Clifford
T.
Brown,
Ph.DWelcome to my website! Here you will find a bit of professional and intellectual biography, citations for selected publications, and links to related sites.
Background
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
Most of my research and experience in archaeology focuses geographically on the culture area called Mesoamerica, which encompasses central and eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and western Honduras. Within Mesoamerica, I have conducted archaeological research in Mexico, Honduras, and Nicaragua. I have excavated mainly in the Maya region, particularly in the state of Yucatan in the northern Maya lowlands. I have directed excavations at the ancient Maya capital of Mayapan, and I have conducted survey in the central part of Yucatan. As a student, I participated in excavation projects in Quintana Roo, Veracruz, and Chiapas, Mexico, and Copan, Honduras. During graduate school, I also spent six months conducting ethnoarchaeological research in a Yucatec Maya hamlet in Yucatan.
Recently, I began survey and excavations in northwest Nicaragua, in the Department of Chinandega.
Outside of Mesoamerica, I have worked in the southeast United States, in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
My research interests include the origins of civilization, particularly the emergence of inequality and social complexity; ceramic analysis; lithic analysis; and the application of quantitative methods in archaeology, especially fractal analysis.
| Mayapan | Photographs of
Mayapan Pottery |
Nicaraguan
Research |
Lithics |
Mesoamerican
archaeology
Photographs |
Selected Publications
Books:
Witschey, Walter R. T. and Clifford T. Brown (2011) Historical Dictionary of Ancient
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Brown,
Clifford T. and Larry S. Liebovitch (2010). Fractal Analysis. A Monograph in the
Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences Series. Thousand Oaks:
Sage.
Articles:
Romero, Natalia E., Qianli
D. Y. Ma, Larry S. Liebovitch, Clifford T. Brown, and Plamen Ch. Ivanov
2010 Correlated Walks down the Babylonian Markets. European Physics Letters 90, 18004. doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/90/18004
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, No. 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.
Book chapters:
Brown,
Clifford T.
2010 Reflections
on “Metaarchaeology”, in Advancing
Phenomenology, edited by Philip Blosser and Thomas Nenon, pp.
391-400.
Brown,
Clifford T. and Jessica Robkin
2008 Estudio
de
la
Geometría
Fractal
del
Patrón
de
Asentamiento
Maya,
in
Memorias
del
Segundo Congreso Internacional de
Cultura Maya, edited by Alfredo
Barrera
Rubio and Ruth Gubler. In press.
Brown,
Clifford T.
2006 Water
Sources at Mayapán, Yucatán, México, in Precolumbian
Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power, edited by Lisa
Lucero and
Brown, Clifford T.
2005 Caves,
Karst, and Settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán, in In
the
Maw
of
the
Earth
Monster:
Mesoamerican
Ritual
Cave Use,
edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer, pp. 373-402.
Contact Information:
Mailing address:
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
Physical office:
Social Science Building (SO) Room172
The Social Science Building is Building 44
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