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Don Rice
SIUC Perspectives article
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| Dr. Don Rice’s
research has focused primarily on demographic history, human use
of and impact upon tropical environments, modeling of future land
use in the tropics, and culture change and ethnogenesis.
He has directed grant-funded, multi-disciplinary research in Guatemala
and Peru, participated in studies in Belize and Mexico, and supervised
graduate student dissertation work in these countries and in the
Dominican Republic. His current research project is an archaeological
investigation, co-directed with Prudence M. Rice, of the development
of 10th-17th century AD Maya political geography in the Department
of Petén, Guatemala, and of the Spanish conquest of Maya
groups in this region. |
Anth 205:
Latin American Civilization Anth 304: Origins of Civilization Anth 410K: Ecological Anthropology Anth 430B: Archaeology of Meso-America Anth 511: Seminar in Meso-American Archaeology Anth 516: Seminar in Archaeology of Complex Societies Anth 576: Seminar in Anthropological Research Design |
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| 2006
Maya urbanism: concepts, processes, and realities. In
Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches,
edited by G. Storey, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2005 (Rice, D. S., and P. M. Rice) Seventeenth-century Maya political geography and resistance in central Petén, Guatemala. In The Postclassic-to-Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by R. Alexander and S. Kepecs. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 2005 (Rice, P. M., and D. S. Rice) The final frontier of the Maya: Central Petén, Guatemala, A.D. 1450-1700. In Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History. edited by R. J. Parker and L. Rodseth. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 2004 (Rice, P. M., and D. S. Rice) Late Classic to Postclassic transformations in the Petén lakes region, Guatemala. In The Terminal Classic Period in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transitions, and Transformations, edited by A. A. Demarest, P. M. Rice, and D. S. Rice. University of Colorado Press, Boulder. 2001 Yaxhá (Petén, Guatemala). In Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, edited by S. T. Evans and D. L. Webster, pp. 841-842. Garland, New York. 1999 Ambiente y agricultura: tierras bajas mayas. In Epoca precolombina, edited by M. Popenoe de Hatch, pp. 445-458. Historia general de Guatemala, Vol. 2, J. Lujan Muñoz (gen. ed.), Asociación de Amigos del Pueblo; Fundación para la Cultura y el Desarrollo Guatemala. 1999 (Rice, P. M. and D. S. Rice) Período Postclásico: tierras bajas mayas. In Epoca precolombina, edited by M. Popenoe de Hatch, pp. 365-380. Historia general de Guatemala, Vol. 2, J. Lujan Muñoz (gen. ed.), Asociación de Amigos del Pueblo; Fundación para la Cultura y el Desarrollo Guatemala. 1998 (Rice, D. S.; P. M. Rice, and T. Pugh) Settlement continuity and change in the central Petén lakes region: the case of Zacpetén. In Anatomía de una civilización. Aproximaciones interdisciplinarias a la cultura maya, edited by A. Ciudad Ruíz, Y. Fernández Marquínez, J. M. García Campillo, M. Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León, A. Lacadena García-Gallo, and L. T. Sanz Castro, pp. 208-252. Publicación número 4, Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, Madrid. |
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