M.R., “Palace Coop.” Economist, March 14, 2014.
Jared Diamond, Collapse. New York: Penguin, 2011 (e-book edition).
Evon Z. Vogt, Fieldwork among the Maya. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Author interview with John Hoopes, 2016.
Author interviews with Christopher Begley, 2012, 2015, 2016.
Christopher Taylor Begley, “Elite Power Strategies and External Connections in Ancient Eastern Honduras.” Unpublished dissertation, University of Chicago, 1999.
Oscar Neil Cruz, Informe Exploración en la Mosquitia. Tegucigalpa: IHAH Archives, February 2015. Unpublished report.
Christopher T. Fisher et al., “Identifying Ancient Settlement Patterns through LiDAR in the Mosquitia Region of Honduras.” PLOS/one, Vol 11, No. 8, August 2016. Retrieved from journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0159890.
Dealbook, “Blankfein Says He’s Just Doing ‘God’s Work.’” New York Times, November 9, 2009.
David Grann, The Lost City of Z. New York: Doubleday, 2009.
Author interviews with Chris Fisher, 2015, 2016.
Author interview with Oscar Neil Cruz, 2015.
Chapter 21: The Symbol of Death
George R. Rossman, “Studies on Rocks from the UTL Archeology Site in Honduras.” Unpublished report, December 19, 2015.
Author interview with Chris Fisher, 2016.
Author interview with John Hoopes, 2016.
Author correspondence with Rosemary Joyce, 2016.
Anne Chapman, Masters of Animals: Oral Traditions of the Tolupan Indians, Honduras. Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach, 1992.
David E. Stuart, Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Chapter 22: They Came to Wither the Flowers
Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492–1650. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Bartolomé de las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies. London: Printed for R. Hewson at the Crown in Cornhill, 1689. Retrieved from Project Gutenberg. Also sourced is the original Spanish-language version, retrieved from Project Gutenberg.
William M. Denevan, ed., The Native Population of the Americas in 1492, second edition. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
David Henige, Numbers from Nowhere: The American Indian Contact Population Debate. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
Alfred W. Crosby Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 30th anniversary edition. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story. New York: Random House, 2002.
Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Linda Newson, The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras under the Spanish Rule. Dellplain Latin American Studies No. 20. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Ann F. Ramenofsky, Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.
Chapter 23: White Leprosy
G. Poinar Jr. and R. Poinar, “Evidence of Vector-Borne Disease of Early Cretaceous Reptiles.” Vector Borne Zoonotic Disease, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2004. Retrieved from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15682513.
F. F. Tuon, V. A. Neto, and V. S. Amato, “Leishmania: Origin, Evolution and Future since the Precambrian.” FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, Vol. 54, No. 2, November 2008. Retrieved from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18631183.
F. E. G. Cox, ed., The Wellcome Trust Illustrated History of Tropical Diseases. London: Trustees of the Wellcome Trust, 1996.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Leishmaniasis.” Retrieved from cdc.gov.
Elizabeth Martinson et al., “Pathoecology of Chiribaya Parasitism.” Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 98. Rio de Janeiro, January 2003. Retrieved from scielo.br.
Maria Antonietta Costa et al., “Ancient Leishmaniasis in a Highland Desert of Northern Chile.” PLOS/one, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 2009. Retrieved from journals.plos.org.
Alun Salt, “Ancient Skulls Haunted by Their Past.” September 28, 2009. Retrieved from alunsalt.com.
Author interview with James Kus, 2016.
Daniel W. Gade, Nature and Culture in the Andes. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character, Vol. 102, No. 720, April 2, 1928. (Biography of William Leishman.)
Chapter 24: The National Institutes of Health
Author interviews with Dr. Theodore Nash, 2015, 2016.
Author interview with Dr. Elise O’Connell, 2016.
Author interviews with Dave Yoder, 2015, 2016.
Chapter 25: An Isolated Species
Author interviews with Dr. David Sacks, 2015.
Benenson Productions, taped interview with Dr. David Sacks, 2015.
Author interview with Dr. Michael Grigg, 2016.
Chapter 26: La Ciudad del Jaguar
Author interview and correspondence with Juan Carlos Fernández, 2016.
Gabriela Gorbea, “Looters, Tourism, and Racism: Controversy Surrounds ‘Discovery’ of Lost City in Honduras.” Vice.com, March 31, 2016. Retrieved from news.vice.com/article/honduras-rainforest-controversy-white-city-lost-civilization.
MASTA, “Comunicado Publico,” retrieved from www.mastamiskitu.org/files/COMUNICADO_PUEBLO_MISKITU-CASO_CIUDAD_BLANCA.pdf. (Translation by author.)
Communication with John Hoopes, 2016.
Author interview with President Juan Orlando Hernández, 2016.
Chapter 27: We Became Orphans
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999 (e-book edition).
Adrián Recinos and Delia Goetz, translators. The Annals of the Cakchiquels. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.
R. Molina, L. Gradoni, and J. Alvar, “HIV and the Transmission of Leishmania.” Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Vol. 97, Supp. 1, May 2003. Retrieved from www.who.int/leishmaniasis/burden/hiv_coinfection/ATMP3.pdf.
World Health Organization, “Leishmaniasis and HIV Coinfection.” Retrieved from the World Health Organization website, who.int.
Author interview with Dr. Kristy Bradley, 2016.
Carmen F. Clarke et al., “Emergence of Autochthonous Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Northeastern Texas and Southeastern Oklahoma.” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 88, No. 1, January 2013. Retrieved from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3541728/.
Christine A. Petersen and Stephen C. Barr, “Canine Leishmaniasis in North America: Emerging or Newly Recognized?” Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, Vol. 39, No. 6, November 2009. Retrieved from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824922/.