Travis Stanton

University of California Riverside

Travis Stanton is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Conducting field research in the state of Yucatán since 1995, he graduated with his doctorate from Southern Methodist University in 2000. His primary research interests are in Mesoamerican archaeology (with a focus on the Maya area), state formation and collapse, ceramic technology, landscape archaeology, memory, prehistoric violence and warfare, settlement patterns, remote sensing, ethnoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. He currently works in central Yucatan and northern Quintana Roo, Mexico. He also works with indigenous Maya potters in the town of Muna in a collaborative project designed to understand ancient Maya pottery technology. His publications include Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare and Forest of History (both co-edited with M. Kathryn Brown), Ruins of the Past (co-edited with Aline Magnoni), and the co-authored books Before Kukulkán, The Initial Series Group at Chichen Itza, The Past in the Present, and Excavations at Yaxuná, 1986-1996.