Vernon L. Scarborough

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Vernon Lee Scarborough is an American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his research and publications on settlement, land use and water management practices of archaic and Pre-industrial society.

Published Works

• Arising from theBajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization
• Ecology and Ritual: Water Management and the Maya
• Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize
• Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE)
• Forests, fields, and the edge of sustainability at the ancient Maya city of Tikal
• Water and Land at the Ancient Maya Community of La Milpa
• Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management
• Complexity and Sustainability: Perspectives from the Ancient Maya and the Modern Balinese
• The non-hierarchical development of complexity in the semitropics: water and cooperation
• An Alternative Order: The Dualistic Economies of the Ancient Maya
Evidence for volcanic ash fall in the Maya Lowlands from a reservoir at Tikal, Guatemala
A Preclassic Maya Water System
The Pre-Hispanic Maya Reservoir System at Kinal, Peten, Guatemala
The hydraulic lift of early states societies
1 Diversity, Resiliency, and IHOPE-Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present
Rate and process of societal change in semitropical settings: The ancient Maya and the living Balinese
Volcanic fertilization of Balinese rice paddies
FLOW OF POWER
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY: MESOAMERICA
A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: its rises, falls, and changes
Subsistence, Trade, and Development of the Coastal Maya
Imperial resource management at the ancient Maya city of Tikal: A resilience model of sustainability and collapse
A Water Storage Adaptation in the American Southwest
3 Water and Landscape: Ancient Maya Settlement Decisions
Intensification and the Political Economy:
2 Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space
9 The Alternative Economy: Resilience in the Face of Complexity from the Eastern Lowlands
Human niches, abandonment cycling, and climates
Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Evolution of an Ancient Waterworks System at Tikal
Molecular genetic and geochemical assays reveal severe contamination of drinking water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Tikal
Distributed urban network systems in the tropical archaeological record: Toward a model for urban sustainability in the era of climate change
Catastrophic volcanism and its implication for agriculture in the Maya Lowlands
Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Environment and Landscapes of Latin America’s Past
Examining Landscape Modifications for Water Management at Tikal Using Three-Dimensional Modeling with ArcGIS
Fire and Water: The Archaeological Significance of Tikal’s Quaternary Sediments
Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center
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
Courting the Southern Maya Lowlands:
Bringing the University of Pennsylvania Maps of Tikal into the Era of Electronic GIS
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
A TALE OF TWO COLLAPSES: ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY AND CULTURAL DISRUPTION IN THE MAYA LOWLANDS
Concluding essay 1
Water and ancient cities: Urban supply systems
Volcanic minerals in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and their archaeological significance
Defining the Constructed Niche of Tikal: A Summary View
Real-time Maya: The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse, by David Webster, 2002. London: Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0-500-051135 hardback, £19.95 & US$34.95, 368 pp., 84 ills.
Does water have agency? Does it need to?
Zeolite water purification at Tikal, an ancient Maya city in Guatemala
Applied Perspectives on Pre-Columbian Maya Water Management Systems
Growing the Ancient Maya Social-Ecological System from the Bottom Up
Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center
Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico
MesoamericanGraffiti
What ancient landscapes contribute to climate change
Wells and Reservoirs
James C. Scott: Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States
Tikal Land, Water, and Forest
At the Core of Tikal: Terrestrial Sediment Sampling and Water Management
Environmental DNA reveals arboreal cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal
Ancient WaterworksWater Engineering in the Ancient World: Archaeological and Climate Perspectives on Societies of Ancient South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia. By Charles R. Ortloff. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future. Robert L. Kelly. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016, 168 pp. $24.95, cloth. ISBN 9780520293120.
The Ancient Maya. Robert J. Sharer , Loa P. Traxler
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica. Christopher A. Pool
Agricultural Land Use and Intensification
Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico
Rappaport’s Rose
Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology
: Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize . B. L. Turner II, Peter D. Harrison.
Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize:Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize.
Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize
Environmental DNA Reveals Arboreal Cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal
The Mesoamerican Ballgame.
Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire. Kenneth R. Wright. American Society of Civil Engineers Press, Reston, Virgnia, 2006. x + 155 pp., figures, bibliography, index. $56.00 (paper).
Ball Courts and Ceremonial Plazas in the West Indies
Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of the Conquest. Thomas M. Whitmore and B. L. TurnerII . Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. xviii + 311 pp., figures, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth).
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Rappaport’s Rose:
Preface
Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water
[GEOARCAHEOLOGICAL STDIES OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT DURING THE PAST 2500 YEARS] Ancient water management and landscape transformation at Sebatu, Bali
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