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Gerardo Gutiérrez – Curriculum Vitae
Gerardo Gutiérrez
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder
Mailing Address: 1300 30th St., Apt. B4-25, Boulder, CO, 80303
Phone: (303) 492-7288 (office); (720) 413-9765 (cell)
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Anthropology, 2002, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.
M.A. in Urban Studies, 1997, Center for the Study of Demography and Urban Development, El
Colegio de México, Mexico.
B.A. (Licenciado) in Archaeology (with Honors), 1995, National School of Anthropology and
History, Mexico (ENAH-Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, INAHInstituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia).
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS
Scholarly Books, co-authored
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Baltazar Brito
2014
Codex Azoyú 2: Política y Territorio en el Senorío de
Tlapa-Tlachinollan, siglos XIV-XVI [Codex Azoyú 2: Politics and
Territory in the Kingdom of Tlapa-Tlachinollan]. Mexico: INAH. (to
be published October 2014)
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, Viola Köenig, and Baltazar Brito
2009
Codex Humboldt Fragment 1 (Ms. Amer. 2) and Codex Azoyú 2 Reverse: The
Tribute Record of Tlapa to the Aztec Empire/Códice Humboldt Fragmento 1
(Ms.amer.2) y Códice Azoyú 2 Reverso: Nómina de tributos de Tlapa y su
provincial al Imperio Mexicano. Bilingual (Spanish-English) edition. Mexico:
CIESAS and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin).
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Constantino Medina
2008
Toponimia nahuatl en los codices Azoyú 1 y 2: Un estudio crítico de los nombres
de lugar de los antiguos señoríos del oriente de Guerrero. [Nahuatl Toponymy in
the Azoyú Codices 1 and 2: A Critical Study of the Placenames of the Ancient
Lords of Eastern Guerrero]. Mexico: CIESAS.
Scholarly Books, co-edited
Daneels, Annick, and Gerardo Gutiérrez
2012
El poder compartido; ensayos sobre la arqueología de
organizaciones políticas segmentarias y oligárquicas [Shared
Power: Essays on the Archaeology of Segmentary and
Oligarchical Political Organizations]. Mexico: Colegio de
Michoacan and Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología
Social.
Gerardo Gutiérrez
PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS
Scholarly Book Chapters, single-authored
In press
Identity Erasure and Demographic Impacts of the Spanish Caste
System upon the Indigenous Populations of Mexico. In Beyond
Germs: The Impact of Colonialism on Indigenous Health in
America, C. Cameron, P. Kelton. A. Swedlund, (eds.). Amerind
Studies in Anthropology Series, University of Arizona Press,
Tucson. (to be published in 2016)
In press
Aztec Provinces of the Southern Highlands. In Oxford Handbook
of the Aztecs, D. Nichols and E. Rodríguez-Alegría, (eds.). Oxford
University, Oxford. (to be published March 2015).
In press
Mexico-Tenochtitlan: Origin and Transformations of the Last
Mesoamerican Imperial City. In The Cambridge World History,
Vol.3: Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, ca. 4000 BCE – CE
1200, Norman Yoffee, (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. (to be published March 2015)
2014
Aztec Battlefields of Eastern Guerrero: An Archaeological and
Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Operational Theater of the
Tlapanec War. In Conflict, Conquest, and the Performance of War
in Pre-Columbian America, A. Scherer and J. Verano, (eds.).
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection.
2013
Negotiating Aztec Tributary Demands in the Tribute Record of
Tlapa. In Merchants, Trade, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian
World, K. G. Hirth and J. Pillsbury, (eds.), pp.141-167.
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection.
2012
Hacia un modelo general para entender la estructura
política-territorial del estado nativo mesoamericano (altepetl)
[Toward a general model for understanding the political-territorial
structure of the Mesoamerican native state (altepetl)]. In El
poder compartido; ensayos sobre la arqueología de
organizaciones políticas segmentarias y oligárquicas, A. Daneels
and G. Gutiérrez, (eds.), pp.27-68. Mexico: Colegio de Michoacan
and Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
2011
A History of Disaster and Cultural Change in the Coatan River
Drainage of the Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico. In Early
Mesoamerican Social Transformations: Archaic to Formative
Lifeways in the Soconusco Region, R. Lesure, (ed.) pp.146-169.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
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2009
La organización político-territorial del reino de Tlapa, siglos XV y XVI:
Elementos empíricos para entender la estructura espacial de la unidad política
mesoamericana [Political and Territorial Organization of the Kingdom of Tlapa,
15th-16th Centuries: Empirical Data for Understanding the Spatial Structure of a
Mesoamerican Polity]. In Bases de la complejidad social en Oaxaca: Memoria de
la Cuarta Mesa Redonda of Monte Albán, N. M. Robles García (ed.), pp.
309-378. Mexico: INAH.
2009
Los límites culturales de la región Huaxteca [The cultural
frontiers of the Huaxtec región]. In Memoria del Taller
Arqueología de la Huaxteca: Homenaje a Leonor Merino Carrión,
Diana Zaragoza Ocaña (ed.), pp. 77-92. Mexico: INAH.
2008
Classic and Postclassic Archaeological Features of the
Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua Region of Guerrero: Why Didn’t Anyone
Tell Me the Classic Period Was Over? In After Monte Alban:
Transformation and Negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico, J. Blomster,
(ed), pp. 367-392. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
2008
Four Thousand Years of Communication Systems in the
Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua Region: From the Archaic Cauadzidziqui Rock Shelter
Murals to the Colonial Codices of Azoyú. In The Native Community and its
Records: Historical Transformations in Southern Mexico, M. Jansen and L. Van
Broekhoven, (eds.), pp. 71-107. Amsterdam: KNAW.
2003
Territorial Structure and Urbanism in Mesoamerica: The Huaxtec and
Mixtec-Tlapanec-Nahua Cases. In Urbanism in Mesoamerica, W. Sanders, G.
Mastache and R. Cobean, (eds.), pp. 85-118. University Park: The Pennsylvania
State University and INAH.
2003
Interacción de grupos lingüísticos en la costa del golfo de México: el caso de la
separación geográfica del idioma huasteco del resto de las lenguas mayas.
(Interaction between Linguistic Groups in the Gulf Coast: The Geographic
Separation of Huastec from the Maya Language). In ¡Viva la Huaxteca! Jóvenes
Miradas Sobre la Región, J. Pérez Zevallos and J. Ruvalcaba Mercado, (eds.), pp.
25-39. Mexico: CIESAS.
Scholarly Book Chapters, co-authored
Gerardo Gutiérrez, Adelheid Otto, Terrenato, Nicola,
In press
Imperial Cities. In The Cambridge World History, Vol.3: Early
Cities in Comparative Perspective, ca. 4000 BCE – CE 1200,
Norman Yoffee, (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (to
be published March 2015)
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Daneels, Annick and Gerardo Gutiérrez
2012
Introducción. In El poder compartido; ensayos sobre la
arqueología de organizaciones políticas segmentarias y
oligárquicas [Shared Power: Essays on the Archaeology of
Segmentary and Oligarchic Political Organizations], A. Daneels
and G. Gutiérrez, (eds.), pp. 9-26. Mexico: Colegio de Michoacan
and Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Mary E. Pye
2010
The Iconography of the Nahual: Human-animal Transformations in Preclassic
Guerrero and Morelos. In The Place of Sculpture in Mesoamerica’s Preclassic
Transition: Context, Use, and Meaning, J. Clark, J. Guernsey, and B. Arroyo
(eds.), pp. 27-54. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection.
Ochoa, Lorenzo, and Gerardo Gutiérrez
1999
El cosmos y los dioses de la región huaxteca [Gods and Cosmogony in the
Huaxteca Region]. Antropología e Historia en Veracruz, (ed.), pp. 125-168.
Mexico: Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, INAH, Universidad Veracruzana.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Journal Articles, single-authored
In press
Indigenous Coats of Arms in Títulos Primordiales and Techialoyan
Codices: Nahua Corporate Heraldry in the Lienzos de Chiepetlán,
Guerrero, Mexico. To be published in Ancient Mesoamerica, 2015.
2005
Jardines defensivos: un acercamiento histórico-arqueológico al uso de la
vegetación en la guerra antigua. [Defensive Gardens: A Historical and
Archaeological Approach to the Use of Vegetation in Ancient War]. Anales de
Antropología 39(1): 51-77. Mexico: UNAM.
Journal special issue editor
2005
Special Section: Arqueología de jardines [Archaeology of gardens]. Anales de
Antropología 39(1). Mexico: UNAM.
Journal Articles, co-authored
Joshua Mark Galanter, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Lopez, Christopher R. Gignoux, Jill Barnholtz
Sloan, Ceres Fernandez-Rozadilla, Marc Via, Alfredo Hidalgo-Miranda, Alejandra V. Contreras,
Laura Uribe Figueroa, Paola Raska, Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez, Irma Silva Zolezzi, Maria Torres,
Clara Ruiz Ponte, Yarimar Ruiz, Antonio Salas, Elizabeth Nguyen, Celeste Eng, Lisbeth Borjas,
William Zabala, Guillermo Barreto, Fernando Rondón González, Adriana Ibarra, Patricia
Taboada, Liliana Porras, Fabián Moreno, Abigail Bigham, Gerardo Gutierrez, Tom Brutsaert,
Fabiola León-Velarde, Lorna G. Moore, Enrique Vargas, Miguel Cruz, Jorge Escobedo, José
Rodriguez-Santana, William Rodriguez-Cintrón, Rocio Chapela, Jean G. Ford, Carlos
Bustamante, Daniela Seminara, Mark Shriver, Elad Ziv, Esteban Gonzalez Burchard, Robert
Haile, Esteban Parra, Angel Carracedo, for the LACE Consortium
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2012
Development of a Panel of Genome-Wide Ancestry Informative Markers to Study
Admixture Throughout the Americas. PloS Genetics 8(3).
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi
%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002554
Xianyun Mao, Abigail W. Bigham, Rui Mei, Gerardo Gutierrez, Ken M. Weiss, Tom D.
Brutsaert, Fabiola Leon-Velarde, Lorna G. Moore, Enrique Vargas, Paul M. McKeigue, Mark D.
Shriver, Esteban J. Parra
2007
Genomewide Admixture Mapping Panel for Hispanic/Latino Populations.
American Journal of Human Genetics 80(6): 1171-1178.
Bonilla, Carolina, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Esteban J. Parra, Christopher Kline, Mark Shriver
2005
Admixture Analysis of a Rural Population of the State of the Guerrero, Mexico.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128:861-69.
Shriver, Mark D., Rui Mei, Esteban J. Parra, Vibhor Sonpar, Indrani Halder, Sarah Tishkoff,
Theodore G. Schurr, Segev I. Zhadanov, Ludmila P. Osipova, Tom D. Brutsaert, Jonathan
Friedlaender, Lynn B. Jorde, W. Scott Watkins, Michael J. Bamshad, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Halina
Loi, Hajime Matsuzaki, Rick A. Kittles, George Argyropoulos, José R. Fernández, Joshua M.
Akey, Keith W. Jones
2004
Large-Scale SNP Analysis Reveals Clustered and Continuous Patterns of Human
Genetic Variation. Human Genomics 2(2): 81-89.
Ochoa, Lorenzo, and Gerardo Gutiérrez
1996-1999
Notas en turno a la cosmovisión y religión de los huaxtecos [Notes on the
cosmovision and religion of the Huaxtecs]. Anales de Antropología 33: 91-163.
Mexico: UNAM
Encyclopedia and reference articles, co-authored
Ochoa, Lorenzo, Edith Ortiz-Díaz, Gerardo Gutiérrez
1999
Diversidad geográfica y unidad cultural de Mesoamérica [Geographic Diversity
and Cultural Unity in Mesoamerica]. Historia General de América Latina I: Las
sociedades originarias, edited by Teresa Rojas Rabiela and John Murra. Spain:
Ediciones UNESCO and Editorial Trotta.
WORKS IN PROGRESS - PEER-REVIEW
Journal Articles, co-authored
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Jamie Forde
In prep
The Cohimbre Stela: Death, Sacrifice, and Political Ideology on
the Guerrero Coast. (submitted for publication to Mexicon)
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, Grace Erny, Alyssa Friedman, Melanie Godsey, and
Machal Gradoz
In prep
Archaeological Topography: Comparing Digital Photogrammetry
Taken with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) versus Standard
Surveys with Total Stations. (submitted for publication to
Advances in Archaeological Practice)
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PUBLICATIONS (Not Peer-Reviewed)
Scholarly Book, single-authored
2010
Arqueología de la antigua provincia de Tlapa: Desde el periodo
Arcaico hasta la Independencia de México. [Archaeology of the
Ancient Province of Tlapa: from the Archaic Period to the
Independence of Mexico] Mexico: Municipio de Tlapa de
Comonfort, Letra Antigua.
Scholarly Books, co-authored
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, Alfredo Vera, Mary E. Pye, and Juan Mitzi Serrano
2011
Contlalco y La Coquera: Arqueología de dos sitios tempranos del
Municipio de Tlapa, Guerrero. [Contlalco y La Coquera:
Archaeology of Two Early Sites in the Municiplaity of Tlapa,
Guerrero] Mexico: Municipio de Tlapa de Comonfort, Letra
Antigua.
Scholarly Book Chapters, single-authored
2010
Notas entorno a la arqueología y etnohistoria de Chiepetlan [Notes on the
archaeology and ethnohistory of Chiepetlan]. In Chiepetlán, un Pueblo en La
Montaña más de 520 años de historia, Mario O. Martínez Rescalvo (ed.), pp.
141-182. Chilpancingo: Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero.
2006
Investigaciones etnohistóricas y arqueológicas en el oriente de Guerrero. Una
descripción de los factores y procesos geográficos, políticos y económicos
asociados al surgimiento del estado en la región tlapaneca-mixteca-nahua.
[Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Research in Eastern Guerrero: A Description of
the Geographic, Political, and Economical Variables Associated with the Origin of
the State in the Mixtec-Tlapanec-Nahua-Region]. Diario de Campo, Suplemento
No. 38, pp. 131-140. Mexico: CONACULTA-INAH.
Scholarly book chapters, co-authored
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Lorenzo Ochoa
2007
The Cultural Borders of the Huaxtec Region. In Archaeology, Art, and
Ethnogenesis in Mesoamerican Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Gareth W. Lowe,
L. Lowe and M. Pye (eds.), pp. 337-55. Papers of the New World Archaeological
Foundation, No.68. Brigham Young University, Provo
Pye, Mary E., and Gerardo Gutiérrez
2007
The Pacific Coast Trade Route of Mesoamerica: Iconographic Connections
between Guatemala and Guerrero. In Archaeology, Art, and Ethnogenesis in
Mesoamerican Prehistory: Papers in Honor of Gareth W. Lowe, L. Lowe and M.
Pye (eds.), pp. 229-36. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation,
No.68. Brigham Young University, Provo.
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2000
Espacio y territorialidad en el sur de la Huaxteca [Space and Territoriality in the
Southern Huaxteca]. Arqueología, historia y antropología in memoriam de José
Luis Lorenzo Bautista. J. Litvak and L. Mirambell, (eds.), pp.261-298. Mexico:
INAH.
ARTICLES
Journal articles, single-authored
1993
Historia de la antropología física en México [The History of Physical
Anthropology in Mexico]. Boletín CICAEI 4: 3-5. Mexico: UNAM.
Journal articles, co-authored
Gutiérrez, Gerardo and Peter Van Rossum
2006
De los valles centrales de Oaxaca al Golfo de México. [From the Central Valleys
of Oaxaca to the Gulf Coast]. Arqueología Mexicana XIV(81): 32-36.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, Peter Van Rossum, and Edith Ortiz Díaz.
2000
Least Cost Path Analysis: An Estimation of the Most Efficient Communication
Route Between the Valley of Oaxaca and the Gulf Coast Plain of Mexico, Río
Caxonos Archaeological Project. Antropología y Técnica 6:11-20. Mexico: UNAM.
Magazine, newspaper, and newsletter articles, single-authored
2010
Traveling through the Huaxteca with Lorenzo. In Homage to Lorenzo Ochoa,
Special Section. Voices of Mexico 87(spr-sum): 75-76. Mexico:CISAN-UNAM.
2005
The Codices of Guerrero and Their Stories of Power. Voices of Mexico 70
(January-March):44-47. Mexico:CISAN-UNAM.
2005
Guerrero’s Archaeological Patrimony and Cultural Potential. Voices of Mexico, 70
(January-March):70-74. Mexico:CISAN-UNAM.
Reviews
2011
Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient People of Southern Mexico, by Arthur
A. Joyce. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21(1): 147-148.
Published research reports and conference proceedings, co-authored
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Mary E. Pye
2007
Conexiones iconográficas entre Guatemala y Guerrero:
entendiendo el funcionamiento de la ruta troncal de
comunicación a lo largo de la planicie costera del oceáno Pacífico
[Iconographic Connections between Guatemala and Guerrrero:
Understanding the Communication Route along the Pacific
Coast]. In XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en
Guatemala, 2006, J. P. Laporte, B. Arroyo, H. Mejía (eds.), pp.
753-768. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes and
IDAEH.
Unpublished research reports and proceedings, single-authored
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2009 Arqueología y ethnohistoria en La Montaña, Guerrero: Patrones de
Expansión Político-Territorial de un señorío postclásico en la
Mixteca-Tlapaneco-Nahua. [Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the La
Montaña, Guerrero: Patterns of Politico-Territorial Expansion of a
Postclassic Kingdom in the Mixteca-Nahua-Tlapaneco Region]. Final
Report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia,
Mexico.
2009
Topografía de un desastre: Mediación de las afectaciones provocadas por el huracán Stan
en el municipio de Mazatan, Chiapas. [Topography of a Disaster: Evaluating the Effects
Caused by Hurricane Stan in the Municipality of Mazatan, Chiapas]. Final Report
submitted to the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
(CIESAS), Mexico, and the New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young
University, Provo.
Electronic publications
2010
El desarrollo tributario de la provincia de Tlapa: Nuevas interpretaciones sobre el
códice Humboldt Fragmento 1 (Ms. Amer.2) [The Development of Tribute Payments
for the Tlapa Province: New Interpretations from the Codex Humboldt Fragment 1].
IV Mesa Redonda: El Conocimiento Antropológico e Histórico sobre Guerrero,
August 17-21, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico. CD-ROM. Mexico: INAH.
2007
Catálogo de sitios arqueológicos de las regiones
Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua y Costa Chica de Guerrero [Catalogue of
Archaeological Sites in the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua and Costa
Chica Regions of Guerrero]. Mexico: CIESAS. Available in CD-ROM
and at http://www.famsi.org/reports/99060/index.html.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, Mary E. Pye, Alfredo Vera Rivera, Juana Mitzi Serrano Rivero
2005
Una reinterpretación del grafitti estilo olmeca del abrigo rocoso de Caudzidziqui en el
oriente de Guerrero [A Reinterpretation of the Olmec-style Grafitti of the
Caudzidziqui Rock Shelter, Eastern Guerrero], II Mesa Redonda: El Conocimiento
Antropológico e Histórico sobre Guerrero, August 23-25, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico.
CD-ROM. Mexico: INAH.
SCHOLARLY CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Invited or keynote presentations at scholarly conferences and symposia
2013 Códice Azoyú 2. Presented in the lecture series: “Los codices mesoamericanas: otras
miradas”, organized by the Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Museo
Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, November 19.
2013
Identity Erasure and Demographic Impacts of the Spanish Caste System upon the
Indigenous Populations of Mexico. In the advanced seminar “Beyond Germs: The Impact
of Colonialism on Indigenous Health in America”, organized by C. Cameron, P. Kelton.
A. Swedlund, (eds.), held at the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona, February 20-24.
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2011
Book Presentation: Contlalco y La Coquera: Arqueología de dos sitios tempranos del
municipio de Tlapa, Guerrero, by G. Gutiérrez, A. Vera, M. Pye, J. Serrano. 3ro. Festival
de La Montaña, Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero, October 19.
2011
Aztec Battlefields of Eastern Guerrero: An Archaeological and
Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Operational Theater of the Tlapanec
War. In Conflict, Conquest, and the Performance of War in
Pre-Columbian America, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection, Washington, DC, October 14-15.
2011
Mexico-Tenochtitlan: Origin and Transformation of the Last
Mesoamerican Imperial City. In Cambridge History of the World Project;
A World with Cities, ca. 3000 BCE – 1200 CE. Institute for the Study of
the Ancient World, New York University, New York, March 25-26.
2010
Book Presentation: Arqueología del Antiguo Señorio de Tlapa del Dr. Gerardo Gutiérrez
Mendoza. 2ndo. Festival de La Montaña, Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero, October 21.
2010
El ritual de Chicomexochitl en la región Huaxteca [The Chicomexochitl of the Huastec
Region]. Session in memoriam for Lorenzo Ochoa. Congreso Internacional de Mayistas,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, July 10-13. Invited Session.
2009
Topography of a Disaster: Flooding and Debris Flows in the Lower Basin of the Coatan
River, Mazatán, Chiapas. In Seminario de “Gestión de Riesgo por Inundaciones. A tres
Años del Huracán STAN en Chiapas”. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur y El Ayuntamiento
Municipal de Tapachula, Chiapas. January 29-30.
2008
Iconographic Analysis of a Middle Formative Figurine from San Pedro Aytec, Guerrero.
In Cuartas Jornadas de Arqueología del Museo del Templo Mayor, INAH, Mexico,
October 31.
2008
Agriculture in the Upper Basin of the Balsas River. In Seminario de Obras Hidráulicas y
Territorio. Universidad Iberoamericana-CIESAS, México, October 27.
2008
New Technologies in Social Sciences. In Reunión Nacional de Investigadores 2008,
CIESAS, Juriquilla, Querétaro, September 25.
2008
Native History and Thought in Codices and Ethnohistorical Documents. In Reunión
Nacional de Investigadores 2008, CIESAS, Juriquilla, Querétaro, September 25.
2008
William Sanders and the Mexican Archaeology. In Homenaje al Dr. William Sanders.
CONACULTA-INAH, Mexico, September 24.
2008
Iconography of Nahualism en the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua Region. In Coloquio de
Historia y Arqueología de la Mixteca, CIESAS, Mexico, August 26-27.
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2008
The Sculptural Traditions of the Pacific Coast of Mesoamerica. In Seminario
Permanente de Estudios sobre Guerrero, INAH, Mexico, April 22.
2008
Sedimentary Processes in the Coatan River. Sociopolitical Transformation in Early
Mesoamerica: Archaic to Formative in the Soconusco Region, Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology, UCLA, Los Angles, Feb. 28-March 2.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Mary E. Pye
2007 Reflections on Human-Jaguar Transformation in Morelos and Guerrero: A Middle
Formative Figurine from San Pedro Aytec. Presented at The Place of Sculpture in
Mesoamerica’s Preclassic Transition, Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies
Symposium, Antigua, Guatemala, October 5-6, 2007,
2003
2007
Teotihuacan style braziers in the Mixteca of Guerrero. Braunstein Symposium, UNLV,
January 12-14.
2005
Four Thousand Years of Communication Systems in the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua
Region: The Cauadzidziqui Rock Shelter Murals to the Codices of Azoyú. Academy
Colloquium Mixtec Writing: Historical Development and Social Context. 29 August- 2
September. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2006
A Comparative Analysis of the American and Mexican Archaeological Research
Traditions. In Simposio Roman Piña Chán, Arqueología de México, Mesoamerica y
Aridoamérica. Mexico, September 13. Key Note Speaker.
2004
Formation and Territorial Structure of the Colonial Province of Tlapa. Special Seminar in
Honor of Professor Luis Reyes García, CIESAS-UNAM. Mérida, Yucatán. September.
2003
A Historiography of the Codices of the Azoyú Group. Biblioteca del Museo Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, Mexico, July.
2003
An Essay towards an Operational Concept of Urbanism for Mesoamerica. Research on
Urbanism in Mesoamerica, The Pennsylvania State University-INAH. State College,
Pennsylvania, May.
2003
Refuges, Strongholds, Fortified Villages and Strategic Defenses of the Mixteca Region of
Guerrero: A Topographic Analysis of Mesoamerican Warfare. Paper presented at the 10th
Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, April.
An Analysis of Geographical, Political, and Economic Processes in the Rise of the State:
The Mixteca of Guerrero. The Fourth Mesa Redonda of Monte Albán, Oaxaca. August.
2002
A Geopolitical Interpretation of the Codices of Azoyú and the Palimpsest of 20 Mazorcas.
Paper presented at the 9th Mixtec Gateway, Las Vegas, March.
Scholarly panels, symposia, and conferences organized
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2007 Seminar Organizer: Segmentary Political Systems and Oligarchic
Governments: Comparative Studies in Archaeology, Ethnography, and
History, XXVIII Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de
Antropología: Pueblos Indígenas, Cultura y Nación, Mexico, August
6-10, 2007.
2004
Seminar Organizer: Indigenous Socio-political Structures in Mexico, 16 th to 18th
Centuries: Seminar in Honor of Luis Reyes García (CIESAS-UNAM), Mérida, Mexico.
2004
Symposium Co-organizer (with Jeffrey Quilter): Method and Theory in Garden
Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Montreal.
2004
Symposium Co-organizer (with Louise Paradise): Towards an Anthropological Synthesis
for the State of Guerrero, México. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting,
Montreal.
2001
Symposium organizer: Regions, Areas and Territories: Archaeology, History and
Anthropology of the State of Guerrero, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas,
Mexico.
2000
Symposium organizer: New Perspectives on Mesoamerican Imperialism: Views from the
Periphery. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
Papers presented at scholarly conferences
2014 Spatial Structure and Genealogical Interactions of the Complex Yuhuitayu of Tlapa
Tlachinollan of Mixteca Guerrero. Society for American Archaeology 79th Annual
Meeting, Austin, April 23-27.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Alicia Hernández
2013 The Archaeology of Fortified Hilltops along the Aztec-Tlapanec Frontier in Eastern
Guerrero, Society for American Archaeology 78th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, April 3-7.
2012
Discussant for session “Chaco and Cahokia Histories, Landscapes and Hinterlands,”
Society for American Archaeology 77th Annual Meeting, Memphis, April 18-22.
2010
Debris Flows and their Cultural Impact in the Soconusco Region of Mexico. The
Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Denver, October 31-November 3.
2010
We the Tlapanecs, You the Tenochca: Ethnic Identification and Group Differentiation in
the Azoyú Codices. American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Toronto, October
14-17.
2010
El desarollo tributario de la provincial de Tlapa: Nuevas interpretaciones sobre el códice
Humboldt Fragmento 1 (Ms. Amer.2) [The Development of Tribute Payments for the
Tlapa Province: New Interpretations from the Codex Humboldt Fragment 1]. IV Mesa
Redonda: El Conocimiento Antropológico e Histórico sobre Guerrero, Taxco, Guerrero,
Mexico, August 17-21.
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2010
Distribution of Teotihuacan-style Censers in Eastern Guerrero, Society for American
Archaeology 75th Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 14-18.
Guerra, William, Michelle Goman, Arthur Joyce, and Gerardo Gutiérrez
2010 A Preliminary Paleoecological Reconstruction for Laguna Ojo del Mar, Guerrero,
Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC,
April 14-18.
2009
Cognitive maps and Native Political Memory. For the symposium “Time and Space in
Mesoamerican Cultural Memory,” 53o Congreso Internacional de Americanistas,
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, June 19-24.
2009
Every River Drainage Has a History: Stories from the Coatan. .For the symposium “El
Desarrollo de la complejidad social durante el Arcaico y el Formativo: investigaciones
recientes en Chiapas, Mexico,” 53o Congreso Internacional de Americanistas,
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, June 19-24.
2009
New Interpretations of the Codices Humboldt Fragment 1 and Azoyú 2. For the
symposium “Códices de Oaxaca, Sur de Puebla y Este de Guerrero, una Mirada a través
de sus Tradiciones Pictóricas”, 53o Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Universidad
Iberoamericana, Mexico, June 19-24.
2008
Trompezon Irrigation System of Eastern Guerrero. SAA Annual Meeting 2008, March
28, Vancouver.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Mary E. Pye
2007 Chronology for Eastern Guerrero: Preliminary Findings. SAA Annual Meeting 2007, San
Antonio.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, Viola König, Mary E. Pye
2006 Understanding the Aztec Tributary system and Relationship with the
Mixtec-Tlapanec Kingdom of Tlapa: Codex Humboldt Fragment 1. SAA
Annual Meeting 2006, Puerto Rico.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Mary Pye
2005 Late Archaic to Formative Olmec Style Paintings at Cueva del Diablo, Eastern Guerrero,
Mexico. SAA Annual Meeting 2005, Salt Lake City.
2003
The Internal Structure of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and its Sacred Precinct. Symposium for
the exhibition: 1519-One Reed Year: Wonders of Aztec Mexico. Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, October.
2003
Main Archaeological Features of the Mixteca Region of Guerrero during the Classic
Period. Society for American Archaeology 67th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, April.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Alfredo Vera Rivera
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2002
Spheres of Ceramic Interaction in the Mixteca Region of Guerrero, Mexico. Society for
American Archaeology 67th Annual Meeting, Denver, March.
2001
Settlement Patterns and Land Use in the Valleys of Tlapa and Huamuxtitlan (Patrón de
asentamiento y uso de suelo en los Valles de Tlapa y Huamuxtitlan, en la Montaña de
Guerrero). Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología, Zacatecas, July.
2001
Agricultural Intensification and Political Expansion in the Mixteca Region of Guerrero.
Society for American Archaeology 66th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2001.
José Luis Ruvalcaba, Gerardo Gutiérrez, Lauro Bucio
2001 Characterization of Pottery by PIXE and XRD: The Problem of Results Interpretation in
Provenance Archaeological Studies. Society for American Archaeology, 66th Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, 2001.
2000
Spatial Patterns of Political Expansion in Southern Mesoamerica: The
Caltitlan-Tlachinollan’s Case. Society for American Archaeology, 65th Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, 2000.
Gutiérrez, Gerardo, and Lorenzo Ochoa
1999 Political Geography and Territoriality in Ancient Southern Huaxteca. Society for
American Archaeology 64th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1999.
1996
Ethnohistorical Settlement Patterns in the La Montaña Region of Guerrero. Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico, November.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2009-present Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado-Boulder.
2006-2009
Professor, Department of Ethnohistory (tenured), Centro de Investigaciones y
Estudios Superiores en Antropología (CIESAS) [Center for Investigation and
Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology], Mexico City.
2007-2009
Coordinator, GIS and Remote Sensing Laboratory, CIESAS, Mexico City. Please
see website at: http://anthroposig.ciesas.edu.mx.
2004-2006
Assistant Professor of Ethnohistory, CIESAS, Mexico City.
2005
Instructor in Ethnohistory and Archaeology, National School of Anthropology and
History (ENAH-INAH), Mexico City.
2004
Consultant, Huaca del Brujo Project, Peru, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Quilter, funded
by the National Geographic Society. Development of GIS for the Chicama Valley,
Peru.
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2003
Consultant, “Mexican Ports of the Pacific Project,” directed by Dr. Graciela
Alcala, Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City. Development of a GIS to monitor urban
growth and economic activity in the ports of Mazanillo, Lazaro Cárdenas, and
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2003-present Reviewer, Books on Anthropology and History, Fondo de Cultura Económica
(FCE), Mexico City.
2003
Consultant, Secretary of Education, Government of Mexico, Mexico City.
Organized and automated existing databases on educational performance in all
Mexican schools, performed multivariate analysis for various educational indices,
and prepared final report for the Secretary of Education.
2003
Instructor in Spatial Analysis and GIS, Monterrey Institute of Advanced
Technology (ITESM), Mexico City
Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, The
Pennsylvania State University, State College.
1998-2001
1996-1998
Instructor, National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH-INAH), Mexico
City.
1992-1995
Archaeologist, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH); and
Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
2008-2009
Visiting Professor Fellowship, Asociación Mexicana de las Ciencias [Mexican
Science Association], University of Guerrero, Tixtla campus, Mexico. [$18,000].
2005.2005
Postdoctoral Repatriation Fellowship in Anthropology. National Council of
Science and Technology (CONACYT), Mexico, 2004-2005 [One-year salary and
benefits, $97,350].
2002-2003
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library and Collection, Washington, DC. [$45,000].
1998.2001
Fulbright-Robles García scholarship for Ph.D. in Anthropology at the
Pennsylvania State University, State College [$65,000]
2001.2002
Mexican National Council of Science and Technology scholarship for doctoral
studies in Anthropology (CONACYT) [$65,000].
2002
Matson-Benson Award in Ceramic Studies, Matson Museum of Anthropology,
Penn State University: An Ethnographic Study of Pottery Production in Guerrero
and Oaxaca, Mexico [$1,500].
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:
External
 Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
Creation of a Geographic Information Systems Laboratory, 2005-2008
[$300,000]
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
Topography of a Disaster: Evaluation of the Social and Economic
Impact of Hurricane Stan in the Municipality of Mazatan, Chiapas,
Mexico, 2005-2008 [$150,000]
New World Archaeological Foundation, Project Grant for Prehistoric
Research in Guerrero, 2007 [$4,000].
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. Grant
for radiocarbon dating samples from Contlalco and Cerro Quemado,
Guerrero, 2006 [$6,100].
The Pennsylvania State University. Genetic Admixture of Nahuas,
Mixtecs and Tlapanecs in the State of Guerrero, (with Mark Shriver and
Esteban J. Parra), during 2000 [$15,000]
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc.
Research grant for archaeological survey in the Mixtec region of
Guerrero, 2000-2001 [$6,000].
Hill Foundation Grant, Penn State University for archival and field research in the Mixtec
region of Guerrero, during 2000 and 2002 [$4,500].
Research Grant, Research and Graduate Studies Office, Pennsylvania State University,
2002[$2,000].
Internal - University of Colorado-Boulder
2014 IMPART Faculty Fellowship award, “Ethnic and Political Identity in the
Aztec Empire: Non-Western Approaches to Diversity’ [$2,000]
2014 ASSETT Class Development Award, Topography, Telemetry, and Digital
Photogrammetry for Archaeologists [$2,796].
2013 ASSETT Class Development Award, Field Mapping and GIS Processing for
Archaeologists [$5,000].
2011 Innovative Seed Grant Program (IGP) award, “The Trompezón Agricultural System of La
Montaña, Eastern Guerrero, Mexico: Traditional Technologies for the Practice of
Agriculture and Flood Mitigation in Braided Rivers [$27,400].
TEACHING
University of Colorado-Boulder courses
Large lecture classes (100-200 students) in the Core Curriculum
Exploring a Non-Western Culture: The Aztecs
Exploring a Non-Western Culture: Inca
Major Courses for Undergraduates (10-40 students)
Mesoamerican People and Their Spanish Colonial Transition
Ancient Technologies of the New World
Disaster and Culture: Anthropological, Archaeological, and Historical Approaches to the
Study of Catastrophes
Ancient Mexican Writing
Graduate Courses
Research Methods 2: Research Design
Exploring Mesoamerican Ethnohistory: Theory, Methods, and Practice in Giving Voice to
Native Actors
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Courses taught at CIESAS, Mexico
Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
Integrated Geographic Information Systems in Anthropological Studies
Method and Theory in Colonial Archaeology
Territories, Regions and Central Places: Spatial Analysis and Statistics for
Anthropological Studies
Courses taught at ENAH-INAH, Mexico
Field School 1: Survey Methods and Techniques (ENAH-INAH);
Field School 2: Excavation Methods and Techniques (ENAH-INAH);
Historical Geography of Mexico (ENAH-INAH)
Principal Dissertation/Thesis Advisor:
Currently 1 graduate student, 1 undergraduate working on an honors thesis.
Have graduated 3 students with Masters; 1 undergraduate with an honors thesis.
Member of Dissertation/Thesis Committee (other than Principal Advisor):
Currently participating on 10 graduate committees in Anthropology; 1 in Spanish & Portuguese.
Have participated on 10 graduate committees in anthropology; 2 in Art History; 1 in Spanish &
Portuguese.
CAREER SERVICE
University Level
2013
Reviewer, Innovative Seed Grant Program (IGP), Social Sciences
2013-2014 Member, A & S GIS Advisory Committee
Department of Anthropology
2011-2014
Member, Salary Advisory Committee
2012-2013 Member, Search Committee for Southwest Archaeologist position
2012-2013
Member, Department Self-Study Committee
2010-2011
Member, Curriculum Committee
Peer Review of manuscripts
2014 Reviewed manuscript on E-data collection for Advances in
Archaeological Practice
2013 Reviewed manuscript on Indigenous Material Culture for University of
Arizona Press
2013 Reviewed re-submission of Aztec manuscript for Ancient Mesoamerica
2012 Reviewed manuscript on the Aztecs for Ancient Mesoamerica
2012 Reviewed manuscript on the Aztecs for Cambridge University Press.
2012 Reviewed manuscript on the Mixtecs for Journal of Archaeological Research
2011 Reviewed article on archaeology of Guerrero for Latin American Antiquity
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2010
Reviewed manuscript on Aztec urbanism for University Press of Florida.
Other Service
2014-2015
Member, Committee on the Americas, Society for American Archaeology
(in Mexico)
2008-2009
2008-2009
Reviewer, Committee for Postgraduate Scholarships Abroad, CONACYT
(Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, National Council of Science and
Technology of Mexico).
Member, Evaluation Committee for Academic Performance and Salary Bonuses,
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
(CIESAS).
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