Michael Smith
Arizona State University
Professor, Archaeology
United States
My co-authors include
Jason Ur
My Publications
Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica
Nature
November 2017
The Teotihuacan Anomaly: The Historical Trajectory of Urban Design in Ancient Central M...
Open Archaeology
August 2017
Comparative Methods for Premodern Cities: Coding for Governance and Class Mobility
Cross-Cultural Research
September 2016
Conceptual approaches to service provision in cities throughout history
Urban Studies
March 2015
Jane Jacobs was wrong about cities preceding agriculture
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
April 2014
Neighborhood formation in semi-urban settlements
Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability
March 2014
Aztec period houses and terraces at Calixtlahuaca: The changing morphology of a Mesoame...
Journal of Field Archaeology
July 2013
Sustainable agrarian urbanism: The low-density cities of the Mayas and Aztecs
Cities
April 2013
The Aztec Empire
September 2012
The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies
January 2011
The archaeological study of neighborhoods and districts in ancient cities
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
June 2010
Sprawl, Squatters and Sustainable Cities: Can Archaeological Data Shed Light on Modern ...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
June 2010
Editorial—Just How Comparative is Comparative Urban Geography? A Perspective from Archa...
Urban Geography
February 2009
Sources of Imported Obsidian at Postclassic Sites in the Yautepec Valley, Morelos: A Ch...
Latin American Antiquity
December 2007
New World States and Empires: Politics, Religion, and Urbanism
Journal of Archaeological Research
March 2006
XOO-PHASE CERAMICS FROM OAXACA FOUND AT CALIXTLAHUACA IN CENTRAL MEXICO
Ancient Mesoamerica
July 2005
Life in the Provinces of The Aztec Empire
Scientific American Sp
January 2005
The Archaeology of Ancient State Economies
Annual Review of Anthropology
October 2004
The Archaeological Study of Empires and Imperialism in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
September 2001
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS FROM THE AZTEC NEW FIRE CEREMONY
Ancient Mesoamerica
July 2001
Excavations of Aztec Urban Houses at Yautepec, Mexico
Latin American Antiquity
June 1999
Life in the Provinces of the Aztec Empire
Scientific American
September 1997
A New Postclassic Chronology for Yautepec, Morelos
Ancient Mesoamerica
January 1996
Aztec-Period Agricultural Terraces in Morelos, Mexico: Evidence for Household-Level Agr...
Journal of Field Archaeology
January 1994
The Size of the Aztec City of Yautepec
Ancient Mesoamerica
January 1994
Braudel's temporal rhythms and chronology theory in archaeology
April 1992
Rhythms of change in Postclassic central Mexico: archaeology, ethnohistory, and the Bra...
April 1992
Archaeology and the Aztec empire
World Archaeology
February 1992
Late Postclassic Chronology in Western Morelos, Mexico
Latin American Antiquity
December 1991
Long-Distance Trade under the Aztec Empire: The Archaeological Evidence
Ancient Mesoamerica
January 1990
Cities, Towns, and Urbanism: Comment on Sanders and Webster
American Anthropologist
June 1989
Architectural Patterns at Three Aztec-Period Sites in Morelos, Mexico
Journal of Field Archaeology
January 1989
Architectural Patterns at Three Aztec-Period Sites in Morelos, Mexico
Journal of Field Archaeology
January 1989
The Development of Prehispanic Cotton-Spinning Technology in Western Morelos, Mexico
Journal of Field Archaeology
January 1988
Household possessions and wealth in agrarian states: Implications for archaeology
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
December 1987
Archaeology and the Aztec Economy: The Social Scientific Use of Archaeological Data
Social Science History
January 1987
The Expansion of the Aztec Empire: A Case Study in the Correlation of Diachronic Archae...
American Antiquity
January 1987
The Role of Social Stratification in the Aztec Empire: A View from the Provinces
American Anthropologist
March 1986
The Role of the Marketing System in Aztec Society and Economy: Reply to Evans
American Antiquity
October 1980
The Aztec Marketing System and Settlement Pattern in the Valley of Mexico: A Central Pl...
American Antiquity
January 1979
Ancient Cities
Household Economies under the Aztec and Inka Empires
Aztec Feasts Rituals and Markets
City Planning: Aztec City Planning