Dr. Alex Geurds
- The built environment and material culture of Mesoamerica and the Isthmo-Colombian Area. Monumentality, materiality and networks of contact in contexts of Mesoamerica and Lower Central America
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2206 |
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| E-Mail: | a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit Archeologie, Mesoamerican and Andean |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex Matthias de Vrieshof 3 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 004A |
| Personal Homepage: | www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/alexander-geurds |
Alexander Geurds’ (Ph.D. 2007, Leiden University) research interests are the built environment and material culture of Mesoamerica and the Isthmo-Colombian Area. Since 1998 he has been involved in archaeological survey activities in Oaxaca, southern Mexico and Nicaragua. A principal research interest is situating theoretical questions about monumentality, materiality and networks of contact in contexts of Mesoamerica and Lower Central America. He has also published on the role of pre-Hispanic sites and objects in contemporary contexts of state heritage management and local perceptions in Middle America. Currently, he is writing about a monumental sculptural tradition in central Nicaragua, funded by the National Geographic Society and the Waitt Foundation, as well as conducting postdoctoral research in the context of a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research grant into museum collections in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.
In 2007, Geurds received a Rubicon Fellowship for a one-year postdoctoral position at the University of Colorado. His archaeological research in Nicaragua was also supported by a Leiden University Fund seed grant.
Dr. Alexander Geurds is currently working as a postdoc in the NWO-research Communicating Communities.
In October 2010 Dr. Alex Geurds was awarded a Veni grant by NWO. He will receive 250,000 euros for a three year research project. Alex Geurds recently discovered a pre-Columbian pyramid complex in the archaeologically unexplored Central Nicaragua. The region is strewn with man-high basalt statues. Were these gods, rulers or warriors? This study looks at how, when and why these statues were created.
2012
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Geurds, A. (2012)
Arqueologia inclusiva. Un caso de estudio del centro de Nicaragua. Mi Museo y Vos, 5 (17), pp. 10-14.
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Geurds, A. (2012)
El complejo estilistico Mixteca-Puebla en Mesoamerica. Estudios recientes y perspectiva actual (1994-2012). Mi Museo y Vos, 6 (21), pp. 14-19.
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Geurds, A. & Broekhoven, L.N.K., van (2012)
El complejo estilistico Mixteca-Puebla en Mesoamerica. Una breve resena de su historia inicial (1954-1994). Mi Museo y Vos, 6 (19), pp. 8-18.
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Geurds, A. (2012)
Heuvels bergen. Quest (106), pp. 28-29.
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Broekhoven, L.N.K., van & Geurds, A. (2012)
Indigenous religious traditions in Central Nicaragua. In: Bakels, C & Kamermans, H (Eds.), The end of our fifth decade (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia), 43/44. , pp. 51-62. Leiden: Leiden University.
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2011
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Konniger, S. & Geurds, A. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. & Veys, W. (2011)
Modernity? It's the economy, stupid! Business as a catalyst for encounters, contact and production. , Fetish ModernityBrussel: Royal Museum for Central Africa.
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Geurds, A. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. (2011)
Chontales en su sentido étnico. Mi Museo y Vos, 5
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Geurds, A. (2011)
The Social in the Circum-Caribbean: Toward a Transcontextual Order. In: Hofman, C.L & Duijvenbode, A., van (Eds.), Communities in Contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory & ethnography of the Amerindian circum-CaribbeanLeiden: Sidestone Press.
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2010
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Geurds, A. & Zambrana, J. & Villanueva, C. (2010)
Escultura de piedra en el Centro de Nicaragua: Logros y desafíos. Mi Museo y Vos, 4 (13), pp. 4-7.
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Geurds, A. (2010)
Funeraire materiële cultuur in pre-Spaans Panama. Groniek. Historisch Tijdschrift, 42 (185), pp. 409-424.
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Geurds, A. (2010)
La llamada Estela de Friedrichsthal: Una estela prehispánica del Centro de Nicaragua. Mi Museo y Vos, 4 (15), pp. 6-10.
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Geurds, A. (2010)
Monolitos misteriosos. National Geographic, 27 (4), p. 12.
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Geurds, A. (2010)
Onderzoekende ogen van steen: Precolumbiaans erfgoed in Nicaragua. La Chispa: Magazine over Latijns-Amerika en de Cariben, 353, pp. 32-33.
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Geurds, A. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. (2010)
Para contar historias: La producción de un patrimonio cultural en museos Nicaragüenses. Mi Museo y Vos, 4 (12), pp. 5-10.
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Geurds, A. (2010)
Proyecto Arqueológico Centro de Nicaragua. Temporada 2010. Managua: Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura.
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Geurds, A. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. (2010)
The similarity trap: Engineering the Greater-Caribbean, A perspective from the Isthmo-Colombian Area. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology, Spec Pub (3), pp. 52-75.
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Geurds, A. & Broekhoven, L.N.K., van (2010)
The similarity trap: Engineering the Greater-Caribbean. A view from the Isthmo-Colombian area. Journal of Caribbean Archaeology, Spec. Pub (3), pp. 52-75.
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2009
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Geurds, A. & Zambrana, J. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. (2009)
La historia y el patrimonio en el departamento de Chontales. Mi Museo y Vos, 3 (8), pp. 4-7.
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Geurds, A. & Broekhoven, L.N.K., van (2009)
La historia y el patrimonio en el departamento de Chontales. Resultados de la primera temporada del Proyecto Arqueológico Chontales. Mi Museo y Vos, 3 (8), pp. 4-7.
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Geurds, A. (2009)
Proyecto Arqueológico Centro de Nicaragua: Temporada 2009. Managua: Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura.
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2008
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Geurds, A. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. & Zambrana, J. (2008)
Proyecto Arqueológico Río Mayales, Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua. Temporada 2007. Managua: Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura.
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Geurds, A. & Jansen, M.E.R.G.N. (2008)
The Ceremonial Center of Monte Negro. A cognitive approach to urbanization in Ñuu Dzaui. In Mastache, A.G., Cobean, R.H., Cobean, A., Hirth, K.G. (Eds.) Urbanism in Mesoamerica (pp. 371-421). Mexico: Pennsylvania State University & Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.
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2007
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Geurds, A. (2007)
Grounding the Past. The Praxis of Participatory Archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Leiden: CNWS.
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Geurds, A. (2007)
Teotihuamart: Mexican Futurities evoked by past and present power mongers. Etnofoor, 19 (2), pp. 69-86.
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Geurds, A. (Ed.) (2007)
The Early Americas. Leiden&Boston: Brill Publishers.
(Book editorial)
2006
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Geurds, A. & Broekhoven, L.N.K., van (2006)
Origin as Heritage: Community Archaeology in Apoala, Mexico. In: Broekhoven, LNK, Van (Ed.), The Social and Linguistic Heritage of Native Peoples in the Americas: the Struggle to Maintain Cultural Particularity (hors serie)
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2005
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Geurds, A. & Van Broekhoven, L.N.K. (2005)
La Boca Chica de Honduras y Nicaragua: Iniciativas arqueológicas en base a la etnohistoria. Memorias del Primer Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueología en El SalvadorSan Salvador: Museo Nacional de Antropología.
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2001
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Broekhoven, L.N.K., van & Geurds, A. (2001)
Yuku Duha, Cerro de las Apuestas. Mexico: Informe Tecnico INAH.
(External research report)
2000
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Broekhoven, L.N.K., van & Geurds, A. (2000)
Arqueologia y la Mixteca. Un resumen de las investigaciones arqueologicas en Santiago Tilantongo y Monte Negro. Guia educativa para el Publico General. Oaxaca: Guia educativa.
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Broekhoven, L.N.K., van & Geurds, A. (2000)
Yuku Tnuu / Monte Negro. Sitio Arqueologico de la Mixteca Alta, Santiago Tilantongo, Nochixtlan, Oaxaca. Mexico: Informe Tecnico INAH.
(External research report)
1998
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Geurds, A. & Caretta, M.A. (1998)
Archaeological sites discovered at Chalcatongo, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca. Mexicon, aktuelle Informationen und Studien, 20, pp. 6-8.
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University of Colorado at Boulder:
Assistant Professor Adjunct