Stephen D. Houston

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Stephen D. Houston

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According to Wikipedia, Stephen Douglas Houston is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, epigrapher, and Mayanist scholar, who is particularly renowned for his research into the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. He is the author of a number of papers and books concerning topics such as the Maya script, the history, kingships and dynastic politics of the pre-Columbian Maya, and archaeological reports on several Maya archaeological sites, particularly Dos Pilas and El Zotz. In 2021, National Geographic noted that he participated in the correct cultural association assigned to a half-size replica discovered at the Tikal site of the six-story pyramid of the mighty Teotihuacan culture, which replicated its Citadel that includes the original Feathered Serpent Pyramid.

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Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala (2018) (216)
Of gods, glyphs and kings: divinity and rulership among the Classic Maya (1996) (195)
Hieroglyphs and history at Dos Pilas : dynastic politics of the Classic Maya (1993) (171)
An Archaeology of the Senses: Perception and Cultural Expression in Ancient Mesoamerica (2000) (159)
Chemical Analyses of Ancient Anthrosols in Residential Areas at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (2000) (157)
Playing with Power: Ballcourts and Political Ritual in Southern Mesoamerica [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (134)
The Ancient Maya Self: Personhood and Portraiture in the Classic Period (1998) (119)
Quantitative phosphorus measurement: A field test procedure for archaeological site analysis at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (2000) (116)
Nucleate pool boiling on horizontal tubes: A convection-based correlation (1994) (111)
The Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions1 (2000) (103)
Into the Minds of Ancients: Advances in Maya Glyph Studies (2000) (99)
Classic Maya Place Names (1994) (98)
Methodological Issues in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics (2006) (86)
The Classic Maya (2009) (83)
Evaluating the use of IKONOS satellite imagery in lowland Maya settlement archaeology (2008) (79)
Recentering the rural: Lidar and articulated landscapes among the Maya (2019) (78)
The Classic Maya Ballgame and Its Architectural Setting: A Study of Relations between Text and Image (1987) (72)
Symbolic Sweatbaths of the Maya: Architectural Meaning in the Cross Group at Palenque, Mexico (1996) (65)
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya (2001) (63)
Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery (1989) (59)
The first writing : script invention as history and process (2004) (59)
The decipherment of ancient Maya writing (2001) (55)
Carbon isotopic ratios of wetland and terrace soil sequences in the Maya Lowlands of Belize and Guatemala (2011) (53)
The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence (2014) (53)
The Archaeology of Communication Technologies (2004) (53)
Oldest Writing in the New World (2006) (52)
Smokescreens in the Provenance Investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican Ceramics (2006) (51)
The Shifting Now: Aspect, Deixis, and Narrative in Classic Maya Texts (1997) (51)
Fiery pool : the Maya and the mythic sea (2010) (51)
Bodies and blood: critiquing social construction in Maya archaeology (2003) (46)
Between mountains and sea : Investigations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, 1998 (1999) (43)
Dysharmony in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Linguistic Change and Continuity in Classic Society. (1998) (43)
Heat transfer to sliding bubbles on a tube under evaporating and non-evaporating conditions (1996) (42)
Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color (2009) (41)
The dynastic sequence of Dos Pilas, Guatemala (1985) (39)
Watchful realms: integrating GIS analysis and political history in the southern Maya lowlands (2012) (39)
Last Writing: Script Obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica (2003) (32)
Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative Perspective (2020) (30)
Function and meaning in classic Maya architecture : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994 (1998) (29)
Craft Specialization, Gender, and Personhood among the Postconquest Maya of Yucatan, Mexico (2008) (29)
Centering the Classic Maya Kingdom of Sak Tz’i’ (2020) (28)
Discovering ancient Maya settlements using airborne radar elevation data (2011) (27)
Through seeing stones: Maya epigraphy as a mature discipline (2016) (27)
A Splendid Predicament: Young Men in Classic Maya Society (2009) (26)
Dynastic Architectural Programs : Intention and Design in Classic Maya Buildings at Copan and Other Sites (1998) (26)
Split Ergativity in the History of the Ch’olan Branch of the Mayan Language Family (2006) (25)
The inscriptions and monumental art of Dos Pilas, Guatemala : a study of classic Maya history and politics (1987) (24)
Peopling the Classic Maya Court (2018) (24)
Decorous bodies and disordered passions: Representations of emotion among the Classic Maya (2001) (24)
On the river of ruins : Explorations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, 1997 (1998) (24)
The Memory Of Bones (2006) (20)
Archaeology and Maya writing (1989) (20)
On Maya Hieroglyphic Literacy (1992) (20)
Multispectral Image Processing For Detail Reconstruction and Enhancement of Maya Murals from La Pasadita, Guatemala (1999) (19)
The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest (1997) (18)
Hieroglyphs and history at Dos Pilas (1985) (17)
An Example of Homophony in Maya Script (1984) (17)
The disappearance of writing systems : perspectives on literacy and communication (2008) (15)
Sliding bubble heat transfer on a tube under heating and cooling conditions (1992) (12)
The Gifted Passage: Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text (2018) (11)
AREAL SHIFTS IN CLASSIC MAYAN PHONOLOGY (2014) (11)
A neighborly view: Water and environmental history of the El Zotz Region (2015) (11)
The effect of diameter on boiling heat transfer from the outside of small horizontal tubes (2002) (11)
Guardian of the Acropolis: The Sacred Space of a Royal Burial at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (2003) (11)
Reading in Context: The Interpretation of Personal Reference in Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Texts (2013) (10)
Paleoecology and Geoarchaeology at El Palmar and the El Zotz Region, Guatemala (2017) (10)
The Life and Afterlife of the Classic Period Piedras Negras Kingdom (2016) (9)
In the Shadow of a Giant (2008) (9)
Quirigua: A Classic Maya Center and Its Sculptures (2008) (9)
The Good Prince: Transition, Texting and Moral Narrative in the Murals of Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico (2012) (8)
Monumental architecture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala: time, history, and meaning (1998) (8)
The phonetic decipherment of Mayan glyphs (1988) (7)
The Small Deaths of Maya Writing (2008) (7)
Cross‐Cultural Approaches to Literacy. Brian V. Street, ed (1995) (7)
The Acropolis of Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala: recovering a Lost Excavation (2003) (7)
Occult giant cell (temporal) arteritis presenting with bilateral sixth and unilateral fourth nerve palsies (1998) (6)
Classic maya death at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (2003) (6)
The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006) (6)
Most Maya Glyphs are written in Ch'olti'an (2009) (6)
Skin problems related to sports and recreational activities. (1977) (6)
Contributions to Maya hieroglyphic decipherment (1983) (6)
What Is a Hieroglyph ? (2020) (6)
A Quetzal Feather Dance at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico (1984) (6)
The dedicated city: meaning and morphology in Classic Maya urbanism (2015) (5)
Universals and the Logic of the Material Implication: A Case Study from Maya Hieroglyphic Writing (2007) (5)
CITADELS AND SURVEILLANCE: CONFLICTIVE REGIONS AND DEFENSIVE DESIGN IN THE BUENAVISTA CITADELS OF GUATEMALA (2019) (5)
A royal Maya country house: Archaeology at Bejucal, Guatemala (2016) (4)
A Yaxchilan-style Lintel Possibly from the Area of Retalteco, Petén, Guatemala (2006) (3)
Data and Case Studies (2018) (3)
Inconstant landscape: the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala, An (2018) (3)
Opening the Royal Maya Court (2018) (3)
An Example of Preclassic Mayan Writing? (2006) (3)
The Piedras Negras Project: Preliminary Report of the 2000 Field Season In the Land of the Turtle Lords: Archaeological Investigations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (2000) (3)
Assessment of convective boiling on a horizontal tube (2000) (3)
Last Writing: Script Obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, (2016) (2)
Editorial Remarks: A New Journal Based on an Old Idea (1990) (2)
Writing that Isn’t (2018) (2)
Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras (2022) (2)
Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, A.D. 600-800: A Poetics of Line (review) (2006) (2)
TO BOAST IN OUR SUFFERINGS:: THE PROBLEM OF PAIN IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA (2009) (2)
True People, Foreigners, and the Framing of Maya Morality (2018) (2)
Cities as performance arenas (2015) (2)
Masterful hands: Morelli and the Maya on the Hieroglyphic Stairway, Copan, Honduras (2015) (2)
Analysis of Samples Excavated from a Royal Tomb in El Zotz: Application of Materials Science Characterization Techniques in Archaeology (2013) (2)
Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol (2001) (2)
On Ruler 6 at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (1983) (2)
An Inconstant Landscape (2019) (2)
A Teotihuacan complex at the Classic Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala (2021) (1)
Ping-Pong, Polygons, Virgins:: Graphic Representations of the Ancient Maya (2013) (1)
8. Classic Maya History and Politics at Dos Pilas, Guatemala (1991) (1)
Re-Presenting Archaeology (2013) (1)
Recollections of a Carnegie Archaeologist (1990) (1)
Cultural Landscapes in the Ancient Andes: Archaeologies of Place. Jerry D. Moore. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2005. xii + 270 pp., bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth). (2007) (1)
Assessment of convective pool boiling on horizontal tubes (2000) (1)
Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs and Practices of an Ancient American People (1999) (1)
SCULPTURAL TRADITIONALISM AND INNOVATION IN THE CLASSIC MAYA KINGDOM OF SAK TZ'I', MEXICO (2021) (1)
The Shape of Script How and Why Writing Systems Change (2012) (1)
Bridging the Gap: Spectral and Structural Analysis of Archaeological Settlement in El Zotz, Guatemala (2018) (1)
Telling about the Maya. (1992) (1)
The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs (2021) (0)
How ‘Natives’ Think, About the Soul, For Example (with apologies to Sahlins) (1997) (0)
More on the Language of Classic Maya Inscriptions (2001) (0)
The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact by Gary Tomlinson (2009) (0)
Another Example of a “Truncated” Initial Series (1984) (0)
Reviews - Elizabeth P. Benson & Gillett G. Griffin (ed.). Maya iconography . xvi + 379 pages, 236 illustrations . Princeton (NJ) & Guildford: Princeton University Press, 1988; ISBN 0-691-03590-3 hardback $80 & £44.70. (1989) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook. John F. Harris and Stephen K. Stearns (1993) (0)
SPECIAL SECTION: NEW DIALOGUES ABOUT ANCIENT MAYA (2016) (0)
Ingenuity and Ambivalence in Maya Writing (2019) (0)
Hilltops and Boundaries: The LiDAR Survey of El Zotz and Tikal (2017) (0)
Aimé Cichero Anth1030 Pre-columbian Art and Architecture Tattooing in Moche Culture: Reconsidering the Identity of the Lady of Cao (2016) (0)
To Burn like the Sun: Rituals of Fire and Death among the Classic Maya (2015) (0)
A Fortress in Heaven (2019) (0)
Anthropology. An example of Preclassic Mayan writing? (2006) (0)
Quirigua: A Classic Maya Center and Its Sculptures:Quirigua: A Classic Maya Center and Its Sculptures. (1992) (0)
44 NEW INSIGHTS ON THE ACROPOLIS OF KAMINALJUYU , GUATEMALA (2009) (0)
Sourcing novelty (2022) (0)
The effect of diameter on boiling heat transfer from the outside of small tubes (2001) (0)
Ruling through Defense (2019) (0)
Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol (review) (2001) (0)
MICHAEL D. COE (1929–2019): A LIFE IN THE PAST (2021) (0)
A view of neurofibromatosis (1986) (0)
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya, Vol. 1: Theory, Comparison, And Synthesis By Takeshi Inomata;Stephen D. Houston (2007) (0)
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Volume II, Mesoamerica, part 1. Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. Macleod, editors. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2000. xvi + 571 pp., figures, bibliographies, index. $89.95 (cloth). (2001) (0)
Thermally induced stresses in firetube boilers. (1996) (0)
Hertizian Generator Development (1973) (0)
Heat transfer problems in modern steam car development (1999) (0)
FOREWORD:: Skin-Deep (2019) (0)
“Chronosophy” in Classic Maya Thought (2016) (0)
Operating Stresses in Firetube Boilers (1997) (0)
Excavations at Tikal, Guatemala: The Work of William R. Coe (2008) (0)
Excavations at Tikal, Guatemala: The Work of William R. Coe:Excavations in the Great Plaza, North Terrace and North Acropolis of Tikal. (1991) (0)
Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods. Christopher Shaw. Norton, New York City, 2000. 316 pp., figures. $26.95 (cloth). (2001) (0)
Art and Writing in the Maya Cities, A.D. 600-800: A Poetics of Line. By Adam Herring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 316. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 cloth. (2006) (0)
Operating Stresses in firetube package boilers. (1997) (0)
Gene Strickland Stuart 1930–1993 (1995) (0)
Book Review:The Writing System of La Mojarra and Associated Monuments Lloyd B. Anderson (1996) (0)
S ANNUAL REVIEW (2016) (0)
LSY volume 38 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2009) (0)
Going to Ground Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in Cave Context, edited by Keith M. Prufer & James E. Brady, 2005. Boulder (CO): University Press or Colorado; ISBN 0-87081-808-2 hardback; £44.50 & US$55; xviii+392 pp., ills. (2006) (0)
Folk Classification of Classic (1989) (0)
Writing in New World Civilizations (1994) (0)
Book Reviews:The Origins of Writing. (1991) (0)
APL volume 29 Cover and Back matter (2009) (0)
Tube-side flow and heat transfer in package boilers (1992) (0)
The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs (2021) (0)

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