Articles
Empirical Urban Theory for Archaeologists, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2011)
I review several bodies of empirical urban theory relevant to the archaeological analysis of ancient...
Sprawl, Squatters, and Sustainable Cities: Can Archaeological Data Shed Light on Modern Urban Issues?, Cambridge Archaeological Journal (2010)
Ancient cities as documented by archaeologists and historians have considerable relevance for a broader understanding...
The Archaeological Study of Neighborhoods and Districts in Ancient Cities, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2010)
Editorial: Just How Comparative is Comparative Urban Geography?: A Perspective from Archaeology, Urban Geography (2009)
Review of The Ancient City, edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy Sabloff, American Anthropologist (2009)
V. Gordon Childe and the Urban Revolution: An Historical Perspective on a Revolution in Urban Studies, Town Planning Review (2009)
A New Map of the Aztec-Period City of Calixtlahuaca in Central Mexico (with Novic, Juliana; Kroefges Peter; and Huster Angela), Antiquity (2007)
El imperio de la triple alianza (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco y Tlacopan) en el siglo XXI (with José Luis de Rojas), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (2007)
Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning, Journal of Planning History (2007)
This paper won the Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for the “Best Scholarly Article on American...
Sources of Imported Obsidian at Postclassic Sites in the Yautepec Valley, Morelos: A Characterization Study Using XRF and INAA (with Adrian Burke, Timothy S. Hare, and Michael D. Glascock), Latin American Antiquity (2007)
How do Archaeologists Compare Early States? Book Review Essay on Bruce Trigger and Adam T. Smith, Reviews in Anthropology (2006)
New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism (with Katherina J. Schreiber), Journal of Archaeological Research (2006)
Review of: Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-Organizing Landscape , by Roderick J. McIntosh, Journal of African Archaeology (2006)
New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization (with Katharina J. Schreiber), Journal of Archaeological Research (2005)
Xoo-Phase Ceramics from Oaxaca Found at Calixtlahuaca in Central Mexico (with Lind Michael), Ancient Mesoamerica (2005)
Can we Read Cosmology from Maya City Plans? Comment on Ashmore and Sabloff, Latin American Antiquity (2003)
Please see the response to this paper by Ashmore and Sabloff.