Vernon L. Scarborough
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American Mesoamericanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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.
Vernon L. Scarborough's Published Works
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Published Papers
- Ecology and Ritual: Water Management and the Maya (1998) (181)
- Arising from the Bajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization (2002) (176)
- A Water Storage Adaptation in the Maya Lowlands (1991) (130)
- Flow of power : ancient water systems and landscapes (2003) (111)
- Heterarchy, political economy, and the ancient Maya : the Three Rivers Region of the east-central Yucatán Peninsula (2003) (111)
- Water and sustainable land use at the ancient tropical city of Tikal, Guatemala (2012) (97)
- Temple mountains, sacred lakes, and fertile fields: ancient Maya landscapes in northwestern Belize (1999) (88)
- The Mesoamerican Ballgame (1992) (82)
- Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management (2011) (66)
- Forests, fields, and the edge of sustainability at the ancient Maya city of Tikal (2014) (66)
- Economic aspects of water management in the prehispanic New World (1993) (66)
- Water and Land at the Ancient Maya Community of La Milpa (1995) (63)
- Water Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands (1993) (61)
- Complexity and Sustainability: Perspectives from the Ancient Maya and the Modern Balinese (2010) (56)
- The political economy of ancient Mesoamerica : transformations during the formative and classic periods (2007) (50)
- The non-hierarchical development of complexity in the semitropics: water and cooperation (2010) (49)
- An Alternative Order: The Dualistic Economies of the Ancient Maya (2009) (46)
- Volcanic fertilization of Balinese rice paddies (2001) (40)
- Depression soils in the lowland tropics of Northwestern Belize: anthropogenic and natural origins. (2003) (39)
- 3 Water and Landscape: Ancient Maya Settlement Decisions (2014) (34)
- A distribution analysis of the central Maya lowlands ecoinformation network: its rises, falls, and changes (2017) (33)
- Evidence for volcanic ash fall in the Maya Lowlands from a reservoir at Tikal, Guatemala (2011) (33)
- A Preclassic Maya Water System (1983) (32)
- Tikal: Paleoecology of an Ancient Maya City (2015) (30)
- The Pre-Hispanic Maya Reservoir System at Kinal, Peten, Guatemala (1994) (29)
- How to interpret an ancient landscape (2003) (28)
- Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize (2008) (26)
- 9 The Alternative Economy: Resilience in the Face of Complexity from the Eastern Lowlands (2014) (24)
- The settlement system in a late preclassic Maya community (1980) (24)
- 1 Diversity, Resiliency, and IHOPE‐Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present (2014) (21)
- Subsistence, Trade, and Development of the Coastal Maya (1982) (20)
- Rate and process of societal change in semitropical settings: The ancient Maya and the living Balinese (2008) (19)
- Catastrophic volcanism and its implication for agriculture in the Maya Lowlands (2016) (19)
- Group Report: Millennial Perspectives on the Dynamic Interaction of Climate, People, and Resources (2007) (18)
- Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016) (16)
- Imperial resource management at the ancient Maya city of Tikal: A resilience model of sustainability and collapse (2018) (16)
- Fire and Water: The Archaeological Significance of Tikal’s Quaternary Sediments (2015) (16)
- The hydraulic lift of early states societies (2017) (16)
- Tropical landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in time and space (2014) (15)
- [GEOARCAHEOLOGICAL STDIES OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT DURING THE PAST 2500 YEARS] Ancient water management and landscape transformation at Sebatu, Bali (2008) (15)
- Low Density Urbanism, Sustainability, and IHOPE- Maya: Can the Past Provide more than History? (2012) (14)
- Molecular genetic and geochemical assays reveal severe contamination of drinking water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Tikal (2020) (13)
- Distributed urban network systems in the tropical archaeological record: Toward a model for urban sustainability in the era of climate change (2020) (13)
- Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center (1986) (13)
- Growing the Ancient Maya Social-Ecological System from the Bottom Up (2016) (12)
- Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2018) (11)
- Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico (1989) (11)
- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY: MESOAMERICA (2009) (10)
- The Evolution of an Ancient Waterworks System at Tikal (2015) (10)
- Intensification and the Political Economy:: A CONTEXTUAL OVERVIEW (2006) (10)
- Zeolite water purification at Tikal, an ancient Maya city in Guatemala (2020) (9)
- FLOW OF POWER (1992) (9)
- Human niches, abandonment cycling, and climates (2015) (8)
- A Water Storage Adaptation in the American Southwest (1988) (8)
- Environmental DNA reveals arboreal cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal (2021) (8)
- 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) (8)
- Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology (2006) (8)
- The prehistoric maya of northern belize issues of drought and cultural transformations (2013) (7)
- A catalyst for ideas : anthropological archaeology and the legacy of Douglas Schwartz (2005) (7)
- A TALE OF TWO COLLAPSES: ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY AND CULTURAL DISRUPTION IN THE MAYA LOWLANDS (2013) (7)
- Ancient Water Collection and Storage in the Elevated Interior Region of the Maya Lowlands (2016) (7)
- Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize:Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize. (1992) (6)
- Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize (1982) (6)
- Does water have agency? Does it need to? (2014) (5)
- Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water (2014) (5)
- Bois ton sang Beaumanoir. The political and conflictual aspects of the ballgame in northern Chiapas (1991) (4)
- Tikal: Defining the Constructed Niche of Tikal: A Summary View (2015) (3)
- Tikal: Bringing the University of Pennsylvania Maps of Tikal into the Era of Electronic GIS (2015) (3)
- Environment and Landscapes of Latin America’s Past (2019) (3)
- Agricultural Land Use and Intensification (2012) (3)
- Concluding essay 1 (2018) (3)
- Archeology: Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize (1985) (2)
- Applied Perspectives on Pre-Columbian Maya Water Management Systems (2016) (2)
- Volcanic minerals in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and their archaeological significance (2018) (2)
- Water and ancient cities: Urban supply systems (2020) (1)
- At the Core of Tikal: Terrestrial Sediment Sampling and Water Management (2015) (1)
- 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. (2003) (1)
- The Ancient Maya. Robert J. Sharer , Loa P. Traxler (2006) (1)
- Household food security study: rapid rural appraisal of villages in three communal lands of Zimbabwe. Project A0441. (2005) (1)
- Tikal Land, Water, and Forest (2015) (1)
- Creating an Earth Archive (2022) (1)
- Society for American Archaeology (1979) (0)
- Ancient Waterworks (2011) (0)
- Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Environment, Archaeology, and Change (2014) (0)
- Crosscultural Archaeology and the Role of the Tropics in Informing the Present (2015) (0)
- PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL PROPERTIES OF ANCIENT WATER MANAGEMENT (2011) (0)
- Reassessing Agricultural Potential in Chaco Canyon: Exploring the Link between Soil Salinity and Soil Texture (2018) (0)
- IF THE PAST TEACHES, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LEARN? Ancient Urban Regions and the Durable Future (2022) (0)
- 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. (2017) (0)
- Resilience and Regime Shift at the Ancient Maya City of Tikal (2017) (0)
- An agricultural risk mitigation strategy using multiple water sources, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2016) (0)
- The Early Role of Biogeography in the Creation of Modern Ecology Assessments (2018) (0)
- James C. Scott: Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States (2018) (0)
- Archaeology as our Urban Futures (2019) (0)
- Tikal in Environmental Context: Peter Harrison and Ancient Maya Water Management and Subsistence (2015) (0)
- Household food security study: rapid rural apprasial of villages in three communal lands of Zimbabwe. CPH Programme Research Report. (1998) (0)
- Agriculture, Land Management and Expressions of Elite Control at the Ancient Maya City of Tikal (2018) (0)
- Ecosystem impacts by the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA (2021) (0)
- Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica. Christopher A. Pool (2008) (0)
- A Catalyst for Ideas Introduction (2006) (0)
- James C. Scott: Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States (2018) (0)
- A Quarter-Century of Exploring the Three Rivers Watersheds in Belize (2017) (0)
- What ancient landscapes contribute to climate change (2021) (0)
- 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). (2007) (0)
- AQY volume 73 issue 281 Cover and Front matter (1999) (0)
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