Joyce Marcus

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Joyce Marcus is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Joyce Marcus is a Latin American archaeologist and professor in the Department of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also holds the position of Curator of Latin American Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Marcus has published extensively in the field of Latin American archaeological research. Her focus has been primarily on the Zapotec, Maya, and coastal Andean civilizations of Central and South America. Much of her fieldwork has been concentrated in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. She is known for her "Dynamic model", four-tiered hierarchy, and her use of interdisciplinary study.

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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (2012) (280)
Explaining Civilization. (Book Reviews: Zapotec Civilization. How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley.) (1996) (271)
The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of The Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (1983) (242)
Mesoamerican Writing Systems : Propaganda, Myth, And History In Four Ancient Civilizations (1992) (180)
Formative Mexican Chiefdoms and the Myth of the "Mother Culture" (2000) (155)
Territorial Organization of the Lowland Classic Maya (1973) (150)
Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry [and Comments and Replies] (1993) (146)
Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
Calakmul: New Data from an Ancient Maya Capital in Campeche, Mexico (1995) (137)
Playing with Power: Ballcourts and Political Ritual in Southern Mesoamerica [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (134)
Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: An Epigraphic Approach to Territorial Organization (1976) (109)
The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru (1989) (109)
Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads (1983) (109)
The Archaeological Evidence for Social Evolution (2008) (102)
The ancient mind: Ancient Zapotec ritual and religion: an application of the direct historical approach (1994) (93)
Early Formative Pottery Of The Valley Of Oaxaca (1994) (89)
The ancient city : new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world (2009) (88)
The origin of war: New 14C dates from ancient Mexico (2003) (87)
Petrographic evidence shows that pottery exchange between the Olmec and their neighbors was two-way. (2005) (87)
Cuello : an early Maya community in Belize (1992) (81)
Formative Oaxaca and the Zapotec Cosmos (1976) (81)
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (75)
Women's ritual in formative Oaxaca : figurine-making, divination, death, and the ancestors (1998) (71)
The coevolution of ritual and society: New 14C dates from ancient Mexico (2004) (68)
Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology (2003) (59)
The Plant World of the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Lowland Maya (1982) (57)
Implications of new petrographic analysis for the Olmec "mother culture" model. (2005) (56)
On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies (2006) (51)
Excavation at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (2005) (51)
The iconography of power among the Classic Maya (1974) (51)
The Origins of Mesoamerican Writing (1976) (47)
Archaeology and religion: a comparison of the Zapotec and Maya (1978) (42)
Where is Lowland Maya archaeology headed? (1995) (41)
Verification of a Maya Settlement Model through Remote Sensing (1995) (36)
Extending the Calakmul Dynasty Back in Time: A New Stela from a Maya Capital in Campeche, Mexico (1998) (35)
Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply] (1995) (34)
Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (2015) (31)
Mesoamerican writing systems (1992) (27)
The Inscriptions of Calakmul: Royal Marriage at a Maya City in Campeche, Mexico (1987) (27)
The maya and teotihuacan (2004) (27)
Political fluctuations in Mesoamerica (1992) (22)
Monumentality in Archaic States:: Lessons Learned from Large-Scale Excavations of the Past (2003) (21)
CHAPTER 11 Maya Commoners: The Stereotype and the Reality (2004) (20)
Studying Figurines (2019) (20)
Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period (1976) (19)
Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands@@@The Origins of Maya Civilization (1978) (18)
Debating Oaxaca archaeology (1992) (16)
Late Intermediate Occupation at Cerro Azul, Peru: A Preliminary Report (1987) (16)
The Roles of Ritual and Technology in Mesoamerican Water Management (2006) (15)
Reply to Hammond and Andrews (1984) (14)
Andean civilization : a tribute to Michael E. Moseley (2009) (13)
Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery (2008) (12)
Excavations at San José Mogote (2005) (10)
Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca: the Origins of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (2000) (8)
Another Pinch of Salt: A Comment on Mackinnon and Kepecs (1991) (8)
A World Tour of Breweries (2009) (8)
Studying the individual in prehistory: a tale of three women from Cerro Azul, Peru (2015) (7)
On the Perils of "Politically Correct" Archaeology (1994) (6)
Mesoamerican territorial boundaries: Reconstructions from archaeology and hieroglyphic writing (1984) (6)
3. The Preceramic and Formative of the Valley of Oaxaca (2015) (6)
The Formation of Political Hierarchies and the Loss of Autonomy (2012) (6)
Variations in the Expression of Inka Power by Richard L. Burger, Craig Morris, and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (eds.) (2008) (5)
The Monuments and Inscriptions of Caracol, Belize. Carl P. Beetz and Linton Satterthwaite. University Museum Monograph No. 45, The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1981. xiii + 132 pp., illus., biblio. Cloth. (1984) (5)
Writing, Literacy, and Performance in the New and Old Worlds (1995) (4)
The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya. Jeremy A. Sabloff. (1991) (4)
Did a rain of comets nurture life?: a cometary source for cockeyed molecules? (1991) (3)
THE PRECERAMIC AND EARLY CERAMIC PERIODS IN BELIZE AND THE CENTRAL MAYA LOWLANDS (2021) (2)
The Inca conquest of Cerro Azul (2017) (2)
The Handbook of Middle American Indians: A Retrospective Look (1978) (2)
Snares Awaiting the American Scientist. (1953) (2)
Barcoding spindles and decorating whorls: How weavers marked their property at Cerro Azul, Peru (2016) (1)
Utilizing Sociodrama in the Social Studies Curriculum. (1977) (1)
Yucatan at the Crossroads (2014) (1)
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns. Wendy Ashmore editor. A School of American Research Book, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1981. xviii + 465 pp., illus., biblio., index. $30.00 (cloth). (1982) (1)
Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands - by Stanton, Travis W. and Magnoni, A. (eds) (2009) (1)
Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: (2019) (1)
Michael U. Moseley and the Foundations of Andean Civilization (2009) (1)
On the "square" model of maya territorial organization. (1974) (1)
Mixteca-Puebla: Discoveries and Research in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology. H. B. Nicholson and Eloise Quiñones Keber, editors. Labyrinthos, Culver City, California, 1994. xv + 248 pp., 222 figures, 4 color plates, 15 tables, references. $55.00 (paper). (1996) (1)
Zapotec Monuments and Political History (2020) (1)
A New World Perspective on the ‘Death’ of Archaeological Theory (2011) (1)
Archeology: Maya Iconography. Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin, eds (1989) (1)
FOUR. Why Our Ancestors Had Religion and the Arts (2012) (0)
SIX. Agriculture and Achieved Renown (2012) (0)
THE EFFECTS OF A CAMP PROGRAM ON THE READING ABILITIES AND ATTITUDES OF EDUCATIONALLY AND SOCIOECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN. (1977) (0)
EIGHTEEN. Three of the New World’s First-Generation Kingdoms (2012) (0)
TWO. Rousseau’s “State of Nature” (2012) (0)
Chupa and Waytakuy (2016) (0)
The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery In the Aztec World:The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery In the Aztec World.; (1990) (0)
TWENTY-TWO. Graft and Imperialism (2012) (0)
Herd Dynamics II: The “Santa Claus” Model (2016) (0)
ELEVEN. Three Sources of Power in Chiefly Societies (2012) (0)
FOURTEEN. Temples and Inequality in Early Mesopotamia (2012) (0)
Colonization And Conquest (1996) (0)
TWENTY-FOUR. Inequality and Natural Law (2012) (0)
Deciphering Ancient Writing: Mesoamerican Writing Systems . Papers from a conference, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1971. Elizabeth P. Benson, Ed. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington, D.C., 1973. x, 226 pp., illus. $10. (1975) (0)
Early Americans: respecting ancestors. (2014) (0)
The People of the Puna (2016) (0)
Coping With Risk At The Local Level (1996) (0)
Competitive versus Peaceful Interaction (2019) (0)
Death Notices: Michael Ames, Craig Morris, Cynthia Nelson (2006) (0)
The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Yucatan at the Crossroads (2012) (0)
Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru (2020) (0)
EIGHT. The Prehistory of the Ritual House (2012) (0)
The Guanaco and the Llama (2016) (0)
Four Lienzos of the Coixtlahuaca Valley. Ross Parmenter. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, No. 26, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1982. iv + 81 pp., figures, plates, biblio. $ 12.00 (paper). (1984) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries Kevin Terraciano (2003) (0)
Studying Figurines (2018) (0)
TWENTY-ONE. The Nursery of Civilization (2012) (0)
SIXTEEN. How to Turn Rank into Stratification: Tales of the South Pacific (2012) (0)
Sources of Illustrations (2012) (0)
NINETEEN. The Land of the Scorpion King (2012) (0)
Linguistic Anthropology: Diccionario Zapoteco: Zapoteco de Juárez. Neil Nellis and Jane Goodner de Nellis (1985) (0)
Herd Dynamics IV: Suñay and Adaptation (2016) (0)
Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec. Elizabeth Hill Boone. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000. xiii + 312 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth). (2003) (0)
Suñay and Dual Inheritance Theory (2016) (0)
Herd Dynamics I: The “Oliver Twist” Model (2016) (0)
NEW MEXICO OBSIDIAN SOURCES RIO GRANDE GRAVELS (2009) (0)
THIRTEEN. Aristocracy without Chiefs (2012) (0)
THREE. Ancestors and Enemies (2012) (0)
NINE. Prestige and Equality in Four Native American Societies (2012) (0)
TWENTY-THREE. How New Empires Learn from Old (2012) (0)
FIVE. Inequality without Agriculture (2012) (0)
Alliance Building And Elite Competition (1996) (0)
Herd Dynamics III: The “Surf City” Model (2016) (0)
TEN. The Rise and Fall of Hereditary Inequality in Farming Societies (2012) (0)
ONE. Genesis and Exodus (2012) (0)
SEVEN. The Ritual Buildings of Achievement-Based Societies (2012) (0)
FIFTEEN. The Chiefly Societies in Our Backyard (2012) (0)
TWELVE. From Ritual House to Temple in the Americas (2012) (0)
Nature, Culture, and Practical Reason (2016) (0)
Maya Usurpers (2020) (0)
TWENTY. Black Ox Hides and Golden Stools (2012) (0)

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