Ancient economies
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: Economic and Social Organization (with Katharina J. Schreiber), Journal of Archaeological Research (2005)
Aztec Feasts, Rituals, and Markets: Political Uses of Ceramic Vessels in a Commercial Economy (with Jennifer Wharton and Jan Marie Olson), The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early State and Empires (2003)
Comercio postclásico en la cerámica decorada: Malinalco, Toluca, Guerrero y Morelos, Arqueología (2003)
The Archaeological Study of Empires and Imperialism in Prehispanic Central Mexico (with Lisa M. Montiel), Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2001)
Economies and Polities in Aztec-period Morelos: Ethnohistoric Introduction, Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm (1994)
Aztec society, general
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)
Tula and Chichén Itzá: Are We Asking the Right Questions?, Twin Tollans: Chichén Itzá, Tula, and the Epiclassic to Early Postclassic Mesoamerican World (2007)
Aztec Feasts, Rituals, and Markets: Political Uses of Ceramic Vessels in a Commercial Economy (with Jennifer Wharton and Jan Marie Olson), The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early State and Empires (2003)
Domestic Ritual at Aztec Provincial Sites in Morelos, Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica (2002)
The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican World system, Empires: Comparative Perspectives from Archaeology and History (2001)
The Aztec World of Gary Jennings, Novel History: American History According to the Novelists (2001)
Economies and Polities in Aztec-period Morelos: Ethnohistoric Introduction, Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm (1994)
Cities & urbanism: comparative
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)
Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning, Journal of Planning History (2007)
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La fundación de las ciudades en el mundo antiguo: revisión de conceptos, Nuevas ciudades, nuevas patrias: fundación y relocalización de ciudades en Mesoamérica y el Meditteráneo antiguo (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)
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.
Cities & urbanism: Aztec and Mesoamerican
City Planning: Aztec City Planning, Encyclopaedia of the History of Non-Western Science, Technology, and Medicine, revised Internet edition (2008)
A New Map of the Aztec-Period City of Calixtlahuaca in Central Mexico (with Novic, Juliana; Kroefges Peter; and Huster Angela), Antiquity (2007)
La fundación de los capitales de las ciudades-estado aztecas: la recreación ideológico de Tollan, Nuevas ciudades, nuevas patrias: fundación y relocalización de ciudades en Mesoamérica y el Meditteráneo antiguo (2006)
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.