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Joyce Marcus Address: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, Natural History Museum/Ruthven Museum 1109 Geddes Avenue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079 Electronic Mail (e-mail) address --- [email protected] Telephone: (734) 764-0485, (734) 763-5164 ; Fax Number: (734) 763-7783 HONORS AND AWARDS Shanghai Award for contributions to archaeology and for The Creation of Inequality (with K. Flannery) (2013) One of three finalists for the Benjamin Franklin writing award in science (2009) Cotsen Book Prize awarded for Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery (2008) Distinguished University Professor Lecture, University of Michigan) (2008) Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan (2007) Mentor Recognition Award” from U of California at San Diego Chair of Anthropology, National Academy of Sciences (2005-2008) Chair of Social Sciences (Anthro, Demog, Soc, Geog) in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005-2008) Literature, Science & Arts “Excellence in Research Award” University of Michigan (1995) Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1997) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) Elected to the American Philosophical Society (2008) Named Distinguished Univ Prof (2005-- ) “Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished U Prof of Social Evolution” Named Elman R. Service Prof. of Cultural Evolution (1998-2005) Elected to the Beverly Hills High School Alumni “Hall of Fame” (2003) Fred Wendorf Distinguished Lecture, Southern Methodist University (2005) Reconocimiento awarded in Mexico (2003) (“To honor Joyce’s discovery of the hieroglyphic name of Calakmul” and “her discovery of the 4-tiered hierarchy administered by Calakmul and other capitals”) Henry Russel Award for Scholarly Research, University of Michigan (March 1979) Delivered the Taft Memorial Lecture, University of Cincinnati (2001) La Civilización Zapoteca: Como Evolucionó La Sociedad Urbana en el Valle de Oaxaca (with KV Flannery) won the “Premio Caniem 2001 en el Arte Editorial,” Mexico. Selected as lecturer to public at Noh-gaku Hall, Shin-kohkaido, Nara Prefecture, Japan (1997) Keynote Speaker, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (1995) TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 1985-present Curator of Latin American Archaeology 2005-present The Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Social Evolution 1. Books and Monographs 1976 Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: an epigraphic approach to territorial organization. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (203 pp.) 1983 The Cloud People: divergent evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations [co-editor with KV Flannery], School of American Research, Academic Press, NY (391 pp.) 1987 Late Intermediate Occupation at Cerro Azul, Perú. A Preliminary Report. Tech. Report 20, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (112 pp.) 1987 The Inscriptions of Calakmul. Royal Marriage at a Maya City in Campeche, Mexico. Tech. Report 21, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (205 pp.) 1989 The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru (KV Flannery, Joyce Marcus, and RG Reynolds). Academic Press, NY (240 pp.) 1 1990 Debating Oaxaca Archaeology [editor] Anthropological Paper 84, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (275 pp.) 1992 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations. Princeton Univ Press, Princeton, NJ (500 pp.) 1994 Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (with KV Flannery). Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca 10. Memoir 27, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (400 pp.) 1994 Caciques and their People: a volume in honor of Ronald Spores (co-edited with JF Zeitlin). Anthropological Paper 89, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (300 pp.) 1996 Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley (with KV Flannery). Thames & Hudson, London (255 pp.) 1998 Archaic States (co-edited with GM Feinman). SAR Press, Santa Fe (427 pp.) 1998 Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figurine-making, divination, death and the ancestors. Memoir 33, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (333 pp.). 2001 La Civilización Zapoteca: Como Evolucionó La Sociedad Urbana en el Valle de Oaxaca (with K Flannery) Fondo de Cultura Económica, México (324 pp.) (Winner of the “Premio Caniem 2001 en el Arte Editorial,” Mexico) 2003 The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (edited with KV Flannery). Percheron Press, Clinton Corners, NY (paperback edition with new introduction, pp. vii-xiv) (391 pp.) 2005 Excavations at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (with KV Flannery). Memoir 40, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (490 pp.) 2006 Agricultural Strategies (co-edited with Charles Stanish). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (428 pp.). 2008 Excavations at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Architecture and Pottery. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Awarded the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Book Prize (332 pp.) 2008 General editor of Imperial Transformations in Sixteenth-Century Yucay, Peru, transcribed and edited by R. Alan Covey and Donato Amado González. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Memoir 44. (373 pp.) 2008 The Ancient City (co-edited with Jeremy A. Sabloff) (funded by National Academy of Sciences/ Arthur M. Sackler Funds and SAR Press, Santa Fe, NM) (405 pp.) 2008 Monte Albán (El Colegio de México, Fideicomiso Historia de las Américas, Fondo de Cultura Económica) (206 pp.) 2009 Andean Civilization: A Tribute to Michael E. Moseley (co-edited with PR Williams). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA. (419 pp.) 2009 General editor of Domestic Life in Prehispanic Capitals: A Study of Specialization, Hierarchy, and Ethnicity, by L. Manzanilla and C. Chapdelaine. Memoir 46, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (266 pp.) 2 2011 General editor of Yuthu: Community and Ritual in an Early Andean Village, by AR Davis. Memoir 50, Museum of Anthrpology, U of Michigan. (185 pp.) 2012 General editor of Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-III, by A Vranich, E Klarich, and C Stanish. Memoir 51, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (318 pp.) 2012 The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (with K Flannery). Harvard U Press, Cambridge, MA (631 pp.) 2014 General editor of Regional Archaeology in the Inca Heartland: The Hanan Cuzco Surveys, by RA Covey. Memoir 55, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (200 pp.) 2014 General editor of The Northern Titicaca Basin: The Huancané-Putina Survey, by C Stanish, C Chávez Justo, K LaFavre, and A Plourde. Memoir 56, Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan (180 pp.) 2. Articles 1973 Territorial Organization of the Lowland Classic Maya. Science 180:911-916. 1974 Reply to Romanov and Hammond. Science 183:876-877. 1974 The Iconography of Power among the Classic Maya. World Archaeology 6:83-94. 1976 The Size of the Early Mesoamerican Village. In The Early Mesoamerican Village, ed. KV Flannery, pp. 79-90. Academic, NY. 1976 Evolution of the Public Building in Formative Oaxaca (with KV Flannery). In Cultural Change and Continuity: Essays in Honor of James Bennett Griffin, ed. Charles C. Cleland, pp. 205-221. Academic Press, New York. 1976 Formative Oaxaca and the Zapotec Cosmos (with KV Flannery). American Scientist 64:374-383. 1976 The Origins of Mesoamerican Writing. Annual Review of Anthropology 5: 35-67. 1976 The Iconography of Militarism at Monte Albán and Neighboring Sites in the Valley of Oaxaca. In The Origins of Religious Art and Iconography in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica, ed. H.B. Nicholson, pp. 123-39. Latin American Center, UCLA 1978 The Handbook of Middle American Indians: A Retrospective Look (with Ronald Spores). American Anthropologist 80: 85-100. 1978 Ethnoscience of the Sixteenth-Century Valley Zapotec (with KV Flannery). In The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, edited by RI Ford, Anthropological Papers 67: 51-79. Museum of Anthropology, U of Michigan. 1978 Archaeology and religion: a comparison of the Zapotec and Maya. World Archaeology 10:172-191. Reprinted Archaeology and religion: a comparison of the Zapotec and Maya. Reprinted in 1981 Ancient Mesoamerica, ed. John Graham, pp. 297-314. Peek Publications, Palo Alto, CA 1979 Los orígenes de la escritura mesoamericana. Ciencia y Desarrollo, No. 24:35-52. 3 1980 Zapotec Writing. Scientific American 242 (2):50-64 (Feb. issue) 1981 The Preceramic and Formative of the Valley of Oaxaca (with KV Flannery and SA Kowalewski). In Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, ed. by JA Sabloff and VR Bricker, V. 1: Archaeology, pp. 48-93. U of Texas Press, Austin. 1982 The Aztec Monuments of Acalpixcan. In Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region, by JR Parsons, EM Brumfiel, MH Parsons, and DJ Wilson. U of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Memoir 14, Appendix 4, pp. 475-485. Ann Arbor. 1982 The Plant World of the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Lowland Maya. In Maya Subsistence, ed KV Flannery, pp. 239-273. Academic Press, NY 1983 On the Nature of the Mesoamerican City. In Prehistoric Settlement Patterns: Essays in Honor of Gordon R. Willey, edited by Evon Z. Vogt and Richard M. Leventhal, pp. 195- 242. University of New Mexico Press, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Reprinted On the Nature of the Mesoamerican City. [Reprinted, 2000] In The Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader, ed ME Smith and MA Masson, pp. 49-82. Oxford, Blackwell 1983 Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads. American Antiquity 48:454-88. 1983 Chapters in The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of The Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (See above under "Books"), with the following titles: The genetic model and the Otomangueans, pp. 4-9. The Espiridión complex and the origins of the Oaxacan Formative, pp. 42-43. The first appearance of Zapotec writing and calendar, pp. 91-96. The conquest slabs of Building J, Monte Albán, pp. 106-108. Monte Albán II in the Macuilxochitl area, pp. 113-115. The style of the Huamelulpan stone monuments, pp. 125-126. Stone monuments and tomb murals of Monte Albán IIIa, pp.
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    NOTICE to AUTHORS Latin American Antiquity Publishes

    NOTICE TO AUTHORS Latin American Antiquity publishes original papers on the archaeology, prehistory, and ethnohis- tory of Latin America, i.e., those countries—primarily Spanish speaking—comprising Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America, together with culturally affiliated adjacent regions. Authors submit manuscripts to the editor for consideration as ARTICLES or REPORTS in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Authors should submit an original and three copies of their manuscripts (including all figures, tables, references, and notes), along with an abstract in both English and Spanish. Detailed information on policy, style, and technical matters of manuscript preparation is given in the "Editorial Policy, Information for Authors, and Style Guide for American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity," which appeared in September 1992 (vol. 3, no. 3), and can be read on the World Wide Web at http://www.saa.org/Publica- tions/StyleGuide/styframe.html. For additional information, updates, or clarification, consult the managing editor at the SAA office in Washington, D.C. EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY Officers President: WILLIAM LIPE, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4910 President-elect: VINCAS STEPONAITIS, Research Labs of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3120 Secretary: KEITH KINTIGH, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 85287 Secretary-elect: LYNNE SEBASTIAN, State Historic Preservation Division, 228 East Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87501 Treasurer: ROBERT L. BETTINGER, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Box 500, Davis CA 95617 Board Members-at-Large C. MELVIN AIKENS, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 CATHERINE CAMiERON, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Campus Box 233, Boulder, CO 80309-0233 MARGARET C.