Michael E. Smith

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Michael E. Smith is affiliated with the following schools: University at Albany, SUNY, University of Arizona, Arizona State University

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Ernest Smith is an American archaeologist working primarily with Aztec and general Mesoamerican archaeology. He has written numerous scholarly articles about central Mexican archaeology as well as several books about the Aztecs, among them a widely used textbook . He is currently Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is known for stressing the importance of assessing archaeological evidence independently of the ethnohistorical sources, and advocating its use as a source of knowledge about the Aztecs.

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Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning (2007) (245)
Household possessions and wealth in agrarian states: Implications for archaeology (1987) (214)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT STATE ECONOMIES (2004) (211)
The archaeological study of neighborhoods and districts in ancient cities (2010) (185)
Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists (2011) (142)
The Postclassic Mesoamerican World (2003) (136)
Greater Post-Neolithic Wealth Disparities in Eurasia than in North and Mesoamerica (2017) (134)
Sustainable agrarian urbanism: The low-density cities of the Mayas and Aztecs (2013) (131)
The Role of Social Stratification in the Aztec Empire: A View from the Provinces (1986) (126)
Urban Open Spaces in Historical Perspective: A Transdisciplinary Typology and Analysis (2012) (106)
The Archaeological Study of Empires and Imperialism in Pre-Hispanic (2001) (103)
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies (2011) (95)
Aztec city-state capitals (2008) (93)
Centenary paper: V. Gordon Childe and the urban revolution: A historical perspective on a revolution in urban studies (2009) (85)
Sprawl, Squatters, and Sustainable Cities: Can Archaeological Data Shed Light on Modern Urban Issues? (2010) (84)
THE AZTLAN MIGRATIONS OF THE NAHUATL CHRONICLES: MYTH OR HISTORY? (1984) (81)
Archaeology, Annales , and ethnohistory: Braudel's temporal rhythms and chronology theory in archaeology (1992) (80)
Economies and polities in the Aztec realm (1997) (77)
The Aztec Marketing System and Settlement Pattern in the Valley of Mexico: A Central Place Analysis (1979) (77)
Archaeology as a social science (2012) (74)
The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities (2012) (73)
Sensitivity of pigeons to prereinforcer and postreinforcer delay (1985) (70)
Population-Area Relationship for Medieval European Cities (2016) (64)
City Size in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica (2005) (60)
Settlement scaling theory: Bridging the study of ancient and contemporary urban systems (2019) (57)
The Development of Prehispanic Cotton-Spinning Technology in Western Morelos, Mexico (1988) (57)
Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica (2002) (52)
Ethnic and Class Clustering through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Urban Neighbourhood Social Patterns (2011) (51)
Classic Maya Settlement Clusters as Urban Neighborhoods: A Comparative Perspective on Low-Density Urbanism (2011) (50)
Aztec- period agricultural terraces in morelos, mexico: Evidence for household-level agricultural intensification (1994) (50)
Domestic Ritual at Aztec Provincial Sites in Morelos (2002) (49)
Can We Read Cosmology in Ancient Maya City Plans? Comment on Ashmore and Sabloff (2003) (47)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS FROM THE AZTEC NEW FIRE CEREMONY (2001) (47)
New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism (2006) (46)
The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican World system (2001) (46)
Settlement scaling and economic change in the Central Andes (2016) (45)
Quantitative Measures of Wealth Inequality in Ancient Central Mexican Communities (2014) (45)
New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization (2005) (44)
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences (2018) (43)
STATES AND EMPIRES IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA (2009) (42)
Corrigendum: Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica (2018) (41)
Cities, Towns, and Urbanism: Comment on Sanders and Webster (1989) (41)
How Can Archaeologists Identify Early Cities? Definitions, Types, and Attributes (2017) (40)
Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology (2011) (37)
The Aztec Empire: The Toltec Resurgence. (1992) (37)
Did the Maya Build Architectural Cosmograms? (2005) (37)
Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises (2020) (36)
Aztec Feasts, Rituals, and Markets: Political Uses of Ceramic Vessels in a Commercial Economy (2003) (36)
Excavations of Aztec Urban Houses at Yautepec, Mexico (1999) (35)
Life in the Provinces of The Aztec Empire (1997) (35)
Aztec City-States (2000) (35)
Peasant mobility, local migration and premodern urbanization (2014) (34)
Long-Distance Trade under the Aztec Empire: The Archaeological Evidence (1990) (33)
The Expansion of the Aztec Empire: A Case Study in the Correlation of Diachronic Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Data (1987) (32)
Service Access in Premodern Cities (2016) (31)
Jane Jacobs' ‘Cities First’ Model and Archaeological Reality (2014) (30)
HOW CAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS MAKE BETTER ARGUMENTS ? (29)
Late Postclassic Chronology in Western Morelos, Mexico (1991) (27)
Cities: Complexity, theory and history (2020) (27)
A New Postclassic Chronology for Yautepec, Morelos (1996) (26)
Sources of Imported Obsidian at Postclassic Sites in the Yautepec Valley, Morelos: A Characterization Study Using XRF and INAA (2007) (26)
The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (2011) (26)
The Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization (2017) (25)
Editorial—Just How Comparative is Comparative Urban Geography? A Perspective from Archaeology (2009) (25)
The Earliest Cities (2002) (23)
Polities, territory and historical change in Postclassic Matlatzinco (Toluca Valley, central Mexico) (2011) (23)
Archaeology and the Aztec empire (1992) (21)
Aztec Feasts Rituals and Markets (2003) (21)
New world complex societies: Recent economic, social, and political studies (1993) (21)
Neighborhood formation in semi-urban settlements (2015) (21)
The ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica : a reader (2000) (20)
A Further Criticism of the Type-Variety System: The Data can't Be Used (1979) (19)
Aztec period houses and terraces at Calixtlahuaca: The changing morphology of a Mesoamerican hilltop urban center (2013) (19)
THE SIZE OF PLAZAS IN MESOAMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS (2017) (19)
The Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic Period Maya and Izapa: Insights from Settlement Scaling Theory (2020) (19)
Architectural Patterns at Three Aztec-Period Sites in Morelos, Mexico (1989) (19)
Conceptual approaches to service provision in cities throughout history (2016) (17)
Archaeology, Annales , and ethnohistory: Rhythms of change in Postclassic central Mexico: archaeology, ethnohistory, and the Braudelian model (1992) (17)
9 Social Inequality and Access to Services in Premodern Cities (2016) (17)
Economies and Polities in Aztec-period Morelos: Ethnohistoric Introduction (1994) (17)
The Strategic Provinces (1996) (16)
MATERIAL EXPRESSIONS OF WEALTH AND SOCIAL CLASS AT AZTEC-PERIOD SITES IN MORELOS, MEXICO (2016) (16)
The persistence of ancient settlements and urban sustainability (2021) (16)
Postclassic culture change in western Morelos, Mexico : the development and correlation of archaeological and ethnohistorical chronologies (1983) (15)
The History in Urban Studies: A Comment (2011) (15)
Why archaeology's relevance to global challenges has not been recognised (2021) (15)
How Do Archaeologists Compare Early States? (2006) (15)
The Role of the Marketing System in Aztec Society and Economy: Reply to Evans (1980) (15)
The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan (review) (2002) (14)
Studying inequality’s deep past (2018) (14)
Definitions and Comparisons in Urban Archaeology (2020) (13)
Social Complexity in the Aztec Countryside (2006) (13)
Introduction: Neighborhoods and districts in ancient Mesoamerica (2012) (12)
Comparative archaeology: A commitment to understanding variation (2011) (12)
Housing in premodern cities: Patterns of social and spatial variation (2014) (11)
Social science and archaeological enquiry (2017) (11)
Deep inequality: Summary and conclusions (2018) (10)
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies: Household Economies under the Aztec and Inka Empires (2011) (10)
Quality of Life and Prosperity in Ancient Households and Communities (2015) (9)
Cities Through the Ages: One Thing or Many? (2019) (9)
A New Archaeological Chronology for Aztec-Period Calixtlahuaca, Mexico (2015) (9)
The Aztec Empire (2012) (9)
The Size of the Aztec City of Yautepec (1994) (9)
APARTMENT COMPOUNDS, HOUSEHOLDS, AND POPULATION IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO (2019) (8)
The Teotihuacan Anomaly: The Historical Trajectory of Urban Design in Ancient Central Mexico (2017) (8)
Neighborhoods and Districts in Ancient Mesoamerica (2012) (8)
XOO-PHASE CERAMICS FROM OAXACA FOUND AT CALIXTLAHUACA IN CENTRAL MEXICO (2005) (7)
Inequality and Social Class in Aztec Society (2017) (7)
Why Archaeology Is Necessary for a Theory of Urbanization (2020) (7)
Archaeology and the Aztec Economy: The Social Scientific Use of Archaeological Data (1987) (7)
A Quarter-Century of Aztec Studies (2003) (6)
Aztec-Style Ceramic Figurines from Yautepec , Morelos (2005) (5)
A systematic approach for studying the persistence of settlements in the past (2023) (4)
Can we Read Cosmology from Maya City Plans? Comment on Ashmore and Sabloff (2003) (4)
Scaling of Hunter Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality (2019) (4)
Comparative Methods for Premodern Cities (2016) (4)
A New Map of the Aztec-Period City of Calixtlahuaca in Central Mexico (2007) (4)
JUST HOW USEFUL IS ARCHAEOLOGY FOR SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN OTHER DISCIPLINES (2010) (4)
City Planning: Aztec City Planning (2008) (4)
Economic Change in Morelos Households (2006) (4)
State Systems of Settlement: Response to Crumley (1977) (4)
Archaeology, relevance and science (2021) (4)
The archaeology of tezcatlipoca (2015) (3)
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture: A Symposium at Dombarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994. Stephen D. Houston, editor. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 1998. viii + 562 pp., figures, bibliographies, index. $40.00 (cloth). (2000) (3)
Cities First ” Model and Archaeological Reality (2014) (3)
Increasing returns to scale in the towns of early Tudor England (2020) (3)
Documenting, disseminating and archiving data from the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (2018) (2)
Smith Planning Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities : A New Approach to Ancient Urban (2007) (2)
The Comparative Analysis of Early Cities and Urban Deposits (2020) (2)
Mesoamerican state formation in the Postclassic period (2015) (2)
Materials in Museum Collections : Some Frustrations of a Field Archaeologist (2004) (2)
Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science (2019) (2)
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies: Archaeology, Early Complex Societies, and Comparative Social Science History (2011) (2)
Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica (2021) (2)
AZTEC CULTURE : AN OVERVIEW (2006) (2)
Serving Up the Red Beads Experience (2003) (2)
Settlement Patterns and Urbanization in the Yautepec Valley of Central Mexico (2021) (2)
Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power. Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden, editors. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2001. xii + 432 pp., figures, tables, bibliographies, index. $29.95 (paper). (2003) (2)
THE FOUNDING OF CITIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD : REVIEW OF CONCEPTS (2006) (1)
Urban Success and Urban Adaptation Over the Long Run (2023) (1)
Bounding Empires and Political/Military Networks Using Archaeological Data (2017) (1)
Ancient Egyptian Urbanism in a Comparative, Global Context (2021) (1)
Postclassic Ceramics from the Toluca Valley in U.S. Museums: The Bauer and Blake Collections (2001) (1)
Making Good Arguments in Archaeology (1)
Modern behavioral experiments are not economic history (2009) (1)
Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape. By Roderick J. McIntosh, Case Studies in Early Societies 7, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 278 pp., ISBN 0521012430 (paperback), 052181300X (hardback). Price 19.99 £ (paperback), 50.00 £ (hardback). (2006) (1)
Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre‐Columbian World by Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury, eds (2014) (1)
Everyday Life in the Aztec World (2020) (1)
The Ancient Past in the Urban Present : The Use of Early Models in Urban Design (2017) (1)
Anthropologists Cheer Ostrom's Nobel: Prize Recognizes Interdisciplinary Scholarship (2009) (1)
The Aztec World of Gary Jennings (2001) (1)
Durable Inequality in Aztec Society (2021) (1)
How can research on past urban adaptations be made useful for sustainability science? (2023) (1)
The Aztec Economic World: Merchants and markets in ancient Mesoamerica, by Kenneth G. Hirth, 2016. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 978-1-107-14227-0 hardback £100. xviii+382 pp., 51 b&w figs, 20 tables (2018) (0)
Estudios mexica. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. 2 vols. El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, 1999. Volumen I, Tomo 1: xii + 293 pp. figures, bibliographies, index. Volumen I, Tomo 2: viii + 267 pp. figures, bibliographies, index, (cloth). (2001) (0)
George L. Cowgill, December 19, 1929–July 31, 2018 (2020) (0)
The Martin Homestead (11V924): early prosperity on the Wabash border (2012) (0)
The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: A rchaeological Perspectives. Susan Kepecs and Rani T. Alexander, editors. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2005. xii + 260 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $59.95 (cloth). (2008) (0)
Montezuma: Warlord of the Aztecs. By Peter Trouras. (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. Pp. xviii, 114. $12.95.) (2007) (0)
1 Neighborhoods and Districts in Ancient Mesoamerica (2010) (0)
These “Thin Partitions”: Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology. JOSHUA D. ENGLEHARDT and IVY A. RIEGER (editors), 2017. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. x + 300 pp. $75 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-607322-541-3. (2018) (0)
Temporary Aggregation Sites in the Past: Are They Really So Strange and Anomalous? (2019) (0)
Housing Inequality in Premodern Cities (2016) (0)
Market Our Message on War (2000) (0)
Foreward: Aztec Figurine Studies (2006) (0)
A Battle Far Afield (2020) (0)
Postclassic City Size Metadata (2017) (0)
A Comparative Perspective on Minoan Urbanism (2017) (0)
Comparisons and Urban Planning (2015) (0)
Tlacaelel Remembered: Mastermind of the Aztec Empire (2019) (0)
Plaza Size Dataset: Metadata. Supplemental Material for Ossa et al. (2017) (0)
Plaza sizes for Mesoamerican cities (2017) (0)
LONG-DISTANCE TRADE UNDER (1990) (0)
Housing and Society at Teotihuacan (2016) (0)
Review of The Ancient City, edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy Sabloff (2009) (0)
Why Settlement Scaling Research is a Good Fit for Archaeology (2017) (0)
Biologists Can Distinguish Species Of Brazilian Fishes By Their Mating Calls (2018) (0)
City Size Data for Postclassic Mesoamerica (2017) (0)
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation by Jennifer Birch, ed. (2015) (0)
Perspectives: Standards in Graphics (1993) (0)
Open Access Interviews-2014 (2014) (0)
THE HISTORY IN URBAN STUDIES: A COMMENT. REPONSE (2011) (0)
The Setting in Space and Time (2015) (0)
Review of: The Tenochca Empire of Central Mexico, by Pedro Carrasco (2002) (0)
Leveraging Strategic Alliances (Adobe Acrobat) (2004) (0)
1 CHAPTER ONE Introduction Neighborhoods and Districts in Ancient Mesoamerica (2012) (0)
Rethinking the Aztec Economy (2017) (0)
After Monte Albán: Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico, edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster, 2008. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; ISBN-13 978-0-87081-896-7 hardback £43 & US$65; xviii+438 pp., 19 b/w ills., 83 figs., 11 maps, 16 tables (2009) (0)
What is all the buzz about (2008) (0)
Late Postclassic Mesoamerica (2016) (0)
Vaca Plateau and Maya Mountains (2015) (0)
Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Jessica Joyce Christie (2004) (0)
Archeology Division: Archaeology Book Nominations Needed (2000) (0)
Heritage sites, climate change, and urban science (2023) (0)
Forthcoming in Social Science History (1988) (0)
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar (2017) (0)
To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes. David Carrasco, editor. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1991. xii + 254 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index. $29.95 (cloth). (1993) (0)
Studying Maya Cities (2015) (0)
1 Coming Together : Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation an d Early Urbanization 9 th IEMA (2015) (0)
Ancient Maya Urbanism in the Eastern Lowlands (2015) (0)
Promoting Comparative Archaeology (2008) (0)
Descendants of Aztec Pictography: The Cultural Encyclopedias of Sixteenth-Century Mexico. Elizabeth Hill Boone. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, 264 pp. $65.00, cloth. ISBN 978-1-4773-2167-6. (2022) (0)
of urbanism, and the first to recognise the radical social transformation that came with the earliest cities (2009) (0)
B. The Functional or Regional Perspective (2008) (0)
Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas (Kohl, Podgorny, and Gänger, eds.) (2015) (0)
Deciphering Meaning in Maya Cities (2015) (0)
Prehistoric Lowland Maya Environment and Subsistence Economy. Mary Pohl, editor. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 77. Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985. x + 209 pp., figures, tables. $20.00 (paper). (1991) (0)
Greg Woolf. 2020. The life and death of ancient cities: a natural history. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-966473-0 hardback £25. (2020) (0)
Review of: Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape , by Roderick J. McIntosh (2006) (0)
SEVEN THE AZTEC EMPIRE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (2017) (0)
Archaeology: Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment. Diane Z. Chase and Arien F. Chase (1993) (0)
Custody plus, custody minus (2013) (0)
Archeology: Tula of the Toltecs: Excavations and Survey. Dan M. Healan, ed (1990) (0)
AAA Meetings No Kids' Stuff (1984) (0)
Land and Politics in the Valley of Mexico: A Two Thousand Year Perspective. H. R. Harvey, editor. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1991. xiii + 325 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $35.00 (cloth). (1993) (0)
Archeology: Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World. Charles D. Trombold (1993) (0)
From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan . Two Trajectories of Social Change (2018) (0)
How do Archaeologists Compare Early States? Book Review Essay on Bruce Trigger and Adam T. Smith (2006) (0)
Excavations at Cihuatecpan: An Aztec Village in the Teotihuacdn Valley. Susan T. Evans, editor. Publications in Anthropology No. 36. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1988. viii + 261 pp., figures, plates, tables, bibliography, summary in Spanish. $15.75 (paper). (1992) (0)
Almenas and Architecture (2018) (0)
Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica . Barbara Voorhies, editor. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1989. xiv + 346 pp., figures, tables, references, index. $30.00 (cloth). (1993) (0)
On Wealth Finance: Inca and Aztec Empires Compared (1985) (0)

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