February 20, 2019 VITAE (Feb. 2019) JOHN E. CLARK Work Phone: 801-422-3822 Work Fax: 801-422-0021 e-mail: [email protected] DEGREES B. S. (1976) Anthropology, Brigham Young University M. A. (1979) Anthropology, Brigham Young University Thesis: A Method for the Analysis of Mesoamerica Lithic Industries: An Application to the Obsidian Industry of La Libertad, Chiapas, Mexico Ph. D. (1994) Anthropology, University of Michigan Dissertation: The Development of Early Formative Rank Societies in the Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico EMPLOYMENT 1977 Laboratory Assistant for the New World Archaeological Foundation (NWAF) 1978-1981 Laboratory supervisor, NWAF 1982-1984 Staff archaeologist and Laboratory Assistant, NWAF 1985-1987 Archaeologist, NWAF 1987-2009 Director of the NWAF 1990-2018 Faculty of Anthropology department TEACHING 1976: Introduction to Archaeology and Field Methods, Brigham Young University 1977: Primitive Technology, BYU 1981: Museum Techniques, University of Michigan [TA to Richard I. Ford] 1990-1993: Instructor, BYU Archaeology of Social and Political Complexity 390R and 690R Economic Anthropology 433 Anthropology Theory 505 Ancient Technology 207 Social Organization 534 Myth and Ritual in the Southwest U.S. 390R Political Anthropology 432 1994-1995: Assistant Professor, BYU Ancient Technology 207 Political Anthropology 432 Social Organization 534 Anthropology of Gender 390R 1996-1999: Associate Professor, BYU Archaeology of the Olmecs 690R 1 Economic Anthropology 520 Anthropology Theory 505 Ancient Technology 207 Mesoamerican Kingship 690R 2000-2018: Professor, BYU Political Economy 432 Economic Anthropology 433 Archaeological Systematics 501 Archaeology of Southeast U.S. 590R Anthropology of Social Complexity 439 Mesoamerican Seminar 562R: Formative Mesoamerica Political and Legal Institutions 432 Anthropology Theory: Symbolic 405 Anthropology 205 [201]: Theoretical Foundations of Anthropology Anthropology 499R: Senior Thesis Anthropology 500 : History of Archaeological Thought Anthropology 501: Current Method and Theory Anthropology 203: Contemporary Theory Anthropology 430: Moral and Ritual Institutions LEAVES Fall 1999 Fall 2007 Fall 2015 BOOK REVIEWS & COMMENTS 1985 Review of Flintknapping: The Art of Making Stone Tools by Paul Hellweg. In Archaeology Magazine, March/April. 1985 Review of Obsidian Studies in the Great Basin, edited by Richard E. Hughes. In Lithic Technology 14:133. 1985 Review of Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production, edited by J. E. Ericson and B. A. Purdy. In American Journal of Archaeology. 1988 Review of Lithic Studies Among the Contemporary Highland Maya, edited by Brian Hayden and Stone Tool Use at Cerros, by Suzanne M. Lewenstein. In Science 240:1083-1084. 1990 Review of Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands, California by Jeanne E. Arnold. In American Antiquity 55:193. 1991 Review of Regional Perspectives on the Olmec, edited by Robert J. Sharer and David C. Grove. In American Antiquity 56:742-743. 1996 Comment on: “A Dual Processual Theory for the Evolution of Mesoamerican Civilization,” “Ideology, Power, and Urban Society in Prehispanic Oaxaca,” “Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies”] Current Anthropology 37 (1): 51-52. 1998 Review of Foundations of Social Inequality, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary 2 M. Feinman. In American Antiquity 63:500-501. 1999 Review of Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis, by William Andrefsky, Jr. In Lithic Technology 24: 141-149. 1999 Review of Stone Tools: Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory. Lithic Technology 24: 126-135. 2000 Review of Early Scholars’ Visits to Central America: Reports by Karl Sapper, Walter Lehman, and Franz Termer by Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett and Ellen T. Hardy, eds. In Latin American Antiquity 11 (3): 304-305. 2000 Review of Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory, by John E. Robb. In American Antiquity 65: 578-579. 2000 Review of The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behavior, and Communication, by Michael Brian Schiffer. Journal of Anthropological Research 56: 422-424. 2002 Comments on Polly Wiessner, “The Vines of Complexity: Egalitarian Structures and the Institutionalization of Inequality among the Enga.” Current Anthropology 43:255-256. 2003 Review of From Leaders to Rulers, Jonathan Haas, editor. Latin American Antiquity 14:97-98. 2004 Gareth W. Lowe. Anthropology News 45(5):36. 2005 Review of Lithic Analysis by George H. Odell. Lithic Technology 30:68-70. 2006 Review of Quintana Roo Archaeology, edited by Justine M. Shaw and Jennifer Mathews. American Anthropologist 108:922. 2008 Comments on Ian Kuijt, “The Regeneration of Life: Structures of Symbolic Remembering and Forgetting.” Current Anthropology 49: 187-88. 2010 Review of Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-scale Indices of Large-scale Phenomena. Journal of Anthropological Research 66 (3):416-417. 2011 Review of Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity across the Midcontinent. American Anthropologist 113 (1):170-71. 2011 Review of The Aztec Calendar Stone. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21 (2):317-319. 2013 Review of Early New World Monumentality. Latin American Antiquity 24(2):233-35. 2017 Review of Manufactured Light: Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm. Latin American Antiquity ..... 2017 Review of The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas. Ethnohistory 64 (4):553-554. PUBLICATIONS 1977 A Macrocore in the Regional Museum in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Lithic Technology 6(30):30-32. 1977 Mesoamerican Large Polyhedral Cores. Katunob 10(4):79-93. 1978 Contemporary Obsidian Use at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Lithic Technology 7(3):44. 1979 (with Thomas A. Lee, Jr.) A Behavioral Model for the Obsidian Industry of Chiapa de Corzo. Estudios de 3 Cultura Maya 12:33-51. 1979 A Method for the Analysis of Mesoamerican Lithic Industries. An Application to the Obsidian Industry of La Libertad. Unpublished MA thesis. Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1979 A Specialized Obsidian Quarry at Otumba, Mexico: Implications for the Study of Mesoamerican Obsidian Technology and Trade. Lithic Technology 8(3):46-49. 1980 (with Thomas A. Lee, Jr.) Patrones de comercio en la cuenca del Grijalva, Chiapas. In Rutas de Intercambio en Mesoamérica y el Norte de México, pp. 339-344, XVI Reunión de Mesa Redonda, September 1979, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. 1981 (with Margarita Gaxiola and Dolores Soto de Arechavaleta) Conferences on Mesoamerican Chipped Stone. Lithic Technology 10(1):1-11. 1981 Guatemalan Obsidian Sources and Quarries: Additional Notes. Journal of New World Archaeology 4(3):1-15. 1981 La producción de puntas de flecha en Yerba Buena, Chiapas, México. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicas 27(2):131-138. 1981 The Early Preclassic Obsidian Industry at Paso de la Amada, Chiapas, Mexico. Estudios de Cultura Maya 13:265-283. 1982 An Ethnographic Note on “Water Treatment of Flint.” Lithic Technology 11(1):2- 3. 1982 (with Margarita Gaxiola and Dolores Soto de Arechavaleta) Lithic Studies in Mesoamerica: Two Symposia. Lithic Technology 11(2):35-38. 1982 Manufacture of Mesoamerican Prismatic Blades: An Alternative Technique. American Antiquity 47(2):355-376. 1983 (with James D. Nations as senior author) Bows and Arrows of the Lacandon Maya. Archaeology, January-February:36-43. 1983 (with Douglas D. Bryant as senior author) Los primeros Mayas precolumbinos de la cuenca superior del Río Grijalva. In Homenaje a Frans Blom: Anthropología e Historia de los Mixe-Zoques y Mayas, edited by Lorenzo Ochoa and Thomas A. Lee Jr., pp. 223-239. Centro de Estudios Mayas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico. 1984 Counterflaking and the Manufacture of Prismatic Blades. Lithic Technology 13(2):52-61. 1984 (with Thomas A. Lee, Jr.) Formative Obsidian Exchange and the Emergence of Public Economies in Chiapas, Mexico. In Trade and Exchange in Early Mesoamerica, edited by K. Hirth, pp. 235-274. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 1985 Platforms, Bits, Punches and Vises: A Potpourri of Mesoamerican Blade Technology. Lithic Technology 14(1):1-15. 1986 Another Look at Small Debitage and Microdebitage. Lithic Technology 15(1):21- 33. 1986 From Mountains to Molehills: A Critical Review of Teotihuacan's Obsidian Industry. In Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 2, edited by Barry L. Isaac, pp. 23-74. JAI Press Inc. Greenwich, Connecticut. 4 1987 Politics, Prismatic Blades, and Mesoamerican Civilization. In The Organization of Core Technology, edited by Jay K. Johnson and Carol A. Morrow, pp 259-284. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 1988 Chipped Stone Artifacts from Yerba Buena, Chiapas. Appendix 1 in Douglas Donne Bryant, Excavations at House 1, Yerba Buena, Chiapas, Mexico. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 54. Provo. 1988 (with Thomas A. Lee, Jr. as senior author) Oro, Tela y Jute: Investigaciones Arqueológicas en la Región de Camcum, Colonia Las Delicias, Chiapas. Arqueología 4:7-46. 1988 The Lithic Artifacts of La Libertad, Chiapas, Mexico. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 52. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1989 A Conversation with Don Crabtree. In La Obsidiana en Mesoamérica, edited by Margarita Gaxiola and John E. Clark, pp. 131-135. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. 1989 Hacia una Definición de Talleres. In La Obsidiana en Mesoamérica, edited by Margarita Gaxiola and John E. Clark, pp. 213-217. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. 1989 La Fabricación de Navajas Prismáticas. In La Obsidiana