Hernandez, Christine
Occupation:
Archaeologist and University Instructor
Academic Degree(s):
A.B. (Spanish and Anthropology) University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
M.A. (Anthropology) Tulane University
Ph.D. (Anthropology) Tulane University
Academic Affiliation:
Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University
Southeastern Louisiana University
Address:
5194 Clearpoint Drive
70460/Slidell
USA
Area of Interest:
Mesoamerican archaeology; Michoacan archaeology; highland Mexican and Maya codices; ceramics; colonial enclaves and frontier interaction; highland Mexican-Maya interaction
Current Project:
working with Gabrielle Vail on the Mesoamerican Codices Database Project and a new commentary of the Madrid Codex; working with Dan M. Healan on Ucareo-Zinapecuaro Project; cataloguing Merle Greene Robertson Collection at Latin American Library of Howard-Tilton Library at Tulane University
Publications:
Books and edited volumes
2002 (with Gabrielle Vail) Resource Guide to the Madrid Codex: The Calendrics, Iconography, and Hieroglyphic Texts. Ms. on file at Florida Institute for Hieroglyphic Research, Palmetto, FL.
2006 (with Gabrielle Vail) A Commentary on the Madrid Codex. Ms. in preparation.
2010 (co-edited with Gabrielle Vail) Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters Published Since 2000
2000 (with Cassandra Bill and Victoria B. Bricker) The Relationship between Early Colonial Maya New Year’s Ceremonies and Some Almanacs in the Madrid Codex. Ancient Mesoamerica 11(1):149-168.
2001 Una Comparación entre la Fase Perales en el Noreste de Michoacán y la Fase Lerma en Acámbaro, Guanajuato. Arqueología 25:23-45.
2004 “Yearbearer Pages” and their Connection to Planting Almanacs in the Borgia Codex. In The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript, edited by Gabrielle Vail and A. Aveni, pp. 321-366. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, Colorado.
2004 (with V. Bricker) The Inauguration of Planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices. In The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript, edited by Gabrielle Vail and A. Aveni, pp. 277-320. University of Colorado Press, Boulder, Colorado.
2004 (with Gabrielle Vail, Anthony Aveni, Harvey Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John Chuchiak, Bryan Just, Martha Macri, and Merideth Paxton) New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex. Current Anthropology 44 (Supplement):S105-S112.
2005 Utilizando las imágenes referentes a Venus para fechar los almanaques en los códices Madrid y Borgia. In Memorias del II Congreso Internacional de Cultura Maya, edited by Alfredo Barrera Rubio and Ruth Gubler. Mérida, Mexico. In press.
2006 La Cerámica del Noreste de Michoacán, México. In La Producción Alfarera en el México Antiguo, vol. 2, by the Dirección de Investigación y Conservación del Patrimonio Arqueológico (DICPA) del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
2006 The Fortunes for Planting Maize in the Codex Borgia. Ancient America 8:1-35.
2006 Using Astronomical Imagery to Cross-date an Almanac in the Borgia Codex. Human Mosaic, 36(1):125-144.
2006 (with Gabrielle Vail) Fire Drilling, Bloodletting, and Sacrifice: Yearbearer Rituals in the Maya and Borgia Group Codices. In Sacred Books, Sacred Languages: Two Thousand Years of Ritual and Religious Maya Literature. 8th European Maya Conference, Museo de América, Madrid, November 2003, edited by Rogelio Valencia and Genevieve Le Fort, pp. 35-49. Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben, Germany.
2007 (with Gabrielle Vail) Human Sacrifice in Late Postclassic Maya Iconography and Texts. In New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Post-sacrificial Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society, edited by Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler, pp. 120-164. Springer, New York.
2008 (with Dan M. Healan) The Role of Late Pre-Contact Ethnic Enclaves in the Development of the Eastern Tarascan Frontier. Ancient Mesoamerica 19:265-282.
2009 (with Gabrielle Vail) The Role of Caves and Cenotes in Late Postclassic Maya Ritual and Worldview. In Acta Americana, vol. 1, a special issued devoted to the papers presented in a session of the LIII International Congress of Americanists entitled, “Ritualidad y cosmovisión mesoamericana: persistencia y adaptación del marco ritual en diferentes áreas culturales a través de los siglos.” (submitted for review)
2010 (with Gabrielle Vail) A Case for Scribal Interaction: Evidence from the Madrid and Borgia Group Codices. In Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, edited by Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernandez, pp. 339-371. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.
