Publications and Preprints: Vincas P. Steponaitis

This page contains selected publications and preprints that are available in electronic form. It also contains links to descriptions of my books and to scholarly web sites that I have authored.
 

Monographs

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1983). Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns, An Archaeological Study at Moundville. Academic Press, New York and San Francisco. [Table of Contents]

Susan C. Prezzano and Vincas P. Steponaitis (1990). Excavations at the Boland Site, 1984-1987: A Preliminary Report. Research Report 9. Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Patrick Livingood, H. Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis (eds., 1998). Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina. CD-ROM. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. [Web Edition  |  Publisher's web page]

Vincas P. Steponaitis (ed., 1998). The Natchez District in the Old, Old South. Southern Research Report 11. Academic Affairs Library and Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [Table of Contents  |  Publisher's web page]

Vernon J. Knight, Jr., and Vincas P. Steponaitis (eds., 1998). Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. [Table of Contents]

Margo Price, Patricia Samford, and Vincas P. Steponaitis (2001). Intrigue of the Past: North Carolina's First Peoples. Monograph 3. Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. [Web Edition]
 

Articles

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1981). "Settlement Hierarchies and Political Complexity in Nonmarket Societies: The Formative Period of the Valley of Mexico." American Anthropologist 83(2): 320-363. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1983). "More on Estimating Catchment Productivity in the Valley of Mexico." American Anthropologist 85(1): 129-135. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1984). "Some Further Remarks on Catchments, Nonproducers, and Tribute Flow in the Valley of Mexico." American Anthropologist 86(1): 143-148. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1985). "A Rejoinder to Ackerly and Young's Comments on My Analysis of Formative Period Sites in the Valley of Mexico." American Anthropologist 87(4): 897-904. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1986). "Political Growth and Agricultural Intensification: An Extension of the Valley of Mexico Model." American Anthropologist 88(3): 706-708. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis (1986). "Prehistoric Archaeology in the Southeastern United States, 1970-1985." Annual Review of Anthropology 15: 363-404. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis, M. J. Blackman, and Hector Neff (1996). "Large-Scale Patterns in the Chemical Composition of Mississippian Pottery." American Antiquity 61(3): 555-572. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Hester Davis, Jeffrey Altschul, Judith Bense, Elizabeth Brumfiel, Shereen Lerner, James Miller, Vincas Steponaitis, and Joe Watkins (1999). "Teaching Archaeology in the 21st Century: Thoughts on Undergraduate Education." SAA Bulletin 17(1): 18-20. [Electronic facsimile in HTML format]

Daniel G. Gall and Vincas P. Steponaitis (2001). "Composition and Provenance of Greenstone Artifacts from Moundville." Southeastern Archaeology 20(2): 99-117. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

Cynthia Whitney, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and John J. W. Rogers (2002). "A Petrographic Study of Moundville Palettes." Southeastern Archaeology 21(2): 227-234. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]
 

Preprints and Conference Papers

Daniel G. Gall and Vincas P. Steponaitis (2001). "Composition and Provenance of Greenstone Artifacts from Moundville." Poster presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]

William A. Lovis, Keith W. Kintigh, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Lynne G. Goldstein (in press). "Archaeological Perspectives on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Underlying Principles, Legislative History, and Current Issues." In Perspectives in Cultural Resource Law, edited by Jennifer R. Richman and Marion Forsyth. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California, in press. [Electronic draft in PDF format]

Vincas P. Steponaitis and Vernon J. Knight, Jr. (in press). "Moundville Art in Historical and Social Context." In Hero, Hawk, and Human Hand: Ancient Art of the Woodlands, edited by Richard F. Townsend. Art Institute of Chicago. [Electronic draft in PDF format]
 

Miscellaneous Works

Kenneth Ames, Martha Graham, Robert Kelly, Keith Kintigh, Vincas Steponaitis, and Philip Walker (2001). "Review of Secretary Babbitt's Final Determination of Cultural Affiliation for Kennewick Man." Appendix to the Society for American Archaeology's amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, civil case no. 96-1481-JE, Bonnichsen v. United States. [Electronic facsimile in PDF format]