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A. Ford — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 17
Works: 86
Citations: 1,121

Most-cited papers

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management
A. Ford, R. Nigh
2009140 citations Open access
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The prehistoric agricultural landscape of the central Maya lowlands: An examination of local variability in a regional context
S. Fedick, A. Ford
1990124 citations
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A Statistical Examination of Settlement Patterns at Tikal, Guatemala
J. Arnold, A. Ford
1980American Antiquity66 citations
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Population Growth and Social Complexity: An Examination of Settlement and Environment in the Central Maya Lowlands
G. Feinman, A. Ford
198664 citations
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Dominant Plants Of The Maya Forest And Gardens Of El Pilar: Implications For Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
A. Ford
200861 citations Open access
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Modeling Settlement Patterns of the Late Classic Maya Civilization with Bayesian Methods and Geographic Information Systems
A. Ford, K. Clarke, G. Raines
200960 citations
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Prehistoric Maya Settlement Patterns in the Upper Belize River Area : Initial Results of the Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey
A. Ford, S. Fedick
199256 citations
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Ancient Lowland Maya neighborhoods: Average Nearest Neighbor analysis and kernel density models, environments, and urban scale
Amy E. Thompson, John P. Walden, Adrian S. Z. Chase, Scott R. Hutson +28 more
2022PLoS ONE49 citations Open access
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Bonemapping: a LiDAR processing and visualization technique in support of archaeology under the canopy
T. Pingel, K. Clarke, A. Ford
201543 citations
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Volcanic ash in ancient Maya ceramics of the limestone lowlands: implications for prehistoric volcanic activity in the Guatemala highlands
A. Ford, W. Rose
199540 citations
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1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Petén
D. Campbell, A. Ford, Karen S. Lowell, Jay B. Walker +4 more
200639 citations
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The Maya
A. Ford
2020Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology28 citations
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Beyond the magic wand: methodological developments and results from integrated Lidar survey at the ancient Maya Center El Pilar
Sherman W. Horn, A. Ford
201927 citations Open access
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Lithic Industry in a Maya Center: An Axe Workshop at El Pilar, Belize
John C. Whittaker, Kathryn A. Kamp, A. Ford, Rafael A. Guerra +7 more
2009Latin American Antiquity27 citations
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Economic Variation of Ancient Maya Residential Settlement in the Upper Belize River Area
A. Ford
1991Ancient Mesoamerica27 citations
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Maya Forest Garden
A. Ford
2020Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology23 citations
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Exploring The Legacy Of The Maya Forest
A. Ford, Kitty F. Emery
200823 citations Open access
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Obsidian Procurement and Distribution in the Tikal-Yaxha Intersite Area of the Central Maya Lowlands
A. Ford, F. Stross, F. Asaro, H. Michel
1997Ancient Mesoamerica16 citations
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A Reexamination of Labor Investments at Tikal: Reply to Haviland, and Folan, Kintz, Fletcher and Hyde
A. Ford, J. Arnold
1982American Antiquity16 citations
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Volcanic ash provenance from zircon dust with an application to Maya pottery
Kevin T. Coffey, A. Schmitt, A. Ford, F. Spera +2 more
201415 citations
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Linking the Past and Present of the Ancient Maya
A. Ford, K. Clarke
201914 citations
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Cook, Suzanne: The Forest of the Lacandon Maya - An Ethnobotanical Guide
A. Ford
201714 citations Open access
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Above and below the Maya forest
A. Ford, Sherman W. Horn
2018Science9 citations
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Problems with Evaluation of Population from Settlement Data: Examination of Ancient Maya Residential Patterns in the Tikal-Yaxhá Intersite Area
A. Ford
20139 citations Open access
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The language of Maya hieroglyphs
Martha J. Macri, A. Ford
19979 citations
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A biocultural hypothesis of human–environment mediations and biodiversity increase
Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez, A. Ford, N. Barrera-bassols, Alejandro Casas +2 more
2025Environmental Conservation8 citations
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Scrutinizing the paleoecological record of the Maya forest
A. Ford
2022Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution8 citations Open access
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Equity in Academia – Why the Best Men Still Win: An Examination of Women and Men in Mesoamerican Archeology
A. Ford, A. Hundt
20088 citations
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Archaeology under the canopy: imagining the Maya of El Pilar.
A. Ford, M. Havrda
20068 citations
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Quantitative analyses of wealth inequality at Classic period El Pilar: The Gini index and labor investment
Sherman W. Horn, Justin Tran, A. Ford
2023Ancient Mesoamerica7 citations Open access
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Conditions for the evolution of complex societies : the development of the central lowland Maya
A. Ford
19817 citations
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Conserving the American Tropics: Exploring the Cropscape of the Ancient Maya
A. Ford, Sherman W. Horn, Thomas Crimmel, Justin Tran
2021Technology's Stories6 citations
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Different Ways of Knowing and a Different Ways of Being: On a Path to Reawakening Legacy of the Maya Forest
Cynthia Ellis Topsey, A. Ford, Sherman W. Horn
2020The Heritage6 citations Open access
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Chapter 10. Intensification does not require modification: Tropical Swidden and the Maya
A. Ford
2024Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association5 citations Open access
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New light on the use of Theobroma cacao by Late Classic Maya
A. Ford, Ann C. Williams, M. de Vries
2022Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America5 citations Open access
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The Maya forest
A. Ford
2020The Maya World5 citations
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Seligson, Kenneth E.: The Maya and Climate Change. Human-Environmental Relationships in the Classic Period Lowlands
A. Ford
2024Anthropos?4 citations Open access
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The Green Deer: Chaya as a Potential Source of Protein for the Ancient Maya
H. Schwarcz, A. Ford, M. Knyf, Adarsh Kumar
2021Latin American Antiquity4 citations Open access
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Direct Analysis of Xanthine Stimulants in Archaeological Vessels by Laser Desorption Resonance Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization.
Shawn C. Owens, J. Berenbeim, Marshall R. Ligare, Lisa E Gulian +6 more
2017Analytical Chemistry4 citations Open access
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The Enduring Forest Gardens of the Ancient Maya
A. Ford
2024American Scientist3 citations
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ADAPTING THE FOREST: A SPATIAL MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE MAYA PRODUCTION AT EL PILAR
Justin Tran, A. Ford
2023Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology3 citations
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Learning from the Ancient Maya: Conservation of the Culture and Nature of the Maya Forest
A. Ford, Cynthia Ellis Topsey
2019Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century3 citations
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Lidar at El Pilar: Understanding Vegetation Above and Discovering the Ground Features Below in the Maya Forest
A. Ford, Sherman W. Horn
2019The Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental History of Mexico3 citations
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Ancient Maya Landscapes: A Community of Prosperous Farmers
A. Ford
2013Current Anthropology3 citations
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Sabloff, Jeremy A. (ed.): Tikal – Dynasties, Foreigners, and Affairs of State
A. Ford
20053 citations Open access
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Influence of Ancient Settlement in the Contemporary Maya Forest: Investigating Land Use at El Pilar
A. Ford, R. Larios, J. Normark, Paulino Morales +1 more
20013 citations
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LEVIATHAN WAKES: THE EMERGENCE OF EL PILAR AS A MAJOR CENTER AT THE ONSET OF THE LATE PRECLASSIC
Sherman W. Horn, A. Ford, Paulino Morales, Andrew Kinkella
2023Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology2 citations
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Archaeological Commitment to Participation from the Local to the International: Discovering the El Pilar Community
A. Ford
2019Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century2 citations
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Archaeology Under the Canopy: Exploring the Culture and Nature of El Pilar and the Maya Forest
A. Ford
20192 citations
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Classic Maya Collapse: An Alternative View
A. Ford
2019Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology1 citations
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