Publications of Anabel Ford

  • In Press Ford, Anabel, Keith Clarke, and Gary Raines: Modeling Settlement Patterns of the Late Classic Maya Civilization with Bayesian Methods and GIS. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
  • In Press John Whittaker, Kathryn Kamp, Anabel Ford, Rafael Guerra, Peter Brants, Jose Guerra, Alex Woods, Jennifer Thorton, and Zerifeh Eiley: Lithic Industry in a Maya Center: An Axe Workshop at El Pilar, Belize. Latin American Antiquity.
  • 2008 Ford, Anabel and Kitty Emery: Exploring the Legacy of the Maya Forest. Journal of Ethnobiology
  • 2008 Ford, Anabel: Dominant Plants of The Maya Forest and Gardens of El Pilar: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions. Journal of Ethnobiology.
  • 2007 Ford, Anabel: The Maya Forest Garden and El Pilar: A Coloring Book. With a teachers guide by Amy Hale. National Institute of Culture and History Belize.
  • 2006 Ford, Anabel and Megan Havrda: Archaeology Under the Canopy: Imagining the Maya of El Pilar. In Tourism Consumption edited by K. Mecham et al., pp 67-93. Bradford UK.
  • 2006 Ford, Anabel and Keith Clarke: Predicting Late Classic Maya Settlements. In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2005 Belize Archaeology Symposium. Edited by J. Morris, S. Jones, J. Awe, and C. Helmke, pp 193-212. Institute of Archaeology Belmopan, Belize.
  • 2006 Campbell, David, Anabel Ford et al.: The Feral Forests of the Eastern Petén. In Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology, pp 21-55. Edited by William Balée and Clark Erickson. Columbia University Press.
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  • 2006 Ford, Anabel: Adaptive Management and he Community at El Pilar: A Philosophy of Resilience for The Maya Forest. In Out of the Past, for the Future: Archaeology and Conservation, edited by N. Agnew and J. Bridgland The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.
  • 2005 Ford, Anabel: Implications of Volcanic Ash in the Maya Lowlands. Tinaja 17:2-3.
  • 2005 John Morris and Anabel Ford: Early Classic Manifestations at Mountain Cow and El Pilar. Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2004 Belize Archaeology Symposium, edited by J. Awe, J. Morris S. Jones and C. Helmke, pp 79-98. Institute of Archaeology Belmopan, Belize.
  • 2005 Ford, Anabel, Melanie Santiago-Smith and John Morris: Community Integration and Adaptive Management at El Pilar. Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 Belize Archaeology Symposium, edited by J. Awe, J. Morris S. Jones and C. Helmke, pp 459-470. Institute of Archaeology, Belize.
  • 2004 Ford, Anabel: El Pilar Video. With Jane Goodall (edited by Dana Morrow). Producer. Sponsored by ESP~Maya.
  • 2004 Ford, Anabel and Keith Clarke: Maya Forest GIS. Alexandria Digital Library.
  • 2004 Ford, Anabel: Maya Subsistence, Settlement Patterns and the Influence of Obsidian in the Political Economy Around El Pilar, Belize. In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 Belize Archaeology Symposium, edited by J. Awe, J. Morris and S. Jones. Institute of Archaeology, Belize.
  • 2004 Ford, Anabel: Integration among communities, Centers, and Regions: The Case from El Pilar. In The Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: Half a Century of Archaeological Research editor by J. Garber. First ed. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  • 2003 Ford, Anabel: Continuity and Sustainability in the Maya Forest: Building a Future from the Past at El Pilar. In Cuarto Congresso Internacional de Mayistas, pp 380-395.
  • 2003 Ford, Anabel: Crecimiento de Población y Complejidad Social: Un Examen de Asentamiento y Medio Ambiente de las Tierras Bajas Mayas. Monographo, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, Guatemala.
  • 2002 Ford, Anabel: Another View of the Gran Petén: Distilled conversations with Ed Shook. In Incidence of Archaeology in Central American and the Yucatan: Essays in honor of Edwin M. Shook, edited by M. Love, M. P. de Hatch, and H. L. Escobedo. University Press of America.
  • 2002 Ford, Anabel and Keith Clarke: Out of the Past, in the Present, and for the Future of the Maya Forest. In Beyond Walls: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives. University of the West Indies
  • 2002 BRASS/El Pilar Program: Culture and Nature at El Pilar: A philosophy of resilience for the Maya Forest. Exploring Solutions Past: Maya Forest Alliance, Belize.
  • 2002 BRASS/El Pilar Program: Adaptive Management in the Maya Forest: The Contiguous Park at El Pilar. Exploring Solutions Past: Maya Forest Alliance, Belize.
  • 2002: Ford, Anabel and Clarke Wernecke: Trails of El Pilar: A Comprehensive Guide to the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna. Exploring Solutions Past: Maya Forest Alliance, Santa Barbara.
  • 2001: Ford Anabel and Nicole Gerardo: The Tzunu'un Forest Garden Trail Guide. BRASS/El Pilar Program, Belize.
  • 2001 Ford, Anabel: El Pilar: Gateway between Belize and Guatemala. Washington Report on the Hemispheres.21: 4-5.
  • 2000 Ford, Anabel and Rudy Larios: Huellas Antiguas en la Selva Maya Contemporanea: Patrones de Asentamiento y Medio Ambiente en El Pilar. XIII Simposio de Invistigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, pp. 385-407. Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Etnología, Guatemala.
  • 2000 Ford, Anabel and Erin Chase: Lessons from the Past: A BRASS Anthology. Video Project, MARC/UCSB.
  • 2000 Ford, Anabel, and Lisa Lucero: Malevolent Demons of Ceramic Production: Where have all the Failures gone? Estudios de Cultural Maya 21.
  • 1999 Ford, Anabel: Using the Past to Preserve the Future. Discovering Archaeology September/October.
  • 1999 Ford, Anabel and José Antonio Montes: Medio Ambinete, Uso de la Tierra, y Desarrollo Sostenible: La Reserve Arqueológica de El Pilar para Flora y Fauna Mayas de Belice y Guatemala. Mesoámerica 37:31-50.
  • 1998 Ford, Anabel: Investigations at El Pilar. Mexicon 20:30.
  • 1998 Ford, Anabel: The El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna: A New Friendship Park for Belize and Guatemala. El Planet Plactica November.
  • 1998 Ford, Anabel: Investigations at El Pilar: Cultural-Natural Resource Conservation and Development in the Maya Forest. Anthropology Newsletter January.
  • 1998 Ford, Anabel (editor): Paisaje El Pilar: Puerta Entre Dos Naciones: ~ Plan de Manejo El Pilar- Borrador/El Pilar: Gateway Between Two Nations ~ Draft Management Plan. ProARCA/CAPAS-USAID, Guatemala.
  • 1998 Ford, Anabel: The Future of The moxan plant with red flowersEl Pilar: The Integrated Research and Development Plan for the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve For Maya Flora and Fauna Belize ~ Guatemala. (English/Spanish) US Man & the Biosphere Program, State Dept.
  • 1997 Martha Macri and Ford, Anabel (editors): The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs. Precolumbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco.
  • 1997 Martha Macri and Ford, Anabel: Introduction. The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs. Precolumbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco.
  • 1997 Ford, Anabel, and Carol Miller: Creación de la Reserve Arqueológica El Pilar en Guatemala y Belice: Un Nuevo Concepto de Rescate para la Selva Maya. X Simposio de Invistigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, pp. 417-426. Museo Nacional de Arqueología e Etnología, Guatemala.
  • 1997 Ford, Anabel, Fred Stross, Frank Asaro, and Helen V. Michel: Obsidian Procurement and Distribution in the Tikal-Yaxhá area of the Central Maya Lowlands. Ancient Mesoamerica 8:1-10.
  • 1997 Ford, Anabel and D. Clark Wernecke: Resumen~ Tikal Report No. 14: Excavations at the Great Plaza, North Terrace, and North Acropolis, by W.R. Coe. Mesoámerica 33:265-268.
  • 1997 Ford, Anabel: Resumen~ Tikal Report No. 25a: Ceramics of Tikal:Vessels from Burials, Caches, and Problematic Deposits, by T.P. Culbert. Mesoámerica 33:270-273.
  • 1996 Ford, Anabel: Arqueología en acción: reserva arqueológica El Pilar para Fauna y Flora Maya. In Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, pp. 290-306. Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Campeche
  • 1996 Ford, Anabel: Hidden Boundaries: The El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna. Belize Magazine Spring.Cacao pod cut open to reveal beans
  • 1996 Ford, Anabel: Critical Resource Control and the Rise of the Classic Period Maya. In The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use, edited by S. L. Fedick, pp. 297-303. University of Utah Press.
  • 1995 Ford, Anabel and William I. Rose: Volcanic Ash in Ancient Maya Ceramics of the Limestone Lowlands: Implications for Prehistoric Volcanic Activity in the Guatemala Highlands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 66(1-4) 149-163.
  • 1994 Ford, Anabel: Arqueología de Acción en la Selva: Creación de la reserva arqueológica de El Pilar, Guatemala-Belice. Utzib 1(7):19-21, Guatemala.
  • 1994 Ford, Anabel: Teo’s Way: His Life, Personal Philosophy, and Folklore. Tourism Management Project, Ministry of Tourism and Environment, Belize.
  • 1994 Ford, Anabel: Resumen~ Specialization, Exchange, and Complex Societies edited by E.M. Brumfiel and T.K. Earle (pp. 209-210), Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook by P.M. Rice (pp. 214-215). Mesoámerica 27.
  • 1994 Ford, Anabel: Xaman-Chikin-Lakin-Nohol, The Ancient Maya of Belize: Their Societies and Sites. CORI/MesoAmerican Research Center, UC Santa Barbara.
  • 1994 Ford, Anabel, and Anna Hundt: Equity in Academia -- Why the Best Men still Win: An Examination of Women and Men in Mesoamerican Archaeology. In Equity Issues for Women in Archaeology, edited by M.C. Nelson, S. M. Nelson, and A. Wylie, pp. 147-156. American Anthropological Association/Archaeology Division, Washington DC.
  • 1994 Ford, Anabel: Women in Anabel Ford with another worker sitting on the ground workingMesoamerican Archaeology: Why are the Best Men Winning? In Women Working in Archaeology, edited by C. Claassen, pp. 159-172. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
  • 1993 Ford, Anabel: Variaciones Regionales de Antiguos Asentamientos Maya e Implicaciones Econónomicas para el área Superior del Río Belice. Mesoámerica. 25:39-61.
  • 1993 Ford, Anabel, Nicole Woodman, and Lisa Lucero: Examen y Revisión de Análisis de Cerámica: Resultos del Taller Cerámica Maya 1991. Mesoámerica 25:174-180
  • 1993 Ford, Anabel: Review of Gardens in Prehistory edited by T. W. Killion. American Anthropologist 95:1018-1019.
  • 1992 Ford, Anabel: The Ancient Maya Domestic Economy: An Examination of Settlement in the Upper Belize River Area. In Memorias del Primer Congreso Internacional de Mayistas, pp. 57-86. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.
  • 1992 Ford, Anabel, Nicole Woodman, and Lisa Lucero: Results of the 1991 Maya Ceramic Workshop: Creating a New Comparative Standard. Mexicon 14:118-121.
  • 1992 Ford, Anabel: El Pilar: Rediscovering an Ancient Maya Center. Belize Today 6(10):49-52
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  • 1992 Ford, Anabel, Nicole Woodman, and Lisa Lucero: Review and Revision of Ceramic Analysis: Results of the 1991 Maya Ceramic Workshop. Ceramica de Cultura Maya 16:24-29.
  • 1992 Ford, Anabel and Scott Fedick: Prehistoric Maya Settlement Patterns in the Upper Belize River Area: Initial Results of the Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey. Journal of Field Archaeology 19:35-49.
  • 1991 Ford, Anabel: Resumen~ Excavations at Xunantunich by E. W. MacKie, The Preclassic Architecture at Cuello by J. Cartwright y Nohmul: A Prehistoric Maya Community in Belize by N. Hammond. Mesoamérica 22:352-356.
  • 1991 Ford, Anabel: Resumen~ A Postclassic Perspective by D. Z. Chase and A. F. Chase y Investigations at the Classic Maya City of Caracol, Belize by A. F. Chase and D. Z. Chase. Mesoamérica 21:144-146.
  • 1991 Ford, Anabel: Review~ A Postclassic Perspective by D. Z. Chase and A. F. Chase y Investigations at the Classic Maya City of Caracol, Belize by A. F. Chase and D. Z. Chase. American Antiquity 56:755.
  • 1991 Ford, Anabel: Problems with the Evaluation of Population from Settlement Data: Examination of Ancient Maya Residence Patterns in the Tikal-Yaxhá Intersite Area. Estudios de Cultural Maya 18:157-186.
  • 1991 Ford, Anabel: Economic Variation of Ancient Maya Residential Settlement in the Upper Belize River Area. Ancient Mesoamerica 2:35-45.
  • A bundle of red and purple maize1990 Ford, Anabel: Resumen~ The Cities of Ancient Mexico by J. Sabloff. Mesoamérica 20:338-340.
  • 1990 Ford, Anabel: Maya Settlement in the Belize River Area: Variations in Residential Patterns of the Central Maya Lowlands. In Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands, edited by T.P. Culbert and D.S. Rice, pp. 167-181. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
  • 1990 Fedick, Scott and Anabel Ford: Prehistoric Agricultural Landscape of the Central Maya Lowlands: An Examination of Local Variability in a Regional Context. World Archaeology 22:21-33.
  • 1990 Ford, Anabel: Ancient Maya Data Base: Contributions of the BAR International Series. New Scholar 11:11-22.
  • 1990 Ford, Anabel: Population Growth and Development of Complex Societies: Theoretical Considerations for the Evolution of the Classic Period Maya. In Agriculture: Origins and Impacts of a Technological Revolution, edited by C. Cameron, pp. 26-53. Occasional Papers of the Archaeological Research Facility, California State University, Fullerton No. 5.
  • 1989 Ford, Anabel and Kirsten Olson: Aspects of the Ancient Maya Economy: Variations in Chipped Stone Production and Consumption in the Belize River Area. Prehistoric Maya Economies of Belize, Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 4, edited by P. McAnany and B. Isaac.
  • 1987 Ford, Anabel and Harry Glicken: The Significance of Volcanic Ash Tempering in the Ceramics of the Central Maya Lowlands. Maya Ceramics: Papers from the 1985 Maya Ceramics Conference, edited by P.M. Rice and R.J. Sharer. BAR International Series 345, Oxford.
  • 1986 Ford, Anabel: Population Growth and Social Complexity: An Examination of Settlement and Environment in the Central Maya Lowlands. Anthropological Research Papers No. 35, Arizona State University, Tempe.
  • 1985 Ford, Anabel: Maya Settlement Pattern Chronology in the Belize River Area and the Implications for the Development of the Central Maya Lowlands. Belcast Journal of Belizean Affairs 2:13-32.
  • 1982 Ford, Anabel: Los Maya en El Petén: Distribución de las Poblaciones en el Período Clásico. Mesoamérica 3:124-144.
  • 1981 Ford, Anabel: Patrones de Asentamiento Maya durante el Período Clásico Tardío y el Problema de la Complejidad Economica y Politica. Antropología e Historia de Guatemala, Epoca II, no. 3:7-23.
  • 1980 Arnold, Jeanne and Anabel Ford: Statistical Examination of Settlement at Tikal, Guatemala. American Antiquity 45:713-726.