BiblioVault - Books about Parsons, Jeffrey R.

Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco and Zumpango Regions, Mexico

Jeffrey R. Parsons, Keith W. Kintigh, and Susan A. Gregg

University of Michigan Press, 1983

This report is a descriptive tabulation of settlement pattern data collected by University of Michigan projects in the Valley of Mexico between 1967 and 1973. Data is presented in tabular form for hundreds of sites, including information on environmental zones, elevation, rainfall, soil depth, phases of occupation, and more.

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The Last Pescadores of Chimalhuacán, Mexico

An Archaeological Ethnography

Jeffrey R. Parsons

University of Michigan Press, 2006

Based on his study of the nearly vanished aquatic economy of Chimalhuacán in the Valley of Mexico, Parsons describes the surviving vestiges of aquatic insect collection and fishing and considers their developmental and archaeological implications within a broad context of historical, ethnographic, biological, ecological, and archaeological information from Mexico, North and South America, the Near East, and Africa. Activities, implements, artifacts, and landscapes are richly illustrated, in many cases with the author’s own photos and a number of vintage photographs. The study concludes that aquatic resources were fully complementary with agricultural products during prehispanic times in Mesoamerica where a pastoral economy was absent.

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The Last Saltmakers of Nexquipayac, Mexico

An Archaeological Ethnography

Jeffrey R. Parsons

University of Michigan Press, 2001

In the 1980s, a few traditional saltmakers were still manufacturing several kinds of salt in the eastern Valley of Mexico. This in-depth study of the methodology of this dying craft includes a comparative study of pre-industrial saltmaking around the world and considers the implications of this knowledge for future archaeological research.

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The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico

Carlos E. Cordova

University Press of Colorado, 2023

This volume celebrates the continuing impact of the most notable contributions from The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization by William T. Sanders, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Robert S. Santley. In 1979, this influential work synthesized the results of the Basin of Mexico survey projects and follow-up excavations at several sites, while providing theoretical and methodological lines of research in central Mexico and generally in Mesoamerica.

More than four decades after that book’s publication, the fourteen contributions in this volume review and analyze its theoretical and methodological influence in light of recent research across disciplines. Among a spectrum of authors representing several generations are those who participated directly in the Basin of Mexico surveys—including the late Jeffrey R. Parsons—as well as those who have been actively working on recent projects in the basin and neighboring regions.

Providing a broad and multidisciplinary perspective of the present and future state of research in the area, The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico will be of interest to Mesoamerican and Latin American archaeologists as well as geographers, geologists, historians, and specialists in the study of past environments.

Contributors: Guillermo Acosta Ochoa, Aleksander Borejsza, Destiny Crider, Charles Frederick, Raúl García-Chávez, Larry Gorenflo, Angela Huster, Georgina Ibarra Arzave, Charles Kolb, Frank Lehmkuhl, Abigail Meza Peñaloza, Emily McClung de Tapia, John K. Millhauser, Deborah Nichols, Jeffrey R. Parsons, Serafin Sánchez Pérez, Philipp Schulte, Sergey Sedov, Elizabeth Solleiro Rebolledo, Daisy Valera Fenández, Federico Zertuche

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Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico

An Archaeological Ethnography

Jeffrey R. Parsons and Mary H. Parsons

University of Michigan Press, 1990

The maguey plant plays a central role in cultural adaptation and cultural change in highland Mesoamerica. This book is a comprehensive study of the plant and its use. Includes chapters on maguey cultivation and pulque production, maguey fiber processing and spinning, and the archaeological implications of the available ethnographic and historic information about maguey utilization.

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Miscellaneous Studies in Mexican Prehistory

Michael W. Spence, Jeffrey R. Parsons, and Mary H. Parsons

University of Michigan Press, 1972

In this volume, the authors present research on three important classes of artifacts from Mexico: Michael W. Spence and Jeffrey R. Parsons report on prehispanic obsidian exploitation in Central Mexico and Mary Hrones Parsons writes about Aztec figurines and spindle whorls from the Teotihuacán Valley.

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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico

The Zumpango Region

Jeffrey R. Parsons with contributions by Larry J. Gorenflo, Mary H. Parsons, and David J. Wilson

University of Michigan Press, 2008

This monograph presents data from a systematic regional archaeological survey carried out over an area of ca. 600 square kilometers during May through December 1973 by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology.

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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico

The Chalco-Xochimilco Region

Jeffrey R. Parsons, Elizabeth Brumfiel, Mary H. Parsons, and David J. Wilson

University of Michigan Press, 1982

Extensive description and analysis of the archaeological settlement data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Chalco-Xochimilco Region in the Valley of Mexico.

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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2

Jeffrey R. Parsons, Charles M. Hastings, Ramiro Matos M.

University of Michigan Press, 2000

An archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru’s rugged and diverse central highlands.

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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

Volume 2, The Wanka Region

Edited by Jeffrey R. Parsons, Charles M. Hastings and Ramiro Matos M.

University of Michigan Press, 2000

This monograph is based on six months of systematic regional survey in the Wanka Region of Peru’s sierra central, carried out in two field seasons in 1975–1976 by the Junin Archaeological Research Project (JASP) under the co-direction of Jeffrey R. Parsons (University of Michigan) and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos).

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Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Texcoco Region, Mexico

Jeffrey R. Parsons

University of Michigan Press, 1971

In this volume, archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons presents research based on an extensive 1967 survey of the Texcoco Region in the Valley of Mexico. The sites are organized by time period, from Middle Formative to Aztec. Parsons describes the sites in detail and compares them to those of the same time periods in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Valley of Mexico in general.

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Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003

A Photographic Essay

Jeffrey R. Parsons

University of Michigan Press, 2019

Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he studied were on the brink of destruction. The rural landscapes through which he traveled were, in many cases, destined to be plowed under and paved over. In Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961–2003, Parsons offers readers a chance to see archaeological sites that were hundreds or thousands of years old and have since vanished or been irrevocably altered. Hundreds of photographs, accompanied by descriptions, illustrate the sites, the people, and the landscapes that Parsons encountered during four decades of research in these regions. Parsons is now emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and has published many archaeological monographs as well as ethnographic research on salt, fish, and other items used for traditional subsistence in Mexico. Foreword by Richard I. Ford.

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