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Artículos & Libros

Halperin, Christina T., Carmen Ramos Herandez, Miriam Salas Pol, y Jean-Baptiste LeMoine

2026 Not Lost but Living: Rethinking Engagements with Ancient Maya Cities. En Abandoned Cities – Resilience in Perceptions and Interpretations, editado por Martin Zimmerman, pp. 89–97. PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck, Alemania.

Halperin, Christina T.

2026 The Dark Side of Ruins in Ancient Maya Living Landscapes. Latin American Antiquity:1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2025.10162.

Halperin, Christina T., Carmen Ramos Hernandez, y Laurianne Gauthier

2026 Council Houses and New Systems of Governance in the Terminal Classic Southern Maya Lowlands. Antiquity:1–21. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10329.

Hruby, Zachary X., Christina T. Halperin, Catharina E. Santasilia, y Jaime J. Awe

2026 Comparison of Chert Silhouettes from the Late and Terminal Classic Eastern Lowlands. En Ceremonial Lithics in Classic Mesoamerica, editado por Zachary X. Hruby, pp. 209–239. University of Colorado Press, Denver.

Halperin, Christina T., Katherine A. Miller Wolf, and Maria Fernanda López López

2025 Precious People: Indigenous Medical-Spiritual Relations in the Archaeology of Maya Childhood. Childhood in the Past 0(0):1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2025.2585706.

Tremblay, Jean D., Peter M. J. Douglas, Christina T. Halperin, and Yves Gélinas

2025 Fecal Steroids as Tracers of Human Population and Waste Management Practices at the Ancient Maya City of Ucanal, Guatemala. Archaeometry 68:646-658. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70077.

 

Tremblay, Jean D., Peter D. Douglas, Christina T. Halperin, Christian von Sperber, Jean-François Hélie, and Laurianne Gauthier

2025 Assessing Nutrient Inputs, Sediment Organic Matter Sources, and the Potential for Cyanobacteria in Ancient Water Reservoirs at the Maya City of Ucanal, Guatemala: A Glimpse at Sustainable Water Management Practices. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 67:105389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105389.

 

Halperin, Christina T., Marta Lidia Perea, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, and Jean-Baptiste LeMoine

2024 A Pivot Point in Maya History: A Fire-Burning Event at K’anwitznal (Ucanal) and the Making of a New Era of Political Rule. Antiquity Vol. 0 (0): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.38.

Tremblay, Jean D., Christina T. Halperin, and Peter M. J. Douglas

2024 Mercury contamination in ancient water reservoirs at the Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 59:104789. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104789.

Halperin, Christina T.

2023 Foreigners Among Us: Alterity and the Making of Maya Societies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York.

LeMoine, Jean-Baptiste, Christina T. Halperin, and Miriam Salas

2022 Maya Molded-carved Ceramics as Boundary Objects: Terminal Classic Ceramic Production and the Forging of Political Relations in the Mopan Valley of Guatemala. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 68:101463. DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101463.

Halperin, Christina T., Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, and Carolyn Freiwald

2021 Terminal Classic residential histories, migration, and foreigners at the Maya site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64:101337. DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101337.

LeMoine, Jean-Baptiste, and Christina T. Halperin

2021  Shifting Social Relations during the Terminal Classic period (ca. AD 810–950/1000): Ceramics from the Lowland Maya Site of Ucanal. Ancient Mesoamerica 32(3):1–18. DOI:10.1017/S0956536121000183.

LeMoine, Jean-Baptiste, and Christina T. Halperin

2021 Comparing INAA and pXRF Analytical Methods for Ceramics: A Case Study with Classic Maya Wares. Journal of Archaeological Science 36:102819. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102819.

Freiwald, Carolyn, Christina T. Halperin, Camille Dubois-Francoeur, C.Schlinsog, K.Bauer

2021 A Microscopic View of Needle and Perforator Production at Ucanal, Guatemala. In Bones at a Crossroads: Integrating Worked Bone Research with Archaeometry and Social Zooarchaeology, edited by Markus Wild, Beverly A. Thurber, Stephen Rhodes, and Christian Gates St-Pierre, pp. 171–188. Sidestone Press, Leiden.

 

Halperin, Christina T.

2021 Ancient Maya Recycling: Considerations of the Wasteful, Meaningful, and Practical from the Maya Site of Ucanal, Peten, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory: 1(1):1-27. DOI:/10.1007/s10816-020-09490-7.

Halperin, Christina T., Jose Luis Garrido, Miriam E. Salas, and Jean-Baptiste LeMoine

2020 Convergence Zone Politics at the Archaeological Site of Ucanal, Peten, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica 31(3):476-493.

 

Halperin, Christina T., and Simon Martin

2020 Ucanal Stela 29 and the Cosmopolitanism of Terminal Classic Maya Stone Monuments. Latin American Antiquity 31(4): 817–837.

 

Halperin, Christina T., and José Luis Garrido

2019 Architectural Aesthetics, Orientations, and Reuse at the Terminal Classic Maya Site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Field Archaeology 45(1):46–66.

 

Halperin, ChristinaT., Jean-Baptiste LeMoine, and Enrique Pérez Zambrano

2019 Infrastructures of Moving Water at the Maya site of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 56(2019):1–15

Halperin, Christina T.

2019 Profane illuminations: Classic Maya Molded Figurines in Comparative Context. Res:Anthropology and Aesthetics 71–72:25–39.

 

Halperin, Christina T., Zachary X. Hruby, and Ryan William Mongelluzzo

2018 The Weight of Ritual: Classic Maya Jade Head Pendants in the Round. Antiquity 92(363):758–771

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