CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Barbara Voorhies

Department of Anthropology

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA, 93106

 

Department Office:  (805) 893-2519; Home: (805) 969-0628

FAX (805) 893-8707

E-mail: voorhies@anth.ucsb.edu

 

EDUCATION:

 

     l969            Ph.D.,  Anthropology, Yale University

     l96l             B.S., Magna Cum Laude, Geology, Tufts University

 

 

ADMINISTRATION:

 

2005-           Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

                               (UCSB)

     1994-98       Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado,

                            Boulder (CU)

     1985-87      Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCSB

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:      

                 

1998-             Research Professor & Professor Emerita, UCSB

2002 Profesora (Fall Semester), Universidad de las Américas-Puebla

    1993-98       Professor, CU

    1982-94      Professor, UCSB

     l977-82      Associate Professor, UCSB

     l97l-77       Assistant Professor, UCSB

     l970-7l       Visiting Professor, UCSB

     l969-70      Assistant Professor, San Diego State College

     l969          Lecturer, Southern Connecticut State College

     l960-6l       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:

 

2005                         Study of small scale clamming industry on the Río Tempesque,

Costa Rica.  Funded by the Dixon Emeriti Award (5 weeks).

 

2005                       Transition to Maize Agriculture along the Pacific Coast of Mexico.

Phase 2: Excavations at sites on the coast of Chiapas.  Funded by

The National Science Foundation to Dr. Douglas J. Kennett (1.5 months).

 

       2003                 Transition to Maize Agriculture along the Pacific Coast of Mexico.  Phase 1: 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.

 

     l964-65               Archaeological survey in the Lago de Izabal basin, Guatemala, sponsored by Caribbean Research Center, University of Florida, Dr. Hugh Popenoe, Director.

 

     l963-65               Research Assistant, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.

 

     l96l                    Field Assistant, U.S. Geological Survey, assisting Dr. Anna Hietanan-Makela, California Branch.

 

     l960                   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

 

           l975             Female of the Species (Co-authored with M. Kay Martin).  Columbia University Press, New York.

 

           l976             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.  

 

           l977             Special Issue in honor of Albert C. Spaulding.  American Antiquity, 42(3).  Co-editor with Brian Fagan.

 

           l978              Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America, Co-editor with B. L. Stark.  Academic Press, New York.

 

           l978              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 Raúl del Moral.    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, México.

 

         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 at Albany, New York. 

 

 

 

           ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

          l972              Settlement Patterns in Two Regions of the Southern Maya Lowlands.

                            American Antiquity 37:ll5-l26.

 

          l973             Possible Social Factors in the Exchange System of the Prehistoric Maya.

                           American Antiquity  38:486-489.

 

          l975             Los conchales de la zone Chantuto, Chiapas, México.  XIII Mesa Redonda, Xalapa. Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Arqueología II:l-l0, México.

           

          l976              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.

 

          l978             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.

 

          l978             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.

 

          l980             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 13:179-200.

 

         n. d.              Culture andClimate in Mesoamerica during the Middle Holocene.  (Authored by Barbara Voorhies and Sarah E. Metcalfe) In Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: A Global Perspective on Holocene Transitions, edited by Daniel H. Sandweiss and Kirk A. Maasch.  Academic Press, San Diego.  In press.

 

         n. d.             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. Under review.

 

 

        

BOOK REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND NOTES

 

           l97l              Comment on Edwin N. Wilmsen's Review of Man in Prehistory by Chester Chard.  American Anthropologist  73:507-508.

 

           l976             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.

 

           l979              Review, Middle Classic Mesoamerica: A.D. 400-700, edited by Esther Pasztory.  Columbia University Press, New York.  American Antiquity 44(3):635-637.

 

         l979              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 Piña 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).  Antiquity76:631-2.

        

 

 

 

 

 

  updated Dec. 2005