Selected Publications
Please see C.V. for complete listing.
Books/Monographs
Signs of the Casas Grandes Shamans (2007). University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. With T. L. VanPool.*
Religion of the Pre-Hispanic Southwest (2006). Archaeology or Religion Series. AltaMira, Lanham. Edited with D. A. Phillips, Jr. and T. L. VanPool.*
Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory (2003). Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Edited with T. L. VanPool.
(* First author)
Articles and Chapters
Christine S. VanPool
The Signs of the Sacred: Identifying Shamans Using Archaeological Evidence. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28:177–190.
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
The Semantics of Local Knowledge: Using Ethnosemantics to Study Folk Taxonomies Represented in the Archaeological Record. Journal of Anthropological Research. Expected publication Winter 2009 vol. 65 (in press).
Todd L. VanPool, Gordon F.M., and Christine S. VanPool
Cerro del Diablo: A Multicomponent Site in the Janos region of the Casas Grandes Culture. Espaciotiempo. Revista Latinoamericana de Cienias Sociales y Humanidades. Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. (Winter 2009 expected publication).
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
Jane Holden Kelley and the Methodology of Science. In Celebrating Jane H. Kelley and Her Work, edited by Meade Kemrer (Winter 2008). New Mexico Archaeological Council Special Publication No. 5, Albuquerque.
Christine S. VanPool, Gordon F.M. Rakita, Rafael Cruz A., and Robert A. Leonard
A Field Guide to the Casas Grandes Ceramic Types (2008). In Touching the Past: Ritual, Religion, and the Trade of Casas Grandes, edited by Glenna Nielsen-Grim and Paul Stavast, pp. 59-67. Museum of Peoples and Culture, Brigham Young University, Provo.
Christine S. VanPool, Todd L. VanPool, and Marcel Harmon
Plumed and Horned Serpents of the American Southwest (2008). In Touching the Past: Ritual, Religion, and the Trade of Casas Grandes, edited by Glenna Nielsen-Grim and Paul Stavast, pp. 47-58. Museum of Peoples and Culture, Brigham Young University, Provo.
Todd L. VanPool, Christine VanPool, Gordon F. M. Rakita, Robert D. Leonard
Birds, Bells, and Shells, the Long Reach of the Aztlatlán Trading Tradition (2008). In Touching the Past: Ritual, Religion, and the Trade of Casas Grandes, edited by Glenna Nielsen-Grim and Paul Stavast, pp. 5-14. Museum of Peoples and Culture, BYU, Provo.
Christine S. VanPool
Agents and Cultural Transmission (2008). In Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Some Fundamental Issues, edited by M. J. O'Brien, pp. 189-199. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
Todd L. VanPool, Craig T. Palmer, and Christine S. VanPool
The Tapestry of Culture: Culture Transmission in the American Southwest (2008). In Cultural Transmission and Archaeology: Some Fundamental Issues, edited by M. J. O'Brien. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
Christine S. VanPool
Republished: The Shaman-Priests of the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico 68[4]: 696–717, 2003 ( 2008). In An Archaeological Perspective on Ritual, Religion, and Ideology from American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity, edited by Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane Buikstra, pp. 217–238. Society for American Archaeology Press, Washington DC.
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
Gender in Middle Range Societies: A Case Study in Casas Grandes Iconography (2006). American Antiquity 71:53–75. [article in pdf]
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
Casas Grandes Cosmology (2006). In Secrets ofCasas Grandes, edited by M. Powell, pp.75-93. Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.
Christine S. VanPool, Todd L. VanPool, and David A. Phillips
Introduction: Archaeology and Religion (2006). In Religion of the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by C. S. VanPool, T. L. VanPool and D. A. Phillips, Jr., pp. 1-16. AltaMira, Lanham.
Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool, and David A. Phillips
The Horned Serpent Tradition in the North American Southwest (2006). In Religion of the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by C. S. VanPool, T. L. VanPool and D. A. Phillips, Jr, pp. 17-30. AltaMira, Lanham.
Lisa W. Huckell and Christine VanPool
Toloatzin And Shamanic Journeys: Exploring The Ritual Role Of Sacred Datura (2006). In Religion of the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by C. S. VanPool, T. L. VanPool and D. A. Phillips, Jr., pp. 147-164. AltaMira, Lanham.
Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool, and David A. Phillips
The Salado and Casas Grandes Phenomena: Evidence for a Religious Schism in the Greater Southwest (2006). In Religion of the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by C. S. VanPool, T. L. VanPool and D. A. Phillips, Jr. AltaMira, Lanham, pp. 235-251.
Marcel Harmon, Robert D. Leonard, Todd L. VanPool, Laura A. Salter, Christine S. VanPool
Reconstructing the Flow of Information Across Time and Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ceramic Traditions from Pre-Hispanic West Mexico, North Mexico, and the U.S. Southwest (2005). In Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Methods in Anthropology and Prehistory, edited by C. P. Lipo, M. J. O’Brien, S. Shennan, and M. Collard. Aldine Publishers, Chicago.
Rafael Cruz A., Robert D. Leonard, Timothy D. Maxwell, Todd L. VanPool, Marcel J. Harmon, Christine S. VanPool, David A. Hyndman, and S. S. Brandwein.
Galeana, Villa Ahumada, and Casa Chica: Diverse Sites in the Casas Grandes Region (2004). In Future Directions: The Archaeology of Northwest Mexico, edited by G. E. Newell and E. Gallaga Murrieta, pp. 149–176. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Christine S. VanPool
The Shaman-Priests of the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico (2003). American Antiquity 68: 696–717. [article in pdf]
Christine S. VanPool
Viajes Chamánicos: Iconografía de Casas Grandes (2003). Arqueología Mexican: Alucinógenos del México Prehispánico 59:42–43. ( A solicited article. )
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
Introduction: Method, Theory and the Essential Tension (2003). In Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by T. L. VanPool and C. S. VanPool, pp. 1–9. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Todd L. VanPool and Christine S. VanPool
Evolution and Agency: The Role of Intended and Unintended Action (2003). In Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by T. L. VanPool and C. S. VanPool, pp. 89–113. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
Republished: The Scientific Nature of Postprocessualism 64:33–54,1999 (2003). In Readings in American Archaeological Theory: Selections from American Antiquity 1962-2002, edited by G. Bawden, pp. 271–290. Society for American Archaeology Reader Series, Washington, D.C.
Todd L. VanPool and Christine S. VanPool
Postprocessualism and the Nature of Science: A Response to Comments By Hutson and Arnold and Wilkens (2001). American Antiquity 66(2):367–375. [article in pdf]
Todd L. VanPool, Christine S. VanPool, Rafael Cruz A., Robert D. Leonard, and Marcel J. Harmon
Flaked Stone and Social Interaction in the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico (2000). Latin American Antiquity 11:163–174.
Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool
The Scientific Nature of Postprocessualism (1999). American Antiquity 64:33–53. [article in pdf]
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