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Luke Stroth

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Luke Stroth
  • 9500 Gilman Dr
    Mail Code: 0532
    La Jolla , California 92093
 Luke Stroth is an archaeologist who works in the Maya lowlands. In addition to his dissertation work on ceramic material culture from southern Belize, he has analyzed paleobotanical collections from Belize, Jordan, and India, and lithic collections from Honduras. His methodological training includes structure-from-motion photogrammetry, pXRF analysis, multivariate statistics, macrobotanical recovery and identification, and wood charcoal analysis. Dr. Stroth has taught introductory and upper-division anthropology and archaeology classes as instructor of record. He is a lecturer at UC, San Diego, and CSU, San Marcos.
  • BA, Anthropology, The University of Iowa, 2016
  • MA, Anthropology, UC, San Diego, 2018
  • PhD, Anthropology with Certificate in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, UC, San Diego 2025
  • Stroth, Luke R., Mario R. Borrero, Geoffrey E. Braswell, and Brian Holland (2025) The Red Bank Formation as a Local Source for Belize Red Pottery. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 65:105185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105185

 

  • Stroth, Luke R. (2025) Inoculation Approaches to Archaeological Misinformation in the Classroom: Teaching Students to Spot Pseudoarchaeologies. The SAA Archaeological Record 25(4):28-34.

  • Stroth, Luke R., Mario Borrero, and Geoffrey E. Braswell (2025) A New Ceramic Chronology for Nim li Punit and its Place in the Broader Southern Belize Region. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 19:245-259.

  • Stroth, Luke R., Arianna Garvin, Brady Liss, Matthew D. Howland, and Jade d’Alpoim Guedes (2023) Archaeological evidence of casual snacking and resource provisioning at Khirbat al-Jariya (ca. 11th to 10th centuries BCE), an Iron Age copper production site. In “And in length of days understanding” (Job 12:12) – Essays on Archaeology in the 21st Century in Honor of Thomas E. Levy, edited by Erez Ben-Yosef and Ian W. N. Jones, pp. 1133-1153. Springer Nature, Switzerland.

  • Stroth, Luke R., Mario R. Borrero, and Geoffrey E. Braswell (2023) Classic Period Ceramics of Nim li Punit: Changes in communities of practice at a southern Belize political capital. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 18:197-204