All Stories

  1. Myth, Ritual and Human Sacrifice in Early Classic Mesoamerica: Interpreting a Cremated Double Burial from Tikal, Guatemala

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, February 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Vera Tiesler, Dr Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

  2. New isotope data on Maya mobility and enclaves at Classic Copan, Honduras

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Vera Tiesler

  3. MAYA COASTAL PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE, LIFE STYLE, AND POPULATION MOBILITY: A VIEW FROM THE PORT OF XCAMBO, YUCATAN, MEXICO

    Article • Ancient Mesoamerica, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Vera Tiesler

  4. The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications

    Article • January 2014

    Vera Tiesler

  5. Past, Present and Future Perspectives in Maya Bioarchaeology: A View from Yucatan, Mexico

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  6. Mortuary Pathways and Ritual Meanings Related to Maya Human Bone Deposits in Subterranean Contexts

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  7. Growing Up Maya. Gender, Identity and Dynasty

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  8. Source Compilation on Head-Shaping Practices in Hispanic America, by Pilar Zabala

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  9. Emulating Olmec Gods Through Head Form. Origins and the Preclassic Period

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  10. Head Shapes in Classic Period Mesoamerica

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  11. Meanings of Head-Shaping Practices in Mesoamerica

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  12. Cranial Expansion and Artificial Vault Modifications

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  13. Conclusions: New Perspectives For Studying Head-shaping Practices in Mesoamerica

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  14. Cultural Frameworks for Studying Artificial Cranial Modifications: Physical Embodiment, Identity, Age, and Gender

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  15. Reconstructing Ancient Head-Shaping Traditions from the Skeletal Record

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  16. Head Shaping During the Second Millennium. Postclassic and Postcontact Mesoamerica

    Article • October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  17. Posthumous Body Manipulation in the Classic Period Mixtequilla: Reevaluating the Human Remains of Ossuary I from El Zapotal, Veracruz

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, March 2013, Society for American Archaeology

    Vera Tiesler

  18. Where are the Warriors?: Cranial Trauma Patterns and Conflict among the Ancient Maya

    Article • August 2012, University Press of Florida

    Vera Tiesler

  19. Isotopic Studies of Human Skeletal Remains from a Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century AD Churchyard in Campeche, Mexico

    Article • Current Anthropology, August 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Vera Tiesler

  20. Isotopes and mobility: Case studies with large samples

    Article • May 2012, De Gruyter

    Vera Tiesler

  21. Trace Element Analysis of Bone from Past Populations in the Peninsula of Yucatan

    Article • MRS Proceedings, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  22. OPTICAL MONITORING OF BLEACHING AGENTS EFFECTS ON HUMAN DENTAL REMAINS

    Article • Instrumentation Science & Technology, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Vera Tiesler, Prof. Juan Jose Alvarado-Gil

  23. Trace-element evidence for foreigners at a Maya port in Northern Yucatan

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2011, Elsevier

    Vera Tiesler

  24. Carious lesions and maize consumption among the Prehispanic Maya: An analysis of a coastal community in northern Yucatan

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, May 2011, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  25. Henri Duday (translation by Anna Maria Cipriani and John Pearce), The Archaeology of the Dead: Lectures in Archaeothanatology (Studies in Funerary Archaeology 3, Oxford: Oxbow, 2009, x+158 pp., 143 figs., pbk, ISBN 978-1-84217-356-5)

    Article • European Journal of Archaeology, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Vera Tiesler

  26. A Taphonomic Approach to Late Classic Maya Mortuary Practices at Xuenkal, Yucatán, Mexico

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Vera Tiesler

  27. Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche

    Article • November 2010, University Press of Florida

    Vera Tiesler

  28. Introduction

    Article • November 2010, University Press of Florida

    Vera Tiesler

  29. Dying in the Colonies

    Article • November 2010, University Press of Florida

    Vera Tiesler

  30. Identity, Alienation, and Integration

    Article • November 2010, University Press of Florida

    Vera Tiesler

  31. "Olmec" Head Shapes Among the Preclassic Period Maya and Cultural Meanings

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, September 2010, Society for American Archaeology

    Vera Tiesler

  32. New Formulas to Estimate Age at Death in Maya Populations Using Histomorphological Changes in the Fourth Human Rib*

    Article • Journal of Forensic Sciences, March 2010, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  33. Cross‐sectional analysis of long bones, occupational activities and long‐distance trade of the Classic Maya from Xcambó—Archaeological and osteological evidence

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, March 2008, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  34. Janaab’ Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler ‐ Edited by Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina

    Article • Bulletin of Latin American Research, December 2007, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  35. Lifestyle, occupation, and whole bone morphology of the pre‐Hispanic Maya coastal population from Xcambó, Yucatan, Mexico

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, January 2007, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  36. New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society

    Article • January 2007

    Vera Tiesler

  37. New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Postsacrificial Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society: An Introduction

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  38. Funerary or Nonfunerary? New References in Identifying Ancient Maya Sacrificial and Postsacrificial Behaviors from Human Assemblages

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  39. Nutrition, Lifestyle, and Social Status of Skeletal Remains from Nonfunerary and “Problematical” Contexts

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  40. Sacred Spaces and Human Funerary and Nonfunerary Placements in Champotón, Campeche, During the Postclassic Period

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Vera Tiesler

  41. Procedures in Human Heart Extraction and Ritual Meaning: A Taphonomic Assessment of Anthropogenic Marks in Classic Maya Skeletons

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, December 2006, JSTOR

    Vera Tiesler

  42. Excavated Teeth Confirm African Slavery in Colonial Campeche

    Article • April 2006

    Vera Tiesler

  43. Early African diaspora in colonial Campeche, Mexico: Strontium isotopic evidence

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2006, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  44. Dental caries and antemortem tooth loss in the Northern Peten area, Mexico: A biocultural perspective on social status differences among the Classic Maya

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, April 2003, Wiley

    Vera Tiesler

  45. A Dynastic Tomb from Campeche, Mexico: New Evidence on Jaguar Paw, a Ruler of Calakmul

    Article • Latin American Antiquity, March 1999, JSTOR

    Vera Tiesler