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Curriculum Vitae Nov. 10, 2020 1 Joyce Marcus Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 610 E. University Avenue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259 Electronic Mail (e-mail) address: [email protected] Telephone: (734) 764-0485, (734) 763-5164; Fax Number: (734) 763-7783 PUBLICATIONS 1. Books and Monographs 1976 Emblem and State in the Classic Maya Lowlands: an epigraphic approach to territorial organization. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (203 pp.) 1983 The Cloud People: divergent evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations. [co-editor with Kent V. Flannery]. {Sole author of 16 chapters (see below) and co-author of 10}, SAR, 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 (Kent V. Flannery, Joyce Marcus, and Robert G. Reynolds). Academic, NY (240 pp.) 1990 Debating Oaxaca Archaeology. [editor] Anthropological Paper 84, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (275 pp.) 1992 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations. Princeton U Press, NJ. (500 pp.) Latin Am Studies Assoc awarded an “Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book in the Social Sciences and Humanities” 1994 Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (with KV Flannery; technical ceramic analysis by W.O. Payne). Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, No. 10. Memoir 27, Museum of Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan (410 pp.) 1994 Caciques and their People: a volume in honor of Ronald Spores (co-ed. with J. F. Zeitlin). Anthropological Paper 89, Museum of Anthr, University of Michigan, (300 pp.) 1996 Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley (Joyce Marcus and Kent V. Flannery). Thames & Hudson, London (255 pp.) 2 1998 Archaic States (co-edited with Gary M. Feinman). School of American Research, SAR Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico (427 pp.) 1998 Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figurine-making, divination, death and the ancestors. Memoir 33, Museum of Anthropology, University 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 (324 pp.) (Winner of “Premio Caniem 2001 en el Arte Editorial,” Mexico, in category entitled “Books on Historical Topics”) 2003 The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (edited with K.V. Flannery). Percheron Press, Clinton Corners, New York (paperback edition with a new introduction, pp. vii-xiv) (391 pp.) 2005 Excavations at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (with Kent V. Flannery). Memoir 40, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (490 pp.) 2006 Agricultural Strategies (co-edited with Charles Stanish). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Cotsen Advanced Seminar No. 2, 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 “which honors outstanding studies in archaeology.” (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 Patrick Ryan 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.) 2011 General editor of Yuthu: Community and Ritual in an Early Andean Village, by Allison R. Davis. Memoir 50, Museum of Anthr, Univ of Michigan. (185 pp.) Nov. 10, 2020 3 2012 General editor, Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology-III, Alexei Vranich, Elizabeth Klarich, Charles 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 Kent Flannery). Harvard U (631 pp.) [Chinese edition, 2016] 2014 General editor of Regional Archaeology in the Inca Heartland: The Hanan Cuzco Surveys, by R Alan Covey. Memoir 55, Mus of Anthropology, U of Michigan (200 pp.) 2014 General editor of The Northern Titicaca Basin Survey: Huancané-Putina, by Charles Stanish, Cecilia Chávez Justo, Karl LaFavre, and Aimée Plourde. Memoir 56, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (407 pp.) 2015 Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (with Kent V. Flannery). Memoir 58, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (410 pp.). 2016 Chinese translation of The Creation of Inequality. Shanghai Translation Publishing House. 663 pp. 2016 Coastal Ecosystems and Economic Strategies at Cerro Azul, Peru: The Study of a Late Intermediate Kingdom. Memoir 59, Museum of Anthropology (i-xix + 382 pp.) 2020 Zapotec Monuments and Political History. Memoir 61, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan (i-xxiii + 437 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. K.V. Flannery, pp. 79-90. Academic, NY. 1976 Evolution of the Public Building in Formative Oaxaca (with K.V. Flannery). In Cultural Change and Continuity: Essays in Honor of James Bennett Griffin, ed. Charles C. Cleland, pp. 205-221. Academic Press, New York. 4 1976 Formative Oaxaca and the Zapotec Cosmos (with Kent V. Flannery). American Scientist 64 (4):374-383. (July-August) 1976 The Origins of Mesoamerican Writing. Annual Review of Anthropology 5:35-67. Palo Alto. 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 Kent V. Flannery). In The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, edited by Richard I. Ford, Anthropological Papers 67: 51-79. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1978 Archaeology and religion: a comparison of the Zapotec and Maya. World Archaeology 10 (2):172-191. Reprinted Archaeology and religion: a comparison of the Zapotec and Maya. [Reprinted 1981] Ancient Mesoamerica (2nd ed.), ed. John Graham, pp. 297-314. Peek Pub, Palo Alto, CA. 1979 Los orígenes de la escritura mesoamericana. Ciencia y Desarrollo, Número 24, pp. 35-52. (Spanish translation of "Origins of Mesoamerican Writing"). 1980 Zapotec Writing. Scientific American 242 (2):50-64 (Feb. issue) 1981 The Preceramic and Formative of the Valley of Oaxaca (with K.V. Flannery and S.A. Kowalewski). Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, ed J A Sabloff (vol. editor) and V R Bricker (series editor), Vol. 1: Archaeology, pp. 48-93. U of Texas. 1982 The Aztec Monuments of Acalpixcan. In Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: Chalco-Xochimilco Region, by J Parsons, E Brumfiel, M Parsons, and DJ Wilson. U of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Mem 14, Appendix 4, pp. 475-485. 1982 The Plant World of the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Lowland Maya. In Maya Subsistence: Studies in Memory of Dennis E. Puleston, ed. KV Flannery, pp. 239-273. Academic Press, NY Nov. 10, 2020 5 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 and Peabody Museum, Harvard U, Cambridge. 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. 137-43. Rethinking the Zapotec urn, pp. 144-148. Lintel 2 at Xoxocotlán, pp. 150-152. Teotihuacán visitors on Monte Albán monuments and murals,175-81. Changing patterns of stone monuments after the fall of Monte Albán, pp. 191- 197. Monte Albán's Tomb 7, pp. 282-285. The reconstructed chronology of the later Zapotec rulers, A.D. 1415-1563, pp. 301-308. Aztec military campaigns against the Zapotec: the documentary evidence, pp. 314-318. Zapotec Religion, pp. 345-351. A synthesis of the cultural evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec, pp. 355-360. 1983 An Introduction to the Series and to Volume I. Memoir No. 16 of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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