MARL Staff and Research Interests

Valdez, Fred, Ph.D. (MARL Director)

• Mesoamerica

• social systems

• material culture

• field methodologies

• email: fredv(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Aylesworth, Grant R., Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• archaeoastronomy, E-Groups

• socio-political organization

• settlement patterns, mapping

• email: aylesworth(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Buttles, Palma J., Ph.D. (MARL Research Fellow)

• Mesoamerica

• social systems

• material culture
• organizational culture
• business anthropology

• settlement patterns, mapping

• email: pjb(at)sei.cmu.edu

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Cortes-Rincon, Marisol, Ph.D. (MARL Research Fellow)

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• Mesoamerican Warfare

• Development of fortification systems in the Maya Lowlands

• Economic and political patterns

• settlement patterns, mapping

• email: xorza(at)hotmail.com

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Dawson, Maria, M.A.

• Mesoamerica, Maya & Huastec

• email: pomo(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Hyde, David, M.A.

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• Socio-economic organization and intergration

• Lithic technological organization

• email: botfly(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Meadows, Richard, Ph.D. (Research Fellow)

• craft specialization and social complexity

• Mesoamerican culture and ideology

• lithic technology and production

• political economy and material culture

• prehistory of southeastern North America

• email: rmeadows(at)kawil.net

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• Web: Maya Lithic Symbols

Obledo, Micaela, M.A.

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• interment patterns and variations
• forensic archaeology
• symbolic analysis of iconography

• email: midnightsun1811(at)hotmail.com

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Thompson, Lauri, Ph.D.

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• bioarchaeology

• human skeletal analysis

• burial customs

• Potbelly Stone Sculpture ( Pacific Slope)

• email: l.thompson(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Trachman, Rissa M., Ph.D. (MARL Research Fellow)

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• archaeology of gender

• lithic technology

• household archaeology

• email: rissat(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Reed Elizabeth, M.A., ABD

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• Ceramic technology and production

• email: elizabethinaustin(at)yahoo.com

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Scott, Anne M., M.A., ABD

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• Cave archaeology and ethnography

• Sacred landscape and settlement patterns

• Burial Customs

• email: mayacaver(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Wagner, William J., III, M.A., ABD

• northeastern Mesoamerica

• south Texas

• exchange between hunter-gatherer societies and complex societies

• technology of shell tool and ornament production

• email: skye(at)mail.utexas.edu

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Walling, Stanley L., Ph.D. (MARL Research Fellow)

• Mesoamerica, Maya

• socio-political organization

• settlement patterns, mapping

• email: stan.walling(at)gmail.com

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