John K Millhauser

Also known as: John K Millhauser

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7576-932X

Archaeology, Anthropology, Aztec, Mesoamerica

Works (24)

2022 journal article

Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology

BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, 272.

By: J. Millhauser & T. Earle*

author keywords: Anthropology; Archaeology; Biodiversity; Cultural evolution
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: January 30, 2023

2022 article

Islands in the Lake: Environment and Ethnohistory in Xochimilco, New Spain

Millhauser, J. K. (2022, September 1). JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, Vol. 53, pp. 365–366.

By: J. Millhauser

Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: October 24, 2022

2021 journal article

A place for archaeology in the study of money, finance, and debt

JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 62.

By: J. Baron* & J. Millhauser

author keywords: Archaeology; Economic anthropology; Money; Currency; Debt; Credit; Finance
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: July 19, 2021

2020 journal article

Commodity Chains in Archaeological Research: Cotton Cloth in the Aztec Economy

JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 28(2), 187–240.

By: J. Millhauser & L. Overholtzer*

author keywords: Commodity chains; Commodity circuits; Commodity networks; Cotton; Textiles; Aztec
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: June 15, 2020

2020 journal article

Let's get fiscal: The social relations of finance and technological change in Aztec and Colonial Mexico

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 60.

By: J. Millhauser

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2020 journal article

Wealth in people and the value of historic Oberlin Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina

ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY, 7(2), 176–189.

By: D. McGill, J. Millhauser, A. McGill, V. Melomo*, D. Bohnenstiehl & J. Wall

author keywords: Wealth in People; Cemeteries; Community-Based Research; African American Heritage
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: March 10, 2020

2020 journal article

Wealth inequality, social stratification, and the built environment in Late Prehispanic Highland Mexico: A comparative analysis with special emphasis on Tlaxcallan

JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 58.

By: L. Fargher*, R. Antorcha-Pedemonte*, V. Heredia Espinoza*, R. Blanton*, A. Lopez Corral*, R. Cook*, J. Millhauser, M. Marino* ...

author keywords: Wealth; Palaces; Collective action; Prehispanic Mesoamerica; Central Mexico; Oaxaca
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: June 15, 2020

2019 article

City, Craft, and Residence in Mesoamerica: Research Papers Presented in Honor of Dan M. Healan

Millhauser, J. (2019, December). LATIN AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 30, pp. 870–872.

By: J. Millhauser

Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: February 10, 2020

2019 article

Modes of Production and Archaeology

Millhauser, J. K. (2019, August). CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Vol. 29, pp. 546–548.

By: J. Millhauser

Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: July 29, 2019

2018 book

8 Sustainability as a Relative Process: A Long-Term Perspective on Sustainability in the Northern Basin of Mexico

In Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (Vol. 29, pp. 134–156).

By: J. Millhauser & C. Morehart*

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2018 book

Archaeologies of Political Ecology – Genealogies, Problems, and Orientations

In Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (Vol. 29, pp. 5–29).

By: C. Morehart*, J. Millhauser & S. Juarez*

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2018 journal article

Geochemical Variability in the Paredon Obsidian Source, Puebla and Hidalgo, Mexico: A Preliminary Assessment and Inter-Laboratory Comparison

ARCHAEOMETRY, 60(3), 453–470.

By: J. Millhauser, L. Bloch*, M. Golitko*, L. Fargher*, N. Xiuhtecutli*, V. Heredia Espinoza*, M. Glascock*

author keywords: obsidian; Mesoamerica; Mexico; Paredon; XRF; INAA
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2017 journal article

Debt as a double-edged risk: A historical case from Nahua (Aztec) Mexico

ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY, 4(2), 263–275.

By: J. Millhauser

author keywords: Debt; Aztec; Nahua; Slavery; Risk
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 chapter

Aztec Use of Lake Resources in the Basin of Mexico

In The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs.

By: D. Nichols, E. Rodríguez-Alegría & J. Milhauser

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2016 journal article

Monitoring cultural landscapes from space: Evaluating archaeological sites in the Basin of Mexico using very high resolution satellite imagery

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 363–376.

By: C. Morehart* & J. Millhauser

author keywords: Remote sensing; Satellite data; Site monitoring; Landscape archaeology; Survey; Mexico; Mesoamerica
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: February 24, 2020

2016 article

The Ambivalence of Maps: A Historical Perspective on Sensing and Representing Space in Mesoamerica

Digital Methods and Remote Sensing in Archaeology, pp. 247–268.

By: J. Millhauser & C. Morehart*

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2015 journal article

The geopolitics of obsidian supply in Postclassic Tlaxcallan: A portable X-ray fluorescence study

JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 58, 133–146.

By: J. Millhauser, L. Fargher*, V. Heredia Espinoza* & R. Blanton*

author keywords: Obsidian; Portable X-ray fluorescence; Tlaxcallan; Postclassic; Mesoamerica
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2014 journal article

Representing tenochtitlan: Understanding urban life by collecting material culture

Museum Anthropology, 37(1), 6–16.

By: E. Brumfiel* & J. Millhauser

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2014 journal article

Taken with a Grain of Salt: Experimentation and the Chemistry of Archaeological Ceramics from Xaltocan, Mexico

JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, 21(4), 862–898.

By: W. Stoner*, J. Millhauser, E. Rodriguez-Alegria*, L. Overholtzer* & M. Glascock*

author keywords: Experimental archaeology; Ceramics; Exchange; Chemical analysis; Mesoamerica; Technological choice
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2013 journal article

Trade, tribute, and neutron activation: The colonial political economy of Xaltocan, Mexico

JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 32(4), 397–414.

By: E. Rodriguez-Alegria*, J. Millhauser & W. Stoner*

author keywords: Colonial Mexico; Xaltocan; INAA; Ceramics; Obsidian; Trade; pXRF; Aztec; Spanish; Empires
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2011 journal article

Testing the accuracy of portable X-ray fluorescence to study Aztec and Colonial obsidian supply at Xaltocan, Mexico

Journal of Archaeological Science, 38(11), 3141–3152.

By: J. Millhauser, E. Rodríguez-Alegría* & M. Glascock*

author keywords: Obsidian; Central Mexico; Aztec; Colonial New Spain; Portable X-ray fluorescence
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: August 28, 2020

2011 journal article

Tlaxcallan: the archaeology of an ancient republic in the New World

Antiquity, 85(327), 172–186.

By: L. Fargher, R. Blanton, V. Espinoza, J. Millhauser, N. Xiuhtecutli & L. Overholtzer

author keywords: Mesoamerica; Tlaxcallan; Late Postclassic (AD 1250-1519); republic; urbanism; governance
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: August 28, 2020

2005 chapter

Classic and postclassic chipped stone at Xaltocan

In Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan (pp. 267–318).

By: J. Millhauser

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

2002 journal article

Malpaso Valley Obsidian Exchange

Archaeology Southwest, 16(1), 9.

By: J. Millhauser

Source: ORCID
Added: March 20, 2023

Employment

2012 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Associate Professor Sociology and Anthropology

Education

Northwestern University Evanston, IL, US
PhD Anthropology

Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, US
MA Anthropology

Brown University Providence, RI, US
BA Anthropology

Funding History

Funding history based on the linked ORCID record.

grant April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2017
The Relationship Between Household Organization And Governance
National Science Foundation - Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
grant December 1, 2010 - December 1, 2011
Salt of the Earth: Community and craft production at San Bartolome Salinas, a Postclassic and early Colonial salt-making village in Mexico
Sigma Xi
grant September 15, 2010 - August 31, 2012
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Salt-making, Craft, and Community at Postclassic and Early Colonial San Bartolome Salinas, Mexico
National Science Foundation
grant August 1, 2010 - August 1, 2011
Salt of the earth: Craft and community at Postclassic and Colonial San Bartolome Salinas, Mexico
Wenner-Gren Foundation