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  1. Degrees of wellbeing between urban populations ocupying the wet subtropics vs more arid settings

    Article • Journal of Urban Archaeology, July 2025, Brepols Publishers NV

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  2. Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies

    Article • Annual Review of Environment and Resources, October 2024, Annual Reviews

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  3. Growth and decline of a sustainable city: A multitemporal perspective on blue-black-green infrastructures at the pre-Columbian Lowland Maya city of Tikal

    Article • Urban Studies, February 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  4. Late Neolithic community, clay pipes and water diversion in monsoonal North Central China

    Article • Nature Water, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  5. IF THE PAST TEACHES, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE LEARN? Ancient Urban Regions and the Durable Future

    Article • July 2022, Stichting OpenAccess Foundation

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  6. Creating an Earth Archive

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  7. Environmental DNA reveals arboreal cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  8. Zeolite water purification at Tikal, an ancient Maya city in Guatemala

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  9. Molecular genetic and geochemical assays reveal severe contamination of drinking water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Tikal

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  10. Distributed urban network systems in the tropical archaeological record: Toward a model for urban sustainability in the era of climate change

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, May 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  11. Water and ancient cities: Urban supply systems

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  12. Imperial resource management at the ancient Maya city of Tikal: A resilience model of sustainability and collapse

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  13. James C. Scott: Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States

    Article • Human Ecology, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  14. Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

    Article • Antiquity, August 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  15. Soil analysis in discussions of agricultural feasibility for ancient civilizations: A critical review and reanalysis of the data and debate from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

    Article • PLOS One, June 2018, PLOS

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  16. The hydraulic lift of early states societies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  17. Human niches, abandonment cycling, and climates

    Article • Water History, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  18. Water management and paleoecology of an ancient city

    Article • January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  19. Forests, fields, and the edge of sustainability at the ancient Maya city of Tikal

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  20. Hisat’sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water

    Article • Journal of Ecological Anthropology, December 2014, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  21. Does water have agency? Does it need to?

    Article • Archaeological Dialogues, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  22. 1 Diversity, Resiliency, and IHOPE-Maya: Using the Past to Inform the Present

    Article • Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  23. 9 The Alternative Economy: Resilience in the Face of Complexity from the Eastern Lowlands

    Article • Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  24. 3 Water and Landscape: Ancient Maya Settlement Decisions

    Article • Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  25. 2 Tropical Landscapes and the Ancient Maya: Diversity in Time and Space

    Article • Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  26. A TALE OF TWO COLLAPSES: ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY AND CULTURAL DISRUPTION IN THE MAYA LOWLANDS

    Article • Diálogo andino, June 2013, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  27. Agricultural Land Use and Intensification

    Article • September 2012

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  28. Water and sustainable land use at the ancient tropical city of Tikal, Guatemala

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  29. Developing an Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE)

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  30. Evidence for volcanic ash fall in the Maya Lowlands from a reservoir at Tikal, Guatemala

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  31. Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management

    Article • Water, April 2011, MDPI AG

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  32. Ancient Waterworks Water Engineering in the Ancient World: Archaeological and Climate Perspectives on Societies of Ancient South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia . By Charles R. Ortloff. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

    Article • Current Anthropology, April 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  33. The non-hierarchical development of complexity in the semitropics: water and cooperation

    Article • Water History, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  34. Complexity and Sustainability: Perspectives from the Ancient Maya and the Modern Balinese

    Article • American Antiquity, April 2010, Society for American Archaeology

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  35. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUSTAINABILITY: MESOAMERICA

    Article • Ancient Mesoamerica, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  36. Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize

    Article • Latin American Anthropology Review, June 2008, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  37. Rate and process of societal change in semitropical settings: The ancient Maya and the living Balinese

    Article • Quaternary International, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  38. [GEOARCAHEOLOGICAL STDIES OF LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT DURING THE PAST 2500 YEARS] Ancient water management and landscape transformation at Sebatu, Bali

    Article • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, January 2008, University of Washington Libraries

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  39. Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, September 2007, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  40. Intensification and the Political Economy:

    Article • December 2006, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  41. Rappaport’s Rose

    Article • November 2006, Duke University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  42. Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, December 2004, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  43. Ancient Water Management: The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes, by Vernon Scarborough, 2003. Santa Fe (NM): SAR Press; ISBN 1-930618-32-8 paperback, £27.95 & US$27.95, xvii + 204 pp.

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  44. The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, March 2004, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  45. Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of the Conquest

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, March 2004, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  46. Real-time Maya: The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse, by David Webster, 2002. London: Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0-500-051135 hardback, £19.95 & US$34.95, 368 pp., 84 ills.

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  47. How to interpret an ancient landscape

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  48. Arising from theBajos: The Evolution of a Neotropical Landscape and the Rise of Maya Civilization

    Article • Annals of the Association of American Geographers, June 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  49. Volcanic fertilization of Balinese rice paddies

    Article • Ecological Economics, September 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  50. Ecology and Ritual: Water Management and the Maya

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, June 1998, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  51. : Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World . Vernon L. Scarborough, Barry L. Isaac.

    Article • American Anthropologist, March 1996, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  52. Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World

    Article • American Antiquity, January 1996, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  53. Water and Land at the Ancient Maya Community of La Milpa

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, June 1995, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  54. MesoamericanGraffiti

    Article • The Sciences, March 1994, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  55. The Pre-Hispanic Maya Reservoir System at Kinal, Peten, Guatemala

    Article • Ancient Mesoamerica, January 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  56. The Mesoamerican Ballgame.

    Article • Hispanic American Historical Review, February 1993, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  57. FLOW OF POWER

    Article • The Sciences, March 1992, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  58. Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize:Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize.

    Article • Latin American Anthropology Review, March 1992, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  59. The Mesoamerican Ballgame

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1992, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  60. A Water Storage Adaptation in the Maya Lowlands

    Article • Science, February 1991, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  61. Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1991, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  62. Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  63. Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1989, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  64. Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1986, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  65. Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1986, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  66. : Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize . B. L. Turner II, Peter D. Harrison.

    Article • American Anthropologist, March 1985, Wiley

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  67. Ball Courts and Ceremonial Plazas in the West Indies

    Article • Anthropologica, January 1984, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  68. A Preclassic Maya Water System

    Article • American Antiquity, October 1983, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  69. Subsistence, Trade, and Development of the Coastal Maya

    Article • January 1982, Elsevier

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  70. Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1982, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  71. Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, January 1982, JSTOR

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  72. Tikal Land, Water, and Forest

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  73. The Evolution of an Ancient Waterworks System at Tikal

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  74. At the Core of Tikal: Terrestrial Sediment Sampling and Water Management

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  75. Defining the Constructed Niche of Tikal: A Summary View

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  76. References

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  77. Bringing the University of Pennsylvania Maps of Tikal into the Era of Electronic GIS

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  78. Examining Landscape Modifications for Water Management at Tikal Using Three-Dimensional Modeling with ArcGIS

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough

  79. Fire and Water: The Archaeological Significance of Tikal’s Quaternary Sediments

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Vernon Scarborough