Selected publications

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2023.  Mirrors: Reflection and complementarity in Mesoamerican thought and practice. In Bodil Liljefors Persson, Harri Kettunen, and Christophe Helmke (eds.), Maya Religion and History, pp. 125-142. Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 31. München: Verlag Anton Saurwein.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2023.  Intercultural and interlingual contacts in Colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. In Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Trojszczak (eds.), Language in Educational and Cultural Perspectives, pp. 259-276. Cham: Springer.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2022.  History, re-creation, and change: Water in ancient Mesoamerican thought. In Walker Vadillo, Veronica, Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, and Elisabeth Holmqvist (eds.), Down by the Water: Interdisciplinary Studies in Human-Environment Interactions in Watery Spaces, pp. 151-163. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2022.  The history of naming and the naming of history: Toponymic plurality in Mesoamerican historical landscapes. In Chrismi-Rinda Loth (ed.), Standardisation and the Wealth of Place Names: Aspects of a Delicate Relationship, pp. 191-206. Bloemfontein: SunBonani. 

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2022.  Gesture, posture, and meaning in the Ulúa cultural sphere. In Amy J. Maitland Gardner and Carl Walsh (eds.), Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication, pp. 163-180. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Hudson, Kathryn M., John S. Henderson, and Mallory E. Matsumoto.  2022.  Choosing collapse: Crisis and transformation as agentive action in southeastern Mesoamerica. In Harri Kettunen, Christophe Helmke, Felix Kupprat and Rosa-Maria Worm Danbo (eds.), Post-Apocalypto: Crisis and Resilience in the Maya World, pp. 71-83. Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 30. München: Verlag Anton Saurwein.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2021.  A monstrous morality: Tzitzimime and their relatives as enforcers of social control. Ethnologia Actualis, special issue, 21(1):37-57.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2021.  Memories of the Maya: national histories, cultural identities, and academic orthodoxy. In Troubled Pasts and Memory Politics, Studia Territorialia special issue, 21(1):11-44.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2021.  Script, image, and culture in the Maya world: a southeastern perspective. In Philip Boyes, Philippa Steele, and Natalia Elvira Astoreca (eds.), The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices, pp. 231-248. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Hudson, Kathryn M., John S. Henderson, and Mallory E. Matsumoto.  2019.  Verticality, commemoration, and demarcative practice in the construction of Copán’s historical landscape. In Milan Kováč, Harri Kettunen, and Guido Krempel (eds.), Maya Cosmology: Terrestrial and Celestial Landscapes, pp. 43-55. Acta Mesoamericana, Vol. 29. München: Verlag Anton Saurwein.

Morell-Hart, Shanti, Rosemary A. Joyce, John S. Henderson, and Rachel Cane.  2019.  Ethnoecology in prehispanic Central America: Foodways and human-plant interfaces. Ancient Mesoamerica 30(3):535-553.

Henderson, John S. and Kathryn M. Hudson.  2019.  Chasing chocolate: transfers, transformations, and continuities in the history of cacao. In Martina Kaller and Frank Jacob (eds.), Transatlantic Trade and Global Cultural Transfers Since 1492: More than Commodities, pp. 15-29. New York: Routledge.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2018.  Writing pictures and painting words: the inherent hybridity of Mayan writing. Signata: Annales des Sémiotiques 9:253-289.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2018.  (Re)considering the archaeo-linguistics of Mesoamerica. In Rune Iversen
and Guus Kroonen (eds.), Digging for Words: Archaeolinguistic Case Studies from the XV Nordic TAG Conference, pp. 20-30. British Archaeological Reports, International Series S2888.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2017.  Motherhood, personhood, identity, and place-making in ancient Mesoamerica. In Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan (eds.), Motherhood in Antiquity, pp. 223-256. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2017.  Long-distance exchange and centralized political power in precolumbian America. In Donald C. Wood (ed.), Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism, pp. 87-114. Research in Economic Anthropology Vol. 37.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2017.  “Olmec” pottery in Honduras. In Jeffrey P. Blomster and David Cheetham (eds.), The Early Olmec and Mesoamerica: The Material Record, pp. 264-287. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Henderson, John S. and Kathryn M. Hudson.  2016.  Places of beginning, modes of belonging: steambaths and caves in Mesoamerica. Contributions in New World Archaeology 10:149-182.

Henderson, John S. and Kathryn M. Hudson.  2015.  The myth of Maya: archaeology and the construction of Mesoamerican histories. In Harri Kettunen and Christophe Helmke (eds.), On Methods: How We Know What We Think We Know About the Maya, pp. 7-24. Acta Mesoamericana Vol. 28. Markt Schwaben: Verlag Anton Saurwein.

Henderson, John S.  2015.  Calendar structures for Venus in Mesoamerican divinatory books: common approaches to commensuration and correction. Journal for the History of Astronomy 46(4):387-412.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2015.  Weaving words and interwoven meanings: textual polyvocality and visual literacy in the reading of Copán’s Stela J. Image: Zeitschrift für Interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft 22:108-128.

Henderson, John S.  2015.  Cacao and chocolate. In Karen B. Metheny and Mary C. Beaudry (eds.), The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia, pp. 84-87. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2014.  Talking to the Past: endangerment, history, and the economics of language in northwest Honduras. In Patrick Heinrich and Nicholas Ostler (eds.), Indigenous Languages: Their Value to the Community, pp. 27-36. Proceedings of the 18th FEL Conference.

Morell-Hart, Shanti, Rosemary Joyce, and John S. Henderson.  2014.  Multi-proxy analysis of plant use at Formative Period Los Naranjos, Honduras. Latin American Antiquity 25(1):65-81.

Hudson, Kathryn M. and John S. Henderson.  2014.  Life on the Edge – Identity and Interaction in the Land of Ulúa and the Maya World. In Janne Ikäheimo, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, and Tiina Äikäs (eds.), Sounds Like Theory, pp. 157-171. Monographs of the Archaeological Society of Finland 2.

Henderson, John S.  and Kathryn M. Hudson.  2012.  The southeastern fringe of Mesoamerica.  In Christopher A. Pool and Deborah L. Nichols (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology, pp. 482-494. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2010.  Being “Olmec” in Formative Honduras.  Ancient Mesoamerica 21(1):187-200.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2010.  Forming Mesoamerican taste: cacao consumption in Formative Period contexts.  In John E. Staller and Michael Carrasco (eds.), Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica, pp. 157-173. New York: Springer.

Christina Luke and John S. Henderson.  2009.  El saqueo del Valle del Ulúa, Honduras, y un análisis del mercado para sus antigüedades.  Yaxkin  25(2):23-52.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2007.  From feasting to cuisine: implications of archaeological research in an early Honduran village. American Anthropologist 109(4): 642-653.

Henderson, John S., Rosemary Joyce, Gretchen R. Hall, W. Jeffrey Hurst, and Patrick E. McGovern.  2007.  Chemical and archaeological evidence for the earliest cacao beverages.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104(48):18937–18940.

Henderson, John S. and Rosemary Joyce.  2006.  Brewing distinction: the development of cacao beverages in Formative Mesoamerica. In Cameron L. McNeil (ed.), Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao, pp. 140-153. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Luke, Christina and John S. Henderson.  2006.  The plunder of the Ulua Valley, Honduras and a market analysis for its antiquities. In Neil Brodie, Morag Kersel, Christina Luke, Kathryn Walker Tubb (eds.), Archaeology and the Commodification of Material Culture, pp. 147-172. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Henderson, John S. and Rosemary Joyce.  2004.  Human use of animals in prehispanic Honduras: A preliminary report from the lower Ulúa Valley, Honduras. In K. F. Emery (ed.), Maya Zooarchaeology: New Directions in Method and Theory, pp. 223-236. UCLA, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 51.

Henderson, John S. and Rosemary Joyce.  2004.  Puerto Escondido: exploraciones preliminares del Formativo Temprano.  VII Seminario de Antropología de Honduras “Dr. George Hasemann,” pp. 93-113. Instituto  Hondureño de Antropología e Historia. Tegucigalpa.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2003.  Investigaciones recientes de la arqueología del período Formativo en Honduras: nuevos datos sobre el intercambio y la producción de cerámica pan-mesoamericana (o “estilo olmeca”). In J.P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. Escobedo, and H. Mejía (eds.), XVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, pp. 819-827. Guatemala: Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología.

Luke, Christina, Rosemary A. Joyce, John S. Henderson, and Robert H. Tykot.  2003.  Stone vase traditions in Mesoamerica: a case from Honduras. In L. Lazzarini (ed.), ASMOSIA 6: Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone, pp. 485-496. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Venice, June 15-18, 2000.  Padova: Bottega d’Erasmo.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2002.  La arqueología del periodo Formativo en Honduras: nuevos datos sobre el «estilo olmeca» en la zona maya. Mayab 15:5-17.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2001.  Beginnings of village life in eastern Mesoamerica. Latin American Antiquity 12(1):5-23.

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson.  2001.  Los comienzos de la vida aldeana en Mesoamérica oriental. Yaxkin  20:19-46.

Henderson, John S. and Rosemary Joyce.  1998.  Investigaciones arqueológicas en Puerto Escondido: definición del Formativo Temprano en el valle inferior del Río Ulúa. Yaxkin 17:5-35.

Henderson, John S.  1997.  World of the Ancient Maya. 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Sabloff, Jeremy A. and Henderson, John S. (eds.).  1993.  Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A.D.  Washington: Dumbarton Oaks.

Henderson, John S. and Patricia J. Netherly (eds.).  1993.  Configurations of Power: Holistic Anthropology in Theory and Practice.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Henderson, John S. and Marilyn P. Beaudry-Corbett (eds.).  1993.  Pottery of Prehistoric Honduras: Regional Classification and Analysis.  UCLA Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 35.

Henderson, John S.  1993.  El mundo maya.  In R.M. Carmack (ed.), Historia General de Centroamérica, Vol. I: Historia Antigua, pp. 61-133.  San José: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales.

Henderson, John S.  1992.  Variations on a theme: a frontier view of Maya civilization.  In Elin C. Danien and Robert J. Sharer (eds.), New Theories on the Ancient Maya, pp. 161-171. Philadelphia: University Museum.

Henderson, John S.  1992.  Elites and ethnicity along the southeastern fringe of Mesoamerica.  In D.Z. Chase and A.F. Chase (eds.), Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment, pp. 157-68.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Beaudry, Marilyn P., Ronald L. Bishop, John S, Henderson, and Kenneth G. Hirth.  1989.  Determining ceramic production: a view from Honduras. In Charles C. Kolb (ed.), Ceramic Ecology, 1988: Current Research on Ceramic Materials, pp. 97-115.  BAR International Series, 513.

Henderson, John S.  1988.  Investigaciones arqueológicas en el Valle de Sula.  Yaxkin 11(1):5-30.

Henderson, John S.  1987.  Frontier at the crossroads.  In E.J. Robinson (ed.), Interaction on the Southeast Mesoamerican Frontier:  Prehistoric and Historic Honduras and El Salvador, pp. 455-462.  BAR International Series, 327.

Henderson, John S. And Ricardo Agurcia F.  1987.  Ceramic systems: facilitating comparison in type-variety analysis.  In Prudence M. Rice and Robert J. Sharer (eds.), Maya Ceramics:  Papers from the 1985 Maya Ceramic Conference, pp. 431-438.  BAR International Series, 345.

Henderson, John S. (ed.).  1984.  Archaeology in Northwestern Honduras: Interim Reports of the Proyecto Arqueologico Sula.  Vol. I.  Occasional Papers.  Latin American Studies and Archaeology Programs, Cornell University.

Henderson, John S., Ricardo Agurcia F. and Thomas A. Murray.  1982.  El Proyecto Arqueológico Sula:  metas, estrategias y resultados preliminares.  Yaxkin 5(2): 82-88.

Henderson, John S.  1979.  Atopula, Guerrero, and Olmec Horizons in Mesoamerica. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Number 77.

Henderson, John S., Ilene Sterns, Antony W. Wonderley, and Patricia A. Urban.  1979.  Archaeological investigations in the Valle de Naco, northwestern Honduras:  a preliminary report. Journal of Field Archaeology 6(2): 169-192.

Henderson, John S., Ilene Sterns, Antony W. Wonderley, and Patricia A. Urban.  1979.  Investigaciones arqueológicas en el Valle de Naco, Honduras occidental:  un informe preliminar.  Yaxkin 3(2): 77-119.

Henderson, John S.  1978.  El noroeste de Honduras y la frontera oriental maya. Yaxkin 2(4): 241-253.

Henderson, John S.  1977.  The Valle de Naco:  ethnohistory and archaeology in northwestern Honduras. Ethnohistory 24(4): 363-377.

Henderson, John S.  1976.  Pre-Columbian trade networks in northwestern Honduras.  Journal of Field Archaeology 3(3): 342-346.

Henderson, John S.  1976.  Vínculos comerciales precolumbinos en el noroeste de Honduras. Yaxkin 1(3): 14-20.

Henderson, John S.  1974.  Origin of the 260-day cycle in Mesoamerica. Science 185: 542.

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