E. Wyllys Andrews, V

Professor Emeritus - Anthropology

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Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Emeritus Faculty
Region
  • Central America
  • Mesoamerica
  • North America
Wyllys Andrews

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised and Completed at Tulane: 40

Research

Archaeology of Eastern Mesoamerica and Central America (Maya and Olmec)

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Tulane University, Anthropology, 1971
  • A.B., Harvard College, Anthropology, 1964

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor Emeritus, Tulane University, 2009-
  • Professor, Tulane University, 1980-2009
  • Director, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1975-2009
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1975-1980
  • Director, Program of Research on the Yucatán Peninsula, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1972-1974
  • Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University, 1970-1975

Distinctions

  • Booth-Bricker Fund grant, Middle American Research Institute, 2003-2007
  • Tulane University Presidential Recognition Award, Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Dissertation Director Award, 2002
  • National Geographic Society Grants, 1992, 1975-1978
  • National Science Foundation Grant, 1979
  • National Endowment for the Arts Catalogue Program Grant, 1978

Languages

  • Spanish
  • German

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • El Salvador
  • Honduras
  • Guatemala

Related Experience

  • Director, Tulane Middle American Research Institute, Copan Group 10L-2 Project, 1990-1994
  • Director, Excavations, Settlement Pattern Studies, and Ceramic Analysis, Komchén, Yucatán, Mexico, 1980-1993
  • Director, Middle American Research Institute, Program of Research on the Yucatán Peninsula, 1972-1975
  • Director of Excavations, Quelepa, Department of San Miguel, El Salvador, 1967-1969
  • Archaeologist, Museum of Northern Arizona-Flagstaff, Canyon Diablo, Arizona, 1965

Selected Publications

  • 2023. “Early Maya Settlements and Ceramics on the Northern Plains and the Puuc Region of Yucatan: The Early Middle Preclassic Ek Complex.” With George J. Bey III. In Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya, edited by
  • 2023. “A Reevaluation of Yotolin Pattern-burnished: Evidence for the Earliest Ceramics in the Northern Maya Lowlands.” With Betsy M. Kohut, George J. Bey III, and Tomás Gallareta Negrón. In Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the
  • 2018. “The Earliest Ceramics of the Northern Maya Lowlands.” With George J. Bey III and Christopher Gunn. In Pathways to Complexity: A View from the Maya Lowlands, edited by M. K. Brown and G. J. Bey, pp. 49-86. University Press of Florida, Gainesvill
  • 2015. “Trash as Treasure: Learning from an Ash Heap of History in Copan, Honduras.” With William Fash. ReVista. Harvard Review of Latin America 14(2):8–11. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge.
  • 2014. “El colapso maya.” Historia General de Yucatán, Volume 1, La civilización maya yucateca, edited by Sergio Quezada, Fernando Robles Castellanos, and Anthony P. Andrews, pp. 277–297. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.