Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Latin American archaeology
  • Origins of ancient Maya states
  • Pre-Columbian households
  • Feasting
  • Pottery

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.

Keywords:

  • The Actuncan Archaeological Project
  • Xunantunich Archaeological Project: 1991-1997

 

Communities
Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996
Keywords
anthropology
Associations
Society for American Archaeology