Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Research Interests
Classic Maya, ritual, political power, climate change, sustainability
Education
Ph.D., UCLA, 1994
Awards and Honors
AAAS Fellow
President, Archaeology Division, American Anthropological Association (2017-2019)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Program in Medieval Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Lucero, L. J., & Gonzalez Cruz, J. (2020). Reconceptualizing Urbanism: Insights From Maya Cosmology. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2(1), 1-15. [10.3389/frsc.2020.00001].
Larmon, J. T., McDonald, H. G., Ambrose, S., DeSantis, L. R. G., & Lucero, L. J. (2019). A year in the life of a giant ground sloth during the Last Glacial Maximum in Belize. Science advances, 5(2), [eaau1200]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau1200
Isendahl, C., Lucero, L. J., & Heckbert, S. (2018). Sustaining freshwater security and community wealth: Diversity and change in the pre-Columbian Maya lowlands. In Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival (pp. 17-39). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560144
Lucero, L. J. (2018). A cosmology of conservation in the ancient Maya world. Journal of Anthropological Research, 74(3), 327-359. https://doi.org/10.1086/698698
Lucero, L. J., & Larmon, J. T. (2018). Climate Change, Mesoamerica, and the Classic Maya Collapse. In E. Chiotis (Ed.), Climate Changes in the Holocene: Impacts and Human Adaptation (pp. 165-182). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351260244-8