Publications

Feel free to contact us for any of these documents (if you cannot access through the links below), or those in the “Bibliography” section of this website.

Pamphlets & Other

Alabama Archaeological Site Information Pamphlet (2018)

Archaeology Information Pamphlet (2018)

Archaeology @ Alabama Information Sheet (2022)

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan, Sylvia Batty. 2021. Belize shows how local engagement is key in repatriating cultural artifacts from abroad. The Conversation Canada (Nov. 14, 2021).

Articles

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan. 2016. Settlement and Resource Development at Alabama, Belize: Past, Present, and Future Investigations. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 13:239-250.

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., Shawn G. Morton, Tawny L.B. Tibbits, and Lisa Green. 2017. Phase I Reconnaissance (2014-2015) at Alabama: A Summary of SCRAP Investigations in East-Central Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 14:299-309.

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M. 2017. Revisiting the Ancient Maya of Alabama, Belize: Description, Recent Research, and Future Directions.Mexicon 39(3): 64-72.

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., Shawn G. Morton, Cristina Oliveira. 2018. “Some lessons can’t be taught, they simply have to be learned”: Experiences from three seasons of investigations at Alabama, Stann Creek District. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 15:297-306.

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., and Shawn G. Morton. 2019. Maya Monumental ‘Boom’: Rapid Development, Hybrid Architecture, and ‘Pretentiousness’ in the Fabrication of Place at Alabama, East-Central Belize. Journal of Field Archaeology 44(4):250-266.

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., and Shawn G. Morton. 2019. Archaeological Reconnaissance at the Pearce Sites of the Cockscomb Basin, Stann Creek District.  Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 16:283-293.

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., Shawn G. Morton, and Jillian M. Jordan. 2020. Maya Archaeology of the Stann Creek District, Belize: Early Explorations to Recent Research. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 17:221-235.

Jordan, Jillian M., Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown, Sylvestro Chiac, Aurora Saqui, and Frank Tzib. 2021. It’s What’s Inside that Counts: Developing a paste group typology in Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103019 [open access]

Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan M., and Shawn G. Morton. 2021. People, Animals, Protected Places, and Archaeology: A Complex Collaboration in Belize. In Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature, edited by R.-H. Andersson, B. Cothran and S. Kekki, pp. 97–137. Helsinki University Press, Finland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/AHEAD-1-4. [open access]

Tibbits, Tawny, Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown, Marieka Brouwer Burg, Matthew Tibbits, Eleanor Harrison-Buck. 2023. Using X-Ray Fluorescence to Examine Ancient Maya Granite Ground Stone in Belize. Geoarchaeology 38(2): 156-173. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21944 [open access]

Reports

The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project: Report of the First (2014) Field Season, edited by M. Peuramaki-Brown and S. Schwake

The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project: Report of the Second (2015) Field Season, edited by M. Peuramaki-Brown

The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project: Report of the Third (2016) Field Season, edited by M. Peuramaki-Brown.

The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project: Report of the Fourth (2018) Field Season, edited by M. Peuramaki-Brown and S. G. Morton.

Results of Petrographic Analysis of Alabama Site Clays, Pottery and Building Materials. by L. Howie (2019).

The Alabama Ceramic Assemblage, Construction Materials, and Clay Survey (Operation 8), by J. M. Jordan (2019, draft).

The Stann Creek Regional Archaeology Project: Report of the Fifth (2019) Field Season, edited by M. Peuramaki-Brown and S. G. Morton.

Posters

Nondestructive Sourcing of Granite Ground Stone Tools from Belize Using pXRF (2016).

Trade Implications of Obsidian Source Analysis in the Stann Creek District of Belize (2016).

AMS14C Dating of Residential Construction & Occupation at the Ancient Maya Townsite of Alabama, East-Central Belize (2022). For further details (beyond poster content), click here.

News

AU, Centre for Social Sciences Newsletter (January 2016) . Features two entries about SCRAP project members, as well as a primatology field school located in Stann Creek District

Athabasca University, Open Magazine (Spring 2016) . Features article about SCRAP research at Alabama.

Athabasca University Hub (February 2019). “AU prof digs deeper into Maya archeology.”

Daily Herald Tribune (April 2021). “Connecting two countries: Bezanson and Belize provide archaeological opportunities.”