Joshua Kwoka
Lecturer Anthropology- Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, University at Buffalo, 2014
M.A., Anthropology, University at Buffalo, 2008
B.A., Anthropology, Buffalo State College, 2002
- Specializations
Mesoamerican archaeology, with a focus on the Maya and Teotihuacan; the archaeology of northeastern North America, especially the Haudenosaunee; lithic technology, geographic information systems (GIS), and Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
- Biography
Research Interests
Orange Walk District, Belize, Archaeological site of Tz’unun: ancient Maya community formation during the Middle Preclassic, emergence and institutionalization of inequality, interaction within and along frontier zones. Three Rivers Region: households, inequality, and land tenure systems, La Cuernavilla, Guatemala: Ancient Maya warfare, craft production, economic organization and Collections-based research: Teotihuacan, Haudenosaunee
- Publications
To view all my publications, visit my Google Scholar page.
- 2024 Kwoka, Joshua J. Of Waterlilies and Lightning: Technology and Symbolism of Late Classic Lithics Caches in Northwestern Belize. In Crafting Celestial Fire in Classic Mesoamerica: The Technologies of Ceremonial Chipped-Stone Production, edited by Zachary Hruby. University of Colorado Press, Boulder.
- 2023 Guderjan, Thomas H., C. Colleen Hanratty, and Joshua J. Kwoka. Changing Perspectives on Ancient Maya Neighborhoods and Houselots at Xnoha in Northwest Belize. In Construction of Maya Space: Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times, edited by T. H. Guderjan and J. Mathews, pp. 249-272. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ISBN: 9780816551873.
- 2021 Kwoka, Joshua J., Thomas H. Guderjan, Sara Eshleman, Thomas Ruhl, Justin Telepak, Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Grace Bascopé, and Will McClatchey. A Multimethod Approach to the Study of Ancient Maya Houselots and Land Tenure: Preliminary Research from the Three Rivers Region, Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 38:103049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103049.
- 2020 Guderjan, Thomas, Joshua J. Kwoka, Colleen Hanratty, Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Samantha Krause, Sara Eshleman, Thomas Ruhl, and Colin Doyle. Early Onset Anthropocene: Control of the Landscape by the Ancient Maya in Northwestern Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 17:105-117. https://tinyurl.com/2p8e5a7k
- 2020 William Engelbrecht, Andrew P. Bradbury, and Joshua J. Kwoka. Rethinking Iroquoian Stone Endscraper Use. Iroquoia 6:59-90. ISSN: 2474-2880
- 2019 Kwoka, Joshua J., C. Colleen Hanratty, and Thomas H. Guderjan. From Crafting to Caching: Technological and Iconographic Analyses of Blue Creek Cache 37. Journal of Field Archaeology 44(6):352-366. DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2019.1625248
- 2019 Kwoka, Joshua J., and M. Steven Shackley. Source Provenance and Technological Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts from a Sun Pyramid Substructure Cache, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 30(1):205-210. DOI: 10.1017/laq.2018.71
- 2018 Kwoka, Joshua J., and William Engelbrecht. Late Middle Woodland through Early Late Woodland Settlement and Subsistence Patterns at the Griswold Site, 36Er62. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 88(1):1-55. https://tinyurl.com/saa27ct2
- 2018 Engelbrecht, William, Kathleen Allen, Bill Fox, Jim Herbstritt, Joshua J. Kwoka, Wayne Lenig, and Martha Sempowski. Stone Disks in Iroquoia. Iroquoia 4:41-75. https://tinyurl.com/yfh5zf67
- 2017 Kwoka, Joshua J. Finding Value in the Mundane: Chert Features and Communities of Practice at San Bartolo, Guatemala. In The Value of Things: Commodities in the Maya Region from Prehistoric to Contemporary, edited by Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan, pp.49-66. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. ISBN: 9780816533527.
- 2016 Kwoka, Joshua J. Aztec Commoner Access to Foreign Trade Goods: A West Mexican Bronze Needle from the Teotihuacan Valley. Mexicon 38(3):65-69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44739239
- 2012 Poplawski, Piotr, Joshua J. Kwoka, and William Engelbrecht. Rethinking Palisades in the Northeast: Evidence from the Eaton Site. Northeast Anthropology 77/78:71-87. https://tinyurl.com/4xehtyp7