CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Karl Andreas Taube POSITION: Professor, Department of Anthropology University of California at Riverside ADDRESS: Department of Anthropology University of California at Riverside Riverside, CA. 92521-0418 PERSONAL: Date of Birth: September 14, 1957 Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois Citizenship: United States EDUCATION: 1988 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. Doctoral dissertation entitled "The Ancient Yucatec New Year Festival: The Liminal Period in Maya Ritual and Cosmology." 1983 Master of Philosophy, Yale University. 1983 Master of Arts, Yale University. 1982 Passed qualifying exam to doctoral candidacy, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. 1980 Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. 197577 Attended Stanford University. HONORS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Phi Beta Kappa Society 2009 Maya Catalog Study Group, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., June 15th-30th, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 2009 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 2008 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 2008 Distinguished Research Lecturer, College of Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences, U.C. Riverside. 2007 Academic Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 2006 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 2003- San Bartolo Mural Project (William Saturno, director) National Endowment for the 2005 Humanities Collaborative Research Grant. 2006 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 2004 Mesoamerican Jadeite: Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Upper Rio El Tambor, Guatemala, Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Incorporated. 2003 UC MEXUS Travel Grant (with Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers) 2002 Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California at Riverside, Winter. 2000 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 1999 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 1998 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 1997 Academic Senate Research Grant, U.C. Riverside 1996 Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California at Riverside, Winter. 1996 Dean's Faculty Research Incentive Grant, University of California at Riverside. 1995 Dean's Faculty Research Incentive Grant, University of California at Riverside. 1995 (with Beatriz de la Fuente, Stephen Houston and Mary Miller) Getty Grant "The Murals of Bonampak: Reconstruction and Interpretation," Mary Miller, project director. 1994 Summer Fellow and Core Member of study seminar entitled "Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture," (chaired by Stephen D. Houston), Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1993 (with Scott L. Fedick) H. John Heinz III Charitable Fund Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology, for project entitled "The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Ancient Resource Management and Political Structure in the Northern Maya Lowlands." 1992 (with Scott L. Fedick) UC Mexus Development Grant for project entitled "The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Ancient Resource Management and Political Structure in the Northern Maya Lowlands." 1989 National Endowment for the Humanities, funding for Five Suns ethnoanimation film project, Patricia Amlin project director, 1988 Doctoral dissertation accepted with distinction from the Department of Anthropology, Yale University. 1988 National Geographic Society Research Grant 1986-1987 Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellow, Pre-Columbian Studies, Washington, D.C. 1985,1986 Josef Albers Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, 1987. 1983-1984 Concilium on International and Area Studies, Yale University 1980-1984 Yale Fellowship 1983 Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, Council on Latin American Studies, Yale University 1982 Williams Fund, Yale University ACADEMIC POSITIONS: Current Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside. 2010 Directed Iconography Workshop for the 2010 Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, at the Casa Herrera, Antigua, Guatemala, March 16-19. June 19-20 Guest lecturer for NEH Institute for Summer 2006, “Maya Worlds: On-Site in 2006 Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize,” National Endowment for the Humanities Villahermosa. June 28 - July 1, Guest lecturer for NEH Institute for Summer of 2004, “Mesoamerica and 2004 the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Mexico City. Summer, 2001 Invited lecturer for seminar entitled “La iconografía de Mesoamérica: Las culturas Olmeca, Teotihuacana, y Maya.” Instituto de Investigaciónes Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, August 13-30. Spring, 1988 Instructor for course entitled “Civilizations of Pre-Columbian America.” University of California Extension, Berkeley, California. PUBLICATIONS: Books and Monographs: 2010 (with William Saturno, David Stuart and Heather Hurst). The Murals of San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala, Part 2: The West Wall. Ancient America 10, Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville. 2006 (with Stephen Houston and David Stuart). The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya, University of Texas Press, Austin. 2005 (with William Saturno and David Stuart). The Murals of San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala, Part 1: The North Wall. Ancient America 7, Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville. 2004 Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 2000 The Writing System of Ancient Teotihuacan. Ancient America 1, Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville and Washington, D.C. 1995 (co-edited with Scott Fedick) The View from Yalahau: 1993 Archaeological Investigations in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico. Latin American Studies Program, Field Report Series, no. 2. University of California at Riverside, Riverside. 1993 Aztec and Maya Myths. Legendary Past Series, The British Museum, London, and University of Texas Press, Austin. 1993 (with Mary Ellen Miller) Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. Thames and Hudson, London and New York. 1992 The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan. Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, Number 32. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1988 The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. Hudson Hills Press, New York. Articles and Chapters: 2010 (with Zachary Hruby and Luis Romero) Ancient Maya Jade Workshops: Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Upper Río El Tambor, Guatemala. In The Technology of Maya Civilization: Political Economy and Beyond in Lithic Studies, Zachary X. Hruby, Geoffrey E. Braswell and Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, eds .: 141-48. Equinox. 2010 (with Stephen Houston) La scxualidad entre los antiguos Mayas. Arqueología Mexicana, 18(1): 38-45. 2010 Gateways to Another World: The Symbolism of Flowers in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. In The Land Brightened with Flowers: The Hopi Iconography Project, Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Polly Schaafsma, eds.: 73-120. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 67, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. 2010 Where Earth and Sky Meet: The Sea in Ancient and Contemporary Maya Cosmology. In The Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen Houston, eds., 202- 219. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 At Dawn’s Edge: Tulum, Santa Rita and Floral Symbolism of Late Postclassic Yucatan. In Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernandez, eds. pp. 145-91. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 2009 The Womb of the World: The Cuauhxicalli and Other Offering Bowls in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica, Maya Archaeology: 1: 86-106. Precolumbia Mesoweb Press, San Francisco. 2009 The Maya Maize God and the Mythic Origins of Dance. In The Maya and their Sacred Narratives – Text and Context of Maya Mythologies, Geneive Le Fort, Raphael Gardiol, Sebastian Matteo and Christophe Helmke, eds.: 41-52. Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben. 2009 La religion à Teotihuacan. In Teotihuacan, cite des Dieux, pp. 152-59. Musée du quai Branly, Somogy, Paris. 2009 (with Marc Zender) American Gladiators: Ritual Boxing in Ancient Mesoamerica. In Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Archaeology of Mesoamerica and Central America, Heather Orr and Rex Koontz, eds., pp. 161-220. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles. 2009 (with Edwin Román, Heather Hurst, David Stuart and William Saturno. Estructuras ceremoniales del periodo Preclásico: Ixim, un ejemplo de ello. In XXIII Simposio de Investigacíones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, pp. 1253-65. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala City. 2009 (with Rhonda Taube) The Beautiful, the Bad, and the Ugly: Aesthetics and Morality in Maya Figurines. In Mesoamerican Figurines: Small Scale Indices Large Scale Phenomena, Christina Halperin, Katherine Faust, Rhonda Taube and Aurore Giguet, eds.: 236-58. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2009 El dios de la lluvia Olmeca. Arqueología Mexicana 16(96): 26-29. 2008 (with Stephen Houston) Meaning in Early Maya Imagery. In Iconography without Texts, Paul Taylor, ed.: 127-44. The Warburg Institute, London. 2008 (with William Saturno) Los murales de San Bartolo: Desarrollo temprano del simbolismo y del mito del maíz en la antigua Mesoamérica. In Olmeca: Balance y perspectivas, María Teresa Uriarte and Rebecca B. González Lauck, pp. 287-318. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. 2007 La jadeíta y la cosmovisión de los Olmecas. Arqueología Mexicana 15(87): 43-48. 2006 Climbing Flower Mountain: Concepts of Resurrection and the Afterlife in Ancient Teotihuacan. In Arqueología de historia del Centro de México: Homenaje a Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Leonardo López Luján, Davíd Carrasco and Lordes Cué, eds.: 153-170. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. 2006 (with Nisao Ogata and Arturo Gómez Pompa) The Domestication and Distribution of Theobroma cacao L. in the Neotropics. In Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao, Cameron L. McNeil, ed.: pp. 90-89. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2006 (with Polly Schaafsma) Bringing the Rain: An Ideology of Rain Making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica. In A Pre-Columbian World: Searching for a Unitary Vision of Ancient America, Jeffrey Quilter and Mary Miller, eds., pp. 231-85. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 2006 (with Carmen Rodriguez Martínez, Ponciano Ortíz Ceballos, Michael D. Coe, Richard A. Diehl, Stephen D. Houston, and Alfredo Delgado Calderón). Oldest Writing in the New World. Science 313: 1610-14. 2006 (with Reiko Ishihara, and Jaime Awe) The Water Lily Stucco Masks at Caracol, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, Volume 3, John Morris, Sherliyne Jones, Jaime Awe and Christopher Helmke, eds. 3: 213-23. Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan. 2006 (with William A. Saturno, David S. Stuart, Boris Beltrán and Edwin Román). Nuevos hallazgos arquitectónicos y pictóricos en la pirámide de Las Pinturas, San Bartolo, Petén. In XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Juan Pedro Laporte, Bárbara Arroyo and Héctor D. Mejía, eds.: 571-78, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City. 2005 Representaciones del paraíso en el arte cerámico del Clásico Temprano de Escuintla, Guatemala. In Iconografía y escritura teotihuacana en la costa sur de Guatemala y Chiapas, edited by Oswaldo Chinchilla and Barbara Arroyo, U tz'ib, Serie Reportes, Vol. 1, No. 5: 33-54. Asociación Tikal, Guatemala City. 2005 (with Stephen Houston, Ray Matheny, Deanne Matheny, Zachary Nelson, Gene Ware, Cassandra Mesick). The Pool of the Rain God: An Early Stuccoed Altar at Aguacatal, Campeche, Mexico. Mesoamerican Voices 2: 37-62. 2005 (with Tomás Gallareta Negrón) Late Postclassic Occupation in the Ruinas de San Angel Region, Quintana Roo. In Quintana Roo Archaeology: A New Era of Research, Justine M. Shaw and Jennifer P. Mathews, eds.: 87-111. University of Arizona Press, Tuscon. 2005 The Symbolism of Jade in Classic Maya Religion. Ancient Mesoamerica 16: 23-50. 2005 (with William Saturno and David Stuart) La identificación de las figuras del Muro Oeste de Pinturas Sub-1, San Bartolo, Petén. In XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2004, Juan Pedro Laporte, Bárbara Arroyo and Héctor Mejía, eds.: 646-655. Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City. 2005 (with Stephen D. Houston, Zachary Nelson, Carlos Chiriboga, Carlos Alvarado and Héctor Escobedo) Nuevas perspectives sobre la acropolis de Kaminaljuyu. In XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2004, Juan Pedro Laporte, Bárbara Arroyo and Héctor Mejía, eds.: 505-510. Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City. 2004 Aztec Religion: Creation, Sacrifice, and Renewal. In The Aztec Empire, Felipe Solis, curator: 168-177. The Guggenheim Museum, New York. 2004 (with Virginia Sisson, Russell Seitz and George Harlow) The Sourcing of Mesoamerican Jade: Expanded Geological Reconnaissance in the Motagua Region, Guatemala, Appendix to Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Karl A. Taube, author: 203-220. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 2004 (with William Saturno and David Stuart) Identifación mitológica de los personajes en el muro norte de la pirámide de Las Pinturas Sub-1, San Bartolo, Peten. In XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2003, Juan Pedro Laporte, Bárbara Arroyo, Héctor Escobedo and Héctor Mejia, eds.: 871-880. Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Guatemala City. 2004 (with Stephen Houston and David Stuart) El honor y la deshonra entre los mayas clasicos. In XVII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2003, Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, Hector Escobedo and Hector Mejia, eds.: 889-896. Instituto de Antropologia e Historia, Guatemala City. 2004 (with William Saturno) Hallazgo: Las excepcionales pinturas de San Bartolo, Guatemala. Arqueología Mexicana XI (66): 34-5. 2004 Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty and Paradise Among the Classic Maya. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 45: 69-98. 2004 The Stairway Sculptures of Structure 10L-16: Fire and the Evocation and Resurrection of K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’. In Understanding Early Classic Copán, Ellen Bell, Marcello Canuto, and Robert Sharer, eds.: 265-296.University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia. 2003 Ancient and Contemporary Maya Conceptions about the Field and Forest. In The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Michael F. Allen, Scott Fedick and J. Jiménez-Osornio, eds. 461-92. Haworth Press, New York. 2003 Maws of Heaven and Hell: The Symbolism of the Centipede and Serpent in Classic Maya Religion. In Antropología de la eternidad: La muerte en la cultura Maya, Andrés Ciudad Ruíz, Mario Humberto Ruz Sosa and María Josefa Iglesias Ponce de León, eds.: 405-442. Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas and El Centro de la Cultura Maya, Madrid and Mexico City. 2003 Tetitla and the Maya Presence at Teotihuacan. In Teotihuacan and the Maya: Reinterpreting Early Classic Maya Interaction, Geoffrey Braswell, ed.: 273-314. University of Texas Press, Austin. 2002 The Writing System of Ancient Teotihuacan. In Ideología y política a través de materiales, imágines y símbolos, María Elena Ruiz Gallut, ed.: 331-70. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. 2002 (with Gene Ware, Stephen Houston, Mary Miller, and Beatriz de la Fuente) Infrared Imaging of Precolumbian Murals at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico. Antiquity 76: 325-6. 2002 La serpiente emplumada de Teotihuacan. Arqueología Mexicana: 53: 36-41. 2001 (with Russell Seitz, George E. Harlow and Virginia B. Sisson) ‘Olmec Blue’ and Formative Jade Sources: New Discoveries in Guatemala, Antiquity 75: 687-8. 2001 The Classic Maya Gods. In Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest, Nikolai Grube, ed.: 262-77. Koenemann, Cologne. 2001 Close-up at the San Antonio Museum of Art: The Stone Ballgame Yoke. Alamo Pre- Columbian Society News 7: 4-7. 2001 The Breath of Life: The Symbolism of Wind in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. In The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland, Virginia M. Fields and Victor Zamudio-Taylor, eds.: 102-23. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. 2001 La escritura Teotihuacana. Arqueología Mexicana 7(48): 58-63. 2000 Die Gotter der Klassischen Maya. In Maya: Gottkoenige im Regenvald, Nikolai Grube, Eva Eggebrecht and Matthias Seidel, eds.: 262-77. Koenemann Verlag, Cologne. 2000 (with Stephen Houston) An Archaeology of the Senses: Perception and Cultural Expression in Ancient Mesoamerica, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 10(2): 261-94. 2000 Lightning Celts and Corn Fetishes: The Formative Olmec and the Development of Maize Symbolism in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. In Olmec Art and Archaeology: Social Complexity in the Formative Period, John E. Clark and Mary Pye, eds.: 297-337. Studies in the History of Art, vol. 58. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 2000 The Turquoise Hearth: Fire, Self Sacrifice, and the Central Mexican Cult of War. In Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Great Aztec Temple, Davíd Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions, eds.: 269-340. University Press of Colorado, Niwot. 1998 The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple. In Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, Stephen D. Houston, ed.: 427-78. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1998 Enemas rituales en Mesoamérica. Arqueología Mexicana 6(34): 38-45. 1996 The Olmec Maize God: The Face of Corn in Formative Mesoamerica, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 29/30: 39-81. 1996 Antiguos dioses Mayas. Arqueología Mexicana 4(20): 20-29. Republished in México Antiguo: Antología de Arqueología Mexicana, 2: 100-109 (1998). 1995 (with Scott Fedick) The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Research Orientation and Overview of 1993 Investigations. In The View from Yalahau: 1993 Archaeological Investigations in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico, Scott Fedick and Karl Taube, eds.: 1-22, Latin American Studies Program, Field Report Series, no. 2. University of California at Riverside, Riverside. 1995 The Monumental Architecture of the Yalahau Region and the Megalithic Style of the Northern Maya Lowlands. In The View from Yalahau: 1993 Archaeological Investigations in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico, Scott Fedick and Karl Taube, eds.: 23-58, Latin American Studies Program, Field Report Series, no. 2. University of California at Riverside, Riverside. 1995 The Rainmakers: The Olmec and their Contribution to Mesoamerican Belief and Ritual. In The Olmec World, Ritual and Rulership, Gill Guthrie, ed: 82-103. The Art Museum, Princeton University. 1994 The Birth Vase: Natal Imagery in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual. In The Maya Vase Book, vol. 4, Justin Kerr, ed.: 650-85. Kerr Associates, New York. 1994 The Iconography of Toltec Period Chichen Itza. In Hidden in the Hills: Maya Archaeology of the Northwestern Yucatan Peninsula, Hanns J. Prem, ed.: 212-246. Acta Mesoamericana 7, Verlag von Flemming, Möckmühl. 1993 The Bilimek Pulque Vessel: Starlore, Calendrics, and Cosmology of Late Postclassic Central Mexico, Ancient Mesoamerica 4(1): 1-15. 1992 The Iconography of Mirrors at Teotihuacan. In Art, Polity, and the City of Teotihuacan, Janet C. Berlo, ed.: 169-204. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1992 The Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Cult of Sacred War at Teotihuacan. Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 21: 53-87. 1992 (with Scott L. Fedick) The Role of Radiocarbon Dating in Maya Archaeology: A Review of Four Decades of Research. Radiocarbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, R.E. Taylor, A. Long, R.S. Kra, eds.: 403-420. Springer-Verlag, New York. 1991 Obsidian Polyhedral Cores and Prismatic Blades in the Writing and Art of Ancient Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 2(1): 61-70. 1991 (with Bonnie L. Bade) An Appearance of Xiuhtecuhtli in the Dresden Venus Pages. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, no. 35. 1991 (with Stephen D. Houston and David Stuart) Image and Text on the "Jauncy Vase." In The Maya Vase Book, vol. 3, Justin Kerr, ed.: 12-26. Kerr Associates, New York. 1991 A Ritual Clown of the Early Classic Maya Court. Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 66(4): 18-29. 1989 The Maize Tamale in Classic Maya Diet, Epigraphy, and Art, American Antiquity 54(1): 31-51. 1989 (with Stephen D. Houston and David Stuart) Folk Classification of Ancient Maya Pottery. American Anthropologist 91(3): 720-726. 1989 A Classic Maya Entomological Observation. Mesoamerica: The Journal of Middle America 2(1): 13-17. 1989 Itzam Cab Ain: Caimans, Cosmology and Calendrics in Postclassic Yucatan. Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, no. 26. 1989 Ritual Humor in Classic Maya Religion, in Word and Image in Maya Culture: Explorations in Language, Writing, and Culture, William Hanks and Donald Rice, eds.: 351- 382. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 1988 A Prehispanic Maya Katun Wheel, Journal of Anthropological Research, 44(2): 183-203. 1988 A Study of Classic Maya Scaffold Sacrifice, in Maya Iconography, Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin, eds.: 330-351. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1987 A Representation of the Principal Bird Deity in the Paris Codex, Research Reports on Ancient Maya Writing, no. 6. 1987 (with Stephen D. Houston) Name-tagging in Classic Mayan Script: Implications for Native Classification of Ceramics and Jade Ornament. Mexicon 9(2): 38-42. 1987 (with Alfredo Barrera Rubio) Los relieves de San Diego: Nuevas perspectivas, Boletín de la Escuela de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad de Yucatán 83: 3-18. 1986 The Teotihuacan Cave of Origin: The Iconography and Architecture of Emergence Mythology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 12: 51-82. 1985 The Classic Maya Maize God: A Reappraisal, in Fifth Palenque Round Table, l983, Merle Greene Robertson, ed.: 17181, PreColumbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco. 1983 The Teotihuacan Spider Woman, Journal of Latin American Lore 9(2): 107189. in press When Gods Die and Suns are Born: An Interpretation of Offerings 1and 2 from Room 2 of the Palacio Quemado, Tula. To appear in Tlaloc, Tezcatlipoca, and the Fifth Sun: Toltec Offerings in the Palacio Quemado of Tula, Hidalgo, Robert H. Cobean and Alba Guadelupe Mastache, eds.. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. in press (with Stephen Houston) The Fiery Pool: Fluid Concepts of Water and Sea among the Classic Maya". In Isendahl, Christian and Bodil Liljefors Persson, eds., Ecology, Power and Religion in Maya Landscapes. Acta Mesoamericana, Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt Schwaben. in press Teotihuacan and the Development of Writing in Early Classic Central Mexico. In Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America. Elizabeth Hill Boone and Gary Urton eds. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. in press (with Reiko Ishihara-Brito) From Stone to Jewel: Jade in Ancient Maya Religion and Rulership. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara and Andrew Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. submitted Creation and Cosmology: Gods and Mythic Origins in Ancient Mesoamerica. In Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, Deborah Nichols and Christopher Pool, eds., Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. submitted The Symbolism of Turquoise in Postclassic Mexico. In Turquoise, Henry Christy and Museum Collections: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. The British Museum Press, London. Encyclopedia Entries: 2005 (with Rhonda Taube) Drama: Mesoamerican Dance and Drama. In The Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, Lindsay Jones, ed,: 2463-7. Macmillan Press, Detroit. 2005 (with David Carpenter) Jade. In The Encyclopedia of Religion, second edition, Lindsay Jones, ed.: 4758-60. Macmillan Press, Detroit. 2003 Aztec Religion. In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, Robert Kastenbaum, ed., 566-68, Macmillan Reference, New York. 2003 Maya Religion. In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, Robert Kastenbaum, ed.: 52-54, Macmillan Reference, New York. 2001 Maya Gods. In The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, Susan Evans and David Webster, eds.: 431-33. Garland Publishing, New York. 2001 Mirrors. In The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, Susan Evans and David Webster, eds.: 473-4, Garland Publishing, New York. 2001 Teotihuacan Religion and Deities. In The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia, Susan Evans and David Webster, eds.: 731-34. Garland Publishing, New York. 2001 Bacabs. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed., 75. Oxford University Press. 2001 Birth. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed., 88-9. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001 Butterflies. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed.,107-09. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001 Cipactli. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed., 218-9. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001 Dance. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed., 305-08. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001 Itzamna. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed., 56-7. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001 Maize: Iconography and Cosmological Significance. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed.,150-52. Oxford University Press, New York. 2001 Yahui. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, David Carrasco, gen. ed., 359-10. Oxford University Press, New York. Catalog entries: 2010 Cast of a temple façade with the Water Lily Serpent. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 44-5. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Conch trumpet with a floating ancestor. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 124-5. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 (with George Schwartz) Plaque with the Warrior Sun God Riding a Plumed Serpent. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 190-1. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Lidded Vessel with the Sun God paddling across the aquatic floral road. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 192-3. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Stela with a male figure emitting breath or wind in the from of conchs (Kaminaljuyu Stela 9). In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 44-5. Yale University Press, 234-7, New Haven. 2010 (with Stephen D. Houston) Statuette of Chahk. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 240-1. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 (with Stephen D. Houston) Lidded Bowl with the Iguana Jaguar eviscerating humans. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 250-3. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Mural with a world-turtle. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 254-5. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Sculpture of a world-turtle. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 258-9. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Plaque with Maize God emerging from a shark. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 262-3. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Cache vessel with directional shells and jade. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 266-7. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Stone ballgame belt with the Maize God and swimmers in the aquatic Underworld. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 270-1. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Lidded bowl with the Maize God in the aquatic Underworld. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 272-3. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 (with George Schwartz) Three face ornaments of Quetzalcoatl. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 276-7. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 (with George Schwartz) Scepter with a diving figure. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 278-9. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Figurine of the Jaguar God of the Underworld riding a crocodile. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 280-1. Yale University Press, New Haven. 2010 Pectoral with a watery being. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, eds.: 288-9. Yale University Press, New Haven. In press Statuette. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Andrew Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Mask Pendant. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Pendant. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Andrew Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Pendant. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Bead. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Stephen Houston) Carved Panel. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks,mWashington, D.C. In press Carved bells. (with Reiko Ishihara-Brito) In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Figurine. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Plaque Pendants. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press Bead. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Reiko Ishihara-Brito) Bead. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Reiko Ishihara-Brito) Painted Vessel. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Reiko Ishihara-Beto and Alexandre Tokovinine) Carved Vessel. In Maya Art at \ Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Megan O’Niel and Alexandre Tokovinine) Painted Vessel. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Reiko Ishihara-Beto) Figurine. In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. In press (with Reiko Ishihara-Beto) Mosaic Mask. . In Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Joanne Pillsbury, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito and Alexandre Tokovinine. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. Book Reviews: 2007 Review of Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice, Dennis Tedlock, author, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Language in Society 36 (2): 431-433. 1992 Review of The Mesoamerican Ballgame, Vernon L. Scarborough and David R. Wilcox, eds. University of Arizona Press, Tucscon 1991. Science, vol. 256, pp. 1064-1065. Comments: 1997 A God Named Zip. Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 3, p. 39. Translated Publications: Books: Translations of Aztec and Maya Myths. Legendary Past Series, The British Museum, London, and University of Texas Press, Austin (1993): 1994 Aztekische und Maya Mythen (German translation by Xenia Engle), Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart. 1994 Miti Aztechi e Maya (Italian translation by Claudio Lamparelli), Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan. 1995 Mythes Azteques et Mayas (French translation by Christian Cler), Editions de Seuil, Paris. 1996 Mythoi ton Aztekon & Magia (Greek translation by A.E. Sakellariou), Dem. N. Papadema, Athens. 1996 Asuteka Maya no Shinwa (Japanese translation by Misako Fujita), Maruzen Co., Tokyo. 1996 Mitos Aztecas y Mayas. (Spanish translation by Ana Pérez Humanes), Ediciones Akal, S.A., Mexico City. 1998 Ajutek Kwa Maya Shin Wha. (Korean translation by Ung-Kyun Yi and Kyung-Ho Chun) Bum Woo Sa Publishing, Ltd., Seol. 2005 Mify Atsekov i Maiia (Russian translation by K. Tkachenko) Fair Press, Moscow. 2007 Aztéké a mayské myty ( Czechoslovakian translation by Jitka Dvoránova). Translation of Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (with Mary Ellen Miller). Thames and Hudson, London and New York (1993): 2000 Maya Asuteka shinwa-shuukyou-jiten (Japanese translation by Mari Takei), Tohyo Shorin, Tokyo. Monographs: Translation of The Murals of San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala (with William Saturno and David Stuart). Ancient America 7. Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville (2005): 2005 (with William Saturno and David Stuart) Los murales de San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala. Ancient America 7. Center for Ancient American Studies, Barnardsville. Articles and chapters: Translation of "The Bilimek Pulque Vessel: Starlore, Calendrics, and Cosmology of Late Postclassic Central Mexico," Ancient Mesoamerica vol. 4: 1-15 (1993): 1997 La vasija de pulque de Bilimek: Saber astral, calendarios y cosmología del Posclásico Tardío en el México Central (Spanish translation by Samuel Núñez Aguilera). In De Hombres y Dioses, Xavier Noguez and Alfredo López Austin, eds., pp. 109-54. El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora. Translation of “La religion à Teotihuacan.” In Teotihuacan, cite des Dieux, pp. 152-59. Musée du quai Branly, Somogy editions d’art, Paris (2009). 2009 La religión en Teotihuacan. In Teotihuacan: Ciudad de los dioses. Felipe Solís Olguín, curator, pp. 46-51. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. Technical Reports: 2005 (with Zachary Hruby and Luis Romero) “Jadeite Sources and Ancient Workshops: Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Upper Rio El Tambor, Guatemala.” Report submitted to the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Incorporated, Crystal River (www.famsi.org). 2003 (with Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers) “Proyecto de Investigaciones Arqueologicas Cerro Bernal (PAICB).” Report submitted to U.C. Mexus, U.C. Riverside. 2003 “Two Mexican Mosaic Discs in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago.” Report submitted to Richard Townsend, Curator of the Department of African and Amerindian Art, Art Institute of Chicago. 1998 “Iconographic Investigations of Structure 10L-16, Copan, Honduras: Report of the 1995- 1997 Field Seasons.” Report submitted to Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Co-director, Proyecto Arqueológico Acropólis de Copán. 1994 (with Scott L. Fedick) "Levantamiento y reconocimiento arqueológico en la region de Naranjal, Quintana Roo: El Proyecto Yalahau." Report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. 1989 (with Tomás Gallareta Negrón) "Survey and Reconnaissance in the Ruinas de San Angel Region, Quintana Roo, Mexico." Report submitted to the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. PAPERS PRESENTED: 2011 “Powers of Rain and Maize: Agricultural Symbolism and Ritual in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest.” Presented at the Orange County Society, Inc., Archaeological Institute of America, Irvine, January 23. 2010 The Olmec and the Origins and Development of Agricultural Symbolism in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Presented at symposium entitled “Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 22. 2010 “The Cultural and Historical Significance of Mesoamerican Codices – An External Perspective.” Keynote address presented at symposium entitled “The World Digital Library and Mesoamerican Codices: Expanding Access and Promoting International Cooperation.” CEM-Carso Center, Mexico City, May 20. 2009 “The Symbolism of Turquoise in Postclassic Mexico.” Presented in session entitled “Turquoise, Henry Christy and Museum Collections: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.” The British Museum, December 12. 2009 “Teotihuacan and the Ceramic Art of Escuintla, Guatemala: Iconography and Cosmology in Early Classic Mesoamerica.” Presented in session entitled “The Art of Teotihuacan and Its Sphere of Influence.” Denver Art Museum, November 7. 2009 “The Womb of the World: The Cuauhxicalli and Other Offering Bowls of Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica.” Featured speaker at “2009 Conference on Mesoamerica,” California State University, Los Angeles, May 16. 2009 “The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala: New Discoveries and Interpretations.” Distinguished Research Lecture, College of Humanities, Arts and the Social Sciences, U.C. Riverside, May 15. 2009 “On the Road of Flowers: The Symbolism and Aesthetics of Abundance and Paradise in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest.” Keynote address for “Navigating the Chichimec Sea: Cultural Connections between Indigenous Peoples of Mesoamerica and the Southwest,” Carleton College, Minnesota, April 24. 2009 “To Build a House: Domestic Architecture and Creation Mythology in Ancient Maya Thought.” Presented in session entitled “The Mesoamerican House and Garden Channel: Viewing Familial, Community, Ritual and Cosmic Space.” College Art Association Meetings, Los Angeles, February 27. 2009 “Floral Symbolism and the Plumed Serpent in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest.” Orange County Society, Inc., Archaeological Institute of America, Irvine, January 25. 2008 “Dismemberment, Blood and Beauty: The Power and Aesthetics of Mesoamerican Creation Mythology.” Presented at symposium entitled “Mesoamerican Mythologies,” Beckman Center, Irvine, October 18. 2008 “Teotihuacan and the Development of Writing in Classic Period Central Mexico. Presented at symposium entitled “Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America.” Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., October 11. 2008 “New Insights in the Iconography of the Late Preclassic Maya Wall Paintings at San Bartolo, Guatemala.” Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin, September 18. 2008 (with Heather Hurst, Edwin Román, William Saturno and David Stuart), “Actualización de los hallazgos arquitectónicos y pictóricos en la pirámide las Pinturas, San Bartolo.” XXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 25. 2008 “El maíz y la cosmovisión mesoamericana.” Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City, July 18. 2008 “Quetzalli: El alma viva de Mesoamerica antiguo.” Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, March 15. 2008 “The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala: Early Maya Creation Mythology and the Origins of Gods and Kings.” University Forum Lecture, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, February 22. 2007 “Corn on the Cosmos: Maize and Creation Mythology of Southeastern Mesoamerica. Presented at “The Maya and their Sacred Narratives: Text and Context of Maya Mythologies,” 12th European Maya Conference, Geneva, December 7. 2007 “Mural Traditions of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest.” Land Memorial Lecture, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, November 10. 2007 “Corn on the Cosmos.” Presented at the Cosmology and Society in the Ancient Amerindian World, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, October 30. 2007 “The Economic and Religious Significance of the Quetzal in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Presented at the Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, May 15. 2007 “Portrayals of the Sun Deity in Huastec Iconography.” Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 26. 2007 (with Daniel Leonard) “The God C Variant: A Reappraisal.” Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 26. 2007 “Breaking the Olmec Barrier: The Formative Period and the Development of Maya Civilization.” Presented at the 25th Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania Museum, April 14. 2007 “In the World of the Sun: Solar Imagery and Symbolism among the Classic Maya,” Presented at the 31st Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, March 18. 2007 “Windows to Another World: Murals of Ancient Mesoamerica.” Keynote Address for 4th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop, “Murals and Painted Texts by Maya Ah Tzi’bob,” Tulane University, February 2. 2006 “The Murals of San Bartolo, Creation Mythology of the Late Preclassic Maya.” The University of Copenhagen, December 11. 2006 “The Role of Maize in Ancient Maya Ideology and Kingship: A Reappraisal.” Presented at the Eleventh European Maya Conference, Malmö, December 9. 2006 (with Stephen Houston) “The Fiery Pool: Fluid Concepts of Water and Sea among the Classic Maya. Presented at the Eleventh European Maya Conference, Malmö, December 8. 2006 “Ancient Maya Murals: A Mesoamericanist Perspective.” Presented at the Maya Murals Symposium, The Beckman Center, Irvine, October 21. 2006 “At Dawn’s Edge: Tulum, Santa Rita and Floral Symbolism of Late Postclassic Yucatan.” Presented at Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, Dumbarton Oaks and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 7. 2006 (with Rhonda Taube) “Sites of Memory: The Space and Place of Classic Maya Performance at Copán, Honduras.” Presented at the 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Seville, July 21. 2006 “The Maya Maize God and Creation Mythology of the Late Preclassic Maya,” Presented at the 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Seville, July 19. 2006 “On the Road of Flowers: Supernatural Pathways in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest.” Presented at “Noreoeste – Southwest: Raíces Comunes/Common Roots,” Third International Colloquium of the Pathways of the Northwest Seminar, Flagstaff, May 23. 2006 “The Womb of the World: Ritual Offering Vessels in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica.” Presented at the 30th Maya Meetings, University of Texas, Austin, March 17. 2006 “The Murals of San Bartolo and the Origins of Ancient Maya Creation Mythology.” Davidson College, Raleigh. February 16. 2006 (with Rhonda Taube) “The Beautiful, the Bad and the Ugly: Aesthetics and Morality in Maya Figurines.” Presented at “Figurines of Ancient Mesoamerica: Power and Guidance, Braunstein Symposium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 15. 2005 “The Murals of San Bartolo and the Ideology of Maya Kingship during the Late Preclassic Period.” Presented at The First Maya Kings: The Emergence and Expression of their Sacred Power.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, October 22. 2005 “En la lluvia delicada de flores: Los conceptos sobre el paraíso en Tula y Chichen Itza.” Presented at El Homenaje a la Dra. Alba Guadelupe Mastache, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, October 7. 2005 “El Jade del Río Motagua y su simbolismo entre los Olmecas y Mayas antiguas.” Asociacíon Copán, Copàn Ruinas, July 23. 2005 (with William Saturno and David Stuart) “Nuevos hallazgos arquitectónicos y pictóricos en la Pirámide Las Pinturas, San Bartolo, Petén. Presented at XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 18. 2005 “Conceptos Mayas y Teotihuacanos del paraíso.” Presented at Iconografía y escritura Teotihuacana en la costa sur. Seminario Avanzado, Museo Popol Vuh, Guatemala City, July 14. 2005 (with Jaime Awe, Sherry Gibbs and Reiko Ishihara) “The Water Lily Serpent Stucco Masks at Caracol, Belize.” Presented at the Belize Archaeology Symposium, San Ignacio, Belize, July 6. 2005 (with Stephen Houston) “The Preclassic Conundrum: Exploring Maya Iconography.” Presented at “Iconography Without Texts,” The Warburg Institute, London, June 4. 2005 “San Bartolo and the Origins of Maya Creation Mythology.” Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City, April 22. 2005 “Stone of Life, Stone of Beauty: The Symbolism of Jade Among the Classic Maya.” Presented at the 23rd Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania Museum, April 10. 2005 (with Marc Zender) “Ritual Boxing Among the Classic Maya.” Presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, March 31. 2005 “San Bartolo and Sacred Narrative of the Late Preclassic Maya.” Presented at the 29th Annual Maya Meetings at Texas, March 11. 2004 “The Murals of San Bartolo: New Discoveries and Interpretations.” Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside, December 3. 2004 “Creation Mythology of the San Bartolo Murals.” Presented at “Maya Origins: Discovery and Interpretations of the San Bartolo Murals,” Irvine, October 30. 2004 “Understanding the Historical Implications of Origins: The Maya Concept of the Quadripartite World.” Presented at the 26th Annual Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, October 2. 2004 (with William Saturno and David Stuart) “El muro oeste de Las Pinturas de la Sub-Estructura 1 de San Bartolo en Guatemala.” Presented at the XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 23. 2004 (with Stephen Houston, Zachary Nelson, and Carlos Chiriboga) “La acropolis de Kaminaljuyu.” Presented at the XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 23. 2004 (with Zachary Hruby and Luis Romero) “Las fuentes de jade azul: Nuevos descubrimientos del proyecto arqueologico del jade.” Presented at the XVIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 21. 2004 “Los mitos del dios del maiz.” Presented at La Religion Maya Clasica: Seminario Avanzado, Museo Popol Vuh, Guatemala City, July 15. 2004 (with William Saturno) “Los olmecas y el culto de maiz en Mesoamerica.” Presented at 40 Años de Historias Mexicanas: Homenaje-Coloquio a Enrique Florescano, Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico-CONDUMEX, Mexico City, June 16. 2004 “The Olmec, San Bartolo, and the Origin and Development of Ancient Maya Iconography.” Position paper presented at The Origins of Maya Civilization, First Boundary End Conference on Ancient America, Center for Maya Research, Barnardsville, North Carolina, May 29. 2004 “Mesoamerican Jadeite: Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Upper Rio el Tambor, Guatemala.” Mesoamerican Network, U.C. Riverside, May 2, 2004. 2004 “30 years of Maya Iconography: Where We Were and Where are We Going?” Banquet address, 22nd Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, March 27. 2003 “Escalando la Montaña Florida: Las concepciones de resurrección y del más allá en la antigua Teotihuacan.” Presented at Jornadas académicas en homenaje a Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, October 20. 2003 “From the Land of the Dawning Sun: The Classic Maya Presence at Teotihuacan.” Presented at symposium Maya Teotihuacan Connections, New Finds and New Views, 10th Annual Maya Weekend, UCLA, October 12. 2003 “25 Años de Avances en la Iconografia Maya” Museo Popol Vuh, Guatemala City, August 21. 2003 (with William Saturno and David Stuart) “La identificación de las figuras del muro norte de Pinturas Sub-1, San Bartolo, Guatemala.” XVII Simposio de Investigaciónes Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 24. 2003 (with Stephen Houston and David Stuart) “El honor y las deshonra entre los Mayas clásicos.” XVII Simposio de Investigaciónes Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, July 24. 2003 “El simbolismo del viento y ‘las llamadas fachadas de Quetzalcoatl’ en Yucatan. Second Annual Poxila Conference, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, February 2. 2002 “Heaven and Hell: Portals, Xibalba and the Flowery Paradise.” Presented at symposium Jaws of the Underworld: Life, Death and Rebirth among the Ancient Maya. 7th European Conference, British Museum, London, November 10. 2002 “Entradas al infierno y al cielo: El simbolismo del ciempiés y de la serpiente en las concepciones Mayas de la muerte y la resurrección en el periodo Clásico. Presented at symposium Och b’ih, Entrar el camino: la muerte en la cultura Maya.” VI Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 31. 2002 “The Symbolism of Music in Classic Maya Religion.” Presented at symposium Pomp, Pageantry and Performance, Ancient Maya Music, Dance and Processions. Ninth Annual UCLA Maya Weekend, Los Angeles, October 6. 2002 “Concepts of Life, Beauty and Paradise in Ancient Mesoamerica,” Presented at symposium Mediating Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan, Maya Crossroads and Harvard’s Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, June 12. 2002 “La Montaña de Flores: Conceptos de belleza, vida y renacimiento entre los Mayas,” Presented at symposium Naturaleza y Sociedad en el área Maya. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Mérida, May 23. 2002 “In Search of Olmec Jade,” Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, May 3. 2002 “The Symbolism of Jade in Ancient Mesoamerica,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, February 21. 2002 “Jade in Ancient Mesoamerica,” Department of Anthropology, Trinity University, San Antonio, February 20. 2002 “Structure 16 of Copan: Teotihuacan and the Founding of a Maya Dynasty,” Stieren Arts Enrichments Series, Trinity University, San Antonio, February 19. 2002 “Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life and Beauty in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Center for Ideas and Society, U.C. Riverside, January 24. 2001 (with Polly Schaafsma) “Water, Clouds, and Storms: An Ideology of Rain Making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica.” Presented at symposium AA Pre-Columbian World: Searching for a Unitary Vision of Ancient America, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., October 6. 2001 “El simbolismo de jade en Mesoamerica antigua.” Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, August 28. 2001 “La relación entre Teotihuacan y los Mayas Clásicos.” Department of Anthropology, Universidad de las Américas, Cholula, August 24. 2001 “The Symbolism of Jade Among the Classic Period Maya.” Congreso Internacional de Copán, Copán Ruinas, July 14. 2001 “When Gods Die and Suns are Born: An Interpretation of Offerings 1and 2 from Room 2 of the Palacio Quemado, Tula.” 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 22. 2001 “Ancient and Contemporary Maya Conceptions of the Field and Forest.” Keynote Address, 21st Symposium in Plant Biology, University of California, Riverside, January 19. 2000 “In the World of the Sun: Concepts of the Afterlife in Classic Maya Thought.” Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 16. 2000 “Teotihuacan and the Region of Cerro Bernal, Chiapas.” Presented at the Mesoamerican Network meeting, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, November 5. 2000 “The Cruciform Cache from San Isidro, Chiapas, and the Symbolism of Breath and Wind in Ancient Olmec and Maya Thought.” Presented at the Conference in Honor of Dr. Gareth W. Lowe, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tuscon, November 4. 2000 “American Gladiators: Competitive Combat in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Presented at symposium entitled “Are We Having Fun Yet? Pleasurable Activities in Ancient America.” Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C., September 16, Washington, D.C. 2000 “Flower Mountain in the Iconography of Mesoamerica,” presented at symposium entitled “Cerros Sagrados: Contextos Sociales y Cosmovisión en las Comunidades Mesoamericanas,” August 9, Copán, Honduras. 2000 “Teotihuacan and the Classic Maya,” presented at symposium entitled “Teotihuacan: Ancient Mexico’s First Great Metropolis,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., July 8. 2000 “Flower Mountain: Concepts of Beauty, Life and Resurrection in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Comparative Ancient Civilizations Program, U.C. Riverside, May 25. 2000 “The Symbolism of Jade in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Hotel du Rhone, Geneva, April 29. 2000 “The Stairway Block Sculptures of Structure 10L-16, Copan: Fire and the Evocation and Resurrection of K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo.’” Presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, April 6. 2000 “Wind Symbolism in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Tertulia presented to the Department of Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., April 3. 2000 “Portrayals of Rulership Among the Classic Maya,” Iconography Workshop, 18th Annual Maya Weekend, The University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, April 1. 2000 “Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life and Resurrection in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany, March 4. 2000 “The Writing System of Ancient Teotihuacan.” Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany, March 3. 2000 “Recent Discoveries at the Maya Site of Copan, Honduras.” Department of Art History, California State University, Los Angeles, February 10. 1999 “Teotihuacan and the Classic Maya: Recent Investigations of Temple 16 at Copan, Honduras.” Presented at the 4th European Conference, The Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, October 9. 1999 "Caves of Brightness: The Symbolism of Mirrors in Ancient Mesoamerica." Art Institute of Chicago, September 12. 1999 "The Olmec and the Development of Maize Symbolism in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest." Presented at symposium entitled "From Calorie to Culture," Research School of Archaeology, ARCHON, University of Leiden, Leiden, May 25. 1999 "Teotihuacan, the Classic Maya, and the Meeting of East and West in Ancient Mesoamerica," Sidhu Memorial Lecture, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, April 24. 1999 "Tetitla and the Maya Presence at Teotihuacan." Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, March 25. 1999 "The Realistic Paintings of Tetitla and the Maya Presence at Teotihuacan." Presented at the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 5. 1999 "La sistema de escrita del antiguo Teotihuacan." Presented at "Primera Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan," Teotihuacan, Mexico, February 12. 1999 "The Dance of Victory: The Symbolism of Warfare and Blood Sacrifice in Room 3 of Structure 1, Bonampak, Chiapas." Presented at symposium entitled "New Observations on the Murals at Bonampak," Department of the History of Art, Yale University, January 29. 1998 "The Writing System of Ancient Teotihuacan." Fall meeting, Mesoamerican Network, U.C. Riverside, November 8. 1998 "Dying Gods and Rising Suns: K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo and the Iconography of Temple 16, Copan." Fifth Annual UCLA Maya Weekend, Los Angeles, October 17. 1998 "The Presence of Teotihuacan in Ancient West Mexico." Presented at symposium entitled "Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past." Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, October 2. 1998 "Cosmic Crawlers: The Symbolism of Centipedes and Caterpillars in Ancient Mesoamerican Thought." XVI Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, April 5. 1998 "Tetitla and the Early Classic Maya Presence at Teotihuacan." XIV Syposium of the Maya Meetings at Texas, entitled "Tollan as Political Currency: Myth and Image in Mesoamerica," University of Texas at Austin, March 12. 1997 "Transformations and Use of Teotihuacan Symbolism at Copan and Other Maya Cities." Presented at symposium entitled "A Tale of Two Cities: Copan and Teotihuacan," Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, May 4. 1997 "The Preclassic Roots of Classic Maya Religion." Presented at conference entitled "Classic Maya Religion: A New Synthesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, April 4. 1997 "Fire, Meteors, and the Central Mexican Cult of War." XIII Symposium of the Maya Meetings at Texas, entitled "In Their Own Write: Native Voices of Mesoamerica," University of Texas at Austin, March 6. 1996 "The Classic Maya and the Teotihuacan Cult of War." Third Annual UCLA Maya Weekend, Los Angeles, October 26. 1996 "The Turquoise Hearth: Teotihuacan and the Cult of War of Postclassic Central Mexico." The Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Templo Mayor, Princeton University, October 18. 1996 "Maize, Wealth, and the Middle Formative Olmec Economy." Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica: Social Complexity in the Formative Period, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 21. 1996 "Los Olmecas Formativos y los orígenes de la religión del mundo Maya Clásico." Cursos de Verano, Universidad Complutense, El Escorial, Spain, August 8. 1996 (with Barbara Fash) "The Evolution of Dynastic Architecture at Copan." 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 13. 1996 "Maize, Jade, and Plumage: The Symbolism of Wealth in Early Mesoamerica." Department of Anthropology, Brigham Young University, Provo, March 14. 1995 "The Symbolism of Maize in Formative Olmec Religion." Princeton Symposium on the Olmec, The Art Museum, Princeton University, December 16. 1995 "The Iconography of War at Teotihuacan." Presented at the Bowditch Round Table, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, November 6. 1995 "The Symbolism of Maize in Mesoamerican and Southwestern Ritual and Thought." Presented at symposium entitled "Pots, Paintings and Petroglyphs: Parallels among Mesoamerica, Southwest and Southeastern United States," Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C., Washington, September 16. 1995 "The Olmec Maize God: The Face of Corn in Formative and Late Preclassic Mesoamerica." Presented at the Thirteenth Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 9. 1995 "The Ideology of Subsistence: Evidence from Formative Mesoamerica." Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, March 13. 1994 "Gods and Spirits: Ancient Maya Concepts of Divinity and the Supernatural." Presented at Symposium entitled "Parallels, Patterns, and Politics: Art of the Moche and Maya. Denver Art Museum, Denver, October 14-16. 1994 "The Jade Hearth: Centrality, Rulership, and the Classic Maya Temple." Presented at symposium "Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture," Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., October 8-9. 1994 "The Olmec Rain God: Covarrubias Revisited." Symposium on Mesoamerican Archaeology and History in Honor of Michael D. Coe, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, May 7. 1994 "The Megalithic Style of the Northern Maya Lowlands: The Monumental Architecture of Naranjal and Tres Lagunas." 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, April 21. 1994 (With Scott L. Fedick) "The View from Yalahau: A New Perspective on the Northern Maya Lowlands." 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, April 21. 1994 "Symbolism of Birth in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual." Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, April 7. 1994 "The War Serpent and the Teotihuacan Cult of War." Xth Symposium of the Maya Meetings at Texas, entitled "Star Wars: Venus/Tlaloc Warfare in Mesoamerica," University of Texas at Austin, March 11. 1993 (With Scott L. Fedick) "The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Ancient Maya Political Structure and Resource Management in the Northern Maya Lowlands." Complex Society Group, Arizona State, Tempe, Oct. 24. 1992 "Interpreting the Ancient Art of Teotihuacan." Ancient Art Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 13. 1992 "The Iconography of Rain and Lightning in Ancient Maya Myth and Ritual." Presented at the VIIIth Symposium of the Maya Meetings at Texas, entitled "Origins: Creation and Continuity, Mythology and History in Mesoamerica," University of Texas at Austin, March 11. 1991 "The Bilimek Pulque Vessel: Starlore, Calendrics and Cosmology of Late Postclassic Central Mexico." International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans. 1990 "The Iconography of Chichen Itza," Presented at the First Maler Symposium on the Archaeology of Northwest Yucatan, Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universitat Bonn, August 22. 1990 (with Scott Fedick) "The Role of Radiocarbon in Maya Archaeology: A Review of Four Decades of Research" International Conference on Four Decades of Radiocarbon Studies: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. 1990 (with Tomas Gallareta Negrón) "The San Angel Survey Project: A Reconnaissance in the Northern Quintana Roo Savanna System," presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Las Vegas, April 19. 1990 "Representations of Prismatic Blades and Polyhedral Cores in the Writing and Art of Ancient Mexico," presented at the 1990 Southwest Anthropological Association Meetings, Long Beach, California, April 14. 1989 "The Sacred Cult of War at Teotihuacan," Aztec Tertulia, University of California, Los Angeles, October 9. 1988 "The Iconography of Mirrors at Early Classic Teotihuacan," presented at the symposium "Art, Polity, and the City of Teotihuacan," Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., October 8-9. 1988 "The Iconography of Lightning at Chichen Itza, Yucatan," 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, Arizona, April 28. 1987 "Early Representations of the Feathered Serpent in the Gulf Coast Region," 86th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 22. 1987 "A Prehispanic Maya Katun Wheel," Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, November 6, Oakland, Nov. 6. 1987 "The Iconography of Lightning in Classic Maya Religion," Tertulia at Dumbarton Oaks, April 24, Washington, D.C. 1986 "Ritual Humor in Classic Maya Religion," presented at Dumbarton Oaks, November 8, Washington, D.C. CHAIRED SESSIONS AND PUBLIC TALKS: 2009 “The San Bartolo Murals.” Riverside Community College, April 1. 2009 “The Murals of San Bartolo, Guatemala.” Denver Museum of Art, Denver, February 15. 2009 “Mesoamerican Writing Systems.” Department of Religious Studies, U.C. Riverside, February 5. 2009 “The Murals of San Bartolo and the Origins of Maya Creation Mythology.” Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, January 26. 2008 “Corn on the Cosmos: San Bartolo and Maize Creation Mythology of the Ancient Maya.” Campo San Bartolo, El Peten, Guatemala, April 12. 2008 “The Murals of San Bartolo and the Mythic Origins of Maya Gods and Kings,” University of California, Riverside, April 3. 2008 “The Murals of San Bartolo,” Riverside Community College, Riverside, April 1. 2008 “Corn on the Cosmos: The Symbolism of Maize in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest,” U.C. Riverside, March 10. 2007 Chaired session entitled “Mesoamerican Jade Studies” for the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, April 26. 2006 “The Murals of San Bartolo: New Discoveries and Interpretations. LIFE Society, UC Riverside, Riverside, May 9. 2006 “Recent Discoveries in Southeaster Mesoamerica: Olmec Writing and the San Bartolo murals.” Riverside Community College, Riverside, May 9. 2006 “The San Bartolo Murals.” Presented to the Association of Undergraduate Anthropologists, Department of Anthropology, U.C. Riverside, March 2. 2005 “Recent Discoveries in Guatemala: Ancient Jade Working and the Murals of San Bartolo.” Presented at Riverside Community College, Riverside, November 2. 2005 Co-chaired session entitled “Iconografía y escritura Teotihuacana en la costa sur.” Seminario Avanzado, Museo Popol Vuh, Guatemala City, July 14-15. 2004 “Jade in Ancient Mesoamerica: New Discoveries and Interpretations,” Presented at Pacific Coast Archaeological Society General Membership meeting, Irvine, May 13. 2004 “Interpreting the North Wall Mural of Pinturas Room,” presented at the San Bartolo field project, San Bartolo, Guatemala, March 18. 2004 “The Classic Maya Presence at Teotihuacan.” Presented in graduate seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tuscon, January 22. 2004 “Climbing Flower Mountain: Concepts of Beauty and Paradise among the Classic Maya.” Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tuscon, January 21. 2003 “Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty and Paradise in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Presented for the 2003 Lewis K. Land Lecture, Palace Legion of Honor, San Francisco, December 6. 2003 “Codices and Culture of Ancient Mexico.” Presented to the Mexican Student Association at UCR, U.C. Riverside, Riverside, November 21. 2003 “Mesoamerican Jade.” Precolumbian & Spanish Colonial Lectures, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, August 16. 2003 “Mesoamerican Jadeite: New Discoveries and Interpretations.” Docent lecture, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Palace Legion of Honor, San Francisco, April 9. 2002 “Jade in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Riverside Community College, Riverside, May 7. 2002 “The Symbolism of Jade in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Docent lecture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, March 18. 2002 “Ancient Maya Calendrics and Mathematics.” East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, March 5. 2001 “American Gladiators: Competitive Combat in Ancient Mesoamerica.” Eighth Annual Maya Weekend, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angeles, October 13. 2001 “ American Gladiators: Competitive Combat in Ancient America.” Institute of Maya Studies, Miami, May 16. 2001 “Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala.” Department of Anthropology, U.C. Riverside, April 11. 2001 “Teotihuacan and the Classic Maya.” University of Redlands, January 31. 2000 “Traditional Money of Oceania.” San Bernardino Coin Club, San Bernardino Municipal Museum, May 18. 1999 "The Olmec and the Development of Maize Symbolism in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest," Religious Inquiry Group, U.C Riverside, April 28. 1999 Moderated and presented symposium entitled "Teotihuacan: City of the Gods," George Cowgill co-presenter, UCLA Extension, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, April 10. 1999 "Teotihuacan and the Founding of a Classic Maya Dynasty: Iconographic Investigations of Structure 10L-16, Copan, Honduras.” Faculty Research Colloquia, Department of Anthropology, U.C. Riverside, March 10. 1998 "Classic Maya Cities and Their Sacred Centers: A View From Copan," Presented in symposium entitled "Ancient Cities of the Maya," First San Antonio Maya Symposium, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, November 21. 1997 "Fire, Meteors, and the Central Mexican Cult of War." Department of Art History, University of California at Los Angeles, December 2. 1997 "Corn and the Cosmos: The Symbolism of Maize in Ancient Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, Department of Art History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, September 16. 1997 "Corn and Cosmology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, Johnson House, Whittier College, Whittier, September 30. 1997 "Maya World: Cosmos and Ritual." Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, April 25. 1996 "Powers of Rain and Maize: Olmec Gods and Ritual." Special Lecture Series, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1. 1996 "Teotihuacan and Copan." Archaeological Institute of America, Orange County Society, Southern California College, Costa Mesa, October 6. 1996 Directed Maya hieroglyphic workshop entitled "Learning the Maya Code." U.C.L.A. Extension, September 7-8. 1995 Directed seminar entitled "Gods, Calendrics, and Ritual of Ancient Mexico: The Borgia Codex." U.C.L.A. Extension, August 12-13. 1995 Directed Maya hieroglyphic workshop entitled "Learning the Maya Code," U.C.L.A. Extension, May 22-21. 1994 "Gods and Glyphs: Epigraphic and Iconographic Approaches to Classic Maya Religion." Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 4. 1994 Directed Maya hieroglyphic workshop entitled "Learning the Maya Code," U.C.L.A. Extension, August 27-28. 1994 "The Symbolism of Birth in Classic Maya Religion." Pre-Columbian Society, Washington, D.C., August 5. 1994 Session Co-chair (With Scott L. Fedick) "The Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project: Ancient Maya Political Structure and Resource Management in the Northern Lowlands." 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, April 21. 1994 "The Aztecs and the Maya: Worlds of Myth and Power." Campus on the Mall, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 21. 1994 Directed workshop concerning Teotihuacan Iconography, XII Long Workshop, Maya Meetings at Texas, March 14-16. 1994 "The Classic Maya and the Teotihuacan Cult of War." 2nd Annual Maya Symposium, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, Florida, January 22. 1994 "The Role of Hieroglyphic Decipherment in the Study of Ancient Maya Religion." Docent Lecture, Riverside Municipal Museum, Riverside, January 19. 1993 "Gods and Glyphs: The Decipherment of Classic Maya Writing and Art." Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, AOA Docents Advanced Training, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, October 7. 1992 "Gods and Glyphs: Recent Approaches to the Study of Classic Maya Religion." Morning Forum of Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, California, December 1. 1992 "The Site and Civilization of Teotihuacan." L.I.F.E. Society, University Extension, U.C. Riverside, June 18. 1992 "Recent Approaches to Ancient Maya Religion." Religious Enquiry Group, U.C. Riverside, February 10. 1991 "The Art and Writing of Postclassic Yucatan." Delivered in symposium entitled Literary Traditions of the Maya. Los Angeles County of Art and the Santa Monica College Associates, Santa Monica, December 14, 1991. 1991 "Gods of the Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Classic Maya." The Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego Society, La Jolla, April 19. 1991 "Recent Approaches to Classic Maya Religion." Conference on Contemporary Maya Issues, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 13. 1991 "Gods of the Popol Vuh: Creation Mythology of the Ancient Maya." Presented at University of California Extension Seminar, "The Symbolic World of the Maya," U.C.L.A. February 9, 1991. 1990 "The Iconography of the Gods of the Popol Vuh." Presented at the Land Memorial Lecture, Friends of Ethnic Art, San Francisco, June 17. 1990 Session Chair, "Ancient Mesoamerican Writing and Art." 1990 Southwest Anthropological Association Meetings, April 14, Long Beach. 1990 "Maya Pottery: New Meanings on Ancient Vessels." Lecture presented to the Docent Council, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, March 14. 1990 Chaired panel discussion of Popol Vuh film by Patricia Amlin, presented as special session of Writer's Week, U.C. Riverside, Feb. 21. 1990 "Gods of the Popol Vuh: The Mythology of the Ancient Maya as Revealed through their Art and Monuments." Friends of the Library, Temecula, February 16. 1988 "Yucatan: The Land of the Maya," Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Chicago, October 21. 1988 "The Cave of Origin: Creation Mythology of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest," Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, Santa Barbara, April 21. 1986 Weekend seminar on Classic Maya archaeology, history, and religion, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus. FIELD PROJECTS: 2003 to Project Iconographer for the San Bartolo Project, Guatemala (William Saturno and present Monica Urquizu project co-directors) Spring, Co-director of The Upper Rio El Tambor Reconnaissance Project co-directed by 2004 Zachary Hruby and Luis Romero), Department of Jalapa, Guatemala. August, 2003 Archaeological reconnaissance in the Cerro Bernal region, Chiapas. July, 2000 Archaeological reconnaissance in the Cerro Bernal region, Chiapas. July, 1995- Directed iconographic reconstruction of Structure 10L-16, Copan Mosaics Project, 1998 Copan, Honduras. Dec. 1995- Recorded murals of Bonampak Structure 1, Chiapas, Mexico (Dr. Mary Ellen Miller, Jan. 1996 project director). Spring 1993 Co-director of Yalahau Regional Human Ecology Project (with Dr. Scott Fedick of the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside), supported by UC Mexus and H. John Heinz III Charitable Fund Grant Program for Latin American Archaeology. Summer 1988 Co-director of San Angel Survey Project (with Tomas Gallareta Negrón of the Centro Regional de Yucatan, I.N.A.H.), supported by the National Geographic Society, San Angel, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Summer 1987 Site reconnaissance in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. Summer 1986 Site reconnaissance in Yucatan and Quintana Roo for the Proyecto Atlas Arqueológico de la Peninsula, I.N.A.H., Dr. Edward B. Kurjack supervisor, supported by National Geographic Society. Summer 1985 Archaeological project at Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Director Charles Lincoln, Harvard University, supported by National Geographic Society. February 1985 Archaeological project at Lagartero, Chiapas (Susanna Ekholm, director), New World Archaeological Foundation. Fall 1985 Archaeological excavation at the Glebe House, Woodbury, Connecticut, Dr. Frank Hole project director, Yale University. August l983 Linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Ethnographic to August fieldwork in Zinacantan, Chiapas, during January, 1984. February 1983 Ethnographic fieldwork in Yucatan, Mexico. Summer l982 Archaeological project at Loma Alta, Ecuador (Scott Raymond, project director), University of Calgary. MUSEUM PROJECTS AND EXPERIENCE: 2007-10 Identified Mesoamerican and Andean material for San Bernardino Municipal Museum, San Bernardino, California. 2009 Participated in work group analyzing Maya material for publication of volume of Maya collection at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. 2006 Identified Mesoamerican and Ecuadorian artifacts for Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, California. 2005 Identified Mesoamerican artifacts for Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles. 1995-97 Prepared catalog of the Olmec collection at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1988 Drafted illustrations for permanent exhibit of Precolumbian Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. 1984-85 Prepared volume on the Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. 1981-82 Studied and restored Barrancoid pottery excavated at Saladero, Venezuela, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Fall, 1980 Cataloged artifacts excavated by Dr. Michael D. Coe at the site of San Lorenzo, Mexico, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. PANELS: 1997 Participant, Gulf Coast Planning Conference, organized by Richard Diehl with support by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc., Birmingham, September 21-26. CONSULTING: 2008 Consultant to Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2007 Research member of Transcendent Icon, Resplendent Quetzal Project. The Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe. 2005-present Research member, Hopi Iconography Project, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. 2004-present Academic advisor to the New World Archaeological Council, Los Angeles. 2000-present Contributing Editor, Res: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 1994-present Editorial Board, Ancient Mesoamerica, Cambridge University Press, New York. 2001-5 Consultant to National Geographic Magazine. 1999-2003 Vice President, Copan Maya Foundation, Santa Barbara, California. 1998 Consultant to National Geographic Magazine. 1997-2002 Advisory board to Night Fire Films on series concerning decipherment of ancient Maya writing. 1997 Advisory board to Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Oxford University Press. 1996 Consultant to BBC Natural History Unit for film series "Spirit of theJaguar." 1995-8 Advisory Board, Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., Crystal River, Florida. 1994-5 Consultant to National Geographic Magazine. 1994 Consultant to Newton's Apple public television science series. 1992-4 Consultant to Five Suns Film Project, Patricia Amlin director, funded by National Endowment for the Humanities. 1988 Consultant to National Geographic Magazine. 1987 Consultant to volume entitled America's Ancient Cities, by Gene S. Stuart, The National Geographic Society. 1987 Consultant to Popol Vuh Film Project, Patricia Amlin director, funded by National Endowment for the Humanities. LANGUAGES: Spanish Yukatek Mayan