Spencer, Charles S.

Last name:  Spencer
Name:  Charles

Charles S.Spencer is Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA. His research focuses on the cultural evolution of complex societies in prehistory. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Mexico and Venezuela. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs, including it The Cuicatl'an Ca nada and Monte Alb'an: A Study of Primary State Formation (New York, NY: Academic Press, 1982), "On the Tempo and Mode of State Formation: Neoevolutionism Reconsidered" Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 9 [1990]: 1--30), "War and Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (100 [2003]: 11185--11187) and, with his frequent collaborator Elsa M.Redmond, "Multilevel Selection and Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, 500--100 B.C." in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (20 [2001]: 195--229), "The Chronology of Conquest: Implications of New Radiocarbon Analyses from the Ca nada de Cuicatl'an, Oaxaca" in Latin American Antiquity (12 [2001]: 182--202), "Militarism, Resistance, and Early State Development in Oaxaca, Mexico in Social Evolution & History (2 [2003]: 25--70), "A Late Monte Alb'an I Phase (300--100 B.C.) Palace in the Valley of Oaxaca" in Latin American Antiquity (15 [2004]: 441--455), "Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica" in Annual Review of Anthropology (33 [2004]: 173--199), "Institutional Development in Late Formative Oaxaca: The View from San Mart'in Tilcajete" in New Perspectives on Formative Mesoamerican Cultures (Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 2005), and "Resistance Strategies and Early State Formation in Oaxaca, Mexico" in Intermediate Elites in Precolumbian States and Empires (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006). Email: CSpencer@AMNH.org.