apart and a New Story Begins: 550 CE and After (2015) (0)
Review of 'Quantitative Method for Deriving Cultural Chronology' by James A. Ford (1963) (0)
Some Catoidoid Breeds (1954) (0)
Urbanism Begins in Central Mexico: 500–100 BCE (2015) (0)
Teotihuacan at Its Height: 250–550 CE (2015) (0)
Some Simple Ways to Use Multiple Uncertain Dates to Estimate Intervals (2020) (0)
Comments on ‘computers in archaeology’ (1971) (0)
People who see flying saucers. (1971) (0)
Ancient Teotihuacan: Teotihuacan Ideation and Religion: Imagery, Meanings, and Uses (2015) (0)
Dating Temporal Intervals Using Age Determinations Subject to Measurement Error (2020) (0)
S ANNUAL REVIEW (2016) (0)
State of the Art in Quantitative Methods (1985) (0)
Anthropology at Arizona State (2006) (0)
Ancient Teotihuacan: Great Pyramids and Early Grandeur: 100–250 CE (2015) (0)
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico: The Zumpango Region. Jeffrey R. Parsons (2010) (0)
A Fresh Take on the Chichén Tula Connection (1997) (0)
Archeology:Quantitative Research in Archaeology: Progress and Prospects. Mark S. Aldenderfer, ed (1988) (0)
Ancient Teotihuacan: Glossary (2015) (0)
The Aztecs under Spanish Rule: A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810. Charles Gibson. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1964. xii + 657 pp., 17 figs., 12 maps, 16 pis., appendixes, abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $12.50. (1967) (0)
Archaeology: War and Society in Ancient Mesoamerica. Ross Hassig (1993) (0)
The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Use of Computers in Anthropology. Dell Hymes, ed (1968) (0)
An Outline of the Ceramics of Teotihuacan, Mexico (2006) (0)
Teotihuacan in a Wider Perspective (2015) (0)
Teotihuacan Takes Off: 100–1 BCE (2015) (0)
Archeological inference. (1977) (0)
Archaeology: The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. Mark N. Cohen. (1979) (0)
Society for American Archaeology (1963) (0)
End of a Phase (1954) (0)
Book review (2004) (0)
Abstracts and brief notices (1970) (0)
clearly you can see how deep our new cage is ? (0)

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