Recent Books:

2008  Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography, by Frances F. Berdan, John K. Chance, Alan Sandstrom, B. L. Stark, James Taggart, and Emily Umberger.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

2010  Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies, ed. by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark, University of Colorado Press, Boulder

Recent Articles and Chapters:

2007   Inter-Regional and Intra-regional Scale Compositional Variability in Pottery from South-central Veracruz , Mexico.  Latin American Antiquity 18:44-58.    (Barbara L. Stark, Robert J.Speakman, and Michael D. Glascock)

2007 Diachronic Change in Crafts and Centers in South-central Veracruz, Mexico. In Craft Production in Complex Societies:  Multi-craft and Producer Perspectives, edited by Izumi Shimada, pp. 227-261.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

2007 Out of Olmec.  In The Political Economy of Ancient Mesoamerica:  Transformations during the Formative and Classic Periods, ed. by Vernon L. Scarborough and John E. Clark, pp. 47-63.  University of  New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 

2007 Estrategias Empleadas en las Provincias Imperiales:  Perspectivas Prehispánicas y Coloniales en Mesoamérica. Revista Española  de Antropología Americana 37:2:203-233.  Special Aztec section edited by José Luís de Rojas and Michael E. Smith.  (John K. Chance and Barbara L. Stark)

2007 Ancient Settlement, Urban Gardening, and Environment in the Gulf Lowlands of Mexico.  Latin American Antiquity 18:385-406.  (Barbara L. Stark and Alanna Ossa) 

2007 Pottery Production and Distribution in the Gulf Lowlands of Mesoamerica.  In Pottery Economics in Mesoamerica, ed. by Christopher A. Pool and George J. Bey, III, pp. 147-183.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 

2008 Polity and Economy in the Western Lower Papaloapan Basin.  In Classic Period Cultural Currents in Southern and Central Veracruz, ed. by Phillip J. Arnold, III, and Christopher A. Pool, pp. 85-119.  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. 

2008 Archaeology and Ethnicity in Postclassic Mesoamerica .  In Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography, by Frances F. Berdan, John K. Chance, Alan Sandstrom, Barbara L. Stark, James Taggart, and Emily Umberger, pp. 38-63.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

2008  Diachronic and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Mesoamerican Ethnicity.  In Ethnic Identity in Nahua Mesoamerica: The View from Archaeology, Art History, Ethnohistory, and Contemporary Ethnography, by Frances F. Berdan, John K. Chance, Alan Sandstrom, Barbara L. Stark, James Taggart, and Emily Umberger, pp. 1-37.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.  (Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chance). 

2008  Parallel Archaeological and Visibility Survey in the Western Lower Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico.  Journal of Field Archaeology 33:2:177-196.  (Barbara L. Stark and Christopher P. Garraty)

2008  Patrones Espaciales Cerámicas en la Cuenca Baja Oeste del Río Papaloapan, Veracruz, México.  Dossier Dedicado a Alfonso Medellín Zenil. Contrapunto vol. 3:7:35-51.  Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Xalapa, Veracruz. 

2010  Detecting Marketplace Exchange in Archaeology: A Methodological Review. In Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies, ed. by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark, pp. 33-58.  University of Colorado Press.  (Barbara L. Stark and Christopher P. Garraty)

2010  Origins and Development of Mesoamerican Marketing: Evidence from South-central Veracruz, Mexico. In Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies, ed. by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark, pp. 99-126.  University of Colorado Press.  (Barbara L. Stark and Alanna Ossa) 

2010  Cerro de las Mesas.  In La morada de nuestros ancestros: Alternativas para la conservación, coordinated by Sergio Vásquez Zárate, Henri Noel Bernard Medina, and Sara Ladrón de Guevara, pp. 139-146.  Consejo Veracruzano de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Mexico City. 

2010  Nopiloa.  In La morada de nuestros ancestros: Alternativas para la conservación, coordinated by Sergio Vásquez Zárate, Henri Noel Bernard Medina, and Sara Ladrón de Guevara, pp. 147-152.  Consejo Veracruzano de Investigación Científica y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Mexico City. 

2011 Ethnic and Class Clustering through the Ages:  A Transdisciplinary Approach to Urban Neighborhood Social Patterns.  Urban Studies 48(11):2399-2415.  (Abigail  M. York, Michael E. Smith, Benjamin W. Stanley,  Barbara L. Stark, Juliana Novic, Sharon L. Harlan, George L. Cowgill, and Christopher G. Boone)

2012  The Strategies of Provincials in Empires. In The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, ed. by Michael E. Smith, pp. 192-237.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.  (Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chance). 

2012  Change, Scale, and Goals in the Study of Power and Identity in Mesoamerica.  In Power & Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice: Case Studies from Ancient Mesoamerica , edited by Eleanor Harrison-Buck, pp 120-123.  The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 

2012  Urban Open Spaces in Historical Perspective:  A Transdisciplinary Typology and Analysis.  Urban Geography 33(8):1089-1117.  (Benjamin W. Stanley, Barbara L. Stark, Katrina L. Johnston, and Michael E. Smith)

2014 Urban Gardens and Parks in Pre-modern States and Empires.  Cambridge Journal of Archaeology 24:1:87-115.

2014  Ancient Open Space, Gardens, and Parks:  A Comparative Discussion for Mesoamerican Urbanism.  In Making Ancient Cities:  Space and Place in Early Urban Societies, edited by Andrew T. Creekmore III and Kevin D. Fisher, pp. 370-406. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

2016 Conceptual Aproaches to Service Provision in Cities throughout History. Urban Studies 53(8) 1574–1590.  (Michael E. Smith, Benjamin W. Stanley, April Kamp-Whittaker, Timothy Dennehy, and Barbara L. Stark)  DOI: 10.1177/0042098015577915

2016 Urban Service Access in Premodern Cities: An Exploratory Comparison of Spatial Equity.  Journal of Urban History 42(1): 121-124.  (Benjamin W. Stanley, Timothy J. Dennehy, Michael E. Smith, Barbara L. Stark, Abigail M. York, George L. Cowgill, Juliana Novic, and Jerald Ek)  DOI: 10.1177/0096144214566969

2016 Economic Growth in Mesoamerica:  Obsidian Consumption in the Coastal Lowlands.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 41:263-282. (B. L. Stark, Matthew A. Boxt, Janine Gasco, Rebecca B. González Lauck, Jessica D. Hedgepeth Balkin, Arthur A. Joyce, Stacie M. King, Charles L. F. Knight, Robert Kruger, Marc N. Levine, Richard G. Lesure, Rebecca Mendelsohn, Marx Navarro-Castillo, Hector Neff, Michael Ohnersorgen, Christopher A. Pool, L. Mark Raab, Robert M. Rosenswig, Marcie Venter, Barbara Voorhies , David T. Williams, and Andrew Workinger)

2016 Comparative Methods for Premodern Cities: Coding for Governance and Class Mobility.  Cross-cultural Research 50(5) 415–451.  (Michael E. Smith, Barbara L. Stark, Wen-Ching Chuang, Timothy Dennehy, Sharon L. Harlan, April Kamp-Whittaker, Benjamin W. Stanley, and Abigail York)  DOI:10.1177/1069397116665824

2016 Central Precinct Replications.  In Alternative Pathways to Complexity:  A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis, edited by Lane F. Fargher and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, pp. 105-130.  University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 

2017 Aztec Imperialism and Gulf Ceramic Emulation:  Comparison with Teotihuacan.  In Objects and Economy in the Aztec Empire, edited by Deborah L. Nichols, Frances F. Berdan, and Michael E. Smith, pp. 248-277.  University of  Arizona Press, Tucson. 

2017 Figuring Out the Early Formative Period.  In The San Lorenzo Olmec and Their Neighbors:Material Manifestations, edited by Jeffrey P. Blomster and David Cheetham, pp. 288-311.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

2017 El Colapso en la Tierras Bajas del Golfo.  Arqueología de la Costa del Golfo. Dinámicas de la Interacción Política, Económica e Ideológica, edited by Lourdes Budar, Marcie L. Venter, and Sara Ladrón de Guevara, pp. 141-158.  Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa.  (B. L. Stark y Krista L. Eschbach)

2017 Watching the Game:  Viewership of Architectural Mesoamerican Ball Courts.  Latin American Antiquity 28(3):409-430.  (B.L.Stark and Wesley D. Stoner)