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PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Payson D. Sheets is an American archaeologist, Mayanist, and professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is primarily known for his research in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Lower Central America, most importantly for his work on the Maya civilization at Joya de Cerén in El Salvador . He specializes in Mesoamerican archaeology, lithic technology, ancient adaptations, geophysical applications, hazards research , and remote sensing.

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Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (268)
Time, Energy, and Stone Tools (1990) (165)
Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology (1980) (159)
Volcanism, Ecology and Culture: A Reassessment of the Volcán Ilopango TBJ Eruption in the Southern Maya Realm (2001) (111)
Pressure Blades and Total Cutting Edge: An Experiment in Lithic Technology (1972) (97)
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (96)
PROVISIONING THE CEREN HOUSEHOLD (2000) (94)
Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America (2002) (93)
Behavioral Analysis and the Structure of a Prehistoric Industry [and Comments and Reply] (1975) (84)
Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Answers from Archaeology (2012) (65)
The Ceren Site : a prehistoric village buried by volcanic ash in Central America (1992) (62)
Soil Chemical Analysis of Ancient Activities in Cerén, El Salvador: A Case Study of a Rapidly Abandoned Site (2002) (58)
Prehistoric agriculture in tropical highlands. (1975) (53)
Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica (2002) (52)
Ancient Manioc Agriculture South of the Ceren Village, El Salvador (2012) (52)
Precise Characterization of Guatemalan Obsidian Sources, and Source Determination of Artifacts from Quiriguá (1983) (50)
17 – Environmental and Cultural Effects of the Ilopango Eruption in Central America (1979) (42)
Surviving Sudden Environmental Change (2012) (41)
Prehistory and Volcanism in the Arenal Area, Costa Rica (1991) (40)
Radiocarbon and geologic evidence reveal Ilopango volcano as source of the colossal ‘mystery’ eruption of 539/40 CE (2019) (37)
Edge Abrasion during Biface Manufacture (1973) (34)
Archeology and volcanism in Central America : the Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador (1985) (34)
Social process in Maya prehistory : studies in honour of Sir Eric Thompson (1980) (34)
MANIOC CULTIVATION AT CEREN, EL SALVADOR: OCCASIONAL KITCHEN GARDEN PLANT OR STAPLE CROP? (2011) (34)
Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica (1995) (29)
THE EFFECTS OF EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM ON ANCIENT EGALITARIAN, RANKED, AND STRATIFIED SOCIETIES IN MIDDLE AMERICA (1999) (27)
Obsidian Sources and Elemental Analyses of Artifacts in Southern Mesoamerica and the Northern Intermediate Area (1990) (27)
Age and extent of the Ilopango TBJ Tephra inferred from a Holocene chronostratigraphic reference section, Lago De Yojoa, Honduras (2005) (24)
Copan and Ceren (1997) (23)
The Late Postclassic Eastern Frontier of Mesoamerica: Cultural Innovation Along the Periphery [and Comments and Replies] (1981) (23)
Household Archaeology at Cerén, El Salvador (1990) (23)
Identifying ‘plantscapes’ at the Classic Maya village of Joya de Cerén, El Salvador (2017) (21)
Paleolithic Culture and Culture Change: Experiment in Theory and Method [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (19)
A Reassessment of the Precolumbian Obsidian Industry of El Chayal, Guatemala (1975) (19)
The Sociopolitical Economy of an Ancient Maya Village: Cerén and its Sacbe (2015) (18)
The Effects of Explosive Volcanism on Simple to Complex Societies in Ancient Middle America (2001) (16)
Prehistoric Agricultural Systems in El Salvador (1982) (15)
Ancient Mesoamerica (2013) (15)
Abundance in the Ancient Maya Village of Cerén (2017) (14)
20 – Volcanic Disasters and the Archaeological Record (1979) (13)
8. When the Construction of Meaning Preceded the Meaning of Construction: From Footpaths to Monumental Entrances in Ancient Costa Rica (2010) (13)
Place and time in activity area analysis: a study of elevated contexts used for artifact curation at the Ceren site, El Salvador. (1998) (13)
The Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts in Southern Mesoamerica: An Assessment (1977) (12)
Landscape management and polyculture in the ancient gardens and fields at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador (2020) (12)
Apocalypse then: Social science approaches to volcanism, people, and cultures in the Zapotitán Valley, El Salvador (2004) (12)
The Palaeo‐Environmental Contexts of Three Possible Phoenician Anchorages in Portugal (2009) (12)
Maya Recovery from Volcanic Disasters: Ilopango and Cerén (1979) (12)
Tropical time capsule (1994) (11)
Prospects and pitfalls in integrating volcanology and archaeology: A review (2020) (11)
Distinguishing Domestic from Ceremonial Structures in Southern Mesoamerica: suggestions from Cerén, El Salvador (2000) (10)
Early Earthquakes of the Americas. Robert L. Kovach. 2004. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xi + 268 pp. $90.00 (hardbound), ISBN 0-521-82489-3 (2005) (10)
Studies in the Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan and Campeche, Mexico. Archaeological Survey of the Yucatan-Campeche Coast (1979) (10)
PILGRIMAGES AND PERSISTENT SOCIAL MEMORY IN SPITE OF VOLCANIC DISASTERS IN THE ARENAL AREA, COSTA RICA (2011) (9)
Volcanoes, Ancient People, and Their Societies (2015) (8)
THE POTENTIAL OF HOLOGRAPHY AND OPTICAL CONTOURING FOR ARCHAEOMETRY (1989) (8)
Archeological studies of disaster : their range and value (1980) (7)
Who Were Those Classic Period Immigrants into the Zapotitán Valley, El Salvador? (2009) (7)
Creating and Perpetuating Social Memory Across the Ancient Costa Rican Landscape (2006) (7)
The Pillage of Prehistory (1973) (7)
An ancient natural disaster (1971) (7)
Thoughts and observations on volcanic activity and human ecology (2016) (7)
10. Chipped Stone from the Zapotitan Valley (1983) (6)
chapter 20 Cultivating Biodiversity: Milpas, Gardens, and the Classic Period Landscape (2002) (6)
The Southeast Frontiers of Mesoamerica (2000) (6)
Disaster Archaeology (2018) (6)
Chapter 9. Prehistoric Footpaths in Costa Rica: Remote Sensing and Field Verification (1994) (6)
Mesoamerican Households Viewed from Rapidly Abandoned Sites: an Introduction (2000) (5)
CHIPPED STONE ARTI FACTS FROM THE CORDILLERA DE TILARAN (2013) (5)
Household Production of Extra-Household Ritual at the Cerén Site, El Salvador (2002) (5)
Chapter 19 Household Production and Specialization at Cerén (2002) (4)
Artifacts and figurines (1978) (4)
Exploring Culinary Practices Through GIS Modeling at Joya de Cerén, El Salvador (2017) (4)
Phaseolus from Cerén—A Late Classic Maya Site (2015) (3)
Excavations at Altun Ha, Belize, 1964-1970. Vol. 1. David M. Pendergast. With architectural drawings by H. Stanley Loten. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1979. xi + 226 pp., illus., + 28 unbound folded architectural plans and sections. $30 (boxed). (1981) (3)
CONTRIBUTIONS OF GEOARCHAEOLOGY TO MESOAMERICAN STUDIES (2009) (3)
THE SOUNDSCAPE IN THE REPLICA OF THE CERÉN TEMAZCAL (2021) (2)
Cobble Circles and Standing Stones: Archaeology at the Rivas Site, Costa Rica. Jeffrey Quilter (2004) (2)
Chapter 15 Groundstone Artifacts in the Cerén Village (2002) (2)
Chapter 8 Structure 4: A Storehouse-Workshop for Household 4 (2002) (2)
Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Cerén, a Young Maya Village (2020) (2)
Uncommonly good among commoners food: Growing and consuming food in ancient ceren (2003) (2)
Revealing Ancestral Central America (2013) (2)
Chapter 12 Divination at Cerén: The Evidence from Structure 12 (2002) (2)
Very-to-barely remote sensing of prehistoric features under tephra in Central America (1991) (2)
Early Scholars' Visits to Central America (2000) (2)
Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response. Garth Bawden and Richard Martin Reycraft, editors. Anthropological Papers, Vol. 7. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2000. x + 228 pp., figures, tables, bibliography, index. $34.95 (paper). (2002) (2)
Uncommonly good food among commoners. Growing and consuming food in Ancient Ceren (2003) (2)
Satellite and airborne remote sensing analysis for the detection of ancient footpaths in Costa Rica (2003) (1)
Handbook on Soil Resistivity Surveying: Interpretation of Data from Earthen Archaeological Sites. Christopher Carr. Center for American Archaeology Press, Evanston, Illinois, 1982. xxvi + 676 pp., illus., biblio., index, appendices, microfiche appendices. $27.50 (cloth). (1983) (1)
Archaeology: Pre‐columbian Man Finds Central America: The Archaeological Bridge. DORIS STONE (1975) (1)
The Sounds in the Dark of the Temazcal at Cerén, El Salvador (2021) (1)
15. Natural Hazards, Natural Disasters, and Research in the Zapotitan Valley of El Salvador (1986) (1)
DIFFERENTIAL CHANGE AMONG THE PRECOLUMBIAN ARTIFACTS OF CHALCHUAPA, EL SALVADOR. (1974) (1)
Chapter 11. Chipped Stone Artifacts from the Cordillera de Tilarán (1994) (0)
A Variety of Cerendipitous Discoveries (2015) (0)
Testimony: Archeology and Remote Sensing (1986) (0)
Revealing Ancestral Central America - eScholarship (2013) (0)
Zapotitán Valley, El Salvador: Chipped Stone (1980) (0)
69. An Ergonomic and Cardiovascular Evaluation of Beverage Delivery Workers During Beverage Delivery (2002) (0)
Darkness at Noon and a Whole Lot More: The Temazcal at Ceren (2017) (0)
Keep It Up (1992) (0)
ROBERT J. SHARER, 1940–2012 (2014) (0)
Aerial and Ground-Based Remote Sensing In Central America (2003) (0)
Was the Elaborate Chert Eccentric from San Andres, El Salvador, made by the Rosalila Copan "El Maestro"? (2019) (0)
Bridging “The Great Divide” (1980) (0)
Correspondence: The CIA (2001) (0)
Chapter 17. Summary and Conclusions (1994) (0)
Exploring Culture under Volcanic Ash (1997) (0)
Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed. MICHAEL BRIAN SCHIFFER. 2019. Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, New York. xii + 308 pp. $32.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-9898249-9-6. (2021) (0)
Production, maintenance, and exchange in a young Maya community: Ceren, El Salvador (2016) (0)
From a Bulldozer Cut to a World Heritage Site (2020) (0)
LITHIC TECHNOLOGY FILMS: Making Primitive Stone Tools. 1950. Written, directed, and filmed by DOUGLAS LEECHMAN (1975) (0)
Chapter 22 Summary and Conclusions (2002) (0)
chapter 14 The Chipped Stone Artifacts of Cerén (2002) (0)
Explosive Volcanic Eruptions and Societal Responses (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Phaseolus from Cerén—A Late Classic Maya Site (2015) (0)
CORRESPONDENCE: Complementing Books with Websites (2004) (0)
The Complex Community of Cerén, El Salvador: a Classic Maya Example of Heterogeneity (2018) (0)
Do Disasters Always Enhance Inequality? (2020) (0)
Maya Lords of the Jungle. 1981. A film by John Angier. (1983) (0)
Geostratigraphy, Volcanology, and Chronology at Ceren: Implications of Dating the Ilopango and Loma Caldera Eruptions (2015) (0)
Constructing the Social Fabric of a Community: Household Service Relationships to the Ceren Village (2018) (0)
PRECISE CHARACTERIZATION OF GUATEMALAN OBSIDIAN SOURCES, AND SOURCING OBSIDIAN ARTIFACTS FROM QUIRIGUA (1981) (0)

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