Jon Hageman
My research follows two tracks. One focuses on the use of plants to create and maintain social inequality among the Late Classic Maya of northwestern Belize. My colleagues and I are examining patterns of production and consumption at several ancient residences in the area. In addition, I am interested in the use of the dead to leverage the position of their living descendants.
With support from an NSF-Archaeology Senior Research Grant (BCS-1321469), my colleagues and I completed the Mesoamerican Ethnobotanical Database, which can be found here: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/search_mesoamerican.php
The Field Museum has updated their webpages, making the database more difficult to use. As of Spring 2021 I am working with them to restore functionality as well as adding published ethnobotanical information to the database.
A second track explores the uses and meaning of select dead in the ancient past. This has most recently been featured in The Archaeology of Ancestors, published by University Press of Florida.
Phone: 773-442-5863
Address: Department of Anthropology
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
With support from an NSF-Archaeology Senior Research Grant (BCS-1321469), my colleagues and I completed the Mesoamerican Ethnobotanical Database, which can be found here: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/search_mesoamerican.php
The Field Museum has updated their webpages, making the database more difficult to use. As of Spring 2021 I am working with them to restore functionality as well as adding published ethnobotanical information to the database.
A second track explores the uses and meaning of select dead in the ancient past. This has most recently been featured in The Archaeology of Ancestors, published by University Press of Florida.
Phone: 773-442-5863
Address: Department of Anthropology
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
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Refereed Publications by Jon Hageman
La Milpa, has generated a large degree of interest among
researchers in northwestern Belize in part because of its
elusiveness. After being recorded by archaeologists in 1990,
Say Ka was "lost"; attempts to relocate it failed for nearly a
decade. It was fortuitously rediscovered in 1999, and three seasons of excavation began in 2004. This paper considers the history of Say Ka, its rediscovery, the results of initial excavations, and the possible implications of this minor
center for studying the La Milpa suburban zone.
from cross-cultural literature on lineages, but practices associated with lineage organization are historically and culturally specific. A suite of archaeological correlates, based on practices endemic to the Late Classic Maya, is evaluated against a test case from northwestern Belize. The implications of a landscape populated by lineages during the Classic period argue that archaeological investigations of hinterland areas are an important complement to more traditional studies focused on nucleated site centers.
Field Reports by Jon Hageman
Journal Articles by Jon Hageman
Papers by Jon Hageman
La Milpa, has generated a large degree of interest among
researchers in northwestern Belize in part because of its
elusiveness. After being recorded by archaeologists in 1990,
Say Ka was "lost"; attempts to relocate it failed for nearly a
decade. It was fortuitously rediscovered in 1999, and three seasons of excavation began in 2004. This paper considers the history of Say Ka, its rediscovery, the results of initial excavations, and the possible implications of this minor
center for studying the La Milpa suburban zone.
from cross-cultural literature on lineages, but practices associated with lineage organization are historically and culturally specific. A suite of archaeological correlates, based on practices endemic to the Late Classic Maya, is evaluated against a test case from northwestern Belize. The implications of a landscape populated by lineages during the Classic period argue that archaeological investigations of hinterland areas are an important complement to more traditional studies focused on nucleated site centers.