Graham, Elizabeth
Occupation:
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Academic Degree(s):
B.A., Ph.D
Academic Affiliation:
University College London
Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London
Address:
31-34 Gordon Square
WC1H 0PY
United Kingdom
Phone:
0207 679 7532
Fax:
0207 383 2572
Website:
www.belizecubadigs.com
Area of Interest:
Maya archaeology of Belize; environment and urbanism in the humid tropics; early Spanish colonial period.
Current Project:
Director, Lamanai Archaeological Project
http://www.belizecubadigs.com
Publications:
Authored book:
1994 The Highlands of the Lowlands: Environment and Archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America. Monographs in World Archaeology No. 19. Prehistory Press, Madison, Wisconsin and The Royal Ontario Museum. 400pp.
Book chapters
2006 A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta. In Time & Complexity in Historical Ecology: Studies in the Neotropics, ed. W. Baleé & C. Erickson, pp. 57-86. Columbia University Press, New York.
2006 Due South: Learning from the Urban Experience in the Humid Tropics. In Reconstructing the Past: Studies in Mesoamerican and Central American Prehistory, edited by David M. Pendergast and Anthony P. Andrews, pp. 151-158. BAR International Series. BAR, Oxford.
2004 Lamanai Reloaded: Alive and Well in the Early Postclassic. In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands, ed. J. Awe, J. Morris, & S. Jones, pp. 223-241. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, Volume 1. Institute of Archaeology, NICH, Belize.
2003 Kitty F. Emery and Elizabeth Graham. Marine Resource Availability and Use at Marco Gonzalez, Belize. In Transitions in Zooarchaeology: New Methods and New Results, ed. K. Stewart, pp. 68-102. Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa.
2002 Perspectives on Economy and Theory. In Ancient Maya Political Economies, edited by Marilyn A. Masson and David A. Freidel, pp. 398-418. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek and Oxford.
2001 Stann Creek District. In Archaeology of Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Susan Toby Evans and David L. Webster, pp.684-686. Garland Publishing, New York.
2001 David M. Pendergast, Elizabeth Graham, Jorge Calvera, and Juan Jardines. Houses in the Sea: Excavation and Preservation at Los Buchillones, Cuba. In Enduring Records:The Archaeology of Wet Sites, edited by Barbara A. Purdy, pp. 71-82. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville.
2000 [translation of 1999 For Hunger-Proof Cities, below] Exploitation du cadre bâti à des fins agricoles. Dans Armer les Villes contre La Faim: Systèmes Alimentaires Urbains Durables, sous la direcion de Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae, Luc J.A. Mougeot et Jennifer Welsh, pp.161-166. Centre de Recherches pour le Développement International, Ottawa.
1999 Stone Cities, Green Cities. In Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, edited by Elisabeth A. Bacus and Lisa J. Lucero, pp. 185-194. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 9. AAA, Arlington, Virginia.
1999 Farming the Built Environment. In For Hunger-Proof Cities: Sustainable Urban Food Systems, edited by Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae, Luc J.A. Mougeot, and Jennifer Welsh, pp. 150-154. International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa.
1998 Metaphor and Metamorphism--Some Thoughts on Environmental Meta-History. In Advances in Historical Ecology, edited by William Balée, pp. 119-137. Columbia University Press, New York.
1993 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. La Mezcla de Arqueología y Etnohistoria: El Estudio del Período Hispánico en los Sitios de Tipu y Lamanai, Belice. In Perspectivas Antropológicas en el Mundo Maya. Edited by Maria Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León and Francesc Ligorred Perramon, pp. 331-353. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, Madrid.
1992 Elizabeth Graham and David Pendergast. Maya Urbanism and Ecological Change. In Changing Tropical Forests, edited by Harold K. Steen and Richard P. Tucker, pp. 102-109. Forest History Society. Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Forest History Society and IUFRO Forest History Group.
1991 Archaeological Insights into Colonial Period Maya Life at Tipu, Belize. In Columbian Consequences, Volume 3: The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective, edited by David Hurst Thomas, pp. 319-335. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1991 Women and Gender in Maya Prehistory. In The Archaeology of Gender, edited by Dale Walde and Noreen Willows, pp. 470-478. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Chacmool Conference, Archaeological Association, University of Calgary.
1990 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. New foreword to reprint edition of Maya History and Religion, by J. Eric S. Thompson, pp. 11-14. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
1989 Brief Synthesis of Coastal Site Data from Colson Point, Placencia, and Marco Gonzalez, Belize. In Coastal Maya Trade, edited by Heather McKillop and Paul F. Healy, pp. 135-154. Trent University, Occasional Papers in Anthropology, No. 8. Peterborough, Ontario.
1989 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. The Battle for the Maya Past: The Effects of International Looting and Collecting in Belize. In The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property, edited by Phyllis M. Messenger, pp. 51-60. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
1987 Terminal Classic to Historic-Period Vessel Forms from Belize. In Maya Ceramics: Papers from the 1985 Maya Ceramic Conference, edited by Prudence M. Rice and Robert J. Sharer, pp. 73-98. BAR International Series 345(i):73-98.
1985 Elizabeth Graham, Grant D. Jones and Robert R. Kautz. Archaeology and Ethnohistory on a Spanish Colonial Frontier: The Macal-Tipu Project in Western Belize. In The Lowland Maya Postclassic, edited by Arlen F. Chase and Prudence M. Rice, pp. 206-214. University of Texas Press, Austin.
1985 Facets of Terminal to Post-Classic Activity in the Stann Creek District, Belize. In The Lowland Maya Postclassic, edited by Arlen F. Chase and Prudence M. Rice, pp. 215-229. University of Texas Press, Austin.
1985 Carolyn Heighway, Iris Barry, Elizabeth Graham and Norman Hammond. Excavations in the Platform 137 Group, 1973-1974. In Nohmul: A Prehistoric Maya Community in Belize, edited by Norman Hammond, pp. 235-385. BAR International Series 250(i). BAR, Oxford.
Articles in journals
2006 Peros, Matthew C., Elizabeth Graham, and Anthony Davis. Stratigraphic Investigations at Los Buchillones, a Coastal Taino Site in North-Central Cuba. Geoarchaeology 21(5):403-428.
2003 Pendergast, David M., Jorge A. Calvera R., Juan Jardines M., Elizabeth Graham, and Odalys Brito. Construcciones de Madera en el Mar, Los Buchillones, Cuba. El Caribe Arqueológico 7:24-32.
2002 David M. Pendergast, Elizabeth Graham, Jorge Calvera, and Juan Jardines. The Houses in Which They Dwelt: Excavation and Dating of Taino Wooden Structures at Los Buchillones, Cuba. Journal of Wetland Archaeology 2:61-75.
2001 Collapse, Conquest, and Maya Survival at Lamanai, Belize. Archaeology International 2000/2001:52-56.
2000 Elizabeth Graham, David M. Pendergast, Jorge Calvera and Juan Jardines. Excavations at Los Buchillones, Cuba. Antiquity 74 : 263-264.
1998 Mission Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:25-62.
1994 Mazzullo, S.J., C.S. Teal and Elizabeth Graham. Mineralogic and Crystallographic Evidence of Lime Processing, Santa Cruz Maya Site (Classic to Postclassic), Ambergris Caye, Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science 21(6):785-795.
1994 Joseph B. Lambert, Elizabeth Graham, Marvin T. Smith and James S. Frye. Amber and Jet from Tipu, Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 5:55-60.
1994 Marvin T. Smith, Elizabeth Graham and David M. Pendergast. European Beads from Spanish Colonial Lamanai and Tipu, Belize. Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 6:27-49.
1993 David M. Pendergast, Grant D. Jones and Elizabeth Graham. Locating Spanish Colonial Towns in the Maya Lowlands: A Case Study from Belize. Latin American Antiquity 4:59-73.
1989 Elizabeth Graham, David M. Pendergast and Grant D. Jones. On the Fringes of Conquest: Maya-Spanish Contact in Early Belize. Science 246:1254-1259, 8 December.
1989 Elizabeth Graham and David M. Pendergast. Excavations at the Marco Gonzalez Site, Ambergris Caye, Belize. Journal of Field Archaeology 16:1-16.
1989 Elizabeth Graham and Sharon Bennett. The 1986-1987 Excavations at Negroman-Tipu, Belize. Mexicon 11(6):114-117, November.
1987 Webster E. Shipley, III and Elizabeth Graham. Petrographic Analysis and Preliminary Source Identification of Selected Stone Artifacts from the Maya Sites of Seibal and Uaxactun, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science 14:367-383.
1987 Resource Diversity in Belize and its Implications for Models of Lowland Trade. American Antiquity 52(4):753-767.
1986 Barton Ramie Ceramic Types at Colson Point, North Stann Creek: A Focus on the Protoclassic. Ceramica de Cultura Maya 14:32-38.
1986 Grant D. Jones, Robert R. Kautz and Elizabeth Graham. Tipu: A Maya Town on the Spanish Colonial Frontier. Archaeology 39(1):40-47.
1980 Elizabeth Graham, Logan McNatt and Mark A. Gutchen. Excavations in Footprint Cave, Caves Branch, Belize. Journal of Field Archaeology 7:153-172.
1981 David M. Pendergast & Elizabeth. Graham. Fighting a Looting Battle: Xunantunich, Belize. Archaeology 34(4):12-19.
1978 Archaeological Investigations in the Stann Creek District. Belizean Studies 6(4):16-26.
Other publications:
Technical reports:
1976 Archaeology of the Stann Creek District, Belize. Stann Creek Project 1975 Interim Report. Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge.
General audience, educational and other publications:
2001 The Aztecs (revised and updated version of 1992 Odyssey Through the Ages. Echoes from the Past: World History to the 16th Century chapter; see C.21, below). In, pp. 424-455. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto.
2001 Historical consultant for Secrets in Stone: All About Maya Hieroglyphs by Laurie Coulter. A Madison Press Book (Toronto) produced for Little, Brown and Company (Boston).
2000 Archaeology Branches Out at Lamanai. 'U Lak 1(1):7-10. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto.
1997 Our Images, Their Idols: The Christianization of the Ancient Maya. Que Pasa? 2(4):10-12. Magazine of the Spanish-speaking community of Toronto.
1995 A Spirited Debate. Rotunda (Royal Ontario Museum) 28(2):18-23.
1994 Elizabeth Graham and David M. Pendergast. The Sands of Time: San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, 1993. Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological Newsletter, Series II, No. 52.
1992 Dirty Work. Belize Currents, No. 12:11-13. Belize, Central America and Memphis, Tennessee.
1992 Ambergris Caye Archaeology--
1992. The San Pedro Sun, July 15th, p.12. San Pedro, Ambergris Caye.
1992 Civilizations of the Non-Western World: The Ancient Aztecs. In Odyssey Through the Ages, pp. 396-427, compiled and edited by Garfield Newman and Christine DeGeer, a grade 11 history textbook. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto.
1991 Marco Gonzalez and San Pedro Archaeology - An Overview. The San Pedro Sun, 10 July:9-10.
1991 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. The Town Beneath the Town: Excavations at San Pedro, Belize. Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological Newsletter, Series II. No. 45.
1990 David Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. An Island Paradise (??): Marco Gonzalez 1990. Royal Ontario Museum Archaeological Newsletter, Series II, No. 41.
1990 Science and Athena's Shield: Reflections of Reality. Rotunda: 23(1):50-54.
1988 Resting in Peace. Rotunda 21(2):9-12, Fall.
1988 Letter from the Trenches. R.O.M. Archaeological Newsletter, Series II, No. 24.
1987 Elizabeth Graham and David M. Pendergast. Cays to the Kingdom. R.O.M. Archaeological Newsletter, Series II, No. 18.
1987 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. No Site Too Small: The ROM's Marco Gonzalez Excavations in Belize. Rotunda 20(1):34-40.
1986 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham. Caye Thrived 2,000 Years Ago. The Coconut Wireless, 7 July 1986, pp. 3 & 6. San Pedro, Ambergris Caye.
1982 A Mere Bag-O'Shells. R.O.M. Archaeological Newsletter, n.s., No. 209.1980 The Maya and Belize. Cubola Productions, Belize. 32 pp.
1980 The Maya and Belize. Cubola Productions, Belize. 32 pp. Guidebook in colour to the ruins of Belize.
1979 David M. Pendergast and Elizabeth Graham Pendergast. Picking Up the Pieces. Brukdown, no. 10. Belize City.
1979 Xunantunich. A guide to the ancient ruins. Government Printers, Belmopan, Belize. 12pp.
