Stephen Plog
American anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Plog is a notable American archaeologist and anthropologist, who specializes in the pre-Columbian cultures of the American Southwest. As the Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology at The University of Virginia, he currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students, and is working to digitize all the research on the Chaco Canyon through the Chaco Research Archive. On May 1, 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is among the highest distinctions for a scientist, and is based on outstanding and ongoing achievements in original research. He was also a visiting fellow at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2001-2002.
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- Evolution of “Tribal” Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence (1982) (281)
- Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty (2017) (183)
- Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics: Design Analysis in the American Southwest (1980) (92)
- Hierarchy and social inequality in the American Southwest, A.D. 800–1200 (2010) (87)
- Analysis of Style in Artifacts (1983) (81)
- Early procurement of scarlet macaws and the emergence of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM (2015) (73)
- Social Interaction and Stylistic Similarity: A Reanalysis (1978) (46)
- Exploring the Ubiquitous through the Unusual: Color Symbolism in Pueblo Black-on-White Pottery (2003) (39)
- Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest (1997) (37)
- The Relationship of Stylistic Similarity to Patterns of Material Exchange (1982) (37)
- Chronology Construction and the Study of Prehistoric Culture Change (1990) (35)
- The Chaco Pilgrimage Model: Evaluating the Evidence From Pueblo Alto (2012) (33)
- A Study of the Site Specific Distribution of Agave Parryi in East Central Arizona (1976) (25)
- The Never-Changing and the Ever-Changing: the Evolution of Western Pueblo Ritual (1997) (24)
- 7 – Social Interaction and Stylistic Similarity: A Reanalysis* (1981) (24)
- Equality and Hierarchy (1995) (23)
- Culture and Contact: Charles C. Di Peso's Gran Chichimeca (1995) (22)
- The Sample Size-Richness Relation: The Relevance of Research Questions, Sampling Strategies, and Behavioral Variation (1993) (22)
- Changing Perspectives on North and Middle American Exchange Systems (1993) (21)
- Kinship and the Dynamics of the House: Rediscovering Dualism in the Pueblo Past (2006) (19)
- Spatial organization and exchange : archaeological survey on northern Black Mesa (1986) (18)
- Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016) (16)
- Archaeogenomic evidence from the southwestern US points to a pre-Hispanic scarlet macaw breeding colony (2018) (16)
- Great House origins and population stability at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: The isotopic evidence (2017) (16)
- Chaco Revisited: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2015) (14)
- A multivariate approach to the explanation of ceramic design variation (1977) (14)
- Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2018) (13)
- Sampling in Archaeological Surveys: A Critique (1978) (12)
- Papers on the archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona (1976) (11)
- Dual Vision: A review of Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest, by Patricia L. Crown. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 2001; ISBN 0-85255-923-2 hardback £40 & US$60; ISBN 0-85255-922-4 paperback £16.95 & US$24.95; xi + 503 pp., ills. (2002) (11)
- Approaches to Style (1995) (10)
- Key Dimensions of the Cultural Trajectories of Chaco Canyon (2017) (10)
- Some Issues in the Archaeology of “Tribal” Social Systems (1984) (9)
- Soil analysis in discussions of agricultural feasibility for ancient civilizations: A critical review and reanalysis of the data and debate from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2018) (9)
- Stylistic variation in prehistoric ceramics: Design classification (1980) (8)
- Innovation through Large-Scale Integration of Legacy Records (2017) (6)
- An Anthropological Perspective on the Sample Size-Richness Relation: A Response to Leonard (1997) (6)
- Key Issues and Topics in the Archaeology of the American Southwest and Northwestern Mexico (2015) (4)
- Chaco Revisited: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, NM (2015) (4)
- An Early Military Macaw from Cueva de Avendaños, Chihuahua (2021) (3)
- Archeology: Symbols in Action: Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture. Ian Hodder. (1983) (1)
- Behavioral Archeology. Michael B. Schiffer (1977) (1)
- The Sociopolitics of Exchange (and Archaeological Research) in the Northern Southwest (2019) (1)
- Stylistic variation in prehistoric ceramics: The data base and data collection (1980) (0)
- A History of the Ancient Southwest. Stephen H. Lekson. 2009. School for American Research Press, Santa Fe. 439 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1934691106. (2011) (0)
- Legacy Records and Digital Innovation: The Chaco Research Archive and Beyond (2016) (0)
- Understanding Chaco: A Digital, Archival Approach (2006) (0)
- Navajo Multi‐Household Social Units. Thomas R. Rocek (1996) (0)
- Stylistic variation in prehistoric ceramics: Introduction to the problem (1980) (0)
- Phase I and II Study of the Cultural Resources of the Proposed Ridgeway Hydroelectric Project On the Smith River Near Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia (1981) (0)
- Questions, theory and concepts (2006) (0)
- The Contribution of Behavioral Archaeology and the Research of Michael B. Schiffer to the Discipline (2011) (0)
- Ecosystem impacts by the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA (2021) (0)
- Southwestern Ceramics: A Comparative Review. Albert H. Schroeder, editor. The Arizona Archaeologist, 15, Arizona Archaeological Society, 1982. xii + 319 pp., illus., biblio. $10.00 (paper). (1984) (0)
- Stylistic variation in prehistoric ceramics: Theories of style and ceramic design variation (1980) (0)
- Historic Cemetery in Albemarle County, Virginia: An Archeological Investigation of Site 44Ab7 (1982) (0)
- Archaeogenomic Evidence from the American Southwest Points to a Pre-Hispanic Scarlet Macaw Breeding Colony North of the Endemic Neotropical Range in Mexico between 900 And 1200 CE (2019) (0)
- Abstract The final contribution to the 2010 Society for American Archaeology Forum, "Assessing Michael B. Schiffer and his Behavioral Archaeology," is (2011) (0)
- The Exotic and the Sacred: Evidence for Ritual Uses of Birds and Long Distance Exchange at Chaco and Mimbres (AD 800-1200) (2017) (0)
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