{"id":56,"date":"2009-07-28T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motul-archaeology.stage.williams.edu\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:11:10","slug":"motul-de-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/overview\/motul-de-san-jose","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Antonia Foias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-136 size-full\" title=\"foias_afoias\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/files\/2009\/07\/foias_afoias.jpg\" alt=\"Antonia Foias\" width=\"105\" height=\"135\" \/>Antonia E. Foias<\/strong> is Professor of Anthropology in the <a href=\"https:\/\/anso.williams.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #993300\">Department of Anthropology &amp; Sociology<\/span><\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williams.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Williams College<\/span><\/a>. She received her B.A. Summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in anthropology from Vanderbilt in 1996, specializing in Mesoamerica, especially the ancient Maya. She has published on the topics of ceramic analysis, economy, politics, and evolution of complex society. She is the author of the monograph\u00a0 <em>The Economic Parameters of the Classic Maya Collapse: Ceramics, Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region<\/em> on changing ceramic production and exchange in the Petexbatun region of Guatemala (with Ronald Bishop, 2012, Vanderbilt University Press), and <em>Ancient Maya Political Dynamics<\/em> (2013, University Press of Florida). She is the co-editor of <em>Geographies of Power: Understanding the Nature of Terminal Classic Pottery in the Maya Lowlands<\/em> (2005) with Sandra L. L\u00f3pez Varela. Since 1998 she has directed the multifaceted archaeological research at the site of Motul de San Jos\u00e9, located in the Central Pet\u00e9n jungle of Guatemala. Foias&#8217; research focuses on the political and economic organization of the Classic Maya polity at Motul de San Jos\u00e9. She teaches courses in Mesoamerican anthropology, ancient civilizations and human evolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motul-archaeology.stage.williams.edu\/?page_id=276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foias Publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia E. Foias is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology &amp; Sociology at Williams College. She received her B.A. Summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in anthropology from Vanderbilt in 1996, specializing in Mesoamerica, especially the ancient Maya. She has published on the topics of ceramic analysis, economy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/overview\/motul-de-san-jose\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Antonia Foias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12990,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/12990"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/motul-archaeology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}