Lisa J Lucero Ph.D.

Books

• Lucero, Lisa J., and Barbara W. Fash (eds). Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Politics. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006.
• Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
• Social Integration in the Ancient Maya Hinterlands: Ceramic Variability in the Belize River Area. Tempe: Anthropological Research Paper No. 53. Arizona State University, 2001.
• Bacus, Elisabeth A., and Lisa J. Lucero (eds). Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World. Arlington: Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 9. American Anthropological Association, 1999.

Other

• in press Materialized Cosmology among Ancient Maya Commoners. Journal of Social Archaeology
• 2007 Classic Maya Temples, Politics, and the Voice of the People. Latin American Antiquity 18(4):407-427.
• in press Water Management in Lowland Mesoamerica. In Water and Humanity: Historical Overview, edited by V. Scarborough and Y. Yasuda. History of Water and Civilization Volume VII, general editor, Fekri Hassan. UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP)
• 2008 Memorializing Place among Classic Maya Commoners. In Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices, edited by B. J. Mills and W. H. Walker, pp. 187-205. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe.
• 2007 and Sherry A. Gibbs. The Creation and Sacrifice of Witches in Classic Maya Society. In New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society, edited by V. Tiesler and A. Cucina, pp. 45-73. Springer Press, New York
• 2006 The Political and Sacred Power of Water in Ancient Maya Society. In Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Politics, edited by L. J. Lucero and B. Fash, pp. 116-128. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
• 2006 Agricultural Intensification, Water, and Political Power in the Southern Maya Lowlands. In Agricultural Strategies, edited by J. Marcus and C. Stanish, pp. 281-305. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. UCLA, Los Angeles.
• 2004 , Scott L. Fedick, Andrew Kinkella, and Sean M. Graebner. Ancient Maya Settlement in the Valley of Peace Area, Belize. In Archaeology of the Upper Belize River Valley: Half a Century of Maya Research, edited by J. F. Garber, pp. 86-102. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
• 2003 The Politics of Ritual: The Emergence of Classic Maya Rulers. Current Anthropology 44(4):523-558.
• 2002 The Collapse of the Classic Maya: A Case for the Role of Water Control. American Anthropologist 104(3):814-826.
• 2000 William H. Walker and . The Depositional History of Ritual and Power. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by M. Dobres and J. Robb, pp. 130-147. Routledge Press, London.
• 1999 Water Control and Maya Politics in the Southern Maya Lowlands. In Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, edited by E. A. Bacus and L. J. Lucero, pp. 34-49. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 9. American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA.
• 1999 Classic Lowland Maya Political Organization: A Review. Journal of World Prehistory. 13(2):211-263.