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| Archaeology
and Ethnohistory, Classic Maya Culture, Settlements,
Culture Change, Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing and
Art; Mesoamerica and the
Caribbean |
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| Current Research - Past Research - Selected Publications |
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Professor
Palka's research and
teaching interests include the archaeology and history of Mesoamerica
and the Caribbean, Classic Maya culture, Maya hieroglyphic writing and
art, cultural evolution, social inequality, and settlement patterns.
His current research covers ancient Maya social differentiation,
settlement archaeology, and the collapse of Maya civilization along
with his new historical archaeology project that examines Lacandon Maya
culture change in Guatemala and Chiapas during the 19th century.
He is editor of the publication Mesoamerican
Voices.
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In the summers of 2006 and
2007, Professor Palka will undertake surveys and excavations of
Protohistoric to Conquest-era Maya sites in the rainforests
of Chiapas,
Mexico, and Peten, Guatemala, to study cross-cultural interaction and culture
change.
On campus he will continue his research on Classic Period
hieroglyphic writing and the evolution of Maya political organization. He is
also writing a monograph on residential excavations and the Classic Maya
collapse at Dos Pilas, Guatemala, and the articles "Ancient Maya Ruins and
Contemporary Lacandon Maya Beliefs" and "Archaeology Illustrated: the
Importance of Seeing in the Discipline."
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| Past
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2005
Unconquered Lacandon Maya: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of
Indigenous Culture Change. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
2003 (With Jeff Buechler) Monument to a Matriarch: A
Classic
Maya Stela at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mesoamerican
Voices,
1:41-64.
2003 Social Rank and Differential Processes of
Abandonment
at the Classic Maya Site of Dos Pilas, Peten, Guatemala. In
The Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment in Middle America, Takeshi
Inomata and Ron Webb, eds. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
2002 Left/Right Symbolism and the Body in Ancient
Maya
Iconography and Culture. Latin American Antiquity, 13(4):419-443.
2001 (With Don McVicker) A Classic Maya Carved Shell
from
Tula, Mexico: A Comparative Study. Ancient Mesoamerica 12(2):175-197.
2000 Historical Dictionary of Ancient Mesoamerica. Lanham,
Md.: Scarecrow Press.
1999 Classic Maya Parentage and Social Structure
with Insights on Ancient Gender Ideology. In
From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology: Proceedings of
the Fifth Gender and Archaeology Conference, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Nancy Wicker and Bettina Arnold, eds. Oxford:
Archaeopress.
1998 Lacandon Maya Culture Change and Survival in
the Frontier of Expanding Guatemalan and Mexican States. In
Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change and
Archaeology. James Cusick, ed. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press.
1997 Reconstructing Maya Social Organization and the
Collapse at
Dos Pilas, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica, 8(2): 293-306.
1996 Sociopolitical Implications of a New Emblem
Glyph and
Place Name in Classic Maya Inscriptions. Latin
American
Antiquity, 7(3):211-228. |
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