Mesoamerica Publications

Books

White, C. (Ed.)
1999 Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet. University of Utah Press.

Chapters in Books and Symposia

White, C.
1999 Ancient Maya diet: Perspectives and Prospects. In C. White (Ed.) Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet University of Utah Press.

n.d. Early Colonial childhood morbidity in the Maya. In B. Kulle (Ed.) The Archaeology of Contact: Processes and Consequences. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary. (In Press)

1997 Diet at Lamanai and Pacbitun: Implications for the ecological model of Maya collapse. In Whittington and D. Reed (Eds.) Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons. Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 171-181

1994 Dietary dental pathology and cultural change in the Maya. In A. Herring & L. Chan (Eds.), Strength in Diversity: A Reader in Physical Anthropology. Canadian Scholar's Press, Toronto. pp. 279-302.

1988 Diet and health in the Ancient Maya from Lamanai, Belize. In B.Kennedy and G. LeMoine (Eds.) Diet and Subsistence, Current Archaeological Perspectives (pp.288-296). Proceedings of the 19th Annual Chacmool Conference, University of Calgary.

White, C., Longstaffe, F.J., and Schwarcz, H.P.
In Press Social directions in the Isotopic anthropology of maize in the Maya region. In Staller, J, R. Tykot and B. Benz (Eds.) The Stories of Maize. Elsevier Press.

White, C., Pohl, M., and Schwarcz, H. and Longstaffe, F.J.
2004 field and Forest: Deer and dog diets at Lagartero and Copán. In K. Emery (Ed.) Maya Zooarchaeology: New Directions in Method and Theory . UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles, CA.

White, C., Wright, L. and Pendergast, D.
1994 Biological disruption in the Northern Maya Lowlands. In C. Spencer Larsen & G. Milner (Eds.), In the Wake of Contact: Biological Responses to Conquest. N.Y.: Wiley-Liss. pp. 135-145

Chase, A.F., D.Z. Chase and C.D. White
2001 El Paisaje Urbano Maya: La Integracion de los Espacios Construidos y la Estructura Social en Caracol, Belize. In Reconstruyendo La Ciudad Maya: El Urbanism en Las Sociedades Antiguas. Edited by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, M.a Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León, M.a del Carmen Martínez Martínez. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, Madrid. pp. 95-122.

Coyston, S., White, C.D. and Schwarcz, H.P.
1999 Dietary carbonate analysis of bone and enamel for two sites in Belize. In C.D. White (Ed.), Reconstructing Ancient Maya Diet. University of Utah Press. pp. 199-220.

Spence, M., C.D. White, E.C. Rattray, and F.J. Longstaffe
In Press Past lives in different places: The origins and relationships of Teotihuacan’s foreign residents. In Early Civilizations, Settlement and Subsistence: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey R. Parsons. Edited by Richard E. Blanton. Cotsen Institute, UCLA

2004 Un análisis de las proportiones de los isótopos en los entierros del Barrio de los Commerciantes. In La Segunda Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan Centro de Estudios Teotihuacanos. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, pp. 453-492
 

Articles in Refereed Journals

White, C.
In Press Gendered food behaviour among the Maya: Time, place, status and ritual. Journal of Social Archaeology.

2004 The human-animal interface in Maya biosocial and environmental systems. Archaeofauna, 13:183-198.

1996 Sutural effects of fronto-occipital cranial modification. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 100: 397-410

1988 The Ancient Maya from Lamanai, Belize: Diet and health over 2,000 yrs. Canadian Review of Physical Anthropology, 6, 1-21.

White, C., Pohl, M., and Schwarcz, H. and Longstaffe, F.J.
2001 Preclassic Maya patterns of deer and dog exploitation: The isotopic evidence from Colha, Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 89-107

White, C. , M. Spence, E. Rattray, F. Longstaffe.
In Press Un análisis de las proportiones de los isótopos en los entierros del Barrio de los Commerciantes. In La Segunda Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan Centro de Estudios Teotihuacanos. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia,

White, C. and Schwarcz, H. P.
1989 Ancient Maya Diet: As inferred from isotopic and elemental analysis of bone. Journal of Archaeological Science, 16, 451-474.

White, C., Healy P.F., and Schwarcz, H.P
1993 Intensive agriculture, social status and Maya diet at Pacbitun, Belize. Journal of Anthropological Research,49(4), 347-375

White, C., Longstaffe, F, Spence, M., and Law, K.
2000 Teotihuacan state representation at Kaminaljuju: Evidence from oxygen isotopes. Journal of Anthropological Research 56, 535-558.

White, C., F.J. Longstaffe and K.R. Law
2001 Revisiting the Teotihuacan connection at Altun Ha: Oxygen-isotope analaysis of Tomb f-8/1. Ancient Mesoamerica 12, 65-72.

White, C., Pendergast, D.M, Longstaffe, F., and Law, K.
2001 Social complexity and food systems at Altun Ha, Belize: The isotopic evidence. Latin American Antiquity 12, 371-393.

White, C., Spence, M,. Longstaffe, F.
2004 Demography and ethnic continuity in the Tlailotlacan enclave of Teotihuacan: The evidence from stable oxygen isotopes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

2002 Geographic identities of the sacrificial victims at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl: Implications for the nature of state power. Latin American Antiquity 13, 217-236.

White, C., Spence, M., and Stuart-Williams, H. Le Q.
1998 Oxygen isotopes and the identification of geographical origin: The Valley of Oaxaca vs. the Valley of Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science, 25(7), 643-657.

White, C.D., R. Storey, M. W.Spence and F.J. Longstaffe
2004 Immigration, assimilation and status in the ancient city of Teotihuacan: Isotopic evidence from Tlajinga 33. Latin American Antiquity 15, 176-198.

Pereira, G. M., W.Spence, C.D. White and F.J. Longstaffe
In Press Restos humanos encontrados en el marco de Proyecto Pirámide de la Luna. Arqueología,

Powis, T., Stanchly, N., Lentz, D., White, C., Longstaffe, F., Awe, J. and Healy, P.
1999 A reconstruction of Middle Formative Diet and subsistence from the periphery of Cahal Pech, Belize.Antiquity, 73, 364-376.

Spence, M., White, C., Longstaffe, F. and K.R. Law
2004 Victims of the victims: Human trophies worn by sacrificed soldiers from the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihucan. Ancient Mesoamerica. 15:1-15

Stuart-Williams, H. Le Q., Schwarcz, H.P., White, C.D., and Spence, M.
1996 The isotopic composition and diagenesis of human bone from Teotihuacan and Oaxaca, Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 126:1-14.

Williams, J. and White, C.
In Press Dental decoration, status and stable isotopes. Ancient Mesoamerica

Williams, J, White C. and F. Longstaffe
In Press Maya marine subsistence: Isotopic evidence for trade and status from Marco Gonzalez and San Pedro, Belize. Latin American Antiquity

Williams, J, White C. and F. Longstaffe
In Press Trophic level and macronutrient shift effects associated with the weaning process in the Maya Postclassic. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Wright, L. and C.D. White
1996 Human biology in the Classic Maya Collapse: Evidence from paleopathology and paleodiet. Journal of World Prehistory, 10, 147-198.