CURRICULUM VITAE

  
Barbara Voorhies
Department of Anthropology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, 93106

 
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EDUCATION:
1969

Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University
1961

B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Geology, Tufts University
 

ADMINISTRATION:
1994-98 Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder (CU)
1985-87 Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
1998- Research Professor & Professor Emerita, UCSB
1994-98 Professor, CU
1982-94 Professor, UCSB
1977-82 Associate Professor, UCSB
1971-77 Assistant Professor, UCSB
1970-71 Visiting Professor, UCSB
1969-70 Assistant Professor, San Diego State College
1969 Lecturer, Southern Connecticut State College
1960-61 Teaching Assistant in Geology, Tufts University.
  Supervised by James D. Hume.
   

COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate Lectures

Ancient Maya (UCSB)
Ancient and Modern Maya (CU)
Cultural Ecology
Prehistory of Mesoamerica
Anthropology of Gender
Prehistoric Food Production

Seminars (Graduate and Undergraduate)

Origins of Agriculture
Origins of Trade
Research Design in Anthropology (Grant Writing)
Problems in Mesoamerican Prehistory
 

RESEARCH:
2003 Transition to Maize Agriculture along the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Excavations at several sites near Acapulco, Guerrero. Funded by National Science Foundation to Dr. Douglas J. Kennett (1.5 months).
2000-01 Foraging to Farming on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico.
Survey of caves and excavations of an earthen mound site, Chiapas, Mexico. Funded by National Science Foundation (3 months)
1998 Archaeological research at Cerro de las Conchas, Chiapas, Mexico. Funded by the Heinz Family Foundation (2 months).
1994 Archaeological research on the late preceramic peoples of coastal Chiapas, Mexico. Funded by the National Geographic Society and the Heinz Family Foundation (3 months).
1991 Site survey along coastal river systems in Chiapas, Mexico. Funded by the National Geographic Society (3 months).
1988 Archaeological research on a shell midden site, Chiapas, Mexico. Funded by the National Geographic Society (3 months).
1983 Archaeological research on the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, funded by the National Geographic Society. Phase 3: Excavations at selected sites (9 months).
1981 Archaeological research on the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, funded by the National Geographic Society. Phase 2 of Proyecto Soconusco: Excavations at key sites within the study area (9 mos.).
1978-79 Archaeological research on the coast of Chiapas, Mexico, funded by National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society. Phase 1 of Proyecto Soconusco: Site reconnaissance within a 750 km2 portion of the coastal plain (9 mos.).
1977 Survey of vegetation zones in the upper Grijalva River basin, sponsored by the New World Archaeological Foundation.
1973 Archaeological research on a late Archaic Period (3000-2000 B.C.) occupation of the littoral zone, Chiapas, Mexico, sponsored by National Science Foundation.
1971 Archaeological reconnaissance in the coastal zone of Chiapas, Mexico. Sponsored by a Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1966-68 Excavations at San Felipe, Department of Izabal, Guatemala. Dissertation research advised by Dr. Michael Coe, Yale University. Dissertation title: "San Felipe, a Prehistoric Settlement in Eastern Guatemala." Department of Anthropology, Yale University.
1964-65 Archaeological survey in the Lago de Izabal basin, Guatemala, sponsored by Caribbean Research Center, University of Florida, Dr. Hugh Popenoe, Director.
1963-65 Research Assistant, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
1961 Field Assistant, U.S. Geological Survey, assisting Dr. Anna Hietanan-Makela, California Branch.
1960 Field Assistant, U.S. Geological Survey, assisting Ms. Roberta Dixon, Connecticut Branch
  

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
  Member of Sigma Xi (Local chapter president 1981-82)
  Member of Society for American Archaeology
  Member of Sociedad Méxicana de Antropología
  Fellow of American Anthropological Association
  

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
  Prehistory of Mesoamerica, especially coastal habitats
  Cultural ecology
  Origins of agriculture
  

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
1975 Female of the Species (Co-authored with M. Kay Martin). Columbia University Press, New York.
1976 The Chantuto People: An Archaic Period Society of the Chiapas Littoral, Mexico. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 4l. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
1977 Special Issue in honor of Albert C. Spaulding. American Antiquity, 42(3). Co-editor with Brian Fagan.
1978 Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America, Co-editor with B. L. Stark. Academic Press, New York.
1978 La Mujer: Un Enfoque Antropológico (Co-authored with M. Kay Martin). Translated by Enrique Hegewicz. Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona.
1989 Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica. Edited book, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1991 La Economía del Antiguo Soconusco, Chiapas. Translated by Raśl del Moral. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México.
n. d. Postclassic Soconusco Society: The Late Prehistory of Coastal Chiapas, Mexico. (Co-authored with Janine Gasco). Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University at Albany, New York. In press.
n. d. Coastal Collectors in the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. In press. Anticipated publication date is 2004.
  

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1972 Settlement Patterns in Two Regions of the Southern Maya Lowlands. American Antiquity 37: 115-126.
1973 Possible Social Factors in the Exchange System of the Prehistoric Maya. American Antiquity 38:486-489.
1975 Los conchales de la zona Chantuto, Chiapas, México. XIII Mesa Redonda, Xalapa. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Arqueología II:l-l0, México.
1976 The Human Sexes: Biological Foundations and Cultural Superstructures. In The Study of Anthropology, edited by David E. Hunter and Phillip M. Whitten, pp. l38-l58. Harper and Row, New York.
1978 Previous Research on Nearshore Coastal Adaptations in Middle America. In Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America, edited by Barbara L. Stark and Barbara Voorhies, pp. 5-2l. Academic Press, New York.
1978 Future Research Directions (Co-authored with Barbara L. Stark). In Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America, edited by Barbara L. Stark and Barbara Voorhies, pp. 275-304. Academic Press, New York.
1980 Trace Element Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from three Shell Midden sites in the Littoral Zone, Chiapas, Mexico (Co-authored with Fred W. Nelson). American Antiquity 45(3):540-550.
1981 Mora: Un yacemiento arqueológico en el Bajo Delta del Orinoco, Venezuela. (Co-authored with Erika Wagner and Lilliam Arvelo). Antropológica 55:31-50.
1982 An Ecological Model of the Early Maya of the Central Lowlands. In Maya Subsistence, edited by Kent V. Flannery, pp. 65-95. Academic Press, New York.
1984

El Período Postclásico Tardío de Acapetahua, Chiapas, México, (Co-authored with Janine Gasco). In Investigaciones Recientes en el Area Maya. Tomo I, pp. 431-438. Sociedad Méxicana de Antropología, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas México. 21-27 de Junio, 1981.
1987 The Prehistory of San Felipe. In The Periphery of the Southeastern Classic Maya Realm, edited by Gary W. Pahl, pp. 153-167. UCLA Latin American Center Publications.
1987 Patrones de asentamiento en la región oeste del Soconusco: Metodos para la recuperación de sitios y resultados relatívos a su antigüedad. Revista Méxicana de Estudios Antropológicos 33(2):307-341.
1989 Whither the King's Traders? Re-evaluating Fifteenth Century Xoconocho as a Port of Trade. In Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica, edited by Barbara Voorhies, pp. 21-47. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1989 The Ultimate Tribute: The Role of the Soconusco as an Aztec Tributary, co-authored with Janine Gasco. In Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica, edited by Barbara Voorhies, pp. 48-94. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1989 An Introduction to the Soconusco and Its Prehistory. In Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica, edited by Barbara Voorhies, pp. 1-18. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1989 A Model of the Pre-Aztec Political System of the Soconusco. In Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica, edited by Barbara Voorhies, 95-129. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1989 Changing Patterns of Faunal Exploitation (with Jean Hudson and Phillip L. Walker). In Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica, edited by Barbara Voorhies, pp. 133-153. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1989 Textile Production. In Ancient Trade and Tribute: Economies of the Soconusco Region of Mesoamerica, edited by Barbara Voorhies, 194-214. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1989 Settlement Patterns in the Western Soconusco: Methods of Site Recovery and Dating Results. In New Frontiers in the Archaeology of the Pacific Coast of Mesoamerica, edited by Frederick J. Bové, and Lynette Heller. Arizona Research Papers No. 39, pp. 1-22, Arizona State University.
1989 Un modelo del sistema político pre-azteca del Soconusco. Mesoamérica 18:329-369.
1991 An Ancient Shrimp Fishery in South Coastal Mexico. (Co-authored with George H. Michaels and George M. Riser). National Geographic Research and Exploration 7(1):20-35.
1991

Una pesquería prehistórica de camarón en la costa sur de México (Co-authored with George H. Michaels and George Riser). Primer Foro de Arqueología de Chiapas. Serie Memorias Chiapas 4:29-47.
1992 Prehistoric Subsistence in the Soconusco Region (Authored by Michael Blake, Brian S. Chisholm, John E. Clark, Barbara Voorhies and Michael W. Love). Current Anthropology 33(1):83-94.
1995 Buried Sites on the Soconusco Coastal Plain, Chiapas, Mexico (co-authored with Douglas J. Kennett). Journal of Field Archaeology 22: 65-79.
1995 Middle Holocene Periodicities in Rainfall Inferred from Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Fluctuations in Prehistoric Tropical Estuarine Mollusc Shells (Authored by Douglas J. Kennett and Barbara Voorhies). Archaeometry 37 (1):161-183.
1995 Radiocarbon Chronology for the Late Archaic and Formative Periods on the Pacific Coast of Southeastern Mesoamerica (Authored by Michael Blake, John E. Clark, Barbara Voorhies, George Michaels, Michael W. Love, Mary E. Pye, Arthur A. Demarest and Barbara Arroyo). Ancient Mesoamerica 6:161-183.
1996 The Transformation from Foraging to Farming in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica. In The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use, edited by Scott L. Fedick, pp. 17-29. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1996 Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Shells to Detect Seasonal Use of Wetlands on the Southern Pacific Coast of Mexico (Authored by Douglas J. Kennett and Barbara Voorhies). Journal of Archaeological Research 23:689-704.
1996 Subsistence Strategies on the Eve of Complexity: The Late Archaic Period in South Coastal Chiapas, Mexico. The Colloquia of the XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, pp. 19-26. Forlí, Italy.
1999 Late Archaic Period Coastal Collectors in Southern Mesoamerica: The Chantuto People Revisited. (Authored by George H. Michaels and Barbara Voorhies). In Pacific Latin America in Prehistory: The Evolution of Archaic and Formative Cultures, edited by Michael Blake, pp. 39-54. Washington State University Press, Pullman.
2000 Reconstructing Mobility Patterns of Late Hunter-Gatherers in Coastal Chiapas, Mexico: The View from the Shellmounds. Anais do IX Congresso da Sociedade de Arqueologia Brasiliera. 26 manuscript pages. Compact disk.
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. In press.
n. d. Reconstructing Mobility Patterns of Late Hunter-Gatherers in Coastal Chiapas, Mexico: The View from the Shellmounds. Submitted to Lynette Norr for publication in Beyond Midden and Mollusk: Social and Economic Aspects of Coastal Settlements.
  

BOOK REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND NOTES
1971 Comment on Edwin N. Wilmsen's Review of Man in Prehistory by Chester Chard. American Anthropologist 73:507-508.
1976 Review, New World Archaeology: Theoretical and Cultural Transformations, edited by Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Margaret C. Fritz and John M. Fritz. W. H. Freeman and Company. The New Scholar 5(l):l89-l92.
1978 Proyecto Soconusco: An Archaeological Investigation of the Ancient Economic History in the Coastal Lowlands of Chiapas Mexico. National Geographic Research Reports, Vol. 19, pp. 661-670. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
1979 Review, Middle Classic Mesoamerica: A.D. 400-700, edited by Esther Pasztory. Columbia University Press, New York. American Antiquity 44(3):635-637.
1979 Review, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, by Richard E. W. Adams. Little, Brown and Co. American Antiquity 44(3):637-638.
1982 "Archaeology." The 1982 World Book Year Book, pp. 183-184.
1983 "Maya." World Book Encyclopedia. 1984 edition, pp. 256-261.
1983 "Archaeology." World Book Encyclopedia, 1984 edition, pp. 556-561.
1983 "Archaeology." The 1983 World Book Year Book, pp. 189-190.
1984 "Archaeology." The 1984 World Book Year Book, pp. 191-192.
1984 Review, The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations, edited by Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus. A School of American Research Book. Academic Press, New York. American Anthropologist 86(3):760-762.
1985

Review, Investigaciones Sobre Huamango y Región Vecina, Volumen I, by Roman Pióa Chan. Gobierno del Estado de México, 1981. American Antiquity 50(1):208-209.
1985 "Archaeology." The 1985 World Book Year Book, pp. 187-188.
1986 "Archaeology." The 1986 World Book Year Book, pp. 190-192.
1987 "Archaeology." The 1987 World Book Yearbook, pp. 189-191.
1988 Review, Paso de la Amada: An Early Preclassic Site in the Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico, by Jorge Fausto Ceja Tenorio. American Antiquity 53(1):214-215.
1988 "Archaeology." The 1988 World Book Yearbook, pp. 189-190.
1989 "Archaeology." The 1989 World Book Year Book, pp. 168-169.
1990 "Archaeology." The 1990 World Book Year Book, pp. 169-170.
1990 Proyecto Tlacuachero. Boletín del Consejo de Arqueología:1989, pp. 164-169. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México.
1991 "Archaeology." The 1991 World Book Year Book, pp. 166-168.
1992 Obituary: Albert C. Spaulding 1914-1990. American Antiquity 57(2):197-201.
1992 Review, Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey. American Anthropologist 94:1005-1006.
1996 Mesoamerica, Prehistory and Early History of: Archaic Period. Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian M. Fagan, pp. 442-444. Oxford University Press.
2000 Review, Shells, by Cheryl Claassen. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6(2)327-328.
2001 Soconusco--South Pacific Coast and Piedmont Region. The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster, pp. 667-671. Garland, New York.
2002

Los Cerritos: An Early Fishing-Farming Community on the Pacific Coast of Mexico (authored by Douglas J. Kennett, Barbara Voorhies and Sarah B. McClure). Antiquity 76:631-2
 
WORK IN PROGRESS
  Culture and Climate in Meosamerica during the Middle Holocene (authored by Barbara Voorhies and Sarah E. Metcalf). Submitted to editors Daniel Sandweiss and Kirk Maasch for inclusion in Middle Holocene Climate and Culture Change.
  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)

 



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