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Professor Peter Mathews

Peter Mathews

Professor Peter Mathews
Room:Martin Building 143
Tel: (61 3) 9479 1432
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: p.mathews@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA(Hons) in Archaeology Calgary, MPhil, PhD Yale.

 

Professor Peter Mathews joined the Archaeology Program in 1999 as an ARC Senior Research Fellow and became Program Coordinator in 2004. He has also taught at Harvard University , the University of Calgary , and the University of Copenhagen . He was awarded a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1984, and in 2002 was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities in Australia.

Research interests: Maya and Mesoamerican archaeology; Maya hieroglyphic writing; the archaeology of complex societies; writing systems.

>>Research Projects
  • Proyecto Arqueológico Naachtun (the Naachtun Archaeological Project)
  • Who's Who in the Classic Maya World
  • A Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
>>Research Publications

Recent publications include:
2004

  • Workbook for the Maya Hieroglyph Weekend , October 2-3, 2004. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University.

2001

  • Gold from the Americas . in: Gold and Civilisation (pp. 199-207) Canberra : The National Museum of Australia.
  • Notes on the Inscriptions on the back of Dos Pilas Stela 8. in: The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing (Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, and David Stuart, eds.):394-415. Norman , Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Maya Epigraphy. Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries (Tim Murray, ed.) 2:855-858. Santa Barbara , California : ABC-CLIO, Inc.
 
 Maya Epigraphy
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