Clifford
T. Brown, Ph.DBackground
I am an archaeologist and anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, Florida. I received my B.A. in archaeology from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Tulane University. I worked in heritage management as a public archaeologist for some years before becoming an academic research archaeologist.
Research
My geographic focus in archaeology is the culture area called Mesoamerica. I have conducted archaeological research in Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua. I have excavated mainly in the Maya region, particularly in the northern Maya lowlands, especially in the state of Yucatan. I have directed excavations at the ancient Maya capital of Mayapan, and I have conducted survey in the central part of Yucatan. More recently, I began survey and excavations in northwest Nicaragua, in the Department of Chinandega. I have also worked in the southeast United States, in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
My research interests include the origins of civilization and social complexity; ceramic analysis; lithic analysis; and the application of quantitative methods in archaeology, particularly fractal analysis.
Selected Publications
Books:
Brown,
Clifford T. and Larry S. Liebovitch (2010). Fractal Analysis. A Monograph in the
Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series. Thousand Oaks:
Sage
Forthcoming in April 2010.
Witschey,
Walter
R.
T. and Clifford T. Brown (2012) Historical
Dictionary
of Ancient
Articles:
Brown, Clifford T., Larry S.
Liebovitch, and Rachel Glendon
2007 Lévy Flights in Dobe
Ju/’hoansi Foraging
Patterns. Human Ecology Vol. 35, No.
1, pp. 129-138.
Brown, Clifford T., Walter R. T. Witschey,
and Larry S. Liebovitch
2005 The
Broken
Past:
Fractals
in Archaeology. Journal
of Archaeological Method and Theory
Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 37-78.
Brown, Clifford T. and Walter R. T. Witschey
2003 The
Fractal
Geometry
of
Ancient Maya Settlement. Journal of
Archaeological Science Vol. 30, No. 12, pp. 1619-1632.
Wilde, James D. and Clifford T. Brown
2003 Basic
Consultation Requirements of NAGPRA for Federal Land Managers: What’s a
Manager
to Do? Federal Facilities Environmental
Journal Vol. 14, Number 2, pp. 29-40.
Brown,
Clifford T.
2001 The
Fractal Dimensions of Lithic Reduction. Journal of Archaeological Science Vol.
28, No. 6, pp. 619-631.
Contact Information:
Clifford T. Brown
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 297-3232 (voice)
(561) 297-0084 (fax)
ctbrown@fau.edu
www.fau.edu/~ctbrown
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Visit the webpage of the Electroinc Atlas of Ancient Maya Sites, of which I am co-author.