About Research
Barbara Stark specializes in the origins and developmental trajectories of complex societies in Mesoamerica. Prehistoric economy and sociopolitical organization in tropical lowland areas have been the focus of her field projects on the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala and the Gulf lowlands of Mexico.
The Gulf lowlands have been the focus of a long-term survey and settlement pattern investigation with Departmental, University, National Science Foundation, and National Geographic Society support, with permission from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologé Historia of Mexico. This project has included multiple students and archaeological professionals (see Stark-PALMPUB.pdf below). The artifact and feature data are incorporated into a Geographical Information Systems format and have been used in thematic maps for statistical and interpretive analyses. The project maintains a laboratory in Jalapa, Mexico, for continuing analyses of collections.
Stark's publications have dealt with coastal adaptations, settlement patterns, tropical urbanism, ceramics, crafts, and long-term economic and political change. She has served as a member of the Executive Boards of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for American Archaeology and as Editor for Archaeology for the American Anthropologist. She currently serves as an advisor for for Arqueología and Arqueología Mexicana. Stark has been a guest
instructor at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología and at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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Select Publications
Stark, Barbara L. (1990)
The Gulf Coast and the Central Highlands of Mexico: Alternative Models for Interaction. In Research in Economic Anthropology, vol. 12, ed. by Barry L. Isaac, pp. 243-285. JAI Press, Inc., Greenwich, CT.
Press, Tucson.
Stark, Barbara L. (1989)
Patarata Pottery: Classic Period Ceramics of the South-central Gulf Coast, Veracruz, Mexico. Anthropological Papers 51. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Stark, Barbara L. (1999)
Formal Architectural Complexes in South-central Veracruz, Mexico: A Capital Zoné Journal of Field Archaeology 26:197-225.
Stark, Barbara L. (2000)
Framing the Gulf Olmec. In Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica, edited by John E. Clark and Mary Pye, pp. 31-53. Studies in the History of Art 58. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Stark, Barbara L. (2003)
Cerro de las Mesas: Social and Economic Perspectives on a Gulf Center. In El Urbanismo en MesoamœGica: Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1, edited by Guadalupe Mastache and William Sanders, pp. 391-422. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia and The Pennsylvania State University, Mexico, D.F. and University Park, PA.
Stark, Barbara L. (2001)
Classic Period Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico: Diachronic Inferences from Residential Investigations. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Monograph 12, The University at Albany, N.Y.
Stark, Barbara L., and Philip J. Arnold, III, editors (1997)
Olmec to Aztec: Settlement Pattern Research in the Ancient Gulf. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Stark, Barbara L., and L. Antonio Curet (1994)
The Development of Classic Period Mixtequilla in South-central Veracruz, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 5:2:267-287.
Stark, Barbara L., and Christopher P. Garraty (2004)
Evaluation of Systematic Surface Evidence for Pottery Production in Veracruz, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 15(2):123-143.
Stark, Barbara L., Lynette Heller, and Michael A. Ohnersorgen (1998)
People with Cloth: Mesoamerican Economic Change from the Perspective of Cotton in South-central Veracruz. Latin American Antiquity 9:1:1-30.
N.B. Download a complete list of Proyecto Arqueologico La Mixtequilla publications.
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Contact:
Barbara L. Stark
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