Mayan Archaeologists

Dennis Puleston
- Tikal
- Experimental archaeologist (discovered chultuns were used for ramon nuts)
Barbara Voorhies
- Cerro de las Conchas
- Studied hunter-gatherer activity
Richard Hansen
- El Mirador
- Discovered sacbe (roads) linking Calakmul and Nakbe to El Mirador
M. Blake & J. Clark
- Paso de la Amada
- Thought the building was the home of a polygamist chief because there were two of everything (and it was the biggest hosue)
Richard “Scotty” MacNeish
- Caves of the Tehuacan Valley
- Teosinte domesticated into corn
William Saturno
- San Bartolo
- discovered the famous pre-classic mural (~100BC) depicting the corn god on the north wall
Rebecca Storey
- Copan
- studied bone fragments to see if people buried in caves were equals
Bill Sanders
- Copan
- Worked with Rebecca Story, supports her findings but says we need to study live populations

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JKirkpatrick

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Mayan Archaeologists

Description

List of the Mayan Archaeologists pertinent to ANTH 1140

Updated

2011-09-22T16:31:01Z