Biographical Information

Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza is an Archaeologist and Professor in the Archaeology Program of the School of Social, Behavioral & Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay.

His archaeological studies include his role as principal investigator on four California missions and the Spanish Royal Presidio of Monterey, where excavations resulted in the discovery of the Serra Chapel of 1770-72.

He is the co-editor with Richard Chacon of North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence (2007), Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence (2007), The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research (2012), and Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity (2017).

He has published some two-hundred articles, chapters, and journal contributions, and scores of images spanning a range of topics and media, including Amerindian and Spanish Colonial cultural histories, art and architecture, social conflict, and science, technology, and medicine.