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2007d

The Divine Gourd Tree: Tzompantli Skull Racks, Decapitation Rituals, and Human Trophies in Ancient Mesoamerica. In The Taking and Displaying of Human Trophies by Amerindians, Edited by Richard Chacon and David Dye. New York: Springer Press. [Forthcoming 2007]

2007c

2007b

Problems in Paradise, Volume 2: Warfare, Violence and Human Sacrifice Among the Indigenous Peoples of North America, Edited by Richard Chacon and Ruben Mendoza. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. [Forthcoming 2007]

2007a

Problems in Paradise, Volume 1: Warfare, Violence and Human Sacrifice Among the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, Edited by Richard Chacon and Ruben Mendoza. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. [Forthcoming 2007]

2006d

Cornerstones: A Report of the California Missions Foundation – The Challenges of Mission Conservation. In Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 23, Number 1 [Forthcoming: Fall, 2006].

2006c

Hispanic Sacred Geometry and the Architecture of the Divine. In The Journal of the Southwest [Forthcoming 2006]

2006b

Book Review: Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions by James A. Sandos. In Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies [Forthcoming 2006].

2006a

Epifania de Guadalupe Vallejo, 1835-1905 (Mexican American pioneer photographer). In Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, pp. 783-786. Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Editors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2005e

Cornerstones: A Report of the California Missions Foundation – San Juan Bautista's Mission Conservation Program. In Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 22, Number 2, pp. 79-85. Fall, 2005.

2005d

Sacrament of the Sun: Eschatological Architecture and Solar Geometry in a California Mission. In Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 22, Number 1, pp. 87-110. Spring, 2005.

2005c

Low Riders. In Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, Volume 3, pp. 50-53. Ilan Stavans, Editor in Chief; Harold Augenbraum, Associate Editor. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Academic Reference, an imprint of Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc.

2005b

Adobe. In Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States, Volume 1, pp. 16-17. Ilan Stavans, Editor in Chief; Harold Augenbraum, Associate Editor. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Academic Reference, an imprint of Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc.

2005a

El Tajín Is Built, c. 600-950. In Great Events from History: The Middle Ages, 477-1453, Volume I, pp. 53-55. Edited by Brian A. Pavlac. Pasadena: Salem Press.

2004d

Ethnicity. In The Southwest: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures. A Greenwood Reference Series. Mark Busby, Editor. William Ferris, Consulting Editor. Pp. 111-146. New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated. [David Leedom Shaul, co-author]

2004c

Construction of the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacán - c. 100-200 B.C.E. In Great Events from History: The Ancient World, pp. 807-810. Pasadena: Salem Press.

2004b

Founding of the Classic Period Maya Royal Dynasty at Tikal. In Great Events from History: The Ancient World, 794-797. Pasadena: Salem Press.

2004a

Izapan Civilization Dominates Mesoamerica – c. 300 B.C.E. In Great Events from History: The Ancient World, pp. 554-556. Pasadena: Salem Press.

2003e

Lords of the Medicine Bag: Medical Science and Traditional Practice in Ancient Peru and South America. In Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 225-257. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

2003d

Maize: The Natural History of Maize. In Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Volume 2: Food Production to Nuts, pp. 417-424. Solomon H. Katz, Editor in Chief, Scribner Library of Daily Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

2003c

Maize as a Food. In Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Volume 2: Food Production to Nuts, pp. 424-431. Solomon H. Katz, Editor in Chief, Scribner Library of Daily Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. [With Irene Casas, co-author]

2003b

Swidden. In Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Volume 3: Obesity to Zoroastrianism, Index. Pp. 374-376. Solomon H. Katz, Editor in Chief, Scribner Library of Daily Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

2003a

Book Review: Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of the Mexican American by Martha Menchaca. In Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring, 2003. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

2002i

This Old Mission: San Juan Bautista, Archaeology, and the Hispanic Tradition. In California Mission Studies Association Newsletter, October, 2002. Reprinted from Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 12(9): 28-31. Paramus, New Jersey. February 11, 2002.

2002h

San Juan Bautista: An Archaeologist's View of an Early California Mission. Text and Photos by Ruben G. Mendoza. Sacramento: California Missions Foundation.

2002g

Book Review: Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California, by Douglas Monroy. In Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. 12(18): 35. Paramus, New Jersey. July 15, 2002.

2002f

Book Review: The Aztec Palimpsest: Mexico in the Modern Imagination, by Daniel Cooper Alarcón.   In Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 12(13): 42.  Paramus, New Jersey.  April 8, 2002.

2002e

This Old Mission: San Juan Bautista, Archaeology, and the Hispanic Tradition.  In Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education.  12(9): 28-31.  Paramus, New Jersey.  February 11, 2002.

2002d

Kerma.  In Encyclopedia of the Ancient World.  Volume 3, pp. 704-705.  Thomas J. Sienkewicz, editor.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2002c

El Tajin.  In Encyclopedia of the Ancient World.  Volume 2, pp. --.  Thomas J. Sienkewicz, editor.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2002b

California Peoples.  In Encyclopedia of the Ancient World.  Volume 2, pp. 371-372.  Thomas J. Sienkewicz, editor.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2002a

Atlatl.  In Encyclopedia of the Ancient World.  Volume 1, pp. --.  Thomas J. Sienkewicz, editor.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2001n

West African Empires, 400-1591 C.E.  In Weapons and Warfare. John Powell, editor.  Pp. 291-295.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2001m

Book Review: City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization, by David Carrasco.  In Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 12(1): 47.  Paramus, New Jersey.  October 8, 2001.

2001l

Mesoamerican Chronology: Periodization.  In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures .  Volume 2, pp. 222-226.  David Carrasco, Editor.  New York: Oxford University Press.

2001k

Transportation.  In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures.  Volume 3, pp. 260-262.  David Carrasco, Editor.  New York: Oxford University Press.

2001j

Chenes. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures.  Volume 1, pp. 176-178.  David Carrasco, Editor.  New York: Oxford University Press.

2001i

Jade and Greenstone.  In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures.  Volume 2, pp. 65-66.  David Carrasco, Editor.  New York: Oxford University Press.

2001h

Tribal Warfare.  In Magill's Guide to Military History.  John Powell, editor.  Pp. 1559-1561.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2001g

Zulu Wars of Empire.  In Magill's Guide to Military History.  John Powell, editor.  Pp. 1701-1703.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2001f

Kingdom of Meroe.  In Magill's Guide to Military History.  John Powell, editor.  Pp. 991-992.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2001e

Aztec Empire.  In Magill's Guide to Military History.  John Powell, editor.  Pp. 155-157.  Pasadena: Salem Press.

2001d

The Virtual Learning Lab: Facilitated Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment. In Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Cultures -- Effective Use of Technology for Language Learning: What Works and What We've Learned .  Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, Richard Donovan, Thomas F. Abbott, and Phillip Kennedy, editors.  Pp. 167-195.  San Diego, California: LARC Press, Language Arts Resource Center, California State University, San Diego.

2001c

An Archaeological Approach to Teaching U.S. Cultural Diversity.   In Cultural Diversity in the United States: A Critical Reader.  Edited by Ida Susser and Thomas C. Patterson. Pp. 414-433.  Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

2001b

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel.  In America's Historic Sites, Volume 1, Alabama-Indiana, pp. 147-151. Tracy Irons-Georges, Managing Editor.  Pasadena, California: Salem Press, Inc.

2001a

Mission San Juan Capistrano.  In America's Historic Sites, Volume 1, Alabama-Indiana, pp. 151-154.  Tracy Irons-Georges, Managing Editor.  Pasadena, California: Salem Press, Inc.

2000b

Cruising Art and Culture in Aztlán: Lowriding in the Mexican American Southwest.  In U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives.  Francisco A. Lomelí and Karin Ikas, Editors.  Pps. 3-35.  Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Winter-Verlag.

2000a

Villains Honored and Heroes Unsung: California State University Historian on the Vallejos of California.  In The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education 10(23): 35-37.  Paramus, NJ.  August 11, 2000.

1999c

Archaeology, Multimedia and Online Collections Management for Old Mission San Juan Bautista.  In Southwestern Mission Research Center Newsletter 33(121): 22-28.  Tucson: Arizona State Museum. December.

1999b

Missions of the Spanish Friars.  In Encyclopedia of North American History.  John C. Super, Consulting Editor.  Pp. 801-803.  Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.  [With Ken Halla].

1999a

Mesoamerican Civilizations.  In Encyclopedia of North American History .  John C. Super, Consulting Editor.  Pp. 755-759.  Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.  [With Brenda Pobre].

1997e

Trephination.  In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 985-986. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

1997d

Metallurgy in Meso and Native America. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures.  Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 730-733. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

1997c

City Planning: Maya City Planning. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 205-208.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

1997b

Medicine in Meso and South America.  In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 702-706. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.  [With Jay R. Wolter].

1997a

Road Networks in Ancient Native America.  In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures.  Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 868-872.  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.  [With Gretchen Jordan].

1996b

Mural Art.  In The Latino Encyclopedia. Richard Chabran and Rafael Chabran, Editors.  Pps. 1084-1088. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.

1996a

Mayan Civilization. In The Latino Encyclopedia. Richard Chabran and Rafael Chabran, Editors.  Pps. 959-964.  New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation.

1994

Hispanic Traditional Technology and Material Culture in the United States.  In Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology , Thomas Weaver, ed. Pp. 59-84. Madrid, Spain: Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana (ICI) and Houston, Texas: The University of Houston and Arte Publico Press [With Cruz Torres].

1993

Invited Book Review of: Human Paleopathology: Current Synthesis and Future Options , edited by Donald J. Ortner and Arthur C. Aufderheide.  In American Antiquity 58(2): 380.

1992b

Mexico Before the Aztec: The Origins of Central Highland Civilization. Museum Quarterly, Vol. 1, No.1, pp. 10-15, Autumn. Denver Museum of Natural History, Colorado.

1992a

Conquest Polities of the Mesoamerican Epiclassic: Circum-Basin Regionalism, A.D. 550-850.  Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis.  Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International.

1986b

Plant and Animal Domestication: Direct Versus Indirect Evidence. Antiquity LX: 1-14.  St. John's College, Cambridge.

1986a

Herencia Mexicana: The Mexican Americans of Kern County,1870-1955. Mexican Heritage Project Fund, Bakersfield, California.

1984

Notes on the Aboriginal Use of Waterways and Reservoirs in the Southern San Joaquin.  In Kern County Archaeological Society Journal, Number 2 , pp. 21-23.

1983

The Lowrider Happening: Hydraulics and the Hopping Competition. Caminos Magazine 4(7): 34, 44.

1981c

The Deer Hunters: Star Carr Reconsidered.  World Archaeology 13(1): 31-46. [Co-authored with Andresen, et al.]

1981b

Journey to Aztlan: An Anthropologist Among the Lowriders. Q-vo Magazine 3(2): 18-19.

1981a

The Low Rider Ritual: Social Mobility on Wheels. Minority Notes 2(1/2): 10-11, & 30 (Reprinted).

1977

Worldview and the Monolithic Temples of Malinalco, Mexico: Iconography and Analogy in Precolumbian Architecture. Journal de la Societe des Americanistes 64: 63-82.

1975

The Nahuatl Temples and Their Relationship to Cosmology: The Testing of an Hypothesis. Southwestern Anthropological Association Newsletter, Vol. XV, No. 1, pp. 3-8.

Architectural History of Mission San Juan Bautista
          By Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D.  - Institute of Archaeology

Archaeology of the Millennial Kingdom: The Architecture and Sacred Geometry of the California Missions
          By Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D.  - Institute of Archaeology

Braceros, Campesinos y Migrantes: A Transnational History of Mexican-Origin Migrant Labor in the US Southwest
          By Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D.  - Institute of Archaeology

Streetscapes of the Asphalt Jungle: Lowriding in the Mexican American Southwest
          By Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D.  - Institute of Archaeology

The Virtual Learning Lab: Facilitated Teaching and Learning in the Online Environment
          By RubenG. Mendoza, Ph.D.   - Institute of Archaeology

Artifacts Online
          By RubenG. Mendoza, Ph.D.   - Institute of Archaeology

Multicultural Multimedia: Teaching and Learning About Diversity in the Information Age
         By RubenG. Mendoza, Ph.D. - Institute of Archaeology

Hispanic Colonial Archaeology and Architectural Interpretation at Old Mission San Juan Bautista: A Preliminary Report
          By RubenG. Mendoza, Ph.D. - Institute of Archaeology

Graves, Christian

2003

Designing and Refining Technology Solutions and Applications in Archaeology and Museum Studies: Prospects, Potentials, and Shortcomings. Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 27-30, 2003.

Halla, Ken

2003

The Fourteenth Colony: An Interactive Investigation of California History. Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 27-30, 2003. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, presenter]

Mendoza, Ruben G.

2003

Mission Ceramics: A Virtual Type Collection in Historical Archaeology. Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 27-30, 2003.

Wallace, Charlie

2003

Virtual Archaeology and the 3-D Visualization of Artifacts for Historical Archaeologists. Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 27-30, 2003. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, presenter]

Gotshalk-Stine, Amy

2003

Romancing the Potsherds: A GIS-Based Visualization of the Archaeology of a California Mission. Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 27-30, 2003.

St.Clair, Michelle

2003

Bones, Stones, and Cutmarks: Analysis of Faunal Remains from San Juan Bautista. Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 27-30, 2003. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Casas, Irene

2003

Maize as a Food. In Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Volume 2: Food Production to Nuts, pp. 424-431. Solomon H. Katz, Editor in Chief, Scribner Library of Daily Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

St.Clair, Michelle

2001

Bones, Stones, and Cut Marks: Preliminary Analysis of Faunal Remains from Mission San Juan Bautista.  Gran Quivira, Annual Meeting, Mission San Juan Capistrano, California.  September, 2001.  [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Dudzik, Christopher G.

2000

The Case of the Missing Mission Convento: Recent Excavations at Old Mission San Juan Bautista, California, Site SBN-1H.  Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, Riverside, California.  April 20, 2000. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Halla, Kenneth

1999

Missions of the Spanish Friars.  In Encyclopedia of North American History . John C. Super, Consulting Editor. Pp. 801-803. Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Jordan, Gretchen

1997a

Road Networks in Ancient Native America. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 38-42.  The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Pobre, Brenda

1999

Mesoamerican Civilizations. In Encyclopedia of North American History . John C. Super, Consulting Editor. Pp. 755-759.  Tarrytown, New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Wolter, Jay

1997b

Medicine in Ancient Native America.  In Encyclopaedia of the History of  Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 175-179. The Hague: Kluwer Academic Publishers. [With Ruben G. Mendoza, co-author]

Mendoza, Ruben, Christian Graves, Amy Gotshalk-Stine, Rob Lecel, and Charlie Wallace

2003

[Poster Session] From Stone Tools to Megabytes: Mission Archaeology, Interactive Multimedia and the Virtual Learning Lab. Organizer/Presenter: Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D. (CSU Monterey Bay), Co-Presenters: Christian Graves (Hartnell College), Amy Gotshalk-Stine (CSU Monterey Bay), Rob Lecel (CSU Monterey Bay), and Charlie Wallace (CSU Monterey Bay). Society for California Archaeology, Sacramento, California. March 28, 2003.

Museum Education Project

1999

Old Mission San Juan Bautista: An Educational Coloring Book.  Seaside, California: Museum Education Project, Institute of Archaeology, CSU Monterey Bay. [Text: Renee Cannon, Nancy Porter, Carolina Sordia, Theodore Richter; Illustrations: Monica Chen, Jonathan Hendler, William Wise; Editorial Assistants: Michael Lehman, Yolanda Virgen].

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Garbology: Group 4, Fall 2003

By Lauren Goodwin, et al

Explore Mission San Juan Bautista

By Justin Evans

Ancient African Civilizations

By John Malone & Gareth Molineaux (Spring 2001)

San Juan Bautista Historical Society

By the Students of SBSA 364s (Fall 1999)

Flintknapping

By Steven Hopf