Publications
Peer-Reviewed Books
- 2017. Myers, Bethany J., and Lisa J. LeCount (editors). The Only True People: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger (editors). Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- 2022 LeCount, Lisa J., Blitz, John H., and Tidwell, Jonathan W. Ancient Maya Embedded Economies and Changing Ground Stone Densities in Households at Actuncan, Belize. Latin American Antiquity, 33(3), 641-647. doi:10.1017/laq.2022.12. lecount et al. 2022
- 2019. LeCount, Lisa J.,Chester P. Walker, John H. Blitz, and Ted C. Nelson. Land Tenure Systems at the Ancient Maya Site of Actuncan, Belize. Latin American Antiquity 30(2):245-265. lecount_et_al._2019.pdf
- 2018. LeCount, Lisa J. Lessons Learned in Seriating Maya Pottery. In Engaging Archaeological Research: Case Studies in Method, Theory, and Practice, edited by Stephen W. Silliman, pp. 189-198. Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey.
- 2017. LeCount, Lisa J. Establishing the Preconditions for Ethnogenesis among the Classic Maya. In The Only True People: Linking Maya Identities Past and Present, edited by B. J. Myers and L. J. LeCount, pp. 157-186. University Press Colorado, Boulder.
- 2016. LeCount, Lisa J. Classic Maya Marketplaces and Exchanges: Examining Market Competition as a Factor for Commodity Distributions. In Households, Markets, World-Systems, and Political Economy: Alternative Pathways to Complexity, edited by Lane Fargher and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, pp. 155-173. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
- 2016. LeCount, Lisa J., E. Christian Wells, Thomas Jamison and David W. Mixter. Geochemical Characterization of Inorganic Residues on Plaster Floors from the Palace Complex at Actucan, Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science -Reports 5:453-464. LeCount et al. 2016.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J. Ka’Kaw Pots and Common Containers: Creating Histories and Collective Memories among the Classic Maya of Xunantunich, Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 21(2):341-351.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J. Maya Palace Kitchens: Suprahousehold Food Preparation at the Late Classic Maya Site of Xunantunich. In Inside Ancient Kitchens: New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasts, edited by Elizabeth Klarich, pp. 133-162. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J. Mount Maloney People? Domestic Pots, Every Day Practice, and the Social Formation of the Xunantunich Polity. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 209-232. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger. Provincial Politics and Current Models of the Lowland Maya State. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 20-45. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger. A Brief Description of Xunantunich. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 67-78. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- 2010 LeCount, Lisa J., and Jason Yaeger. Placing Xunantunich and Its Hinterland Settlements in Perspective. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 337-369. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- 2010 Leventhal, Richard M., Wendy Ashmore, Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger. The Xunantunich Archaeological Project, 1991-1997. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 1-19. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- 2010 VandenBosch, Jon., Lisa J. LeCount, and Jason Yaeger. Integration and Interdependence: The Domestic Economy of the Xunantunich Polity. In Classic Maya Provincial Politics: Xunantunich and its Hinterlands. Edited by Lisa J. LeCount and Jason Yaeger, pp. 272-294. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
- 2002 LeCount, Lisa, Jason Yaeger, Richard M. Leventhal, and Wendy Ashmore. Dating the Rise and Fall of Xunantunich, Belize: A Late and Terminal Classic Lowland Maya Secondary Center. Ancient Mesoamerica 13(1):41-63.
- 2001 LeCount, Lisa J. Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya of Xunantunich, Belize. American Anthropologist 103(4):935-953.
- 1999 LeCount, Lisa J. Polychrome Pottery and Political Strategies among the Late and Terminal Classic Lowland Maya. Latin American Antiquity 10(3):239-258.
Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology
- 2020 LeCount, Lisa J., and Taylor D. Lawhon. To Have and to Hold: Formal and Stylistic Analyses of Ceramic Assemblages from the Noble Palace at Actuncan, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 17:319-327.
- 2019 Aimers, James J., Jaime J. Awe and Lisa J. LeCount. A Contextual Analysis of Terminal Classic Vessels from Cahal Pech. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 16:121-130.
- 2019 LeCount, Lisa J., and Theresa Heindel. Land Tenure Systems at Actuncan, Belize: The Embeddedness of Property, People and Place. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 16:39-52.
- 2018 Simova, Borislava S., E. Christian Wells, David W. Mixter, and Lisa J. LeCount. Exploring Changes in Activities in Maya E-Groups: Archaeological and Geochemical Analysis of E-Group Plaster Floors at Actuncan, Belize. RRBA 15: 27-37.
- 2016 LeCount, Lisa, J., Ted C. Nelson and Jane Millar. Community Practices Outside the House: Results of the Magnetic Anomaly Ground-truthing Excavations at Actuncan, Belize. RRBA 13:71-85.
- 2015 Simova, Borislava, David W. Mixter, and Lisa J. LeCount. The Social Lives of Structures: Ritual Resignification of the Cultural Landscape at Actuncan, Belize. RRBA 12: 193-204. Simova et al. 2015.
- 2014 Mixter, David, Kara Fulton, Lauren Bussiere, and Lisa LeCount. Living through Collapse: An Analysis of Maya Residential Modifications during the Terminal Classic Period at Actuncan, Belize. RRBA 11:55-66.
- 2013 Mixter, David, Thomas Jamison, and Lisa J. LeCount. Actuncan’s Noble Court: New Insights into Political Strategies of an Enduring Center in the Upper Belize River Valley. RRBA 10:93-106.
- 2013 Shults, Sara, and Lisa J. LeCount. The Form and Distribution of Obsidian at Actuncan, Belize. RRBA 10: 117-128.
- 2011 LeCount, Lisa, Angela Keller, and John Blitz. Common House, Elite House, Council House. RRBA 8:19-30 lecount_keller_and_blitz_2011.pdf
- 2005 LeCount, Lisa J., and John H. Blitz. The Actuncan Early Classic Maya Project: Progress Report on the Second Season. RRBA 2: 67-78.
- 2004 LeCount, Lisa J. Looking for a Needle in a Haystack: The Early Classic Period at Actuncan. RRBA 1:27-36.
- Freiwald, C., D. Micklin, K.A. Fulton, D. W. Mixter, and L. J. LeCount. Making a Place for Ancestors at Actuncan, Belize: An Osteobiography of a Maya Burial Ground. Freiwald et al. 2024.
- 2017 Mixter, D.W. Political Change Expressed in Public Architecture: The Terminal Classic Maya Civic Complex at Actuncan, Belize.
- 2014 Freiwald, et al. Burial Practices at Actuncan, Belize: A Seated Burial and Ongoing Analysis from the 2001-2013 Field Seasons. Freiwald et al. 2014 RRBA.
- 2012 Keller, Angela. Everyday Practices in Maya Civic Centers: Preliminary Results of Testing in the West Plaza at Actuncan, Belize. Keller RRBA 2012.