Publications written by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Anthropology department.
Submissions from 2013
Production and Exchange of Plain Ware Ceramics in the Marana Community, Karen G. Harry, Robert Speakman, Elizabeth Miksa, Sergio F. Castro-Reino, Christophe Descantes, Paul Fish, Suzanne Fish, and Michael D. Glascock
From Courtship to Dating Culture: China’s Emergent Youth, William R. Jankowiak PhD
Urban Chinese Mongols: National Identity, Local Memory, and Frequent Affiliation, William R. Jankowiak PhD
Remote Sensing of Below-Canopy Land Use Features from the Maya Polity of Caracol, John F. Weishampel, Jessica N. Hightower, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase
Submissions from 2012
GC-MS and Attribute Analysis of Intermountain Brownware from the Southern Great Basin of North America, Britt J. Betenson, Karen G. Harry, and Spencer M. Steinberg
Mesoamerica: Classic Period in Mesoamerica, Arlen F. Chase
Belize Red Ceramics and Their Implications for Trade and Exchange in the Eastern Maya Lowlands, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Complex Societies in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Their Development and Florescence in the Archaeological Record, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Geospatial Revolution and Remote Sensing LiDAR in Mesoamerican Archaeology, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Christopher T. Fisher, Stephen J. Lesiz, and John F. Weishampel
Burials and Tombs, Diane Z. Chase
Preface, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Examining the Production and Distribution of Shivwits Ware Pottery, Jeffrey Ferguson and Karen G. Harry
Canadian Arctic Soapstone Cooking Technology, Liam Frink, Dashiell Glazer, and Karen G. Harry
Where are the Hearths? Explaining the Absence of Floor Features on the Shivwits Plateau, Northwestern Arizona, Karen G. Harry
Can You Love More Than One Person at the Same Time? A Research Report, William R. Jankowiak PhD and Helen Gerth
Changing Morality of Dating and What It Says About Youth, China and Modernity., William R. Jankowiak PhD and Robert Moore
Low Density Urbanism, Sustainability, and IHOPE- Maya: Can the Past Provide more than History?, Vernon L. Scarborough, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase
Use of Airborne LiDAR to Delineate Canopy Degradation and Encroachment along the Guatemala-Belize Border, John F. Weishampel, Jessica N. Hightower, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase
Submissions from 2011
We Remember Merle Greene Robertson, Arlen F. Chase
Status and Power: Caracol, Teotihuacan, and the Early Classic Maya World, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Airborne LiDAR, Archaeology, and the Ancient Maya Landscape at Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, John F. Weishampel, Ramesh L. Shrestha, K. Clint Slatton, Jaime J. Awe, and William E. Carter
Ghosts amid the Ruins: Analyzing Relationships Between the Living and the Dead Among the Ancient Maya at Caracol, Belize, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Airborne LiDAR at Caracol, Belize and the Interpretation of Ancient Maya Society and Landscapes, Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, Jaime J. Awe, John H. Walker, and John F. Weishampel
Exploratory Studies into Possible Uses of Calcareous Dolostone, Karen G. Harry, Lauren W. Falvey, Brett T. McLaurin, and Jennifer Durk
Ancient Maya Cave Use at Caracol, Belize, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, Jamie J. Awe, and Arlen F. Chase
The Han Chinese Family: The Realignment of Parenting Ideals, Sentiments, and Practices, William R. Jankowiak PhD
One Vision: The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of an American Polygamous Community, William R. Jankowiak PhD and Heber Hammon
What Observation Studies Can Tell Us About Single Child Play Patterns, Gender, and Changes in Chinese Society, William R. Jankowiak PhD, Amber Joiner, and Cynthia Klabia
Growing up in an Emergent Market Economy: China’s Young Men, William R. Jankowiak PhD and Robert Moore
Detection and Morphologic Analysis of Potential Below-Canopy Cave Openings in the Karst Landscape around the Maya Polity of Caracol using AirborneLidar, John F. Weishampel, Jessica N. Hightower, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Ryan Patrick
Submissions from 2010
Review of "The Monuments of Piedras Negras, An Ancient Maya City" by F. S. Clancy, Arlen F. Chase
The Context of Ritual: Examining the Archaeological Record at Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Lasers in the Jungle: Airborne sensors reveal a vast Maya Landscape, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and John F. Weishampel
Rituales Mezclados: Analizando Comportamientos Públicos y Privados en el Registro Arqueológico de Caracol, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Exploring the Puebloan Occupation of the Mt. Dellenbaugh Region of the Arizona Strip, Karen G. Harry
NAGPRA—Two Decades Later, Karen G. Harry
Understanding Ceramic Manufacturing Technology: The Role of Experimental Archaeology, Karen G. Harry
An Experimental Approach to Understanding Thule Pottery Technology, Karen G. Harry, Liam Frink, Clint Swink, and Cory Dangerfield
Households, Gender, and Specialized Pottery Production: Exploring the Nature, Causes, and Consequences of a Prehistoric Cottage Industry for Women at the West Branch Settlement, Karen G. Harry and Fred Huntington
The Archeology of Pueblo Grande de Nevada, Karen G. Harry and James T. Watson
Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction, Thomas W. Neumann, Robert M. Sanford, and Karen G. Harry
Remote Sensing of Ancient Maya Land Use Features at Caracol, Belize related to Tropical Rainforest Structure, John F. Weishampel, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Jason B. Drake, Ramesh L. Shrestha, Clint K. Slatton, Jaime J. Awe, Jessica Hightower, and James Angelo
Ancient Maya Underworld Iconography:Traveling Between Worlds, Dianna L. Wilson-Mosley, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase
Submissions from 2009
Review of J. Shaw’s "White Roads of the Yucatan: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya", Arlen F. Chase
Symbolic Egalitarianism and Homogenized Distributions in the Archaeological Record at Caracol, Belize: Method, Theory, and Complexity, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
States and Empires in Ancient Mesoamerica, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Michael E. Smith
Changes in Maya Religious Worldview: Liminality and the Archaeological Record, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
An Experimental Examination of Arctic Soapstone Cooking Technology, Dashiell Glazer and Karen G. Harry
Investigating the Causes of Long-Distance Pottery Trade between the Western Colorado Plateaus and Southern Nevada, Karen G. Harry
The Arctic Cooking Pot: Why Was It Adopted?, Karen G. Harry and Liam Frink
Intimacies: Between Love and Sex, William R. Jankowiak PhD
The Chinese City: Social Connections and the Multigenerational Family, William R. Jankowiak PhD
Can You Love Two People at the Same Time? A Research Report, William R. Jankowiak PhD, Helen Gerth, and Laura Hicks Mixson
Submissions from 2008
Methodological Issues in the Archaeological Identification of the Terminal Classic and Postclassic Transition in the Maya Area, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Jeroglíficos y Arqueología Maya ¿Colusión o Colisión?, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Rafael Cobos
Textiles and the Maya Archaeological Record: Gender, Power, and Status in Classic Period Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Elayne Zorn, and Wendy Teeter
Late Postclassic Ritual at Santa Rita Corozal, Belize: Understanding the Archaeology of a Maya Capital City, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
¿Qué Nos Cuentan los Jeroglíficos? Arqueología e Historia en Caracol, Belice, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Archaeological Myths of the Postclassic Period: Belizean Archaeology as 'Dragonslayer', Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and John M. Morris
The Beauty of "Ugly" Eskimo Cooking Pots, Karen G. Harry and Liam Frink
The Shivwits Research Project: Exploring Virgin Anasazi Settlement and Subsistence Patterns on the Arizona, Karen G. Harry and James Watson
Co-wives Desires and Conflicts in a USA Polygamous Community, William R. Jankowiak PhD
Desiring Sex, Longing for Love: A Tripartite Conundrum, William R. Jankowiak
Ethnicity and Chinese Identity, William R. Jankowiak
Practicing Connectiveness as Kinship in Urban China, William R. Jankowiak PhD
The Collapse of the Market and the Transformation of Moral Involvement in Urban China, William R. Jankowiak
Well Being, Cultural Pathology, and Personal Rejuvenation in a Chinese City: 1981- 2005, William R. Jankowiak
Introduction: Privilege Disguises Torment, William R. Jankowiak PhD and Jiemin Bao
Globalizing Evolution: Female Choice, Nationality, and Perception of “Sexual Beauty” in China, William R. Jankowiak PhD, Peter B. Gray PhD, and Kelly Hattman MA
"I Have His Heart, Swinging Is Just Sex": The Ritualization of Sex and the Rejuvenation of the Love Bond in an American Spouse Exchange Community, William R. Jankowiak and Laura Hicks Mixson
Submissions from 2007
Ancient Maya Urban Development: Insights from the Archaeology of Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
This is the End: Archaeological Transitions and the Terminal Classic Period at Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh Century Pueblo Regional Center, Karen G. Harry
Individual and Societal Response to Sexual Betrayal: A View From Around the World, William R. Jankowiak and Diane M. Hargrave
Submissions from 2006
Before the Boom: Caracol's Preclassic Era, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Contextualizing the Collapse: Hegemony and Terminal Classic Ceramics from Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
En Medio de la Nada, en el Centro del Universo: Perspectivas Sobre el Desarrollo de las Ciudades Mayas, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Framing the Maya Collapse: Continuity, Discontinuity, Method, and Practice in the Classic to Postclassic Southern Maya Lowlands, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Preface, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
The Dawn of Maya Civilization: Preclassic Archaeology from Santa Rita Corozal, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Afterword, William R. Jankowiak
Gender, Power, and the Denial of Intimacy in Chinese Studies and Beyond, William R. Jankowiak
Illicit Monogamy in an American Polygamous Community, William R. Jankowiak
Submissions from 2005
The Early Classic Period at Caracol, Belize: Transitions, Complexity, and Methodological Issues in Maya Archaeology, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
Preface, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
The Early Classic Period at Santa Rita Corozal: Issues of Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Stratification in Northern Belize, Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Craft Specialization: Context, Models, and Theory, Karen G. Harry
Data Summary, Karen G. Harry
Investigations into Ceramic Technology, Karen G. Harry
Methods, Karen G. Harry
Architectural Feature Descriptions, Karen G. Harry and Stephanie M. Whittlesey
Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes, Karen G. Harry and Maria Nieves Zedeño
Market Integration, Cognitive Awareness, and the Expansion of Moral Empathy, William R. Jankowiak
Co-wife Conflict and Cooperation, William R. Jankowiak, Monika Sudakov, and Benjamin C. Wilreker
Pots, Potters and Models: Archaeological Investigations at the SRI Locus, West Branch Site, Tucson, Arizona, Stephanie M. Whittlesey and Karen G. Harry
Showering in the Sun, William Young, James Haggard, and Diane Z. Chase
Nonarchitectural Feature Descriptions, Lara Fedor Ziady, Karen G. Harry, and Stephanie M. Whittlesey
Submissions from 2004
Polities, Politics, and Social Dynamics: “Contextualizing” the Archaeology of the Belize Valley and Caracol, Arlen F. Chase
Exploring Ancient Economic Relationships at Caracol, Belize, Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase