MARILYN A. MASSON
Dept. of Anthropology
The University at Albany - SUNY
Arts and Sciences 237
Albany, New York 12222
(518) 442-5199 office
(518) 442-5710 fax
email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
1993
Ph.D., Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin
1989
Master of Science, Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee
1982
Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, Texas A&M University
PH.D. DISSERTATION
1993 Changes in Maya Community Organization from the Classic to Postclassic
Periods: A View from Laguna de On, Belize.
M.S. THESIS
1989 Lithic Production Changes in Late Classic Maya Workshops at Colha, Belize: A
Study of Debitage Variation.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Topical: Archaeology of Complex Societies, Archaeology of Religion, Ethnohistory &
Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Lithic Analysis, Ceramic Analysis, Household
Economy, Collapse Theory, Political Structure
Areal:
Mesoamerica, North America
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2002-present Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology UAlbany-SUNY
1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, UAlbany-SUNY
1995-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pacific Lutheran
University, Tacoma, Washington
1993-1994 Instructor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
1991-1993 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Univ. of Texas at Austin
1989
Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Southwest Texas
State University.
1988-1989 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
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1986
Teacher, Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, FL, May - June.
COURSES TAUGHT
Archaeology of Religion (undergrad), Ethnohistory and Archaeology of the Maya Realm (grad),
Stone Tool Analysis (grad seminar and separate undergrad course), Seminar in Mesoamerican
Archaeology (grad/undergrad combined), Precolumbian Maya Political Organization (grad),
Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (grad), Maya Art and Archaeology (undergrad), The
Archaeology of Political Structure (grad), The Archaeology of Social Upheaval (grad),
Foundations of Great Ideas Presidential Scholars course (undergrad, co-taught with other
interdisciplinary faculty), Archaeological Field School in Belize (undergrad), Field Seminar in
Urban Archaeology (grad), Computer Applications in Archaeology (Statistics, grad), Current
Theories on the Ancient Maya (grad, Zooarchaeology (grad seminar and separate undergrad
course), Intro. to Archaeology (undergrad).
FIELD AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
2001-present
1996- present
Co-Principal Investigator (with Carlos Peraza Lope), of “The Economic
Foundations of Mayapán Project”, Yucatan, Mexico
Principal Investigator, Belize Postclassic Project, Belize
2001- present Zooarchaeologist, INAH-Yucatan Mayapán Project (monumental center
collections from 1995-2003) and Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project (20012004)
1994-1995 Co-Principal Investigator, Project Manager, Wilson-Leonard Site Paleoindian
Project. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin.
1993
Field Director, Bergstrom Airport Archaeological Survey, Hicks and Company,
Austin, Texas. June-Aug.
1992
Field Director, K'axob Archaeological Project, Belize, Boston University,
1992
Operation Director, Monte Alban and Dainzu Projects, Instituto Nacional de
Antropologia e Historia,Centro Regional de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
1991
Field Director, Laguna de On Project, Univ. of Texas Archaeological Field
School, Belize.
1991
Field Director, Ortona Earthwork Mound Park Project, Belle Glade, Florida,
Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Miami, December 1990 January 1991.
1990
Operation Director, Laguna Zope Project, Oaxaca, Mexico, Brandeis
University.
1990-1995 Zooarchaeologist, Research Associate,Texas Archaeological Research Lab, The
University of Texas at Austin.
1989
Sub-operation Director, Colha Preclassic Project, Belize, The University of
Texas.
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1989
Field Director, East Everglades and Silver Lakes Survey Projects (Miami, FL) and
Goodland Marina Excavation Project (Naples, FL), Archaeological and Historical
Conservancy, Miami, Florida, May - June.
1988
Operation Director, Kichpanha Project, Belize, Trinity University.
1988-1989 Research Assistant, Windover Skeletal Laboratory, Florida State University.
1988-1989 Zooarchaeologist, Honey Hill Project, Archaeological & Historical Conservancy,
Miami.
1987
Field Director, Okeechobee Battlefield (Okeechobee, FL) and Oak Knoll Mound
(Ft. Myers, FL) Projects, Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Miami,
April - July.
1987
Operation Director, Colha Project, Belize, The University of Texas at San
Antonio.
1986-1987 Archaeological Technician, Ft. Hood Survey Project, (Killeen, TX),
Archaeological Research Lab, TexasA&M University.
1987
Lab Technician, National Park Service, Southeastern Archaeological Center,
Florida State University.
1986
Archaeological Technician, Cutler Fossil Site Project (Miami, FL), Archaeological
and Historical Conservancy, Miami, June - September.
1985
Archaeological Technician, Ft. Hood Survey Project (Killeen, TX), Archaeological
Research Lab, Texas A&M University, March - August.
1983
Archaeological Technician, Colha Project/Graduate Field School, Belize, The
University of Texas at San Antonio.
1978
Archaeological Technician, Colorado State University Archaeological Field
School, Ft. Collins, CO.
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS - EXTERNAL
September 2003 Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (SUNY-wide)
2002-2004 (awarded May 2001) National Science Foundation, “The Economic Foundations
of Mayapán,” $260,525
2001 Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, The Economic Foundations
of Mayapán Project, May-June 2001, $14,000
1999 Foundation for Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies ($6800, AMS dates from Caye
Coco, Belize)
1996 Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, for The Belize
Postclassic Project. ($4500.)
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1999, 2000 Center for Field Research: Earthwatch, renewed grant
Summer 1999-2000 Belize Postclassic Project ($22,000-$32,000 per year)
1996, 1997, 1998 Center for Field Research: Earthwatch grant for Belize Postclassic Project
($22,000-32,000 per year)
1996-1999 National Science Foundation Exploratory Grant, and Grant for Women in
Science and Engineering to fund Dzuluinicob Province Survey of the
Belize Postclassic Project, to locate and test Maya settlements encountered in
Spanish explorations. ($23,804.)
1996
Fulbright Fellowship (El Salvador) - DECLINED to accept SUNY teaching
position.
1995
Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner Gren Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Masson, Marilyn A.
2000 In the Realm of Nachan Kan: Postclassic Maya Archaeology at Laguna de On, Belize.
University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Smith, Michael E. and Marilyn A. Masson, editors
2000 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader. Blackwell Press, Malden.
Masson, Marilyn A. and David A. Freidel, editors
2002 Ancient Maya Political Economies. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California.
CURRENT BOOK PROJECT (IN PREPARATION)
Masson, Marilyn A. and Carlos Peraza Lope
In preparation Kukulkan’s Realm: The Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán. Contracted with the
University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
PUBLISHED REPORTS AND MONOGRAPHS
Oland, Maxine H., Josalyn M. Ferguson, and Marilyn A. Masson, editors
2003 The Belize Postclassic Project 2002: Investigations of the Shore Settlements of Progresso
Lagoon, and San Estevan. Institute of Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publication No. 9. The
University at Albany-SUNY.
Delu, Antonina M., Bradley W. Russell and Marilyn A. Masson, editors
2002 The Belize Postclassic Project 2001: Investigations at Caye Coco and the Shore
Settlements of Progresso Lagoon. Institute of Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publication No.
7. The University at Albany-SUNY.
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Rosenswig, Robert M. and Marilyn A. Masson, editors
2001 The Belize Postclassic Project 2000: Investigations at Caye Coco and the Shore
Settlements of Progresso Lagoon. Institute of Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publication No.
6. The University at Albany-SUNY.
Rosenswig, Robert M. and Marilyn A. Masson, editors
2000 The Belize Postclassic Project 1999: Investigations at Progresso Lagoon and Laguna Seca.
Institute of Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publication No. 5. The University at AlbanySUNY.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert M. Rosenswig, editors
1999 The Belize Postclassic Project 1998: Investigations at Progresso Lagoon. Institute of
Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publication No. 3. The University at Albany-SUNY.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert M. Rosenswig
1998 The Belize Postclassic Project: Laguna de On, Progresso Lagoon, and Laguna Seca.
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publications No. 2. SUNY, Albany.
Masson, Marilyn A and Robert M. Rosenswig
1997 The Belize Postclassic Project: Report of 1996 Investigations at Laguna de On Island.
Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Occasional Publications No. 1. SUNY, Albany.
**** NOTE: (I have at least one chapter – an introduction - in all of these monographs in
addition to other chapters that are not listed in this vita).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert M. Rosenswig
(Accepted, in revision) The Evolution of Postclassic Maya Pottery Traditions in Northern Belize.
Submitted to Latin American Antiquity (February 2003).
Masson, Marilyn A.
2001 Changing Patterns of Ceramic Stylistic Diversity in the Pre-Hispanic Maya Lowlands. Acta
Archaeologica 72:159-188.
Robert M. Rosenswig and Marilyn A. Masson
2002 Postclassic Maya Monumental Architecture from Caye Coco, Northern Belize. Ancient
Mesoamerica 13:1-23.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2001 The Economic Organization of Late and Terminal Classic Period Maya Stone Tool Craft
Specialist Workshops at Colha, Belize. Lithic Technology 26:29-49.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2001El Sobrenatural Cocijo y Poder de Linaje en La Antigua Sociedad Zapoteca. Mesoamerica
41:1-30.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Henry Chaya
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2000 Obsidian Trade Connections at the Postclassic Maya Site of Laguna de On, Belize. Lithic
Technology 25:135-144.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 Postclassic Maya Communities at Progresso Lagoon and Laguna Seca, Northern Belize.
Journal of Field Archaeology 25:285-306.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 Postclassic Maya Ritual at Laguna de On Island, Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 10:51-68.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 The Manipulation of “Staple” and “Status” Faunas at Postclassic Maya Communities.
World Archaeology 31:93-120.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Heather Orr
1998 The Genealogy and Geography of Zapotec Polities in the Valley of Oaxaca from A.D. 500800: An Experimental Epigraphic Reconstruction Mexicon XX(Nr.1):10-16.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert M. Rosenswig
1998 Postclassic Monumental Center Discovered at Caye Coco, Belize. Mexicon XX(Nr.1):4-5.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1997 Cultural Transformation at the Maya Postclassic Community of Laguna de On, Belize.
Latin American Antiquity 8:1-26.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1995 Understanding the Stratigraphic Context of the Maya Postclassic.
Geoarchaeology 10:389-404.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1988 Shell Celt Morphology and Breakage Patterns: An Analogy to Lithic Research. The
Florida Anthropologist 41(3):322-335.
Masson, Marilyn A., Robert S. Carr, and Debra S. Goldman
1988 The Taylor's Head Site (8BD74): Sampling a Prehistoric Midden on an
Everglades Tree Island. The Florida Anthropologist 41(3):336-350.
Carr, Robert S., David Dickel, and Marilyn Masson
1995 Archaeological Investigations at the Ortona Earthworks and Mounds. The Florida
Anthropologist 48(4):227-263.
Carr, Robert S., Marilyn A. Masson and Willard Steele
1989 Archaeological Investigations at the Okeechobee Battlefield. The Florida
Anthropologist 42(3):205-236.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1996 Interactive Exhibit of Maya Archaeology in San Estevan, Belize. Anthropology Newsletter
(American Anthropological Association), November.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Michael B. Collins
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1995 The Wilson-Leonard Site (41WM235).CRM News and Views (Texas Historical Commision
Newletter). January 1995, pp. 6-10.
BOOK REVIEWS
Masson, Marilyn A.
2005 Review of Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice, edited by Julia A. Hendon
and Rosemary A. Joyce (Blackwell). Bulletin of Latin American Research 24:266-267.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2004 Review of Hearts of Creation, edited by Andrea Stone, American Anthropologist 106: 636637.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2002 Review of Cultural Evolution: Contemporary Viewpoints (edited by Gary M.Feinman and
Linda Manzanilla) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8:776-777.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2002 Review of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya, Vol. 1 (edited by Takeshi Inomata and
Stephen D. Houston) Ethnohistory 49:456-458.
1999 Book review of The Madrid Codex (edited by Victoria Bricker), Latin American Antiquity
10:319-320.
2001 Book review of Sociocultural Evolution (by Bruce Trigger), Latin American Antiquity
12:120-122.
CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS
Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, and Carlos Peraza Lope
(In Press) Postclassic Maya Society Regenerated at Mayapán Late Postclassic Economic
Transformations at Mayapán. In After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies, edited
by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols. Submitted to University of Arizona Press.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Carlos Peraza Lope
2004 Commoners in Postclassic Maya Society. In Ancient Maya Commoners, edited by Jon
Lohse and Fred Valdez, pp. 197-224. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Shirley Boteler Mock
2004 Maya Cultural Adaptations from the Terminal Classic to Postclassic Period at Lagoon Sites
in Northern Belize as Reflected in Changing Ceramic Industries. In The Terminal Classic in the
Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation, edited by Don S. Rice, Prudence M.
Rice, and Arthur A. Demarest, pp. 367-401. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2004 Fauna Exploitation from the Preclassic to the Postclassic Periods at Four Maya Settlements
in Northern Belize, In Maya Zooarchaeology: New Directions in Method and Theory, edited by
Kitty F. Emery. Contracted with The Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California,
Los Angeles.
Masson, Marilyn A.
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2004 Faunal Use at K’axob from the Middle Formative through Early Classic Periods. In
K’axob: Founding and Flowering of a Maya Village, edited by Patricia A. McAnany. Contracted
with The Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles.
Marilyn A. Masson, Maxine H. Oland, and Josalyn M. Ferguson
2004 Late Maya Settlement at Progresso Lagoon: Terminal Classic through Colonial Periods, In
Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology Volume 1, edited by Jaime Awe, John Morris, and
Sherilyne Jones, pp. 257-266. Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History,
Belmopan, Belize.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2003 Postclassic Economic Patterns in Northern Belize. In The Postclassic Mesoamerican
World, edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan, pp. 269-281. University of Utah
Press, Salt Lake City.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2003 The Late Postclassic Symbol Set in the Maya Area. In The Postclassic Mesoamerican
World, edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan, pp. 194-200. University of Utah
Press, Salt Lake City.
Berdan, Frances F., Marilyn A. Masson, Janine Gasco, and Michael E. Smith
2003 An International Economy. In The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by Michael E.
Smith and Frances F. Berdan, pp. 96-108.University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Kepecs, Susan and Marilyn A. Masson
2003 Small Postclassic Polities in Yucatan and Belize. In The Postclassic Mesoamerican World,
edited by Michael E. Smith and Frances F. Berdan, pp. 40-44. University of Utah Press, Salt
Lake City.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Jeremy A. Sabloff
2003 Developments in Northern Yucatan Archaeology. In Escondido en la Selva: Arqueología
en el norte de Yucatan, Segundo Simposio Teoberto Maler, Bonn 2000, edited by Hans Prem and
Nikolai Grube. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, D.F./University of Bonn,
Germany.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2003 Laguna de On and Caye Coco: Postclassic Political and Economic Scales of Integration at
Two Island Communities in Northern Belize. In The Social Implications of Ancient Maya Rural
Complexity, edited by Gyles Iannone and Samuel V. Connell, pp. 119-130. Monograph 49. The
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2001 Segmentary Political Cycles and Elite Migration Myths in the Postclassic Archaeology of
Northern Belize. In The Past and Present Maya: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Carmack, edited
by John M. Weeks, pp.89-106. Labyrinthos Press, Lancaster, California.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2000 Dynamik des reifenden Staatswesens in der postklassischen Maya-Gesellschaft. In Maya:
Gottkonige im Regenwald, edited by Nikolai Grube, pp. 340-353. Konemann, Koln, Germany.
(translated into English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, French, Polish, Hungarian, and Danish).
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Masson, Marilyn A.
2002 Postclassic Maya Community Economy and the Mercantile Transformation in Northeastern
Belize. In Ancient Maya Political Economies, edited by M. Masson and D. Freidel, pp. 335-364.
Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California
2002 Introduction. In Ancient Maya Political Economies, edited by M. Masson and D. Freidel,
pp.1-30.Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, California
Masson, Marilyn A. and Heather Orr
1998 The Jaguar Soul of Monte Alban: Political Representation and Sacred Geography. In The
Sowing and the Dawning: Termination and Dedication Processes in the Archaeological and
Ethnographic Record of Mesoamerica, edited by Shirley Mock, pp. 165-176. University of New
Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1998 Analysis of Debitage. In Wilson-Leonard: An 11,000 Year Archeological Record of
Hunter-Gatherers in Central Texas, Volume III: Artifacts and Special Artifact Studies, edited by
Michael B. Collins, pp. 683-702. Studies in Archeology 31, Texas Archeological Research
Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin and Archeology Studies Program, Report 10,
Texas Department of Transportation, Environmental Affairs Division, Austin.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Fred Valdez, Jr.
1995 Estrategias en el Uso del Medio Ambiente por las Poblaciones del Clasicas y el Posclasico
en Laguna de On (Honey Camp), Belice. Memorias del Segundo Congreso Internacional de
Mayistas. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Mark W. Holderby
1994 Subsistence Patterns at 41HY209 and 41HY202: An Analysis of Vertebrate
Faunal Remains. In Archaic and Late Prehistoric Human Ecology in the
Middle Onion Creek Valley, Hays County, Texas, edited by Robert A.
Ricklis and Michael B. Collins, Pp. 403-490.Texas Archaeological Research
Laboratory, Studies in Archaeology Number 19, Volume 2.The University of
Texas at Austin.
REPORTS AND MONOGRAPHS ON FILE (NOT PUBLISHED)
Valdez, Fred, Jr., Marilyn A. Masson, and Lenore Santone
1991 Honey Camp - El Cacao Projects: Preliminary Report of Investigations, 1991. Report on
file with the Commissioner of Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.
Masson, Marilyn A., James T. Jones, Mike Myers and David O.Brown
1993 Cultural Resources Survey and Assessment for the Proposed Reuse of
Bergstrom AFB and Adjoining Areas, Travis County, Texas. Hicks and
Company, Inc., Archeology Series 28. Austin, Texas.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1990 Ortona Earthwork Excavations: Report of Stage Two Investigations. Report
on file with the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Miami, FL, and the
State of Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records Management..
Masson, Marilyn A. and H. Steven Hale
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1989 Faunal Remains from the Honey Hill Site (8BD411): Strategies of an
Everglades Wetland Foraging Economy. Report on file with the Archaeological and Historical
Conservancy, Miami, FL, and the State of Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records
Management.
Masson, Marilyn A. and C. Margaret Scarry
1989 Charred Seeds and Corn Cobs from the Honey Hill Site (8BD411): A
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis. Report on file with the Archaeological and
Historical Conservancy, Miami, FL, and the State of Florida Division of Archives,
History, and Record Management..
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert S. Carr
1987 Preliminary Investigations at the Oak Knoll Site, Lee County, FL. Report on
file with theArchaeological and Historical Conservancy, Miami, FL, and the State
of Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records Management..
Masson, Marilyn A., Robert S. Carr, Debra Goldman and Willard Steele
1987 Archaeological Investigations of the Taylor Camp Site (8OB13), Okeechobee
County, FL. Report on file with the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy,
Miami, FL, and the State of Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records
Management.
Carr, Robert S. and Marilyn A. Masson
1989 An Archaeological Survey and Assessment of the Silver Lakes Tree Island
(8BD10), Broward County, Florida. Report on file with the Archaeological and
Historical Conservancy, Miami, FL, and the State of Florida Division of Archives,
History, and Records Management.
Carr, Robert S., Marilyn A. Masson, and David Allerton
1989 Archaeological Investigations of Two Prehistoric Sites at the Goodland
Marina Property, Collier County, Florida. Report on file with the
Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Miami, FL, and the State of Florida
Division of Archives, History, and Records Management.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Marilyn A. Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope
2004 Spatial Patterns of Effigy Use at Mayapán. Presented at the American Anthropological
Meetings, Atlanta, December 2004.
Carlos Peraza Lope and Marilyn A. Masson
2005 Spatial Patterns of Effigy Censer and Sculpture Use at Mayapán. Presented at the 2 nd Congreso
Internacional de Mayistas, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, March 14.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Carlos Peraza Lope
2004 Nuevas Investigaciones en Tres Unidades Residenciales Fuera del Área Monumental
de Mayapán. Paper presented at the XIV Encuentro Internacional: Los Investigadores de la
Cultura Maya, Campeche, México, November 12.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Carlos Peraza Lope
2004 Spatial Patterns of Effigy Censers and Sculptures at Mayapán. Poster presented at the
American Anthropology Meetings, Atlanta, GA, December 16.
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Masson, Marilyn A. and Carlos Peraza Lope
2004 A New Look at Household and Administrative Facilities at the Postclassic Maya City of Mayapán.
Presented at the Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Montreal, Canada, April 1.
Oland, Maxine H. and Marilyn A. Masson
2004 Late Postclassic-Colonial Period Maya Settlement on the West Shore of Progresso Lagoon. Presented
at the 1st Annual Institute of Archaeology Conference, Belize City, Belize. July 6.
Marilyn A. Masson, Maxine H. Oland, and Josalyn M. Ferguson
2003 Late Maya Settlement at Progresso Lagoon: Terminal Classic through Colonial Periods.
Presented at the 1st Annual Institute of Archaeology Conference, Belize City, Belize, July 5.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert M. Rosenswig
2001 The Evolution of Postclassic Maya Pottery Traditions in Northern Belize. Presented at the
66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 22, 2001, New Orleans.
Rosenswig, Robert M. and Marilyn A. Masson
2001 Political Organization and Architectural Patterns at the Postclassic Maya Site of Caye
Coco, Belize. Presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
April 22, 2001, New Orleans.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2000 Kukulkan Mythology and the Symbolic Integration of the Late Postclassic Maya Realm.
Presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November
16, 2000, San Francisco.
Masson, Marilyn A.
2000 Peripheral No More: Long Term Trends of Postclassic Maya Economic Growth and Social
Change as Reflected in Household Assemblages of Northern Belize. Presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.
Co-Organizer and Chair (with David Freidel)
2000 Session of presented papers for the Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology (Philadelphia, April 2000) entitled Ancient Maya Political Economies: Essays in
Honor of William L. Rathje.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 The Chicanel and Payil States: Economic Centralization versus Kingship in the Late
Formative and Late Postclassic Maya Lowlands. Paper presented in session listed above, Society
for American Archaeology Meetings, Chicago.
Co-Organizer and Chair (with Robert Rosenswig):
1999 Session of presented papers for the Annual Meeting of the Society for American
Archaeology (Chicago, March 1999) entitled Sequences and Cycles of Cultural Evolution:
Political and Economic Dynamics of Long Term Change.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 Historical Metaphors and Late Postclassic Maya Revivals at Mayapán. Presented at the
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, in a session entitled “Cultural
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Conjunctions: Uniting the Great and Little Traditions of Ancient Mesoamerica,” organized by
Kathryn Reese-Taylor. November 18, 1999, Chicago.
West, Georgia and Marilyn A. Masson
1999 Temporal Trends in the Political Economy of Postclassic and Colonial Period Maya
Settlements of the Freshwater Creek Drainage, Northern Belize. Society for American
Archaeology Meetings, Chicago.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 The Sphere of Mayapán: Late Postclassic Cultural Organization of Yucatan from the
Perspective of Northern Belize. Circulated at a conference entitled The Postclassic
Mesoamerican World System, organized by Michael E. Smith and Frances Berdan (at Michigan
State University, April 17-23, 1999), funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Thomas W. Stafford
1998 Postclassic Stratigraphy and Chronology of Laguna de On Island. Presented at the Society
for American Archaeology Meetings, Seattle, March 1998.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1998 Issues in Postclassic Settlement and the Survey of Laguna de On Shore. Presented at the
Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Seattle, March 1998.
Masson, Marilyn A., Robert M. Rosenswig, and Shirley B. Mock
1998 Organizers of a session of papers entitled “A View from the Lagoons: Regional Postclassic
Maya Research in Northern Belize” presented at the Society for American Archaeology
Meetings, Seattle, March 1998.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1999 Lineages from Heaven: Ancestors and Gods at Mayapán and Tulum. (invited speaker) The
Maya Meetings at Texas, Austin, Texas, March 1999.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1998 Survivors of the Collapse: Affluent Postclassic Maya Island Village Sites in Northern
Belize. (invited speaker) American Museum of Natural History, New York City, April 2, 1998.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1997 Belize’s Island Maya: Village Social Transformations in the Aftermath of the Collapse of a
Civilization. (invited speaker) Earthwatch Conference, October, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Robert M. Rosenswig
1997 Village Cacique Power in the Maya Postclassic: Shrines, Cemeteries, and Community
Integration at the Lake of the Alligator Pear (Laguna de On), Belize. Paper presented at the
Society for American Archaeology Meetings, Nashville, TN, April 1997.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1996 Laguna de On the the Dzuluinicob Province: Postclassic Organizational Matrices,
presented in an organized session at the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, in
session listed below.
Masson, Marilyn A.
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1996 Organizer, session at the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans entitled
“Surviving the Collapse: New Perspectives on the Maya Postclassic,”
Masson, Marilyn M.
1995 Community Feasting Rituals and Postclassic Maya Village Political Structure:
Evidence from Archaeofaunal Remains. Society for American Archaeology Meetings, May 4,
Minneapolis.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1994 Zapotec Social Organization and Settlement: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological
Models. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings, Dec. 1,
Atlanta, in a session entitled The Foundations of Power in Ancient Oaxaca.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1994 Cocijo, Ancestors, and the Annual Cycle: Reflections of Secular and Religious
Divisions of Power Among the Classic Period Zapotec. Presented at the 59th
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, CA.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1993 K'axob Caches and Community Integration: Preclassic Manifestations of a
Pervasive Maya Pattern. Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, MO., in a session on K'axob
Archaeology.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1993 Structural Transformations in Maya Community Organization from the Classic
to Postclassic Periods in Northern Belize. Presented at the 92nd Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1992 Changes in Settlement and Household Economy from the Classic to Postclassic at
Laguna de On, Belize. Presented at the Texas Archaeological Society Meetings,
October, Corpus Christi, TX.
Masson, Marilyn A. and Heather Orr
1992 Building Dedication, Nahual Transformation, and Captive Sacrifice at Monte Alban.
Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Soc. for American Archaeology, April 1992,
Pittsburgh, in a session on dedication and transformation in Mesoamerican archaeology
organized by Shirley Mock and Debra Walker.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1991 Variation in Late Classic Craft Specialist Residential Groups and Lithic Workshop
Composition at Colha. Presented at the 47th International Congress of
Americanists, New Orleans, in a symposium entitled Prehistory of Colha, Belize:
Studies of an Ancient Maya Community, organized by T.R. Hester and H.J.
Shafer.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1991 Craft Specialist Cooperation and Autonomy: An Examination of Late Classic
Lithic Workshop Composition at Colha, Belize. Presented at the 56th Annual
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Meeting of the Soc. for American Archaeology, April, New Orleans, in a
symposium entitled Where No Flake Has Gone Before: Applications of the
Analysis of Lithic Debris to Interpreting Socioeconomic Relationships in
Prehistoric Mesoamerica, organized by T.R. Hester and M.A. Masson.
Masson, Marilyn A., and H. Steven Hale
1989 Southeast Florida Subsistence and Settlement: Evidence from a Faunal Analysis of
the Honey Hill Site. Presented at the Southeastern Archaeological
Conference, Mobile, November.
Margaret Scarry and Marilyn Masson
1990 Calusa and Tequesta Plant Use: Evidence Gleaned from Archaeobotanical Data.
Presented at the 1989 Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa.
Masson, Marilyn A., and Debra S. Goldman
1988 The Peace Mound Park: A Precedent for Preservation in Southeast Florida.
Paper presented at the Florida Anthropological Society Meeting, May,
Winter Park.
Masson, Marilyn A.
1988 Investigations of Late Classic Maya Lithic Workshops: Evidence for Change in
the Mode of Production. Presented at the Florida Academy of Sciences Meeting, Tampa.
Robert Carr, Amy Felmley, and Marilyn Masson
1988 Human Ecology in the Everglades: A Research Design for the Honey Hill Site
(8BD411), Broward Co., Florida. Presented at the Southeastern Archaeological
Conference, New Orleans.
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