Jon C. Lohse, PhD, Director of CAS and Director of Curation

Email: jl45@txstate.edu

Phone: 512-245-2724

Office: Trinity 120A

Jon Lohse is the Director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University-San Marcos. As Director, he oversees contract-funded compliance and research investigations dealing with local and regional history and prehistory and is concerned with expanding the public benefit of archaeological information. His research interests include complexity in social relations, particularly as expressed in situational and institutional inequality, and understanding prehistoric cultural adaptations. In addition to directing multidisciplinary research in the Maya Lowlands, he is also investigating the preceramic origins of sedentary societies that eventually developed in southern Mesoamerica, and Paleoindian and Archaic traditions of Central Texas. He has published a number of journal articles, and also three edited volumes including Ancient Maya Commoners (University of Texas Press, 2004), Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica (University Press of Colorado, 2007), and Classic Maya Political Ecology: Resource Management, Class Histories, and Political Change in Northwestern Belize (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013).

Pictured above: Jon C. Lohse giving a lesson to the crew at Actun Halal, Belize.

Ancient Maya Commoners-Chapter 1(PDF, 259.9 KB)

Lohse, Jon C., and Fred Valdez, Jr. 2004. Examining Ancient Maya Commoners Anew. In Ancient Maya Commoners, pp. 1-22, edited by Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez, Jr.. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Ancient Maya Commoners-Chapter 6(PDF, 508.7 KB)

Lohse, Jon C. 2004. Intra-Site Settlement Signatures and Implications for Late Classic Maya Commoner Organization at Dos Hombres, Belize. In Ancient Maya Commoners, pp. 117-146, edited by Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez, Jr. University of Texas Press, Austin.

Collins and Lohse-Clovis Blades and Blade Cores(PDF, 1261.0 KB)

Collins, Michael B., and Jon C. Lohse. 2004. The Nature of Clovis Blades and Blade Cores. In Entering America, Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum, pp. 159-183, edited by D.B. Madsen. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Commoner Ritual and Ideology Preface(PDF, 319.1 KB)

Gonlin, Nancy, and Jon C. Lohse. 2007. Preface. In Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica, pp. xvii-xxxix, edited by Nancy Gonlin and Jon C. Lohse. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.

Hageman and Lohse-Heterarchy and Lowland Maya Corporate Groups(PDF, 627.8 KB)

Hageman, Jon B., and Jon C. Lohse. 2003. Heterarchy, Corporate Groups, and Late Classic Resource Management in Northwestern Belize. In Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya, The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatan Peninsula, pp. 109-121, edited by Vernon L. Scarborough, Fred Valdez Jr., and Nicholas Dunning. The University of Arizona Press.

Lohse and Findlay-A Classic Maya House Lot Drainage System(PDF, 293.3 KB)

Lohse, Jon C., and Patrick N. Findlay. 2000. A Classic Maya House-Lot Drainage System in Northwestern Belize. Latin American Antiquity 11(2): 175-185.

Lohse et al Belize Preceramic(PDF, 757.1 KB)

Lohse, Jon C., Jaime Awe, Cameron Griffith, Robert M. Rosenswig, and Fred Valdez, Jr. 2006. Preceramic Occupations in Belize: Updating the Paleoindian and Archaic Record. Latin American Antiquity 17(2): 209-226.

Zaro and Lohse-Agricultural Rythyms and Rituals(PDF, 957.6 KB)

Zaro, Gregory, and Jon C. Lohse. 2005. Agricultural Rhythms and Rituals: Ancient Maya Solar Observation in Hinterland Blue Creek, Northwestern Belize. Latin American Antiquity 16(1): 81-98.

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