Wesley D. Stoner

Associate Professor


Curriculum vitae



Anthropology & Research Reactor

University of Missouri


Curriculum Vitae


Wesley Durrell Stoner, Ph. D.


EDUCATION

 

Doctor of Philosophy

2011    Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington  
Disjuncture among Classic Period Cultural Landscapes in the Tuxtla Mountains,   Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/35/ 

Master of Arts

2003    University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology
Coarse Orange Pottery Exchange in Southern Veracruz: A Compositional Perspective on Centralized Craft Production and Exchange in the Classic Period.  University of Kentucky.  http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukyanth2002t00066/Stoner_thesis2002.pdf
 

Bachelor of Arts

1996    Pennsylvania State University, Department of Anthropology
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Evolution of complex societies, multiscalar interactions, human-environment adaptation
  • Geoarchaeology, chemical and mineralogical analysis of artifacts
  • Geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, remote sensing
  • Ceramic, lithic, and metal analysis
  • Mesoamerica and North America
  • Agricultural intensification

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • 2023-current   Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Department of Anthropology and Research Reactor
  • 2020-2023       Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, Department of Anthropology
  • 2014-2020       Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Department of Anthropology
  • 2011-2014       Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR).  
  • 2010-2011       Archaeology Review Coordinator, Kentucky Heritage Council/State Historic Preservation Office.  
  • 2009-2010       Field Director, University of Kentucky, Program for Archaeological Research 
  • 2006-2010       Field Director, Kentucky Archaeological Survey.  
  • 2008-2011       Consultant, University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) 
  • 2007-2008       Intern, University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR)
  • 2002-2005       Field and Laboratory Supervisor, Kentucky Archaeological Survey and the Program for Archaeological Research, University of Kentucky.  
  • 2004-2006       Primary Instructor, University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology
  • 2003                Research Assistant, University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology
  • 2001-2004       Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology
  • 2000-2001       Field technician, Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Lexington, KY 
  • 2000-2001       Research Assistant, University of Kentucky, Kentucky Archaeological Survey/Kentucky Heritage Council (Kentucky State-Wide GIS Project)
  • 1999-2000       Research Assistant, Wilbur Smith Associates, Lexington, KY
  • 1997-1998       Field technician, Archaeological and Historical Consultants, Centre Hall, PA 
  • 1997                Lab assistant, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Anthropology (Kenneth G. Hirth) 
 

MAJOR FIELD AND LAB RESEARCH*

  • 2016-current   Principal Investigator: Ancient Agricultural Intensifications in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz
  • 2013-2020       Principal Investigator (with Co-PI Deborah L. Nichols): Altica Archaeological Project, Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
  • 2013-2017       Principal Investigator: Improving Ceramic Provenance Determination through Multitechnique Analysis: A Case Study in the Basin of Mexico
  • 2010                Field Director: Architectural Investigations at Fort Ancient site 15Es111, Estill County, Kentucky
  • 2007-2011       Principal Investigator: Tepango Valley Archaeological Survey, Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
  • 2005                Principal Investigator: Initial Reconnaissance for Tepango Valley Archaeological Survey, Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico
  • 2003                Field director: Tres Zapotes Archaeological Project, Southern Veracruz, Mexico  
*Does not include dozens of cultural resource management (CRM) projects that I directed between 1999-2010
 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2020                $266,291 – National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant – Collaborative Research: Agricultural Intensification and Settlement Trends in the Classic Gulf Lowlands, Veracruz (with co-PI Amber VanDerwarker, UCSB). Role: Principal Investigator
 2020                $79,851 (Not Funded) – National Geographic Society: Enduring Impacts grant. Sustainability of Wetland Agricultural Systems in the Ancient Gulf Lowlands, Mexico. Role: Principal Investigator 
2020                $24,955 – UC-MEXUS/CONACYT Grant. Gulf Lowland Agricultural Strategies. Principal investigators Amber VanDerwarker (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Lourdes Budar (Universidad Veracruzana). Role: Senior personnel
2017                $5000 – Summer Research Stipend.  University of Arkansas, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.  Awarded to explore agricultural intensification on the Gulf Coast of Veracruz, Mexico.  Role: Principal Investigator
2016-2019       $218,447 – National Science Foundation Early Career Grant – Acquisition of a laser ablation system to enable new constraints on continental crust, dinosaurs, and ore deposits.  PIs Gregory Dumond, Celina Suarez, Adriana Potra.  NSF# 1561166. Role: Senior PersonnelLink
2016                $3000 – Robert C. and Sandra Connor Endowed Faculty Fellowship.  University of Arkansas, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.  Role: Recipient Link
2016                $ NA – DigitalGlobe Foundation.  Twelve multispectral images awarded covering ~2000 km2 covering wetland environments in the Gulf lowlands of Veracruz.  Part of the Ancient Agricultural Intensifications in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz project. Role: Principal Investigator.  
2015-2016       $4000 – Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).  I serve as faculty mentor to Katherine Sargent (the award recipient) for the project Compositional Analysis of Pottery from Tecualtitán, Jalisco. As mentor, I received $750 to defray my costs and time in her research project.  Role: Adviser
2014-2019       $195,441 – National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant – Collaborative Research: Craft Specialization, Exchange, and the Development of Early Complex Societies in Central Mexico (with Deborah L. Nichols). NSF-BCS #1424132 and 1424184. Role: Principal Investigator. Link
2014-2018       $21,320 – National Geographic – Committee for Research and Exploration – Altica, Obsidian, and Ceramics: The Teotihuacan Valley and the Development of Formative Exchange Networks (with Deborah L. Nichols). Role: Principal Investigator.
2013-current   $38,818 – CompX Faculty Research Grant, NEUKOM Institute, Dartmouth College.  Mesoamerican Archaeological Ceramics Geodatabase (MACGeo).  Deborah L. Nichols is principal investigator.  Role: Collaborator
2013-2015       $39,449 – National Science Foundation Senior Research Grant, Archaeometry program (NSF-BCS #1318251) – Improving Ceramic Provenance Determination through Multitechnique Analyses: A Case Study in the Basin of Mexico.  NSF-BCS # 1318251.  Role: Principal Investigator. Link
2008                $200.00 – Margaret Lantis Award for Original Research by a Graduate Student, University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology
2007                $748.35 – Graduate Student Incentive Program.  University of Kentucky Graduate School to match a percentage of funds awarded by the National Science Foundation to conduct PhD. fieldwork
2007-2009       $14,967 – National Science Foundation Dissertation Enhancement Grant. (NSF-BCS # 0712056).  Awarded to fund doctoral field and laboratory work in southern Veracruz, Mexico. Role: Principal Investigator. Link
2007-2008       $9932.00 – Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Archaeology Inc. (FAMSI Grant # 07049).  Awarded to fund doctoral field work in southern Veracruz, Mexico. Role: Principal Investigator. Link
2007                $800.00 – International research-related travel grant, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2005                $2,000.00 – Susan Abbott Jamieson Grant, University of Kentucky, Department of Anthropology 
2005                $780.00 – International research-related travel grant, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2005                $400.00 – International research-related travel grant, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2003                $400.00 – International research-related travel grant, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2002                $350.00 – International research-related travel grant, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2001                Rate reduction granted by the National Science Foundation through the Missouri University Research Reactor (MURR).  This rate reduction applied to both my master’s and doctoral work.
 

NEWS MENTIONS

  • Fulbright Review Q&A – Fulbright REVIEW UARK – October 12, 2021 – Lin
  • NSF grant announcement – Uark Newswire – September 23, 2021 – Link 
  • NSF grant announcement – ScienMag – September 22, 2021 – Link 
  • Conner Award Announcement – UArk Newswire – September 7, 2016 – Link
 

PUBLICATIONS

Stark, Barbara L. and Wesley D. Stoner
Accepted         El Urbanismo Tropical: La Mixtequilla y Sus Afueras
Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
In Press          Early and Middle Formative Interactions and Central Mexico. In The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs, edited by Christopher A. Pool and Carl J. Wendt.  Oxford University Press. (Spring 2024)
Neff, Hector, Jeffrey P. Blomster, Michael D. Glascock, and Wesley D. Stoner
In Press          Olmec Exchange Networks.  In The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs, edited by Christopher A. Pool and Carl J. Wendt.  Oxford University Press. (Spring 2024)
Sugiura, Yoko, Wesley D. Stoner, Carmen Pérez Orís de Montellano, and Gustavo Jaimes
In press           Teotihuacan Legacy in the Epiclassic Ceramics: A Perspective from the Valley of Toluca.  Proceedings of the 2014 Chacmool Conference hosted in Alberta, Canada.  (I think publication has stalled on this)
Sugiura, Yoko, Carmen Pérez O. de M., and Wesley D. Stoner
2024    Uniformidad regional y multilocalidad en la producción del Coyotlatelco: el case del valle de Toluca.  In Relaciones entre las diferentes áreas de Mesoamérica con énfasis en las relaciones con Teotihuacan.  Proceedings of the VIII Coloquio Pedro Bosch Gimpera. ISBN 978-607-30-8690-5
Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
2024    Orange Ware production and exchange in formative central Mexico as an index of regionalization of pottery styles. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports (104358). 
Stoner, Wesley D. and Barbara L. Stark
2023    Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz. Journal of Archaeological Research 31(3): 449-501 
Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
2022    Shifting Ceramic Styles in the Formative Period Basin of Mexico. In Paths Towards Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica, edited by Lisa L. Delance and Gary M. Feinman. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
Stark, Barbara L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2022    Mixed Governance Principles in the Gulf Lowlands of Mesoamerica. Frontiers in Political Science, section on Comparative Governance
Marino, Marc D., Wesley D. Stoner, Lane F. Fargher, and Michael D. Glascock
2022    Comparing three sample preparation techniques for portable X-ray fluorescence: A case study of Coarse Orange ceramic jars, Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41:xxx-xxx. 
Stoner, Wesley D., Yoko Sugiura, María del Carmen Pérez
2021    Cerámica Coyotlatelco del valle de Toluca: producción, intercambio local y de larga distancia. Análisis por activación neutrónica (aan). In El estudio de la cerámica cotidiana del valle de Toluca desde una perspectiva arqueométrica, edited by Yoko Sugiura, Gustavo Jaimes Vences, María del Carmen Pérez Ortiz de Montellano, and Rubén Nieto Hernández, pp 71-96. El Colegio Mexiquense, México.
Stoner, Wesley D. and Barry J. Shaulis
2021    Chemical Mapping to Evaluate Post-Depositional Diagenesis among the Earliest Ceramics in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. Minerals 11(4):1-29. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11040384 
Stoner, Wesley D., Barbara L. Stark, Amber VanDerwarker, and Kyle Urquhart
2021    Between land and water: Hydraulic engineering in the Tlalixcoyan basin, Veracruz, Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 60:1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101264
Stoner, Wesley D. and Marc Marino
2020    Disembedded Networks of Interaction between Teotihuacan and the Gulf Lowlands.  In Teotihuacan: The World beyond the City, edited by Barbara Arroyo, Kenneth Hirth, and David Carballo, pp 303-330.  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2020    Riesgo, Intensificación agrícola, administración política, y colapso en el periodo clásico de la costa del Golfo: una vista desde el espacio.  In Administración, control y representación del agua en la costa del Golfo veracruzano, edited by Lourdes Budar.  Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa.
Stark, Barbara, L and Wesley D. Stoner
2020    Un modelo del uso de tierra y agua en la Cuenca baja del Papaloapan y sus implicaciones administrativasIn Administración, control y representación del agua en la costa del Golfo veracruzano, edited by Lourdes Budar.  Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa.
Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
2019    The Altica Project: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 30(2):247-265. (
Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
2019    Pottery Trade and the Formation of Early and Middle Formative Style Horizons as Seen from Central Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 30(2):311-337. 
Nichols, Deborah L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2019    Before Teotihuacan: Altica, Exchange, Interactions, and the Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 30(2):369-382. 
Marisa Lazzari, Lucas Pereyra Domingorena, Wesley D. Stoner, María Cristina Scattolin, María Alejandra Korstanje, Michael D. Glascock
2019    Social Interaction and Communities of Practice in Formative Period Northwest Argentina: A Multi-Analytical Study of Ceramics.  In Ceramics of the Indigenous Cultures of South America: Studies of Production and Exchange through Compositional Analysis, Michael D. Glascock, Hector Neff, and Kevin Vaughn (eds.).  University of New Mexico Press.

Stoner, Wesley D.
2018    Surviving American “Anthropological Archaeology”. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 41(3):5.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2017    Risk, Agricultural Intensification, Political Administration, and Collapse in the Classic Period Gulf Lowlands: A View from Above.  Journal of Archaeological Science 80:83-95.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.02.002 
Lazzari, Marisa, Lucas Pereyra Domingorena, Wesley D. Stoner, María Cristina Scattolin, María Alejandra Korstanje, Michael D. Glascock
2017    New Compositional data supports a decentralized model of artefact production and circulation in the pre-Columbian Andes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(20):E3917-E3926.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610494114 
Stark, Barbara L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2017    Watching the Game: Viewership of Architectural Mesoamerican Ball Courts.  Latin American Antiquity 28(3):409-430. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2017.36 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2016    The Analytical Nexus of Ceramic Paste Composition Studies: A Comparison of NAA, LA-ICP-MS, and Petrography in the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico.  Journal of Archaeological Science 76:31-47.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.10.006 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2016    ¿Atracción Secundaria o Espectáculo Central? El Papel de Totocapan en la Historia de la Sierra de los Tuxtlas.  In Arqueología de Los Tuxtlas: antiguos paisajes, nuevas miradas, Lourdes Budar and Philip J. Arnold III (eds.), pp. 37-56. Universidad Veracruzana, Jalapa.
Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique and Wesley D. Stoner
2016    The Trade in Cooking Pots under the Aztec and Spanish Empires.  Ancient Mesoamerica 27:197-207. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536116000092 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2015    Petrographic Analysis of Ceramics. In Corey Village and the Cayuga World: Implications from Archaeology and Beyond, Rossen, Jack (ed.), pp. xxx-xxx.  Syracuse University Press
Stoner, Wesley D., Deborah L. Nichols, Bridget Alex, and Destiny Crider
2015    The Emergence of Early-Middle Formative Exchange Patterns in Mesoamerica: A View from Altica in the Teotihuacan Valley.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 39:19-35.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2015.01.002 
Stoner, Wesley D. and Christopher A Pool
2015    The Archaeology of Disjuncture: Classic Period Disruption and Cultural Divergence in the Tuxtla Mountains of Mexico.  Current Anthropology 56(3):385-420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/681524 
Stoner, Wesley D., John Millhauser, Enrique Rodriguez, and Lisa Overholtzer
2014    Taken with a Grain of Salt: Experimentation and the Chemistry of Archaeological Ceramics from Xaltocan, Mexico.  Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 21(4):862-898.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-013-9179-2

Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique, John K. Millhauser, and Wesley D. Stoner
2013    Trade, Tribute, and Neutron Activation: The Colonial Political Economy of Xaltocan, Mexico.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:397-414.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2013.07.001
Stoner, Wesley D.
2013    Interpolity Polity Exchange in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 24(3):262-288.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.24.3.262

Stoner, Wesley D.
2012    Modeling and Testing Polity Boundaries in the Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31(3):381-402.  Impact Factor: 2.182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.03.004 
Stoner, Wesley D. and Michael D. Glascock
2012    The Forest or the Trees? Behavioral and Methodological Considerations for Geochemical Characterization of Heavily-Tempered Ceramic Pastes using NAA and LA-ICP-MS.  Journal of Archaeological Science 39(8):2668-2683. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.011 
Overholtzer, Lisa and Wesley D. Stoner
2011    Merging the Social and the Material: Life Histories of Ancient Mementos from Central Mexico.  Journal of Social Archaeology, 11(2):171-193.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1469605311399072 
Stoner, Wesley D., Christopher A. Pool, Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock
2008    Exchange of Coarse Orange pottery in the Middle Classic Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Journal of Archaeological Science, 35: 1412-1426. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.10.008 
Pool, Christopher A and Wesley D. Stoner
2008    But Robert, Where did the Pots Go?  Ceramic Exchange and the Economy of Ancient Matacapan.  Journal of Anthropological Research, 64: 411-423. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/jar.0521004.0064.307 
Thompson, Victor D., Wesley D. Stoner, and Harold D. Rowe
2008    Early Hunter-Gatherer Pottery along the Atlantic Coast of the Southeastern United States: A Ceramic Compositional Study.  In Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 3:1–24.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15564890802106591 
Pool, Christopher A., and Wesley D. Stoner
2004    El Fenomeno Teotihuacano en Tres Zapotes y Matacapan: Una Discusión Comparativa.  Proceedings of the 2nd Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan, Mexico, November 2000.  Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico.  
Stoner, Wesley D., Christopher A. Pool, Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock
2003     Variation in Coarse Orange Ceramic Production Recipe at Classic Period Matacapan.  In La Tinaja, vol 14(2).
 

BOOK REVIEWS

Stoner, Wesley D.
2018    Review: “The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis”. ALICE M. W. HUNT, editor. 2016. Oxford University Press. Oxford. American Antiquity to be published in the January issue.
 

INVITED TALKS

Stoner, Wesley D., Lourdes Budar, and Gibránn Becerra
2023    Investigaciones recientes en el municipio de Tlalixcoyan Veracruz. Presentation given to the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2023    El Urbanismo de una vista suprarregional: los usos de teledetección en la arqueología. Presentation to the professional public in Xalapa, Veracruz.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2022    Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz. Presented October 2022 at the University of Arkansas Anthropology Brownbag series. 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2022    Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz. Presented December 2022 at the University of Missouri, Department of Anthropology. 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2022    Identification and Differentiation through Ceramic Style in Formative Central Mexico. Presented to the University of Florida, Anthropology. 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2020    Agricultural Intensification in the Classic (~AD 200-800) Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz. Presented February 2020 at the University of Pittsburgh.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2020    Agricultural Intensification in the Classic (~AD 200-800) Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz. Presented February 2020 at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2020    Estrategias agrícolas prehispánicas en la Cuenca de Tlalixcoyan, Veracruz. Presented July 2020 in the Webinario Internacional de Arqueología (WIA), coordinated by Lourdes Budar of the Universidad Veracruzana. 
Stoner, Wesley D
2018    Agricultural Intensification in the Classic (~AD 200-800) Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz.  Geosciences Colloquium, February 2018, University of Arkansas.

Stoner, Wesley D
2018    Agricultural Intensification in the Classic (~AD 200-800) Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz.  Anthropology Colloquium, April 2018, University of Georgia.
Stoner, Wesley D and Marc D. Marino
2017    Disembedded Networks of Interaction between Teotihuacan and the Gulf Lowlands.  In conference “Teotihuacan: The World beyond the City”.  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2017    Central Mexico and the Olmec.  “An Olmec Afternoon”, Loyola University, Chicago.

Stoner, Wesley D.
2016    Interaction and the Evolution of Complex Civilizations in Mesoamerica.  Invited talk to the Department of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2016    Interaction and the Evolution of Complex Civilizations in Mesoamerica.  Public lecture given at the Fayetteville Public Library (March).  Coordinated by the Arkansas Archaeological Survey.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2015    The foundation of Mesoamerican interaction networks: a view from the Middle Formative Teotihuacan Valley.  Invited talk to the Arkansas Archaeological Society, May 2015.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2014    Human Interaction Systems and Social Complexity: A Multidisciplinary Approach.  Invited talk given at the University of Arkansas, Department of Anthropology, Fayetteville. 
Stoner, Wesley D.
2014    MURR/Dartmouth and the Mesoamerican Archaeological Ceramics Geodatabase (MACGeo).  Invited talk given at Dartmouth College, Department of Anthropology, Hanover.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2013    Análisis por Activación de Neutrones de Cerámica Coyotlatelco en el Altiplano de México.  Talk given at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Stoner, Wesley D.
2013    The Forest or the Trees? Behavioral and Methodological Considerations for Geochemical Characterization of Heavily-Tempered Pottery.  Dynamite Lecture Series, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri.

Stoner, Wesley D
2012    Disjuncture and Divergence in the Tuxtla Mountains of Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Invited talk given at Yale University, Department of Anthropology, March 23, 2012.
 

CONFERENCE SYMPOSIA CHAIR

Murakami, Tatsuya and Wesley D. Stoner
2018    Developing Macro-Regional Perspectives on Formative Central Mexico: Inside and Outside Views of Social Transformation.  83rd annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology.  Participants: G. Hepp, C. Santasilla, P. Ochoa, W. Stoner, D. Nichols, T. Murakami, J. Lopez, M. Serra Puche, G. Uruñuela, P. Plunket, R. Lesure, R. Rosenswig, S. Kabata, C. Pool, V. Darras.
Nichols, Deborah L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2017    Altica: The Millenium before Teotihuacan. Session #13.  Symposium organized for the 80th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.  Leading Participants: D. Nichols, W. Stoner, D. Healan, N. Johnson, K. Hirth, G Ocosta, E. McClung, J. Carballo, O. Cabrera, A. Mejía, L. Barba, R. Storey, G. Buckley, D. Kennett
Stoner, Wesley D. and Lane Fargher
2015    Advances in the Method and Application of Ceramic Petrography: International Perspectives on Key Archaeological Questions, Part II, Session #79. Sponsored by the Geoarchaeology Interest Group (GIG) of the SAA. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, CA.  Participants: G. Perry, D. Roper, R. Mentesana, P. Day, V. Kilikoglou, S. Todaro, R. Mason, W. Gilstrap, J. Lawrence, K. Marsaglia, S. Fitzpatrick, T. Wake, M. Masucci and H. Neff.
Peter M. Day and Wesley D. Stoner
2013    Ceramics and Society in early Mesoamerica and the Aegean.  Symposium organized for the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Session #148.  Honolulu, HI.  Participants: W. Gilstrap, C. T. Burke, R. Mentesana, P. M. Day, V. Kilikoglou, D. L. Nichols, W. D. Stoner, B. Alex, D. L. Crider, M. M. Jorgensen, R. L. Bishop, J. Doyle, M. J. Blackman, S. Jiménez Álvarez, I. Ancona Aragón, D. Cheetham, C. Backes, J. M. Burton, M. D. Glascock, H. Neff, K. C. Olsen, T. D. Price, C. White, C. A. Pool.
 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS WITHIN ORGANIZED CONFERENCE SYMPOSIA

 
Philip J. Arnold III and Wesley D. Stoner
2019    Taking it to the Tuxtlas: How the BoM Survey Shaped Gulf Lowland Settlements.  Paper presented at the 84th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2019    Pulses of Interaction in Formative Mesoamerica.  Paper presented at the 84th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2019    Provenance Analysis of Tempering Materials Using Semi-quantitative Petrography in the Formative Basin of Mexico. Paper presented at the 84th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Swartz, Bethany V., Wesley D. Stoner, and Barbara L. Stark
2019    Digitally Augmented Survey of Southern Veracruz Using Open-Source Lidar Data.  Paper presented at the 84th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Urquhart, Kyle and Wesley D. Stoner
2019    Automated Detection of Gridded Canal Networks in Veracruz, Mexico.  Paper presented at the 84th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM.
Nichols, Deborah L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2018    Altica and Refinding the Teotihuacan Valley’s Earliest Village.  Presentation given in to mark the rerelease of “Land and Water: An Ecological Study of the Teotihuacan Valley of Mexico”.  San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2018    Surviving American “Anthropological Archaeology”. 83rd Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC.
Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
2018    Ceramics Trade in the Formation of Early Mesoamerican Style Horizons. Paper presented at the 83rd meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC.
Nichols, Deborah L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2018    Village to City: Formative Period Political Evolution in Central Mexico. Paper presented at the 83rd meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC.

Stoner, Wesley D. and Deborah L. Nichols
2017    The Altica Project: Reframing the Formative Basin of Mexico. Paper presented in the 80th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.  
Nichols, Deborah L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2017    The Role of Altica in Exchange and Interactions during the Early Middle Formative in Central Mexico. Paper presented in the 80th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver.  
Pérez, Carmen, Yoko Sugiura and Wesley D. Stoner
2017    Producción y Consumo de la Cerámica Coyotlatelco: El Caso del Valle de Toluca en el Epiclásico. Paper presented in the 80th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver. 

Stoner, Wesley D.
2015    The Analytical Nexus: Multi-Technique Approaches to Ceramic Composition. Paper presented at the 2015 80th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco.
Sugiura, Yoko, Wesley D. Stoner, Carmen Pérez Orís de Montellano, and Gustavo Jaimes
2014    Teotihuacan Legacy in the Epiclassic Ceramics: A Perspective from the Valley of Toluca.  Paper presented in the 2014 Chacmool Conference hosted in Alberta, Canada.  
Sugiura, Yoko, Carmen Pérez Orís de Montellano, and Wesley D. Stoner
2014    Teotihuacan Legacy in the Epiclassic Ceramics: A Perspective from the Valley of Toluca.  Paper presented at the VIII Coloquio Pedro Bosch Gimpera, titled “Relaciónes entre las diferentes áreas de Mesoamerica con énfasis en las relaciones con Teotihuacan”.  
Wesley D. Stoner
2014    Boundary Dynamics in the Classic Tuxtla Mountains.  Paper presented at the 80th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin, Texas.
Deborah L. Nichols, Stoner, Wesley D., and Destiny L. Crider
2014    A Geospatial Approach to Ceramic Chemical Composition Data in the Basin of Mexico.  Paper presented at the 80th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin, Texas.
Jorgensen, Mia M., and Wesley D. Stoner
2013    Potters, People and Pottery: New Insight on Formative Period Teotihuacan Based on NAA and LA-ICP-MS of Ceramics from the Sites of Cuanalan, Tezoyuca and Plaza One. Paper presented at the 79th Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Honolulu, HI.

Nichols, Deborah L., Wesley D. Stoner, Bridget Alex, Destiny L. Crider
2013    Altica and Early-Middle Formative Exchange in the Basin of Mexico: A Multi-Method Approach to Compositional Analysis.  Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  Honolulu, HI.
Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique and Wesley D. Stoner
2013    Cooking for a Change in Colonial Mexico.  Paper to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  Honolulu, HI.
Stoner, Wesley D. and Christopher A. Pool
2013    Revisiting Classic Period Economic Development in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Paper to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  Honolulu, HI.

South, Katherine E, Leslie G. Cecil, and Wesley D. Stoner
2013    Compositional Variability of Middle Preclassic Maya Pottery from the Petén Lakes Area of Guatemala.  Poster presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Honolulu, HI.
Sugiura, Yoko, Wesley D. Stoner, and Michael D. Glascock
2012    La cerámica Coyotlatelco, su procedencia y significado en el Epiclásico: aplicación del análisis de activación neutrónica.  Paper presented in Symposium 812: “Procedencia, circulación y manufactura de objetos suntuarios en la América antigua” of the 54th International Congress of Americanists, Viena.  
Stoner, Wesley D.
2012    The Cipactli Cult of Totocapan: Strategies of Politico-Ritual Control in the Classic Period Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico. Poster presented at the 77th meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, Tennessee.
Pool, Christopher A, Wesley D. Stoner, and Michael L. Loughlin
2012    The Formative-Classic Transition on the Western Tuxtlas Frontier: Continuities and Disjunctures. Paper presented at the Paper presented at the Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Vienna.
Stoner, Wesley D. and Steven R. Ahler
2010    Architectural and Functional Assessment of a Fort Ancient Structure at the Eastern Edge of the Bluegrass.  Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, Kentucky 2010.

Stoner, Wesley D. 
2010    Modeling Polity Boundaries in the Classic Period Tuxtlas.  Paper presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  St. Louis, MO.
Overholtzer, Lisa, Wesley D. Stoner, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, and Michael D. Glascock
2009    Ancient Mementos: Life Histories of Curated Figurines from Central Mexico. Paper presented at the 2nd U.S. meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group in Stanford, California, May 1-3, 2009.
Stoner, Wesley D., María del Carmen Rodríguez, Zenaido Salazar
2009    Olmec and Epi-Olmec Burials at Tres Zapotes.  Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  Atlanta, GA.
Venter, Marcie L. and Wesley D. Stoner
2009    Classic to Postclassic Changes in the Tepango Valley of Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Poster to be presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  Atlanta, GA.
Overholtzer, Lisa, Michael D. Glascock, and Wesley D. Stoner
2008    Trading Faces: INAA results from Ceramic Figurines from Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico. Paper presented at the 73th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, B.C., March 26-30, 2008.
Overholtzer, Lisa, Michael D. Glascock, and Wesley D. Stoner
2008    Trading Faces: INAA results from Ceramic Figurines from Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Midwest Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, March 15, 2008.
Pool, Christopher A., Michael D. Loughlin, and Wesley D. Stoner
2008    The Middle Formative Period in Western Olman.  Paper presented at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association.  San Francisco, CA.
Stoner, Wesley D.
2008    Interpolity Pottery Exchange in the Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, British Columbia.  
Stoner, Wesley D. and Christopher A. Pool 
2007    But Robert, Where Did the Pots Go? Debating the Economy of Ancient Matacapan.  Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.  Austin, TX.
Thompson, Victor D., Wesley D. Stoner, and Harold D. Rowe 
2005    Slice It, Digest It, and Zap It: Petrographic and Chemical Analyses of Late Archaic Ceramics from Two Shell Ring Sites on the Southeastern Coast.  Paper presented at the 2005 Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Columbia, South Carolina.
Thompson, Victor D., Wesley D. Stoner, and Harold D. Rowe 
2005    Slice It and Digest It: Petrographic and Chemical Analyses of Late Archaic Ceramics from Two Shell Ring Sites on the Southeastern Coast.  Poster presented at the 2005 Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Stoner, Wesley D., Christopher A. Pool, Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock
2003    Coarse Orange Pottery Exchange in Southern Veracruz: A Compositional Perspective on Centralized Craft Production and Exchange in the Classic Period.  Presented in the Ceramic Ecology Symposium at the 2003 meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. 
Stoner, Wesley D., Christopher A. Pool, Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock
2002    A Compositional Perspective on Ceramic Production and Distribution in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Paper presented at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver, CO.
Stoner, Wesley D., Christopher A. Pool, Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock
2002    A Compositional Perspective on Ceramic Production and Distribution in Southern Veracruz, Mexico.  Paper presented at the regional meeting of the Geological Society of America in Lexington, KY.

Mink, Phillip J. II, Jim Fenton, Jo Stokes, Wesley D. Stoner, Gene Hume, and David Pollack
2001    Points versus Polygons: Predictive Modeling in a Statewide Geographic Information System.   Paper presented at the Program for GIS and Archaeology Conference, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL.
Mink, Phillip J. II, Jo Stokes, Wesley D. Stoner, Gene Hume, and David Pollack
2001    Update of Statewide Archaeological and Historic Structures Geographic Information System Databases.  Paper presented at the meeting of the Kentucky Heritage Council, Northern Kentucky University.

Pollack, David, Phillip Mink, Jo Stokes, Wesley D. Stoner, and Gene Hume
2000    Distribution of Prehistoric Archaeological Sites and Historic Structures in Central Kentucky.  Poster presented at the University of Kentucky GIS Poster Day.
Pool, Christopher A., and Wesley D. Stoner
2000    El Fenomeno Teotihuacano en Tres Zapotes y Matacapan: Una Discucion Comparativa.  Paper presented at the 2nd Mesa Redonda de Teotihuacan, at Teotihuacan, Mexico.  November 2000.
 

COURSES TAUGHT

University of Kentucky
  • Anthropology 101: Introduction to Anthropology
  • Anthropology 160: Cultural Diversity in the Modern World
  • Anthropology 240: Introduction to Archaeology
  • Anthropology 241: Origins of Old World Civilization
  • Anthropology 242: Origins of New World Civilization
University of Missouri
  • Anthropology 2020: Fundamentals of Archaeology
  • Anthropology 4001/7001: Archaeometry in Contemporary Anthropological Thought
University of Arkansas
  • Anthropology 1033: Introduction to Archaeology
  • Anthropology 3023: Approaches to Archaeology
  • Anthropology 3903: Ancient Cities
  • Anthropology 3903: Myths, Mysteries, and Manipulations of the Past
  • Anthropology 4903: Ancient Mesoamerica
  • Anthropology 4903: Pots and People
  • Anthropology 5203: Archaeological Method and Theory
  • Anthropology 5313: Archaeometry
  • Anthropology 6823: Culture Change and Social Complexity (proseminar)
 
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