Richard Lesure
Richard Lesure
Professor, Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Endowed Chair in Mesoamerican Archaeology
Office: 324B Haines Hall
Email: lesure@ucla.edu
Research Interests
Interpretation of ancient art; archaeology of early village societies; sociopolitical dynamics and the origin of social inequality; Mesoamerica
Publications
2021 Lesure, Richard G., R. J. Sinensky, and Thomas A. Wake. The end of the Archaic in the Soconusco region of Mesoamerica: A tipping point in the local trajectory toward agricultural village life. In Preceramic Mesoamerica, Jon C. Lohse, Aleksander Borejsza, Arthur A. Joyce, pp. 481-504. Routledge, New York.
2021 Lesure, Richard G., R. J. Sinensky, Gregson Schachner, Thomas A. Wake, and Katelyn J. Bishop. Large-Scale Patterns in the Agricultural Demographic Transition of Mesoamerica and Southwestern North America. American Antiquity 86(3): 593-612.
2021 Lesure, Richard G., editor and principal author. Paso de la Amada: An Early Mesoamerican Ceremonial Center. Cotsen Institute Press, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles.
2017 Lesure, Richard G., Representation as Visual Exegesis: The Stone Figurines of Chalcolithic Cyprus. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 30(1): 33-58.
2015 Lesure, Richard G., Emplotment as Epic in Archaeological Writing: the Site Monograph as Narrative. Norwegian Archaeological Review 48(2): 57-74.
2015 Lesure, Richard G., Prehistoric Figurine Styles as Fashion: A Case from Formative Central Mexico. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25(1):99-119.
2014 Lesure, Richard G., Lana S. Martin, Katelyn J. Bishop, Brittany Jackson, and C. Myles Chykerda. The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica, Current Anthropology 55(5), pp. 654-664, with online supplement.
2014 Lesure, Richard G., editor. Formative Lifeways in Central Tlaxcala, Volume 1: Excavations, Ceramics, and Chronology. Cotsen Institute Press, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Los Angeles.
2011 Lesure, Richard G., editor. Early Mesoamerican Social Transformations: Archaic and Formative Lifeways in the Soconusco Region. University of California Press, Berkeley.
2011 Lesure, Richard G., Interpreting Ancient Figurines: Context, Comparison, andPrehistoric Art. Cambridge University Press.
2009 Lesure, Richard G., editor and principal author. Subsistence and Settlement in Early Formative Soconusco: El Varal and the Problem of Inter-Site Assemblage Variation. Cotsen Institute Press, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Monograph 65.
