Publications

Peer-Reviewed Books

  • 2017.  Myers, Bethany J., and Lisa J. LeCount (editors).  The Only True People: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present.  University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger (editors).  Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • 2022  LeCount, Lisa J., Blitz, John H., and Tidwell, Jonathan W.  Ancient Maya Embedded Economies and Changing Ground Stone Densities in Households at Actuncan, Belize. Latin American Antiquity, 33(3), 641-647. doi:10.1017/laq.2022.12. lecount et al. 2022
  • 2019.  LeCount, Lisa J.,Chester P. Walker, John H. Blitz, and Ted C. Nelson.  Land Tenure Systems at the Ancient Maya Site of Actuncan, Belize.  Latin American Antiquity 30(2):245-265. lecount_et_al._2019.pdf​
  • 2018.  LeCount, Lisa J. Lessons Learned in Seriating Maya Pottery.  In Engaging Archaeological Research: Case Studies in Method, Theory, and Practice, edited by Stephen W. Silliman, pp. 189-198. Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey. 
  • 2017.  LeCount, Lisa J.  Establishing the Preconditions for Ethnogenesis among the Classic Maya.  In The Only True People: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present, edited by B. J. Myers and L. J. LeCount, pp. 157-186. University Press Colorado, Boulder.
  • 2016.  LeCount, Lisa J. Classic Maya Marketplaces and Exchanges: Examining Market Competition as a Factor for Commodity Distributions.  In Households, Markets, World-Systems, and Political Economy: Alternative Pathways to Complexity, edited by Lane Fargher and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, pp. 155-173.  University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
  • 2016.  LeCount, Lisa J., E. Christian Wells, Thomas Jamison and David W. Mixter. Geochemical Characterization of Inorganic Residues on Plaster Floors from the Palace Complex at Actucan, Belize.  Journal of Archaeological Science -Reports 5:453-464. LeCount et al. 2016.
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J.  Ka’Kaw Pots and Common Containers: Creating Histories and Collective Memories among the Classic Maya of Xunantunich, Belize.  Ancient Mesoamerica 21(2):341-351. 
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J. Maya Palace Kitchens: Suprahousehold Food Preparation at the Late Classic Maya Site of Xunantunich.  In Inside Ancient Kitchens: New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasts, edited by Elizabeth Klarich, pp. 133-162. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J. Mount Maloney People? Domestic Pots, Every Day Practice, and the Social Formation of the Xunantunich Polity.  In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 209-232.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger.  Provincial Politics and Current Models of the Lowland Maya State.  In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands.  Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 20-45.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger.  A Brief Description of Xunantunich.  In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands.  Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 67-78.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • 2010  LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger.  Placing Xunantunich and Its Hinterland Settlements in Perspective. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 337-369.   University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • 2010  Leventhal, Richard M., Wendy Ashmore, Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger.  The Xunantunich Archaeological Project, 1991-1997.  In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands.  Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 1-19.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • 2010  VandenBosch, Jon., Lisa J. LeCount, and Jason Yaeger.  Integration and Interdependence: The Domestic Economy of the Xunantunich Polity. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 272-294.   University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
  • 2002  LeCount, Lisa, Jason Yaeger, Richard M. Leventhal, and Wendy Ashmore.  Dating the Rise and Fall of Xunantunich, Belize: A Late and Terminal Classic Lowland Maya Secondary Center.  Ancient Mesoamerica 13(1):41-63.
  • 2001  LeCount, Lisa J.  Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya of Xunantunich, Belize.  American Anthropologist 103(4):935-953.
  • 1999  LeCount, Lisa J.  Polychrome Pottery and Political Strategies among the Late and Terminal Classic Lowland Maya.  Latin American Antiquity 10(3):239-258.

Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology  ​

Other Project Authors

  • Freiwald, C., D. Micklin, K.A. Fulton, D. W. Mixter, and L. J. LeCount. Making a Place for Ancestors at Actuncan, Belize: An Osteobiography of a Maya Burial Ground.  Freiwald et al. 2024.
  • 2017  Mixter, D.W.  Political Change Expressed in Public Architecture: The Terminal Classic Maya Civic Complex at Actuncan, Belize.
  • 2014 Freiwald, et al. Burial Practices at Actuncan, Belize: A Seated Burial and Ongoing Analysis from the 2001-2013 Field Seasons. Freiwald et al. 2014 RRBA.
  • 2012 Keller, Angela. Everyday Practices in Maya Civic Centers: Preliminary Results of Testing in the West Plaza at Actuncan, Belize. Keller RRBA 2012.