BREA Interim Reports

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.  
 

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

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 Conference Proceedings  

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 Journal Articles  

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] 

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., 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 Crossroads of the Middle Belize Valley. In Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya, edited by B. A. Houk, B. Arroyo, and T. G. Powis. University of Florida Press, Gainseville. 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]