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POPULAR ARTICLES & POSTS

2018    Avengers of the Gods? Celesitals, Eternals, and Erich von Däniken. AiPT Science!

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2018    From the stars above: Lovecraft, Cthulhu, and Ancient Aliens. AiPT Science!

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2018    Not seen in the Aquaman trailer — the real roots of the Atlantis legend. AiPT Science!

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2017    Los juegos de pelota del Preclásico en el norte de Yucatán by David S. Anderson and Edgar Medina.  Arqueología Mexicana, No. 146.

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2016    Did a Teenager Discover an Ancient Maya City on Google Earth? The Tale of the Ancient Maya and a Canadian Teenager.  Skeptic Magazine 21 (3): 2-3.

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2015    The Communal Role of the Mesoamerican Ballgame, by David S. Anderson and Marijke M. Stoll.  Program for the Art of the Ancient Americas at LACMA, From the Field Blog Posts.

ACADEMIC ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

n.d.      Theosophy and Archaeology: Understanding the influence of new religious movements on archaeology.  Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.  Final copy edit revisions submitted, August 2018.

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2018     The Preclassic Settlement of Northwest Yucatán: Recharting the Pathway to Complexity by David S. Anderson, Fernando Robles C., and Anthony P. Andrews.  In “Pathways to Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: The Preclassic Development,” edited by Kathyrn M. Brown and George J. Bey III.  University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

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2017    Obsession and Longing: How the Lost City of Z was Created to be Forever Lost.  ArqueoWeb 18: 130-144.

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2017    Sport and Ritual as Social Bonding: The Communal Nature of Mesoamerican Ballgames.  By Marijke Stoll and David S. Anderson.  In “Prehistoric Games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica,” edited by Barbara Voorhies.  University of Utah Press, Provo. 

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2016    Pseudoscience and the Professionalization of Archaeology, by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson. In “Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices.”  Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 

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2016    Black Olmecs and White Egyptians: A Parable for Professional Archaeological Responses to Pseudoarchaeology. In “Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices.”  Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 

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2015    Past is Present: The Production and Consumption of Archaeological Legacies in Mexico by Dylan J. Clark and David S. Anderson. In “Constructing Legacies of Mesoamerica: Archaeological Practice and the Politics of Heritage in and Beyond Mexico.”  Edited by David S. Anderson, Dylan J. Clark, and J. Heath Anderson.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 25. 

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2015    Archaeological Positivism and Cultural Plurality: Working with Conflicting Views of Mesoamerican Legacies. In “Constructing Legacies of Mesoamerica: Archaeological Practice and the Politics of Heritage in and Beyond Mexico.”  Edited by David S. Anderson, Dylan J. Clark, and J. Heath Anderson.  Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 25. 

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2014    The Pottery of Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico: A Case Study of Maya Pottery Analysis. In “The Archaeology of Yucatán: New Directions and Data,” edited by Travis W. Stanton. British Archaeological Reports, Pre-Columbian Archaeology, No. 1. 

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2013    Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Collective Efforts in the Fight to Reclaim the Public Perception of Archaeology, by David S. Anderson, Jeb J. Card, and Kenneth Feder. The Society for American Archaeology Archaeological Record, 13(2): 18-22.

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2012     The Origins of the Mesoamerican Ballgame: A New Perspective from the Northern Maya Lowlands.  In “The Ancient Maya of Mexico: Reinterpreting the Past of the Northern Maya Lowlands,” edited by Geoffrey Braswell.  Equinox Publishing, LTD

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2012     Soil Geochemical Analysis of Important Archeological Features at the Preclassic Site of Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico by David S. Anderson, Daniel A. Bair and Richard E. Terry.  Ancient Mesoamerica, 23 (2): 365-377.

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2011    Xtobo, Yucatán, México, and the Emergent Preclassic of the Northern Maya Lowlands.  Ancient Mesoamerica, 22(2): 301-322.

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2005    Preclassic Settlement Patterns in Northwest Yucatán.  Mono y Conejo, Journal of the Mesoamerican Archaeological Research Lab, 3 (Fall): 13-22.

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