Dan M. Healan

Professor Emeritus - Anthropology

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Emeritus Faculty
Region
  • North America
Dan M. Healan

Courses

Human Origins; Highland Mexico Prehistory; Ancient Cities of Mesoamerica; Advanced Middle American Archaeology

Additional Info

Total Number of Dissertations or Theses Directed: 7

Research

Mexico; Archaeological Ceramics; Household and Settlement Patterns, Quantitative Analysis

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Missouri, Anthropology, 1973
  • M.A., University of Missouri, Anthropology, 1970
  • B.A., Georgia State University, Anthropology, 1967

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor Emeritus, Tulane University, 2018-
  • Professor, Tulane University, 1996-2018
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1984-1996
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1977-1984
  • Assistant Professor, Baylor University, 1974-1977
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1973-1974

Distinctions

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA/ASEE Fellowship, Applications of Remote Sensing Technology to Archaeology, 1992
  • National Science Foundation, Anthropology Program Grant, 1980, 1986

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Healan, Dan M. Antes de la Triple Alianza: los influjos Toltecas y el pasado clásico. Arqueología y Historia no. 63: 20-27 Desperta Ferro Ediciones, Madrid.¬
  • 2023. Healan, Dan M. and C. Hernández. Ceramic sequence, chronology, and cultural dynamics of the Ucareo-Zinapécuaro, Michoacan obsidian source area. Ancient Mesoamerica 34: 47-67.
  • 2021. Cabezas, Luis Gamboa, and D. M. Healan. Salvage and rescue archaeology inside ancient Tula: recent discoveries and revelations. Ancient Mesoamerica 32: 156-83.
  • 2021. Healan, Dan M., Revised chronology and settlement history of Tula and the Tula region. Ancient Mesoamerica 32: 165-186.
  • 2019. Hernández, Christine and D. Healan. Migration and the Coyotlatelco ceramic tradition: evidence from the Bajio. In Migrations in Late Mesoamerica , edited by Christopher Beekman and William Fowler,University Press of Colorado, pp 88-108.