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How did relationships between leaders and non-ruling groups affect the organization of premodern polities?

​Professor Lisa LeCount (Ph.D.1996 UCLA) is a Latin American archaeologist whose interests center on social and political practices, such as feasting, gifting giving, market exchange and cooperative undertakings that built alliances and created identities in ancient state-level polities. Currently, she is director of the Actuncan Archaeological Project that investigates the roles households played in the rise and fall of Maya kingship at Actuncan, Belize. In addition to her work in Belize, she has conducted field investigations in Peru, Ecuador and various locations in North America including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California.  Her technical specialty is Pre-Columbian pottery.
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Lisa J. LeCount, Professor of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
University of Alabama
Box 870210
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Office: 25C ten Hoor Hall
Email: llecount@ua.edu
Phone: (205) 348-3733
Fax: (205) 348-7937

Teaching

Current Courses:
  • ANT  603: Method and Theory in Archaeology
  • ANT 604: Archaeology of Complex Societies
  • ANT 550: Identities: Past and Present
  • ANT 468/568: Ceramics for the Archaeologist
  • ANT 409/509: Ancient Maya Civilization
  • ANT 319: Ancient New World Civilizations: Maya, Aztec and Inca 
  • ANT 103: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
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