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0.60 Kazuo Aoyama, Classic Maya State Urbanism and Exchange: Chipped Stone Evidence of the Copán Valley and Its Hinterland, American Anthropologist, 2001.
0.56 Diane Z. Chase Arlen F. Chase William A. Haviland, The Classic Maya City: Reconsidering the "Mesoamerican Urban Tradition", American Anthropologist, 1990.
0.56 William A. Parkinson Michael L. Galaty, Secondary States in Perspective: An Integrated Approach to State Formation in the Prehistoric Aegean, American Anthropologist, 2007.
0.54 Guillermo Algaze, Expansionary Dynamics of Some Early Pristine States, American Anthropologist, 1993.
0.54 William R. Fowler_ Jr.Arthur A. Demarest Helen V. Michel Frank Asaro Fred Stross, Sources of Obsidian from El Mirador Guatemala: New Evidence on Preclassic Maya Interaction, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.52 Michael E. Smith, Cities Towns and Urbanism: Comment on Sanders and Webster, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.48 Lisa J. Lucero, The Collapse of the Classic Maya: A Case for the Role of Water Control, American Anthropologist, 2002.
0.47 Julia A. Hendon, Variation in Classic Maya Sociopolitical Organization, American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.47 Carla M. Sinopoli Kathleen D. Morrison, Dimensions of Imperial Control the Vijayanagara Capital, American Anthropologist, 1995.
0.46 Julia A. Hendon, Status and Power in Classic Maya Society: An Archeological Study, American Anthropologist, 1991.
0.46 Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Consumption and Politics at Aztec Huexotla, American Anthropologist, 1987.
0.46 Neal W. Ackerly Dennis L. Young, Formative Period Political Differentiation in the Southern Valley of Mexico: A Comment on Steponaitis, American Anthropologist, 1984.
0.45 G. Lain Ellis Michael R. Waters, Cultural and Landscape Influences on Tucson Basin Hohokam Settlement, American Anthropologist, 1991.
0.45 Kenneth G. Hirth, Catchment Analysis and Formative Settlement in the Valley of Mexico, American Anthropologist, 1984.
0.44 Henry T. Wright Gregory A. Johnson, Population Exchange and Early State Formation in Southwestern Iran, American Anthropologist, 1975.
0.44 Vincas P. Steponaitis, Settlement Hierarchies and Political Complexity in Nonmarket Societies: The Formative Period of the Valley of Mexico, American Anthropologist, 1981.
0.43 Christopher Edens, Dynamics of Trade in the Ancient Mesopotamian "World System", American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.43 Michael E. Smith, The Role of Social Stratification in the Aztec Empire: A View from the Provinces, American Anthropologist, 1986.
0.42 David Webster William T. Sanders, "The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition": Reply to Smith, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.42 Laura Finsten Gary Feinman Richard E. Blanton Stephen A. Kowalewski, A Comment on Steponaitis' Determination of Catchment Productivity, American Anthropologist, 1983.
0.41 Edward M. Schortman Patricia A. Urban Marne Ausec, Politics with Style: Identity Formation in Prehispanic Southeastern Mesoamerica, American Anthropologist, 2001.
0.40 Vincas P. Steponaitis, Political Growth and Agricultural Intensification: An Extension of the Valley of Mexico Model, American Anthropologist, 1986.
0.40 James L. Boone J. Emlen Myers Charles L. Redman, Archeological and Historical Approaches to Complex Societies: The Islamic States of Medieval Morocco, American Anthropologist, 1990.
0.40 Marc N. Levine, Negotiating Political Economy at Late Postclassic Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa) Oaxaca Mexico, American Anthropologist, 2011.
0.40 William T. Sanders David Webster, The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition, American Anthropologist, 1988.
0.39 Vincas P. Steponaitis, Some Further Remarks on Catchments Nonproducers and Tribute Flow in the Valley of Mexico, American Anthropologist, 1984.
0.39 William A. Haviland, Status and Power in Classic Maya Society: The View from Tikal, American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.39 Gil J. Stein, From Passive Periphery to Active Agents: Emerging Perspectives in the Archaeology of Interregional Interaction: Archeology Division Distinguished Lecture AAA Annual Meeting Philadelphia December 5 1998. American Anthropologist, 2002,
0.39 Brian S. Bauer R. Alan Covey, Processes of State Formation in the Inca Heartland (Cuzco Peru), American Anthropologist, 2002.
0.39 Rita Smith Kipp Edward M. Schortman, The Political Impact of Trade in Chiefdoms, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.38 Edward Schortman Patricia Urban, Power Memory and Prehistory: Constructing and Erasing Political Landscapes in the Naco Valley Northwestern Honduras, American Anthropologist, 2011.
0.37 Gyles Iannone, Annales History and the Ancient Maya State: Some Observations on the "Dynamic Model", American Anthropologist, 2002.
0.37 Carla M. Sinopoli, The Organization of Craft Production at Vijayanagara South India, American Anthropologist, 1988.
0.36 Charles Stanish, Household Archeology: Testing Models of Zonal Complementarity in the South Central Andes, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.36 Lisa J. Le Count, Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich Belize, American Anthropologist, 2001.
0.36 Matthew S. Bandy, Fissioning Scalar Stress and Social Evolution in Early Village Societies, American Anthropologist, 2004.
0.35 Carole L. Crumley, Toward a Locational Definition of State Systems of Settlement, American Anthropologist, 1976.
0.35 Donna Taylor, Sociopolitical Centralization and Related Settlement Pattern Features, American Anthropologist, 1977.
0.34 Barbara L. Stark Lynette Heller Fred W. Nelson Ronald Bishop Deborah M. Pearsall David S. Whitley Helen Wells, El Bálsamo Residential Investigations: A Pilot Project and Research Issues, American Anthropologist, 1985.
0.34 Neil L. Norman Kenneth G. Kelly, Landscape Politics: The Serpent Ditch and the Rainbow in West Africa, American Anthropologist, 2004.
0.34 Robert L. Raikes, The End of the Ancient Cities of the Indus Civilization in Sind and Baluchistan, American Anthropologist, 1963.
0.33 Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Aztec State Making: Ecology Structure and the Origin of the State, American Anthropologist, 1983.
0.33 Michael E. Smith, State Systems of Settlement: Response to Crumley, American Anthropologist, 1977.
0.33 Richard Blanton Gary Feinman, The Mesoamerican World System, American Anthropologist, 1984.
0.32 John M. Fritz, Vijayanagara: Authority and Meaning of a South Indian Imperial Capital, American Anthropologist, 1986.
0.32 Robert L. Raikes, The End of the Ancient Cities of the Indus, American Anthropologist, 1964.
0.32 Christopher Rodning, Place Landscape and Environment: Anthropological Archaeology in 2009. American Anthropologist, 2010,
0.31 Julia A. Hendon, Having and Holding: Storage Memory Knowledge and Social Relations, American Anthropologist, 2000.
0.31 David C. Grove, Olmec Origins and Transpacific Diffusion: Reply to Meggers, American Anthropologist, 1976.
0.31 Gordon R. Willey, The Structure of Ancient Maya Society: Evidence from the Southern Lowlands, American Anthropologist, 1956.
0.30 Timothy W. Pugh, Contagion and Alterity: Kowoj Maya Appropriations of European Objects, American Anthropologist, 2009.
0.29 Vincas P. Steponaitis, A Rejoinder to Ackerly and Young's Comments on My Analysis of Formative Period Sites in the Valley of Mexico, American Anthropologist, 1985.
0.29 Joseph W. Ball Jack D. Eaton, Marine Resources and the Prehistoric Lowland Maya: A Comment, American Anthropologist, 1972.
0.28 Julian H. Steward, On the Treatment of the Prehistoric near Eastern Materials in Steward's "Cultural Casuality and Law": Rejoinder, American Anthropologist, 1949.
0.28 Melinda A. Zeder, After the Revolution: Post-Neolithic Subsistence in Northern Mesopotamia, American Anthropologist, 1994.
0.28 Prudence M. Rice, Serpents and Styles in Peten Postclassic Pottery, American Anthropologist, 1983.
0.28 Denise Schmandt-Besserat, The Emergence of Recording, American Anthropologist, 1982.
0.28 Setha M. Low, Indigenous Architecture and the Spanish American Plaza in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, American Anthropologist, 1995.
0.28 William M. Sumner, Population and Settlement Area: An Example from Iran, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.28 C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Archeology and Metallurgical Technology in Prehistoric Afghanistan India and Pakistan, American Anthropologist, 1967.
0.28 Linda Braidwood Robert J. Braidwood, On the Treatment of the Prehistoric near Eastern Materials in Steward's "Cultural Causality and Law", American Anthropologist, 1949.
0.27 John W. Fox, On the Rise and Fall of Tuláns and Maya Segmentary States, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.27 Robert D. Drennan, Long-Distance Transport Costs in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, American Anthropologist, 1984.
0.27 David A. Freidel Linda Schele, Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya Lowlands: The Instruments and Places of Ritual Power, American Anthropologist, 1988.
0.27 Kristin De Lucia, A Child's House: Social Memory Identity and the Construction of Childhood in Early Postclassic Mexican Households, American Anthropologist, 2010.
0.27 Vincas P. Steponaitis, More on Estimating Catchment Productivity in the Valley of Mexico, American Anthropologist, 1983.
0.27 Timothy Earle, Culture Matters in the Neolithic Transition and Emergence of Hierarchy in Thy Denmark: Distinguished Lecture, American Anthropologist, 2004.
0.27 Betty J. Meggers, The Transpacific Origin of Mesoamerican Civilization: A Preliminary Review of the Evidence and Its Theoretical Implications, American Anthropologist, 1975.
0.26 James E. Brady, Settlement Configuration and Cosmology: The Role of Caves at Dos Pilas, American Anthropologist, 1997.
0.26 Philip J. Arnold III, The Organization of Refuse Disposal and Ceramic Production within Contemporary Mexican Houselots, American Anthropologist, 1990.
0.25 Gregory L. Possehl, The Mohenjo-daro Floods: A Reply, American Anthropologist, 1967.
0.24 Jonathan R. Walz, Commentary on "Landscape Politics" in West Africa, American Anthropologist, 2004.
0.24 Jerry D. Moore, The Archaeology of Plazas and the Proxemics of Ritual: Three Andean Traditions, American Anthropologist, 1996.
0.23 Charles W. Markman, The Miahuatlan Valley Survey: Reply to Byland, American Anthropologist, 1984.
0.23 David L. Webster, On Theocracies, American Anthropologist, 1976.
0.22 John Chapman Pavel M. Dolukhanov, The Baby and the Bathwater: Pulling the Plug on Migrations, American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.22 Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Narratives of Conquest Colonialism and Cutting-Edge Technology, American Anthropologist, 2008.
0.22 Steven A. Wernke, Negotiating Community and Landscape in the Peruvian Andes: A Transconquest View, American Anthropologist, 2007.
0.22 Lawrence S. Leshnik, The Harappan "Port" at Lothal: Another View, American Anthropologist, 1968.
0.22 Warren D. Hill John E. Clark, Sports Gambling and Government: America's First Social Compact?, American Anthropologist, 2001.
0.22 Wendy Ashmore, "Decisions and Dispositions": Socializing Spatial Archaeology: Archeology Division Distinguished Lecture 99th AAA Annual Meeting San Francisco CA November 2000. American Anthropologist, 2002,
0.21 Dorothy Hosler, Ancient West Mexican Metallurgy: South and Central American Origins and West Mexican Transformations, American Anthropologist, 1988.
0.21 Stephen D. Houston David Stuart Karl A. Taube, Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.21 Susan D. Gillespie, Rethinking Ancient Maya Social Organization: Replacing "Lineage" with "House", American Anthropologist, 2000.
0.20 Gordon R. Willey, The Early Great Styles and the Rise of the Pre-Columbian Civilizations, American Anthropologist, 1962.
0.20 Christina Torres-Rouff, The Influence of Tiwanaku on Life in the Chilean Atacama: Mortuary and Bodily Perspectives, American Anthropologist, 2008.
0.20 Jerry D. Moore, Pre-Hispanic Beer in Coastal Peru: Technology and Social Context of Prehistoric Production, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.19 Elizabeth Arkush, Archaeology: Explaining the Past in 2010. American Anthropologist, 2011,
0.19 Philip L. Kohl, Shared Social Fields: Evolutionary Convergence in Prehistory and Contemporary Practice, American Anthropologist, 2008.
0.19 Norman Yoffee, Aspects of Mesopotamian Land Sales, American Anthropologist, 1988.
0.19 Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Distinguished Lecture in Archeology: Breaking and Entering the Ecosystem - Gender Class and Faction Steal the Show, American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.19 Betty J. Meggers, Environmental Limitation on Maya Culture: A Reply to Coe, American Anthropologist, 1957.
0.19 Julian H. Steward, Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilizations, American Anthropologist, 1949.
0.18 David W. Anthony, The Bath Refilled: Migration in Archeology again, American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.18 Mary Van Buren, Rethinking the Vertical Archipelago: Ethnicity Exchange and History in the South Central Andes, American Anthropologist, 1996.
0.18 Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Cloth Gender Continuity and Change: Fabricating Unity in Anthropology, American Anthropologist, 2006.
0.18 Laurence D. Loeb, Comment on Adra's Review, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.17 Gray Graffam, Beyond State Collapse: Rural History Raised Fields and Pastoralism in the South Andes, American Anthropologist, 1992.
0.17 Deborah L. Nichols, Reply to Feinman and Nicholas: There Is No Frost in the Basin of Mexico?, American Anthropologist, 1989.
0.17 Dana Lepofsky Jennifer Kahn, Cultivating an Ecological and Social Balance: Elite Demands and Commoner Knowledge in Ancient Ma'ohi Agriculture Society Islands, American Anthropologist, 2011.
0.17 Christopher T. Fisher, Demographic and Landscape Change in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin Mexico: Abandoning the Garden, American Anthropologist, 2005.
0.17 William T. Sanders, Cultural Ecology of Nuclear Mesoamerica, American Anthropologist, 1962.
0.17 Ronald Spores, Marital Alliance in the Political Integration of Mixtec Kingdoms, American Anthropologist, 1974.
0.17 Katherine A. Spielmann, Feasting Craft Specialization and the Ritual Mode of Production in Small-Scale Societies, American Anthropologist, 2002.
0.17 D. Blair Gibson Michael N. Geselowitz, A Response to a Review of Our Book Tribe and Polity in Late Prehistoric Europe, American Anthropologist, 1990.
0.17 David S. Hyman, Cements at Teotihuacan: A Criticism of Margain's Appraisal, American Anthropologist, 1973.
0.17 George F. Dales Robert L. Raikes, The Mohenjo-Daro Floods: A Rejoinder!, American Anthropologist, 1968.
0.16 Marion Johnson Mochon, The Nature of Theory and Its Validation: Transpacific Origins?, American Anthropologist, 1976.
0.16 Shelia Pozorski Thomas Pozorski, Reexamining the Critical Preceramic/Ceramic Period Transition: New Data from Coastal Peru, American Anthropologist, 1990.
0.16 Barbara J. Mills, The Establishment and Defeat of Hierarchy: Inalienable Possessions and the History of Collective Prestige Structures in the Pueblo Southwest, American Anthropologist, 2004.
0.16 Carole L. Crumley, Reply to Smith, American Anthropologist, 1977.
0.16 Robert L. Raikes Robert H. Dyson_ Jr., The Prehistoric Climate of Baluchistan and the Indus Valley, American Anthropologist, 1961.
0.16 Martin D. Gallivan, Powhatan's Werowocomoco: Constructing Place Polity and Personhood in the Chesapeake CE 1200-CE 1609. American Anthropologist, 2007,
0.16 William R. Coe, Environmental Limitation on Maya Culture: A Re-Examination, American Anthropologist, 1957.
0.16 Rosemary A. Joyce John S. Henderson, From Feasting to Cuisine: Implications of Archaeological Research in an Early Honduran Village, American Anthropologist, 2007.
0.15 Gordon R. Willey, The Prehistoric Civilizations of Nuclear America, American Anthropologist, 1955.
0.15 R. L. Raikes, Concerning the Ancient Cities of the Indus: An Emendation, American Anthropologist, 1964.
0.15 Michelle Hegmon Margaret C. Nelson Susan M. Ruth, Abandonment and Reorganization in the Mimbres Region of the American Southwest, American Anthropologist, 1998.