BREA Interim Reports [links below]

2016-2017 Interim Report [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, ed. (2018) Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2016 and 2017 Field Seasons. Occasional Paper No. 8. University of New Hampshire, Durham. 

2014-2015 Interim Report, Vol. 1 [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, ed. (2015) Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2014 and 2015 Field Seasons Volume 1. Occasional Paper No. 7. University of New Hampshire, Durham.  

2014-2015 Interim Report, Vol. 2 [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, ed. (2015) Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2014 and 2015 Field Seasons Volume 2. Occasional Paper No. 7. University of New Hampshire, Durham.  

2012 Interim Report [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, ed. (2013) Archaeology in the Middle Belize Valley: A Report of the 2012 Belize River East Archaeology Project. Occasional Paper No. 6. University of New Hampshire, Durham.  

2011 Interim Report [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, ed. (2011) Surveying the Crossroads in the Middle Belize Valley: A Report of the 2011 Belize River East Archaeology Project. Occasional Paper No. 5. University of New Hampshire, Durham.
 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles  

Harrison-Buck, E., S. Krause, M. Brouwer Burg, M. Willis, A. Perrotti, and K. Bailey. (2024) Late Archaic Large-Scale Fisheries in the Wetlands of the Pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands. Science Advances 10, eadq1444 (2024). [pdf]

Brouwer Burg, M. and E. Harrison-Buck. (2024) Modeling Archaic Mobility and Land Use in North-Central Belize. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 74(101583):1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101583. [pdf]

Tibbits, T., M. Peuramaki-Brown, M. Brouwer Burg, M. A. Tibbits, and E. Harrison-Buck. (2022) Using X-Ray Fluorescence to Examine Ancient Maya Granite Ground Stone in Belize. Geoarchaeology: 1-18. [pdf]

Brouwer Burg, M., T. Tibbits, E. Harrison-Buck (2021) Advances in Geochemical Sourcing of Granite Ground Stone: Ancient Maya Artifacts from the Middle Belize Valley. Advances in Archaeological Practice: 1-16. Forthcoming. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, E., S. Clarke-Vivier (2020) Making Space for Heritage: Collaboration, Sustainability, and Education in a Creole Community Archaeology Museum in Northern Belize. Heritage 3(2):412-435. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, E., B. Houk, A. Kaeding, and B. Bonorden (2019) The Strange Bedfellows of Northern Belize: British Colonialists, Confederate Dreamers, Creole Loggers, and the Caste War Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23(1):172–203. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, E., A. Runggaldier, and A. Gantos (2018) It’s the Journey not the Destination: Maya New Year’s Pilgrimage and Self-Sacrifice as Regenerative Power. Journal of Social Archaeology 18(3): 325-347. [pdf] 

Stemp, J. W., J. J. Awe, M. K. Brown, E. Harrison-Buck, C. G. B. Helmke, G. D. Wrobel, and J. R. Yaeger (2018) Four Preceramic Points Newly Discovered in Belize, a comment on Stemp et al. (Latin American Antiquity 2016:279-299). Latin American Antiquity 29(2):394-397. [pdf] 

Brouwer Burg, M., A. Runggaldier, and E. Harrison-Buck (2016) The Afterlife of Earthen-Core Buildings: A Taphonomic Study of Threatened and Effaced Architecture in Central Belize. Journal of Field Archaeology 41(1):17-36. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, E., and P. A. McAnany (2013) Terminal Classic Circular Architecture in the Sibun Valley, Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 24(2):295-306. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, E.(2012) Architecture as Animate Landscape: Circular Shrines in the Ancient Maya Lowlands. American Anthropologist 114(1):64-80. [pdf] 

Conference Proceedings: Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology (links below) 

Brouwer Burg, M. and E. Harrison-Buck (2023) Raising the “BAAR” through improved method and theory: reinvigorating regional research on Archaic occupations in Northern Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 18: 277-288. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Sara Clarke-Vivier, Lori Phillips, and Astrid Runggaldier (2020) From Excavations to Educational Outreach: Presenting the History of Human-Wetland Interaction around Western Lagoon, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 17:259-272. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Mark Willis, Satoru Murata, and Jessica Craig (2018) Investigating Ancient Maya Settlement, Wetland Features, and Preceramic Occupation Around Crooked Tree, Belize: Excavations and Aerial Mapping with Drones. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 15:307-317. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Jessica Craig, and Satoru Murata (2017) From Ancient Maya to Kriol Culture: Investigating the Deep History of the Eastern Belize Watershed. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 14:353-361. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Marieka Brouwer Burg, Satoru Murata, Hugh Robinson, Adam Kaeding, and Alex Gantos (2016) Rivers, Wetlands, Creeks, and Roads: Investigating Settlement Patterns in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Belize Watershed. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 13:137-148. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Marieka Brouwer Burg, Mark Willis, Chet Walker, Satoru Murata, Brett Houk, and Astrid Runggaldier (2015) Drones, Mapping, and Excavations in the Middle Belize Valley: Research Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology (BREA) Project. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 12:295-304. [pdf] 

Brouwer Burg, Marieka, Eleanor Harrison-Buck, and Astrid Runggaldier (2015) Highways and Byways, Circuits and Paths: Modeling Movement among Ancient Maya in the Central Belize River Valley. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 12:281-293. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor (2014) Ancient Maya Wetland Use in the Eastern Belize Watershed. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 11:245-258. [pdf] 

Brouwer Burg, Marieka, Eleanor Harrison-Buck, and Astrid Runggaldier (2014) At the Crossroads: Examining the Hats Kaab E-Group as a Node of Trade and Communication in the Eastern Belize Watershed. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 11:259-270. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Adam Keading, and Satoru Murata (2013) A Network of Waterways in the Eastern Belize Watershed: Recent Survey and Excavation of the 2012 BREA Field Season. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 10:77-90. [pdf] 

Runggaldier, Astrid, Marieka Brouwer Burg, and Eleanor Harrison-Buck (2013) Hats Kaab: A Newly Discovered E-Group at the Closing of the 13th Baktun. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 10: 65-75. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor (2010) At the Crossroads in the Middle Belize Valley: Modeling Networks of Ritual Interaction in Belize from Classic to Colonial times. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 7:85-94. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Satoru Murata, and Adam Kaeding (2012) From Preclassic to Colonial Times in the Middle Belize Valley: Recent Archaeological Investigations of the BREA Project. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 9:in press. [pdf] 

 

Other Publications 

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, Mark Willis, and Chet Walker (2016) Using Drones in a Threatened Archaeological Landscape: Rapid Survey, Salvage, and Mapping of the Maya Site of Saturday Creek, Belize. Special Issue “Drones in Archaeology.” The SAA Archaeological Record 16(2):30-35. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor Julia Bryce, and J. Blichert-Toft (2013) Reconstructing Societal Dynamics of the Ancient Maya: Insights from Nd Isotopes. Mineralogical Magazine 77(5):1263. [pdf]

  

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters 

Harrison-Buck, E., M. Willis, C. Walker, S. Murata, and M. Brouwer Burg (2020) From Urban Core to Vacant Terrain: Defining the Heterotopia of Maya Monumental Landscapes at the Cross-roads of the Middle Belize Valley. In Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya, B. A. Houk, B. Arroyo, and T. G. Powis (eds), University of Florida Press: Gainesville. Pp: 85-108. [pdf]

Harrison-Buck, E. (2017) The Coin of Her Realm: Cacao as Gendered Good Among the Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Maya. In The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region, edited by Jennifer Matthews and Thomas Guderjan, pp. 104-123. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. [pdf] 

Harrison-Buck, E. (2016) Killing the “Kings of Stone”: The Defacement of Classic Maya Monuments. In Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings, edited by Gyles Iannone, Brett Houk, and Sonja Schwake, pp. 61-88. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. [pdf]