Smith, Michael E., Deborah L. Nichols, and Frances F. Berdan. Economics of Empire: Circulating Goods in the Aztec World. Amerind Foundation Advanced Seminar, Dragoon, AZ. (2015).
Deborah L. Nichols
|Professor
Professor of Anthropology
William J. Bryant 1925 Professorship
Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems, and Society Grad Program
Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies
I am interested in understanding why human societies become more complex. As an archaeological anthropologist, my research examines the political economy and ecology of the prehispanic Americas with a focus on the development of agriculture, urbanization and state formation. My research applies a regional approach to landscape archaeology, and geochemical source analysess to understand interrelations between ancient economies, ecologies, and politics with particular attention to Central Mexico and the Southwest.
Contact
Silsby, Room 403
HB 6047
Department(s)
Anthropology
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
- Ph.D, 1980 Pennsylvania State University
- M.A., 1975 Pennsylvania State University
- B.A., 1973 Pennsylvania State University
Selected Publications
Nichols, Deborah L. 2020. City, State, and Hinterlands: Teotihuacan and Central Mexico. In Teotihuacan: The World Beyond the City, edited by Kenneth G. Hirth, David M. Carballo, and Bárbara Arroyo, pp. 227-276. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington D.C.
Nichols, Deborah L., and Wesley D. Stoner. 2019. Before Teotihuacan: Altica and the Origins of Complex Society in the Teotihuacan Valley. Ancient Mesoamerica 30:369–382.
Stoner, Wesley D., and Deborah L. Nichols. 2019. The Altica Project: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 30:247–265.
Stoner, Wesley D., and Deborah L. Nichols. 2019. Early Ceramics, Compositional Variation, and Trade in Formative Period Central Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 30:311–337.
Works In Progress
Nichols, Deborah L. n.d. Evolution of a Revolution. In The Legacies of the Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, edited by Carolos Cordova, Christopher Morehart, and Charles D. Frederick. University Press of Colorado.
Wesley D. Stoner, and Deborah L. Nichols. Under Review. Shifting Styles in the Formative Basin of Mexico. In Emergent Social Complexity in Mesoamerica, edited by Lisa DeLance and Gary M. Feinman, University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
Stoner, Wesley D., and Deborah L. Nichols. In press. Early and Middle Formative Interactions and Central Mexico. In Oxford Handbook of the Olmec, edited by Christopher Pool and Carl Wendt. Oxford University Press, New York.
Selected Works & Activities
2021-23. Society for American Archaeology, President-Elect.
2019-22. American Anthropological Association-Archaeology Division, Publications Director.
Nichols, Deborah L. Principal Investigator. 2019-22. Expansion of the Arizona State University Teotihuacan Storage Facility National Science Foundation. NSF No. BCS 1917497.
Nichols, Deborah L. and Wesley Stoner. Collaborative Research: Craft Specialization, Exchange, and the Development of Early Complex Societies in Central Mexico. Principal Investigators: Deborah L. Nichols (Dartmouth College) and Wesley Stoner, NSF No. 1424132-Nichols (Dartmouth) and Wesley Stoner NSF No. 1424132-Nichols (Dartmouth), NSF No. 424184-Stoner (University of Arkansas). (2014)