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UCSD Anthropology Geoffrey E. Braswell

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Geoffrey Braswell received his doctorate from Tulane University in 1996 and is Associate Professor of Anthropology. His research interests include settlement pattern studies, geoarchaeology, lithic production and technology, archaeometry, mathematical methods; the emergence of complex society and economic systems, and alternative models of social and political systems. His geographical specialization is among the Maya and Mesoamerica more broadly.

Recent Publications

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N.D.
n.d. Lithic Analysis in the Maya Area. IN Maya Archaeology at the Millennium, edited by Gregory Borgstede and Charles Golden. Routledge Press, London. Book ms. in editorial review.
2003
2003 (editor) The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction. University of Texas Press, Austin.
2003a Introduction: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction. IN The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction, edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell, pp.1-43. University of Texas Press, Austin.
2003b Dating Early Classic Interaction Between Kaminaljuyu and Central Mexico. IN The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction, edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell, pp. 81-104. University of Texas Press, Austin.
2003c Understanding Early Classic Interaction Between Kaminaljuyu and Central Mexico. IN The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction, edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell, pp. 105-142. University of Texas Press, Austin.
2003d Obsidian Exchange Spheres of Postclassic Mesoamerica. IN The Postclassic Mesoamerican World edited by M. Smith and F. Berdan, pp. 131-158. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2003e Highland Maya Polities of the Postclassic Period. IN The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by M. Smith and F. Berdan, pp.45-49. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2003f K'iche'an Origins, Symbolic Emulation, and Ethnogenesis in the Maya Highlands: A.D. 1400-1524. IN The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by M. Smith and F. Berdan, pp. 297-303. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
2003g (C. Varela and G.E. Braswell) Teotihuacan and Oxkintok: New Perspectives from Yucatan. IN The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction, edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell, pp. 249-271. University of Texas Press, Austin.
2003h (G.E. Braswell and M.D. Glascock) The Emergence of Market Economies in the Ancient Maya World: Obsidian Exchange in Terminal Classic Yucatan, Mexico. IN Geochemical Evidence for Long Distance Exchange, edited by Michael D. Glascock, pp. 33-52. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, CT.
2003i (G.E. Braswell, J.D. Gunn, M. del R. Dommnguez C., W.J. Folan, L. Fletcher, A. Morales L., and M.D. Glascock) Defining the Terminal Classic at Calakmul, Campeche. IN The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation, edited by D.S. Rice, P.M. Rice, and A.A. Demarest. University of Colorado Press, Boulder. In press.
2003j (S. Maguire, C. Prager, C.R. Bill, J.B. Braswell, and G.E. Braswell) Investigaciones Recientes en Pusilha, Belice. IN XVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueolsgicas en Guatemala, 2002, edited by J.P. Laporte, H. Escobedo, A.C. Monzsn de Suasnavar, y B. Arroyo. Museo Nacional de Arqueologma y Etnologma, Guatemala. In press.
2003k (G.E. Braswell and C. Prager) ¿Una unidad politica secundaria en el area Maya? El caso posible de Pusilha, Belice. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 12. Universidad Autsnoma de Campeche, Mixico. In press.
2002
2002a Praise the Gods and Pass the Obsidian?: The Organization of Ancient Economy in San Martmn Jilotepeque, Guatemala. IN Ancient Maya Political Economies, edited by Marilyn Masson and David Freidel, pp. 285-306. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
2002b (G.E. Braswell, S. Salgado G., L.A. Fletcher, and M.D. Glascock) Intercambio y interaccisn polmtica entre Nicaragua y el sur de Mesoamirica. Mayab 14, Madrid. In press.
2002c (E.J. Robinson, P. Farrell, K.F. Emery, and G.E. Braswell) Preclassic Settlements and Geomorphology in the Highlands of Guatemala: Excavations at Urias, Valley of Antigua. IN Incidents of Archaeology in Central America and Yucatan, edited by M. Love, H. Escobedo, and M. Popenoe de Hatch, pp. 251-276. University Press of the Americas, Lanham, MD.
2001
2001a Post-Classic Maya Courts of the Guatemalan Highlands: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Approaches. IN Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, Volume 2, edited by T. Inomata and S. D. Houston, pp. 308-334. Westview Press, Boulder.
2001b Cultural Emulation, Ethnogenesis, and Survival: The 'Mexicanization' of the Highland Maya in the 15th and 16th Centuries. IN Maya Survivalism, edited by Ueli Hostettler and Matthew Restall, pp. 51-58. Acta Mesoamericana 12, Verlag Anton Sauerwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany.
2001c Ancient Economy and Alternative Approaches to Stone Tools at Copan, Honduras. Latin American Antiquity 12(2):217-220.
2001d Prefacio. IN Puertos marmtimos en tierras bajas mayas: Estudio del patrsn de distribucisn- abastacimiento de caracoles y conchas entre 700 y 1050 dC, by Rafael Cobos. Instituto Nacional de Antropologma e Historia, Mexico. In press.
2000
2000a (G.E. Braswell, J.E. Clark, K. Aoyama, H. McKillop, and M.D. Glascock) Determining the Geological Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from the Maya Region: A Test of the Efficacy of Visual Sourcing. Latin American Antiquity 11(3):269-282.
2000b Indusrie lmtica clase tallada: obsidiana. IN El Sitio Maya de Topoxti, edited by W. Würster. Materialien zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archdologie 57, pp. 208-221. Mainz.
2000c Review of Motagua Colonial, by Lawrence H. Feldman. Latin American Antiquity 11(1):102-103.
2000d Un acercamiento a relaciones entre Kaminaljuyz y Mixico central. IN XIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueolsgicas en Guatemala, 1999, Vol. 1, edited by J.P. Laporte, H. Escobedo, A.C. Monzsn de Suasnavar, y B. Arroyo, pp. 115-126. Museo Nacional de Arqueologma y Etnologma, Guatemala.
2000e Precious and Semiprecious Stones (Mesoamerica). IN Enciclopedia Archaeologica. Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. (Pages unknown.)
2000f Review of Maya Civilization, 1990-1995, by John Weeks. Mesoamirica 39:476-478.
1990s
1998 A Systematic Approach to Obsidian Source Charaterization. InArchaeological Obsidian Studies: Method and Theory, ed. M.S. Shackley, Plenum Press, NY and London. 15-65.
1996 Obsidian Hydration Dating. IN The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, ed. B.M. Fagan, Oxford university Press, NY and London. 537.
1994 The Obsidian Artifacts of Quelepa, El Salvador (with E. W. Andrews \ and M. D. Glascock), Ancient Mesoamerica 5, no. 2: 173-192.
1992 Obsidian Hydration Dating, the Coner Phase, and Revisionist Chronology at Copan, Honduras, Latin American Antiquity 3, no. 2: 130-147.
1992 A New Obsidian Source in the Highlands of Guatemala (with M. D. Glascock), Ancient Mesoamerica 3, no. 1: 46-49.

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