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2024. Ramdurga Fort and the Hatti Poligars. Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society 115(1).

Recent

2021. Mayakonda: A Fortified Headquarters Town of the Chitradurga Nayakas. South Asian Studies 37:1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2021.1875742

2020. Chitradurga Fort Development and Organization. In Forts of the Deccan, 1200-1800, edited by N. Faucherre and N. Morelle, 177-198. Aryan Books International: New Delhi.

2018. Review of “Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600” by Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner. The Journal of Asian Studies 77:1113-1114. DOI: 10.1017/S0021911818001262.

2016.  Kingdom of Mysore. In Encyclopedia of Empire, edited by John M. MacKenzie. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK. DOI: 10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe021

2016.  Village Defenses in South India. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, edited by Helaine Selin, pp. 4357-4359. 3 vols. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10067-1.

2014.  India: Historical Archaeology. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, edited by C. Smith, pp. 3751-3760. Springer: New York.

Selected Older Publications

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Understanding Humans: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, by Barry Lewis, Robert Jurmain, and Lynn Kilgore. 2013. 11th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage Learning: Belmont, CA.

2012.  British Assessments of Tipu Sultan’s Hill Forts in Northern Mysore, South India, 1802. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16:164-198.

2009.  Village Defenses of the Karnataka Maidan, South India, A.D. 1600-1800. South Asian Studies 25:91-111.

2006. Channabasappa S. Patil: An Appreciation. In Vijayanagara, Archaeological Exploration, 1990-2000, Papers in memory of Channabasappa S. Patil, edited by John M. Fritz, Robert Brubaker and Teresa Raczek. VRP Monograph Series 10, Pt 1, pp. 1-6. Manohar and American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi.

2006. Hillside Shiva Shrine in Vijayanagara’s Eastern Urban Core. In Vijayanagara, Archaeological Exploration, 1990-2000, Papers in memory of Channabasappa S. Patil, edited by John M. Fritz, Robert Brubaker and Teresa Raczek. VRP Monograph Series 10, Pt 1, pp. 231-236. Manohar and American Institute of Indian Studies, New Delhi. (with Nicholas Powell).

2006. Informal History of the Chitradurga Nayakas. In Jaya-Vijaya: A Commemorative Volume, pp. 140-150. Kannada Vrinda, Houston, TX. (compiler)

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Chitradurga in the Early 1800s: Archaeological Interpretations of Colonial Drawings. 2006. Indian Council of Historical Research, Southern Regional Centre, Lecture Series Publication 6. Bangalore, India.

2005. The Mysore Kingdom at AD 1800: Archaeological Applications of the Mysore Survey of Colin Mackenzie. In South Asian Archaeology 2001, edited by Catherine Jarrige and Vincent Lefèvre, Volume II, pp. 557-565. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, Paris.

2003. Chitradurga: A Nayaka Period Successor State in South India. Asian Perspectives 42:267-286. (with C. S. Patil)

2003. Review of “The Jungle Kings: Ethnohistorical Aspects of Politics and Ritual in Orissa” by Burkhard Schnepel. The Journal of Asian Studies 62:1297-1298.

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Cahokia and the Hinterlands, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis. 2000. Illini edition. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.

2000. Sea Level Rise and Subsidence Effects on Gulf Coast Archaeological Site Distributions. American Antiquity 65:525-541.

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Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for An Architectural Grammar, edited by R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout. 1998. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

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Kentucky Archaeology, edited by R. Barry Lewis. 1996. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington.