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Barbara Voorhies |
| Professor Emerita of Anthropology |
| Email: voorhies@anth.ucsb.edu |
| Office: HSSB 1042 |
Curriculum Vitae
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| Research Interests: |
- Mesoamerican Prehistory–the prehistory of Mexico and the northern Central American countries from first settlement to the arrival of peoples from the Old World.
- Coastal Adaptations–how people over time have met the challenges of living along the world's coastlines.
- Transition from Foraging to Farming in Tropical Coastal Habitats–how mobile foragers shifted their lifeways to settled village farmers in tropical lowland habitats, especially on the south Pacific coast of Mexico.
The transition from foraging to farming on the south Pacific coast of Mexico |
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| Sample Publications |
- 2006 An Ecological Model for the Origins of Maize-based Food Production on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico. (Co-authored by Douglas J. Kennett, Barbara Voorhies, and Dean Martorana). In Human Behavioral Ecology and the Origins of Agriculture, edited by D.J. Kennett and B. Winterhalder, pp. 103-136. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- 2004 Coastal Collectors in the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico. The University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
- 2004 Postclassic Soconusco Society:The Late Prehistory of Coastal Chiapas, Mexico. Co-authored with Janine Gasco. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University of Albany, New York.
- 2002 A Middle Archaic Archaeological Site on the West Coast of Mexico: (Authored by Barbara Voorhies, Douglas J. Kennett, John G. Jones, and Thomas A. Wake). Latin American Antiquity 13:179-200.
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