Marilyn Masson

Marilyn A. Masson

https://www.albany.edu/anthropology

Chair and Professor of Archaeology| SUNY, University at Albany, Department of Anthropology

Primary Field	Archaeology
Position	Department Chair

https://www.albany.edu/anthropology

Chair and Professor of Archaeology, SUNY, University at Albany, Department of Anthropology

E-mail	mmasson@albany.edu
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Interest/Specialty Areas

Archaeology, ancient economies and urbanism, political organization, human ecology, ancient religion, zooarchaeology, lithic analysis

Dr. Marilyn Masson is a historical anthropologist and archaeologist whose current research project focuses on the daily life and diversity of rural and urban settlements in the late Pre-Columbian and Colonial periods in Yucatan, Mexico. In Mexico, she collaborates with an international team of researchers and local assistants at the site of Mayapan and its regional environs. Her team currently explores long-term settlement and demographic changes associated with cycles of climatic crisis, human-environmental system resilience, and societal reconstitution.

Two recent publications include:

Masson, Marilyn A., David Freidel, and Arthur A. Demarest 2020 The Real Business of Ancient Maya Exchange: From Farmers’ Fields to Rulers’ Realms. University of Florida Press.

Masson, Marilyn A., Timothy S. Hare, Carlos Peraza Lope, and Bradley W. Russell, editors 2021 Settlement, Society, and Economy at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. Center for Comparative Archaeology Memoir 27, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Phone	(518) 442-4700
Email	anthro@albany.edu