Peer Reviewed Publications
Scarborough, V.L. and Lisa Lucero. 2011 “The Non-Hierarchical Development of Complexity in the Semitropics: Water and Cooperation”(invited).  Water History 2(2):185-205.

Scarborough, V.L. Lisa Lucero and Joel Gunn. 2011 “Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management. Special Issue, “Managing Water Resources and Development in a Changing Climate.” Water 3, 479-494. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1998. “Ecology and Ritual: Water Management and the Maya.” Latin American Antiquity 8(2): 135-159. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1994. “Mesoamerican Graffiti.” The Sciences 34(2): 40-45. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1992. “Flow of Power.” The Sciences 32: 38-43. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1992. “La Distribution de l’Eau dans l’Empire Maya.” La Recherche 23: 924-926.

Scarborough, V.L., G. Gallopin. 1991.”A Water Storage Adaptation in the Maya Lowlands.” Science 251: 658-662. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1989. “Site Structure of a Village of the Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period in New Mexico.” Journal of Field Archaeology 16(4):405-425. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1988. “Pakistani Water: 4500 Years of Manipulation.” Focus 38(1):12-17. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. 1988. “A Water Storage Adaption in the America Southwest.” Journal of Anthropological Research 44(1): 21-40. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L. and R. Robertson. 1986. “Civic and Residential Settlement at a Late Preclassic Maya Center.” Journal of Field Archaeology 13: 155-175. [Link]

Scarborough, V.L., B. Mitchum, H. Carr, and D. Freidel. 1982. “Two Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize.” Journal of Field Archaeology 9: 21-34. [Link]

Book Chapters
Scarborough, V.L. and W. Burnside.  2010. “Global Change: Mapping Culture onto Climate.” In Climate Crises in the Human Past, edited by Claudio Vita-Finzi and Robert Giegengack. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.

Scarborough, V.L.  2009. “Beyond Sustainability: Managed Wetlands and Water Harvesting in Ancient Mesoamerica” In “The Socio-Natural Connection: Integrating Archaeology and Environmental Studies.”, edited by C.T. Fisher, J.B. Hill, and G.M. Feinman. University of Arizona Press.

Scarborough, VL.  2009. “Beyond Sustainability: Managed Wetlands and Water Harvesting in Ancient Mesoamerica.” pp. 62-82 In The Archaeology of Environmental Change: Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience, edited by C. T. Fisher, J. B. Hill, and G. M. Feinman . University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Scarborough, V.L., C.L Redman, C.L. Crumley, F. Hassan, K.F. Hole, Morais, F. Riedel, J.A. Tainter, P. Turchin and Y. Yasuda. 2007. “Group Report: Millennial Perspective on the Dynamic Interaction of Climate, People, and Resources” pp. 115-148 in “Sustainablility or Collapse? Integrated History and of Future of People on Earth (IHOPE).”, edited by R. Costanza, L. Graumlich, and W. Steffen. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Dahlem Workshop Report 96R. Junior Author

Scarborough, V.L. and J. Clark. 2007. “Introduction.” pp. 1-10 in “The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods.”, edited by V.L. Scarborough and J. Clark. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 2007. “The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Maya: A Case Study in Political Ecology” pp. 51-60 in “Sustainability or Collapse? Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE).”, edited by R. Costanza, L. Gramlich and W. Steffen. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Scarborough, V.L.  2007. “Colonizing a Landscape: Water and Wetlands in Ancient Mesoamerica.” pp. 163-174 in “The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica: Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods”, edited by V.L. Scarborough and J. Clark. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Author 0826342981

Scarborough, V.L. 2006. “An Overview of Mesoamerican Water Systems.” pp. 223-236 in “Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual and Power”, edited by B.L. Fash and L.J. Lucero. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 2006. “Intensification and the Political Economy: A Contextual Overview.” pp. 401-418 in “Agricultural Strategies”, edited by J. Marcus and C. Stanish. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.

Scarborough, V.L., J.S. Lansing and J.W. Schoenfelder. 2006. “Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology.” pp. 325-358 in “Reimagining Political Ecology”, edited by A. Biersack and J.B. Greenberg. Durham: Duke University Press.  978-0-8223-3685-3

Scarborough, V.L. 2005. “Landscapes of Power”  pp. 209-228 in “A Catalyst for Ideas: Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas W. Schwartz.”  edited by V.L. Scarborough. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 2005. “Introduction.” pp. 3-18 in “A Catalyst for Ideas: Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas W. Schwartz”, edited by V.L. Scarborough. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Scarborough, V.L., R.E.W. Adams, et al. 2004. “Programme for Belize Archaeological Project: A History of Archaeological Research.” pp. 175-184 in Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 Belize Archaeology Symposium, edited by J. Awe, J. Morris, and S. Jones. Belmopan, Belize: Institute of Archaeology. Second Author.

Scarborough, V.L., F. Valdez. 2003. “The Engineered Environment and Political Economy of the Three Rivers Region.” pp. 3-13 in “Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatan Peninsula”, edited by V.L. Scarborough et al. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 978-0816522736 Senior Author

Schreiber, Katharina and Josue Lancho Rojas. 2003. “Forward.” pp. xv-xviii in “Irrigation and Society in the Peruvian Desert: The Puquios of Nasca”. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Scarborough, V.L., F. Valdez, and N. Dunning. 2003. “Introduction: Archaeological Research in the Three Rivers Region” pp. xiii-xx in “Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatan Peninsula.”, edited by V.L. Scarborough, et al. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Beach, Timothy, Sheryl Luzzadder Beach, Nicholas Dunning and V.L. Scarborough. 2003. “Depression Soils in the Lowland Tropics of Northwestern Belize: Anthropogenic and Natural Origins.” pp. 139-174 in “Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface”, edited by A. Gomez-Pompa, M.F. Allen, S.L. Fedick, and J.J. Jimenez-Osornio. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 2003. “Ballcourts and Reservoirs: The Social Construction of a Tropical Landscape.” pp. 77-92 in “Maya Space: Representations, Uses and Beliefs.”, edited by A. Breton, A. Monod Becquelin, and M.H. Ruz. Mexico: Centro de Estudios Mayas (UNAM)/CEMCA.

Scarborough, V.L. 2002. “Physical and Cultural Properties of Ancient Water Management.” pp. 1-28 in “Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems”, edited by D. Hardesty. Oxford, England: UNESCO.

Scarborough, V.L. 2001. “Hydrology.” pp. 352-356 in “The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: an Encyclopedia”, edited by S. Evans and D. Webster. New York: Garland Publishing.

Scarborough, V.L. 2001. “Ballgame.” pp. 67-71 in “The Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: an Encyclopedia”, edited by S. Evans and D. Webster. New York: Garland Publishing.

Scarborough, V.L. 2000. “Resilience, Resource Use, and Socioeconomic Organization: A Mesoamerican Pathway.” pp. 195-212 in “Natural Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response”, edited by G. Bawden and R. Reycraft. Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and the University of New Mexico Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 1996. “Reservoirs and Watersheds in the Central Maya Lowlands.” pp. 304-314 in “The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use”, edited by S. Fedick. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 1996. “Water, Power, and Organizational Planes.” in “V Encuentro: Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya”, edited by W. Folan. Campeche, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Campeche.

Scarborough, V.L.  1994. “Water Management as a Function of Locational and Appropriational Movements and the Case of the Classic Maya of Tikal.” pp. 105-121 in “From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies”, edited by C.M. Duncan and D.W. Tandy. Montreal, Canada: Black Rose Books.

Scarborough, V.L. 1993. “Introduction.” pp. 1-14 in “Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World”, edited by V.L. Scarborough and B.L. Isaac. Greenwich: JAI Press. From “Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 7.”

Scarborough, V.L.  1993. “Water Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands: An Accretive Model for the Engineered Landscape.” pp. 17-69 in “Economic Aspects of Water Management in the Prehispanic New World”, edited by V.L. Scarborough and B.L. Isaac. Greenwich: JAI Press. From “Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 7”

Scarborough, V.L. 1992. “Ceramics, Sedentism, and Agricultural Dependency at a Late Pithouse-Early Pueblo Period Village.” pp. 307-333 in “Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 6”, edited by B.L. Isaac. Greenwich: JAI Press.

Scarborough, V.L.  1991. “The Mesoamerican Ballgame.” pp. 129-144 in “Courting the Maya Lowlands: A Study in Pre-Hispanic Ballgame Architecture”, edited by V.L. Scarborough and D. Wilcox. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 1991. “Water Management Adaptations in Non-Industrial Complex Societies: An Archaeological Perspective.” pp. 101-154 in “Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 3”, edited by M.B. Schiffer. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 1986. “The Dispersed Settlement.” pp. 23-44 in “Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America, Volume I”, edited by R.A. Robertson and D.A. Freidel. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 1986. “Mongollon Variability.” pp. 271-284 in “Meyer Pithouse Village: A Preliminary Assessment”, edited by C. Benson and S. Upham. Las Cruces, New Mexico: New Mexico State University, The University Museum, Occasional Papers, Num.

Scarborough, V.L. 1986. “Drainage Canal and Raised Field Excavations.” pp. 75-88 in “Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America, Volume I”, edited by R.A. Robertson and D.A. Freidel. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press.

Scarborough, V.L. 1985. “Late Preclassic Northern Belize: Context and Interpretation.” pp. 331-344 in “Status, Structure and Stratification: Current Archaeological Reconstructions, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Chacmool Conference”, edited by M. Thompson, M.T. Garcia, and F.J. Kense. University of Calgary.

Scarborough, V.L. 1985. “The Anapra Pueblo Site.” pp. 129-136 in “Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Jornada Mongollon Conference”, edited by M.S. Foster and T.C. O’Laughlin. El Paso.  “The Artifact”, vol. 23, nos. 1 and 2

Scarborough, V.L. 1983. “Raised Field Detection at Cerros, Northern Belize.” pp. 123-136 in “Drained Field Agriculture in Central and South America”, edited by J.P. Darch. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Scarborough, V.L. 1982. “Subsistence, Trade and Development of the Coastal Maya.” pp. 131-151 in “Maya Subsistence: Studies in Memory of Dennis E. Puleston”, edited by K.V. Flannery. New York: Academic Press.

Other Publications

Scarborough, V. L. 2009. “Future of Planet Earth: Seminar Proceedings”. Sponsored by UNESCO/Man and Biosphere Programme and Foundation For the Future, Paris, France, published by Foundation for the Future, Seattle, WA.

Scarborough, V.L., Connolly, Robert., Ross, Steven. 2003. “Water Management at Kinal and Adjacent Sites.” Ixcanrio Research Reports 1&2: The 1990-1991Seasons, edited by R.E.W Adams and F.Valdez, Jr., 340, 393. University of Texas at San Antonio

Scarborough, V.L. 2001. “Archaeologicqal Investigations of the Meyer Pithouse Village, Fort Bliss, Texas.” 2, (Appendices), Appendix A and B. 2001S (edited by John A. Peterson). US Army Air Defense Artillery Center and Fort Bliss, Directorate of the Environment, Conservation Division, Fort Bliss, Texas

Scarborough, V.L. 2001. “Archaeological Investigations of the Meyer Pithouse Village, Fort Bliss, Texas.” 1, Chapters 2, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18. 2001S (edited by John A. Peterson). U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center and Fort Bliss, Texas.

Scarborough, V.L. 1994. “Water Management Studies at Midea and Adjacent Areas, Greece.”  Report submitted to Professor Gisela Walber and the Classics Department, University of Cincinnati.

Scarborough, V.L., Becher, M.E., Baker, J.L., Harris, G., Hensz, J.D. 1992. “Water Management Studies at La Milpa, Belize.” 1992S Report submitted to National Geographic Society, Grant No.4595-91

Scarborough, V.L., Cliff, M.B., Baird, L., Garber, J.F. 1981. “Archaeology and History of Lake Ray Roberts, Vol.2, Testing of Sites Environmental Consultants, Inc. Dallas.”

Scarborough, V.L. 1975. “Archaeological Survey in the Jefferson Planning Units of Jefferson County, Montana. WICHE, Boulder.”

Scarborough, V.L. 1974. “Archaeologial and Historical Survey in the West Dillion and Tendoy Mountain Planning Units of Beaverhead County, Montana. WICHE, Boulder.”