PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2013     Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

​Pillsbury, Joanne, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, Alexandre Tokovinine (eds.)
2012     Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Houston, Stephen, Claudia Brittenham, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, Christina Warinner
2009    Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color. Austin: University of Texas Press. 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Tokovinine, Alexandre
In Press Distance and power in Classic Maya texts. In Reinventing the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Colonial Cosmologies, Ana Díaz, ed. University of Colorado Press

2019     Fire in the land: landscapes of war in Classic Maya narratives. In Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica: Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches, Shawn G. Morton and Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown,eds. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, pp. 77-100

Wahl, David, Lysanna Anderson, Francisco Estrada Belli, and Alexandre Tokovinine
2019     Palaeoenvironmental, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence of total war among the Classic Maya. Nature Human Behavior 3(10):1049-1054

Kovac, Milan, Dmitri Beliaev, Alexandre Tokovinine, Maria Felicia Rega, Mauricio Díaz García, Diana Patricia Méndez
2019     Relevancia de las canchas de juego de pelota alrededor de Uaxactun. Una interpretación sociopolítica y epigráfica. In XXXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2018, ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, G. Ajú Álvarez. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 693-704

Tokovinine, Alexandre, Vilma Fialko
2019     En el cerro de los colibríes: el patrón divino y el paisaje sagrado de la ciudad de Naranjo. In XXXII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2018, ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, G. Ajú Álvarez. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 825-838

Tokovinine, Alexandre, Fialko, Vilma, Ramirez, Fredy, Martin, Simon, and Vepretskii, Sergei .
2018    La estela 48 de Naranjo Sa’aal, Peten: contexto, hallazgo y texto jeroglífico. In XXXI Simposio de Ivestigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2017. ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, G. Ajú Álvarez. Guatemala City: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, pp. 867-876

Canuto, Marcello A., Francisco Estrada-Belli, Thomas Garrison, Stephen D. Houston, Mary Jane Acuña, Milan Kováč, Damien Marken, Philippe Nondédéo, Luke Auld-Thomas, Cyril Castanet, David Chatelain, Carlos R. Chiriboga, Tomáš Drápela, Tibor Lieskovský, Alexandre Tokovinine, Antolín Velasquez, Juan C. Fernández Díaz, and Ramesh Shresta
2018    Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala. Science 361, eaau0137

​Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Francisco Estrada Belli
2017       From stucco to digital: topometric documentation of Classic Maya facades at Holmul. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 6:18-28

Katz, Jared, and Alexandre Tokovinine
2017       The past, now showing in 3D: An introduction. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 6:1-3

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2017       Appendix B: 3D Scanning of the Eccentric Cherts and Bifaces from the Rosalila Cache. In Protecting Sacred Space: Rosalila’s Eccentric Chert Cache at Copan and Eccentrics among the Classic Maya, Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Payson Sheets, and Karl Andreas Taube, eds. San Francisco: PrecolumbiaMesoweb Press, pp. 135-141.
               (See also Digital version of the Appendix B with the 3D models)

Martin, Simon, Alexandre Tokovinine, Elodie Treffel and Vilma Fialko
2017       La Estela 46 de Naranjo Sa’al, Petén: hallazgo y texto jeroglífico. In XXX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, Guatemala City, 2016, ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, G. Ajú Álvarez. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 669-684

Martin, Simon, Vilma Fialko, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Fredy Ramirez
2016       Contexto y texto de la estela 47 de Naranjo-Sa’aal, Peten, Guatemala. In XXIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2015, ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, G. Ajú Álvarez. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 615-628

Estrada-Belli, Francisco, and Alexandre Tokovinine
2016       A King’s Apotheosis: Iconography, Text, and Politics from a Classic Maya Temple at Holmul. Latin American Antiquity 27(2):149-168

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2016       “It is his image with pulque”: drinks, gifts, and political networking in Classic Maya texts and images. Ancient Mesoamerica 27(1):13-29

Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Francisco Estrada-Belli
2015       La Sufricaya: a place in Classic Maya politics. In Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands: Integration, Interaction, Dissolution. Damien B. Marken and James L. Fitzsimmons, eds. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, pp. 195-224

Beliaev, Dmitri, Mónica de León, Alexandre Tokovinine, Sergei Vepretskii, Camilo Luin, Pedro Aragón, Philipp Galeev, Adelso Canan
2015       Proyecto Atlas Epigráfico de Petén, Fase I: resultados de la temporada 2013. In Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (27 sesión, 2014), ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, Lorena Paiz. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 675-686

Luin, Camilo Alejandro, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Dmitri Beliaev
2015       Una nueva mención de Siyaj Witzil Chan Kawiil, divino señor de Motul de San Jose. In Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (27 sesión, 2014), ed. by B. Arroyo, L. Méndez Salinas, Lorena Paiz. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 657-662

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2014       Beans and glyphs: possible IB logogram in the Classic Maya script. PARI Journal 14(4):10-16

2014       Two vessels in the Tucson Museum of Art. In Pre-Columbian Art: Selections from the Tucson Museum of Art Permanent Collection, Jule Sasse, ed. Tucson, AZ: Tucson Museum of Art, pp. 14-22

2013       Writing color: words and images of colors in Classic Maya inscriptions. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 61/62:283-299

Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Dmitry Beliaev
2013       People of the road: traders and travelers in ancient Maya words and images. In Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World. Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury, eds. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, pp. 169-200

Tokovinine, Alexandre and Cameron McNeil
2013       Colored things, chromatic stories: searching for the pigments of the past. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 61/62:279-282

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2012       Catalog entries. In Ancient Maya Art at Dumbarton Oaks, Pillsbury, Joanne, Miriam Doutriaux, Reiko Ishihara-Brito, Alexandre Tokovinine, eds. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, pp. 63-73, 105-107, 122-129, 155-159, 179-189, 208-211, 313, 339-342, 350-353, 360-365, 372-373, 379, 440-443

Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Marc Zender
2012       Lords of Windy Water: the royal court of Motul de San José in Classic Maya inscriptions. In Politics, History, and Economy at the Classic Maya Center of Motul de San José, Guatemala. A. Foias and K. Emery, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, pp. 30-66.

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2011       People from a place: re-interpreting Classic Maya emblem glyphs. In Ecology, Power, and Religion in Maya Landscapes. Christian Isendahl and Bodil Liljefors-Persson, eds. Möckmuhl: Verlag Saurwein, pp. 81-96

Estrada-Belli, F. A. Tokovinine, J. M. Foley, H. Hurst, G. A. Ware, D. Stuart, and N. Grube
2011       Pintura mural e historia en Holmul, La Sufricaya, Guatemala, y las relaciones teotihuacanas con las Tierras Bajas. In Texto, Imagen e Identidad en la Pinturas Maya Prehispánica. Merideth Paxton and Manuela A. Hermann Lejarazu, eds. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, pp. 9-61

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2010       The western sun: an unusual tzolk’in – haab correlation in Classic Maya inscriptions. PARI Journal 11(2):17-21

Beliaev, Dmitri; Davletshin, Albert; Tokovinine, Alexandre
2009       Sweet cacao and sour atole: mixed drinks on Classic Maya ceramic vases. In Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica. John E. Staller and Michael Carrasco, eds. New York: Springer Science and Business Media, pp. 257-273.

Fash, William L., Tokovinine, Alexandre, Fash, Barbara W.
2009       The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica. In: Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery. William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, eds. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC, pp. 201-229.

Estrada-Belli, F. A. Tokovinine, J. M. Foley, H. Hurst, G. A. Ware, D. Stuart, and N. Grube
2009       A Maya palace at Holmul, Peten, Guatemala and the Teotihuacan ‘entrada’: evidence from Murals 7 and 9. Latin American Antiquity 20(1): 228-259

Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Barbara Fash
2008       Scanning history: the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions tests a 3-D Scanner in the field. Symbols (Spring):17-19

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2007       Of snake kings and cannibals: a fresh look at the Naranjo hieroglyphic stairway. PARI Journal 7(4):15-22

Tokovinine, Alexandre, and Vilma Fialko
2007       La Estela 45 de Naranjo: un análisis preliminar de su iconografía y epigrafía. In Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (20 sesión, 2006), ed. by J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. E. Mejía. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 913-932.

​2007       Stela 45 of Naranjo and the Early Classic lords of Sa’aal. PARI Journal 7(4):1-14

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2006    Art of the Maya epitaph: the genre of posthumous biographies in the Late Classic Maya inscriptions. In Sacred Books, Sacred Languages:  Two Thousand Years of Religious and Ritual Mayan Literature. Selected Proceedings of the 8th European Maya Conference: Madrid, 29-30 November 2003. Möckmuhl: Verlag Saurwein, pp. 35-54.

2006       Comment to the article “Plazas, Performers, and Spectators” by Takeshi Inomata. Current Anthropology 47:805–842

Estrada-Belli, F., A. Tokovinine, J. Foley, H. Hurst, G. Ware, D. Stuart, N. Grube
2006       Nuevos hallazgos de epigrafía y asentamiento en La Sufricaya, Holmul: temporada 2005. In Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (19 sesión, 2005), ed. by J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. E. Mejía. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes; Instituto de Antropología e Historia, pp. 579-588.

Estrada-Belli, F., A. Tokovinine, J. Foley, H. Hurst, G. Ware, D. Stuart, N.Grube
2006       Two Early Classic Maya murals: new texts and images in Maya and Teotihuacan style from La Sufricaya, Petén, Guatemala. Antiquity 80(308)

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2005       The dynastic struggle and the biography of a Sajal: “I was with that king”. In: Wars and Conflicts in Prehispanic Mesoamerica and the Andes. Selected Proceedings of the Conference Organized by the Société des Américanistes de Belgique with the Collaboration of Wayeb (European Association of Mayanists), Brussels, 16-17 November 2002, ed. by Peter Eeckhout, Geneviève Le Fort. BAR International Series 1385. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges, pp. 37-49.

Barrois, Ramzy, and Alexandre Tokovinine
2005       El inframundo y el mundo celestial en el juego de pelota maya. In: Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala (18 sesión, 2004). Guatemala: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES

​2017    The past now showing in 3D: case studies in 3D archaeology. Digital Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 6 (co-edited with Jared Katz)

2013    Color in America Prehistory. RES 61/62:279-366 (co-edited with Cameron McNeil)

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

Agurcia Fasquelle, Ricardo, Payson Sheets, Karl Andreas Taube, and Alexandre Tokovinine
2018     3D Models of Chert Lithics from the Rosalila Cache at Copan. Mesoweb Resources
                 
URL: htpp://www.mesoweb.com/resources/artifacts/Rosalila.html

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2017     Beginner’s visual catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs. Mesoweb
              URL: http://www.mesoweb.com/resources/catalog/index.html

2016    Holmul Building A frieze interactive 3D model in the online version of the National Geographic Magazine article “In search of the lost empire of the Maya”.
​              URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/09/maya-empire-snake-kings-dynasty-mesoamerica/

Houston, Stephen D., and Alexandre Tokovinine
2016    Caracol at Cambridge. Maya Decipherment
             URL: https://decipherment.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/caracol-at-cambridge/

Tokovinine, Alexandre
2015    Mesoamerican 3D models
             URL: https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/2546

2013    Classic Maya Placename Database
             URL: http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/books-in-print/place-and-identity/the-classic-maya-place-names-database

2013   Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions: 3D imaging report
​            URL: https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/files/x3d/Scan_report_2013_high.pdf

2003   A Classic Maya term for public performance. Mesoweb
              URL: http://www.mesoweb.com/features/tokovinine/Performance.pdf

2002   Divine patrons of the Maya ballgame. Mesoweb
              URL: http://www.mesoweb.com/features/tokovinine/Ballgame.pdf