Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Anthropology
Latin American and Latino Studies

Expertise

Archaeology. Bioarchaeology. Complex societies. Writing systems. Material Culture. Comparative aesthetics. Mesoamerica.

Profile

Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program.
Teaches archaeology and studies the development of ancient complex societies in Mesoamerica: the origin and societal functions of early writing, political economy and settlement patterns, and the social and ideological dimensions of mortuary practices.

Awards and Honors

Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (2001 - 2002)

Mazer Award (2001 - 2002)

Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from Underrepresented Groups (2001 - 2002)

National Science Foundation Grant (1997)

Junior Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks (1990 - 1991)

Study Collection Grant, American Museum of Natural History (1990)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant (1988)

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Fellowship (1987 - 1989)

Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale University (1983 - 1984)

Fellowship, Instituto de Estudios Oaxaquenos (1979)

Courses Taught

ANTH	1a	Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies
ANTH	5a	Human Origins
ANTH	60a	Archaeological Methods
ANTH	116a	Human Osteology
ANTH	123a	Directions and Issues in Archaeology
ANTH	128a	Meaning and Material Culture
ANTH	147b	The Rise of Mesoamerican Civilization
ANTH	153a	Writing Systems and Scribal Traditions
ANTH	184b	Cross-Cultural Art and Aesthetics
ANTH	187a	Materials Research in Archaeology, I
ANTH	188b	Materials Research in Archaeology, II
IGS	89b	Internship Seminar in International and Global Studies

Scholarship

Michael Lind and Javier Urcid. The Lords of Lambityeco and the Collapse of Monte Albán: Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Xoo Phase (650-850 CE). University Press of Colorado, 2009. (forthcoming)

Urcid, Javier. "El Arte de Pintar las Tumbas: sociedad e ideología Zapotecas (400-800 d.C)." La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México III: Oaxaca. vol. tomo IV (Estudios) Ed. Beatriz de la Fuente and Ma. Teresa Uriarte. Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico., 2009. 513-627.

Urcid, Javier. "La Lápida grabada de Santiago Matatlán. Una mirada al lenguaje visual de los antiguos registros genealógicos zapotecos (600-900 d.C.)." Pictografía y Escritura Alfabética en Oaxaca. Ed. Sebastián van Doesburg. Oaxaca: Fondo Editorial del Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca, 2009. 23-51.

Urcid, Javier. "Personajes Enmascarados: El Rayo, El Trueno y la LLuvia en Oaxaca." Arqueología Mexicana Vol. XVI. 96 (2009): 30-34.

Javier Urcid. "An Ancient Story of Creation from San Pedro Jaltepetongo." Mixtec Writing and Society: Escritura de Ñuu Dzaui. 1st ed. Ed. Maarten Jansen and Laura van Broekhoven. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008. 143 - 194..

Urcid, Javier and Thomas W. Killion. "Social Landscapes and Political Dynamics in the Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands (500-1000 CE)." Dumbarton Oaks symposium Classic Veracruz: Cultural Currents in the Ancient Gulf Lowlands. Ed. Philip J. Arnold III and Christopher A. Pool.. Washington D.C.: Harvard University, 2008

Javier Urcid. "A stela of unknown provenience inscribed in the Central Mexican scribal tradition. Mexicon,." Mexicon vol. XXIX. (5) (2007): 117-123 ..

Urcid, Javier. "Antigüedad y distribución del ritual de los Voladores: Aguilas que descienden, corazones que ascienden." Arqueología Mexicana Vol. XIV (81). (2006).

Urcid, Javier. "El Legado Olmeca: Continuidad y Cambio Cultural en el Sur de Veracruz." 33. (2006): 5-31.

Urcid,Javier. "A Zapotec Carved Bone." Princeton University Library Chronicle 67. 2 (2006).

Urcid,Javier. "Sobre unos Antiguos Graniceros Zapotecos." Acervos 7. 29 (2006).

Urcid, Javier. The Zapotec scribal tradition: knowledge, memory, and society in ancient Oaxaca.. 2005. Foundations for the Advancement in Mesoamerican Studies. <http://www.famsi.org/zapotecwriting/>.

Urcid,Javier. "El Simbolismo del Jaguar en el Suroeste de Mesoamérica." Argueología Mexicana 12. 72 (2005).

Urcid, Javier. Sacred Landscapes and Social Memory: The Ñuiñe Inscriptions in the Ndaxagua Natural Tunnel, Tepelmeme, Oaxaca.. 2004. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. <http://www.famsi.org/reports/author_u_v.htm#U>.

Urcid,Javier. "Epiclassic Inscriptions in the Coixtlahuaca Basin of Northwestern Oaxaca." Mexicon 26. 6 (2004).

Urcid,Javier. "A Zapotec Slab in Santiago Matatlan, Oaxaca." Mesoamerican Voices. University of Illinois, Chicago, 2003

Urcid,Javier. "La Conquista por el Señor 1 Muerte: Inscripción Zapoteca en un Cilindro Cerámico." Escritura Zapoteca: 2500 años de Historia. Ed. Ma. de los Angeles Romero Frizzi. Inah-Ciesas:, 2003

Urcid,Javier. "Las Urnas del Barrio Zapoteca de Teotihuacan." Arqueología Mexicana 11. 64 (2003).

Urcid,Javier. "Lecciones de una Urna Ñuiñe." Homenaje a John Paddock. Ed. Patricia Plunket. Puebla: Universidad de las Américas, 2003

Urcid,Javier. "Nuevas Variantes Glificas Zapotecas." Mexicon 25. 5 (2003).

Urcid,Javier. "Pre-Columbian Skull Trepanation in North America." Trepanation: History, Discovery, Theory. Ed. Arnot et al.., 2003

Urcid, Javier with Thomas W. Killion. "The Olmec Legacy: Cultural Continuity on Mexicos Southern Gulf Coast." Journal of Field Archaeology (2002).

Urcid,Javier. "El Chacmool de Mixquic y el Sacrificio Humano." Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 33. (2002).

Urcid,Javier. "La Faz Oculta de una Misteriosa Máscara de Piedra." Socieded y Patrimonio Arqueológico en el Valle de Oaxaca. Ed. Nelly M. Robles Garcia. Conaculta/INAH:, 2002

Urcid, Javier with Arthur Joyce. "Carved Monuments and Calendrical Names: The Rulers of Rio Viejo, Oaxaca." Ancient Mesoamerica (2001).

Urcid,Javier. Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing. Dumbarton Oaks, 2001.

Urcid, Javier. "Codices on Stone: The Genesis of Writing in Ancient Oaxaca." Journal of Hispanic Literatures (1998).

Urcid, Javier. "Cannibalism and Curated Skulls: Bone Ritualism at Kodiak Island, Alaska." Reckoning with the Dead. Larsen Bay and the Smithsonian Institution, Smiths, 1994

Urcid, Javier. "The Pacific Coast of Oaxaca and Guerrero: The Westermost Extent of Zapotec Script." Ancient Mesoamerica (1993).

Urcid, Javier with Michael D. Lind. "The Lords of Lambityeco and Their Nearest Neighbors." Notas Mesoamericanas (1983).