Visiting Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest
Anthropological Archaeology; Mesoamerican Archaeology; Computational Archaeology; Urbanism, Inequality, and Governance; Household Archaeology; Landscape Archaeology and Human-Environment Interaction; Geographic Information Systems
Websites and Links
Caracol Archaeological Project https://caracol.org/
ORCiD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2114-2193
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=3lKiQV8AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
Excavation/Research
Adrian Chase is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in urbanism, computational archaeology, and prehispanic Mesoamerica. In recent research efforts, he has reconstructed and tested ancient Maya neighborhoods and urban services, as well as analyzed shifts between collective and autocratic governance using geospatial analyses of lidar in combination with archaeological data. In addition to archaeological investigations at Caracol, Belize, he has participated in field research at Hirbemerdon Tepe in Turkey and at both Chichén Itza and Teotihuacan in Mexico. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago, comparing ancient and modern urban processes. His current research aims to better understand urbanism through collaborative research with archaeological datasets, geospatial analyses, and cross-cultural comparisons.
Representative Publications and Links
Edited Book
2024 Adrian S.Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase. Editors, Ancient Mesoamerican Population History: Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/ancient-mesoamerican-population-history
Selected Articles and Chapters
2024 Adrian S.Z. Chase and José Lobo. Toward Urban Archaeology? The Future of Mesoamerican Settlement Archaeology and Urban Science. In Ancient Mesoamerican Population History: Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change, edited by Adrian S.Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase, pp. 389-402. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. https://caracol.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Chase-and-Lobo-2024.pdf
2023 Adrian S.Z. Chase. Reconstructing and Testing Neighborhoods at the Maya City of Caracol, Belize. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 70:101514. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101514 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416523000302?via%3Dihub
2023 Adrian S.Z. Chase. Urban Planning at Caracol, Belize: Governance, Residential Autonomy, and Heterarchical Management through Time. In Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics, edited by D.B. Marken and M.C. Arnauld, pp. 349-376. University Press of Colorado, Denver. https://caracol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ASZC-2023-Cities.pdf
2023 Adrian S.Z. Chase, Amy E. Thompson, John P. Walden, and Gary M. Feinman. Understanding and Calculating Household Size, Wealth, and Inequality in the Maya Lowlands. Ancient Mesoamerica, 34(e1):1-20. DOI:10.1017/S095653612300024X https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/article/understanding-and-calculating-household-size-wealth-and-inequality-in-the-maya-lowlands/F3E3DC1821A823AA5F7A7F88E70A016D
2020 Adrian S.Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Z. Chase. Ethics, New Colonialism, and Lidar Data: A Decade of Lidar in Mesoamerica. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 3(1):51-62. DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.43 https://journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.43
2016 Adrian S.Z. Chase. Beyond elite control: residential reservoirs at Caracol, Belize, WIREs Water 2016. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1171 https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1171