1993 Smithsonian Exploring the Ancient World Maya Civilization 1st Edition Book

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Beautiful Mint Copy of the book, from the series: Smithsonian Exploring the Ancient World "Maya Civilization" 1st Edition 1993 by … Read more Beautiful Mint Copy of the book, from the series: Smithsonian Exploring the Ancient World "Maya Civilization" 1st Edition 1993 by T. Patrick Culbert. Measures 10" x 8-3/4" x 3/4", 160 pages. (i1)

T. (Thomas) Patrick Culbert was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 13, 1930. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1951 with a major in chemistry. After college he worked at 3M Corporation from 1951 to 1953, and served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955. Subsequent to his army service, he entered the graduate program in anthropology at the University of Chicago and wrote his thesis under the supervision of Robert McC. Adams. Pat received his Ph.D. in 1962 and his dissertation, entitled The Ceramic Sequence of the Central Highlands, Chiapas, Mexico, was published by the New World Archaeological Foundation in 1965. Prior to receiving his degree he taught at the University of Mississippi during the fall semester of 1960. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he taught for two years at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (1962–1964), before moving to the University of Arizona in 1964, where he taught until his retirement in 2000 as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology. From the outset his research was characterized by a meticulous attention to the data and strengthened by the value he placed on cross-cultural and comparative analyses.

After Pat's work in Chiapas, he joined the University of Pennsylvania's Tikal Project in the mid-1960s (Figure 1), thus beginning his lifelong research on Maya ceramics, and his love for working in Guatemala (as well as the personal discovery, upon climbing Temple I at Tikal, that he disliked pyramids and was afraid of heights). His ceramic research prioritizing vessel form as a chronological marker along with type has continued to frame Maya pottery analysis for all who have followed. Working at Tikal also served to crystallize Pat's interests in Maya population, settlement, and subsistence, particularly the prehistoric use of bajos, and the structure of Classic Maya polities and their collapse. See less