Markus Eberl
Associate Professor (Archaeology; Maya)
Dr. Eberl is not currently accepting graduate students.
Dr. Eberl is an archaeologist and epigrapher with an interest in Classic Maya sociopolitical organization. He focuses on communities to study ways in which humans create society. Maya commoners are his second theoretical focus. How did they live, how were they organized, and how did they relate to nobles, particularly the divine Maya kings and their royal courts? He has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in Germany, Mexico, and Guatemala. In the laboratory, he specializes in ceramic analysis. He has also been working with Maya glyphic inscriptions and approaches Classic Maya culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is now director of the Tamarindito Archaeological Project in Guatemala's tropical lowlands. Tamarindito was the seat of a royal dynasty during the Classic period. There, he investigates the collapse of Classic Maya culture from the perspective of Maya commoners. His publications include a book on death and burial in Classic Maya culture (2005). more...
Specializations
Communities, settlement patterns and elite commoner relations in ancient Maya society, and Maya epigraphy
Representative Publications
Books
Eberl, Markus, and Claudia Marie Vela González, eds. 2016. Entre reyes y campesinos. Volume 45. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Eberl, Markus, Arlen F. Chase, and Diane Chase. 2017. War owl falling : innovation, creativity, and culture change in ancient Maya society.
Eberl, Markus, and Santiago Cho Coc. 2017. Xch'och'el li Kiib' Tenamit : tierra de las Dos "Razas".
Eberl, Markus. 2014. Community and difference : change in late classic Maya villages of the Petexbatun Region. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Security Audit and Control., Association for Computing Machinery., and ACM Digital Library. 2007. WPES '07 : proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in [the] Electronic Society, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, October 29, 2007. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
Vail, Gabrielle, Timothy Knowlton, and Markus Eberl. 2007. The Bricker Almanac: A Festschrift in Honor of Harvey and Victoria Bricker. New Orleans: Department of Anthropology, Tulane University.
Eberl, Markus. 2005. Muerte, entierro y ascensioÌn : ritos funerarios entre los antiguos mayas. MeÌrida, YucataÌn, MeÌxico: Ediciones de la Universidad AutoÌnoma de YucataÌn.
Journal Articles
Mustoe, George E., and Markus Eberl. 2020. New Discovery of Neogene Fossil Forests in Guatemala. Geosciences (Basel) 10(2):49. View Article.
Eberl, Markus, Sven Gronemeyer, and Claudia Marie Vela González. 2019. Ritualizing a Nonroyal Building Termination at the Classic Maya Capital of Tamarindito, Guatemala. Latin American antiquity 30(4):667-685. View Article.
Eberl, Markus. 2016. A New Canek Group Forgery. Ethnohistory 63(4):721-728. View Article.
Eberl, Markus. 2013. Nourishing Gods: Birth and Personhood in Highland Mexican Codices. Cambridge archaeological journal 23(3):453-476. View Article.
Eberl, Markus, Marco Álvarez, and Richard E. Terry. 2012. Chemical Signatures of Middens at a Late Classic Maya Residential Complex, Guatemala. Geoarchaeology 27(5):426-440. View Article.
Eberl, Markus, and Hanns J. Prem. 2011. Identifying a Forged Maya Manuscript in UNESCO's World Digital Library. Ancient Mesoamerica 22(1):155-166. View Article.
Markus, Eberl, et al. 2009. El asentamiento Preclásico del sitio arqueológico Dos Ceibas en la región del Petexbatún, Guatemala. Mexicon 31(6):134-141.
Fernández, Fabián G., et al. 2002. An ethnoarchaeological study of chemical residues in the floors and soils of Q'eqchi' Maya houses at Las Pozas, Guatemala. Geoarchaeology 17(6):487-519. View Article.
Inomata, Takeshi, et al. 2002. Domestic and Political Lives of Classic Maya Elites: The Excavation of Rapidly Abandoned Structures at Aguateca, Guatemala. Latin American antiquity 13(3):305-330. View Article.
Markus, Eberl, and Inomata Takeshi. 2001. Cover: Maya Royal Headband (sak hunal) from Aguateca. Mexicon 23(6):133-135.
Markus, Eberl. 2000. Cover: A Noble Figurine from Aguateca (Petexbatun). Mexicon 22(6):125-127.
Alexander, Voß, and Eberl Markus. 1999. Ek Balam: A New Emblem Glyph from the Northeastern Yucatán. Mexicon 21(6):124-131.
Book chapters
Eberl, Markus. 2015. His breath was extinguished: death in the Classic Period. In The Maya : voices in stone / editors, Alejandra Martínez de Velasco Cortina, María Elena Vega Villalobos ; texts, Maricela Ayala Falcón [and 29 others] ; translations, Jorge Pérez de Lara. Second, revised and enhanced edition. edition. A. Martinez de Velasco and M.E. Vega, eds. Mexico City?] : Ámbar Diseño: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Eberl, Markus. 2012. Reyes mayas y búhos de guerra : gente común de la región del Petexbatún en vísperas del colapso maya. In La cuenca del río de la Pasión : estudios de arqueología y epigrafía maya. 1. ed. edition. M.E. Vega and L.S. Lowe, eds. Serie Testimonios y materiales arqueológicos para el estudio de la cultura maya ; 3. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Mayas.
Inomata, Takeshi, and Markus Eberl. 2010. The Barranca Escondida. In Burned palaces and elite residences of Aguateca : excavations and ceramics. T. Inomata and D. Triadan, eds. Monographs of the Aguateca Archaeological Project first phase Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Books Reviews
Eberl, Markus. 2019. Before Kukulkán: Bioarcheology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuná by Viera Tiesler et al. (review). The Americas (Washington. 1944) 76(1):153-154. View Article.
Dissertation
Eberl, Markus. 2006. Unternehmensreputation und Kaufverhalten : Methodische Aspekte komplexer Strukturmodelle, Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden.
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