Nancy Gonlin

The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities

Conceptualizing What Households Do

Without electrical lighting to guide the way, our ancestors in the ancient world experienced night very differently than we do today.

Life After Dark in the Ancient World

Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology

Nancy Gonlin is a Mesoamerican archaeologist who specializes in daily and nightly practices, household studies, and inequality. She is editor-in-chief of Ancient Mesoamerica, and her publications include the coedited volumes Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica, Ancient Households of the Americas, Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica and Archaeology of the Night. She is coauthor of Copán: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom and The Archaeology of Native North America, 2nd ed. Gonlin is a professor of anthropology at Bellevue College in Washington.

Listen to Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell talk about The Archaeology of the Night on The Archaeology Show!

Grants and Donations

The University Press of Colorado is a 501(c)3 nonprofit membership organization that relies on the ongoing support of its members, as well as funds from other institutions, granting agencies, and individuals, to fulfill our mandate as a scholarly publisher. We thank the following institutions and individuals for their generous contributions to our publishing program this year.

• Augustana College, $1,000 in support of Leisure and Death edited by Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner
• Denver Museum of Nature & Science, $10,000 in support of Navajo Textiles by Laurie D. Webster, Louise I. Stiver, D. Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete
• Knowledge Unlatched, $8,745 in support of Archaeological Perspectives of Warfare on the Great Plains edited by Andrew J. Clark and Douglas B. Bamforth
• Montclair State University, $2,000 in support of Writing at the State U by Emily J. Isaacs
• Purdue University, $4,000 in support of The Internationalization of US Writing Programs edited by Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser
• Turner Endangered Species Fund, $5,000 in support of The Last Stand of the Pack by Arthur H. Carhart in collaboration with Stanley P. Young, edited by Andrew Gulliford and Tom Wolf
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas, $2,000 in support of Life beyond the Boundaries edited by Karen G. Harry and Sarah Herr
• University of Victoria, $3,700 in support of Archaeology of the Night edited by Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell
• Vassar College, $900 in support of Words and Worlds Turned Around edited by David Tavárez

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Director's Circle 2017–2018 ($500+ annually)

Friends of the Press 2017–2018 ($100+ annually)

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2017–2018 Donors

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• Adams State University
• Colorado State University (Fort Collins/Pueblo)
• Fort Lewis College
• Metropolitan State University of Denver
• Regis University
• University of Colorado (Boulder/Colorado Springs/Denver)
• University of Northern Colorado
• Utah State University
• Western State Colorado University

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UPC authors Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell have a featured blog post on Sapiens! Check in out, and then learn even more in their book Archaeology of the Night: Life After Dark in the Ancient World.