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Gyles Iannone

Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology,
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA,  K9J 7B8
Phone: (705)-748-1011 (ext. 7453);
FAX: (705)-748-1613; E-Mail: giannone@trentu.ca

  • Acting Associate Vice-President (Research), Trent University
  • Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University           
  • Research Fellow, Trent University Archaeological Research Centre

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A. (Simon Fraser) M.A. (Trent) Ph.D. (London)

Research Interests
Archaeology, Socio-environmental dynamics (global change, sustainability, collapse, and regeneration), Early Civilizations, Inequality, Mesoamerica (esp. Maya), Archaeology and Popular Culture.

Profile

Professor Iannone joined the department as a tenure-track appointment in 2001. His degrees were earned at Simon Fraser University (B.A.), Trent University (M.A.), and the University of London (Ph.D.). An anthropological archaeologist, Professor Iannone's main areas of interest include: archaeological method and theory; social complexity; archaic states (comparative); Mesoamerica; New World archaeology; archaeo-tourism; and archaeology and popular culture. He has conducted field research in Belize for the past fourteen summers, and has operated the department's field school in conjunction with these excavations. Professor Iannone's publications include: "Rediscovery of the Ancient Maya Center of Minanhá, Belize: Background, Description, and Future Prospects" in Mexico (2002); "Annales History and the Ancient Maya State: Some Observations on the 'Dynamic Model'" in American Anthropologist (2002); “Perspectives on Ancient Maya Rural Complexity” (with Samuel V. Connell) USLA (2003) and “The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Petty Royal Court" in Latin American Antiquity (2005); Archaeological Approaches to Ancient Maya Geopolitical Borders in "Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology" (2006).


Masters Theses Supervision

2007 Adam Pollock

Investigating the socio-economic and socio-political organization of intensive agricultural production at the ancient Maya community of Minanha, Belize

2007 Janais Yvonne Turuk

More Grist For the Mill: An Analysis of the Grinding Stones Recovered From the Ancient Maya Site of Minanha, Belize

2007 Derek Andrew Michel Paauw

Archaeological Investigations in Group L at the Ancient Maya Centre of Minanha, Belize

2007 Laura Diane McRae

Interpreting the Archaeology Field School

2005 Lisa Stewart

Public Archaeology in Action: Creating Sustainable Cultural Tourism Development Plans for the Ancient Maya Site of Minanha, Belize

2005 Barbara Slim

Letting the Margins Speak: Exploring the Lower Strata of Ancient Maya Royal Courts at Minanha, Belize

2005 Matthew Mosher

Building Identities: Socio-Political Implications of Ancient Maya Civic Plans

2005 Joelle Melanie Chartrand

Ancient Maya Ceramic Economy: Petrographic Analysis of Volcanic Ash Tempered Ceramics From Minanha, Belize

2003 J. Ryan Primrose

The Ancient Maya Water Management System at Minanha, West Central Belize

2003 Adam Clayton Joseph Menzies

A Technological and Functional Analysis of the Obsidian Assemblage from Minanha, Cayo District, Belize

2003 Lisa D. McParland

An Analysis of Cashing Practices in the Eastern Maya Lowlands