Norman Hammond Explained
Norman Hammond |
Birth Date: | 10 July 1944 |
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Norman Hammond (born 10 July 1944)[1] is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Career
Hammond was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He held academic posts at Cambridge (1967–75), Bradford (1975–77), and Rutgers universities (1977–88), before he became a professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) in 1988.[2] Now retired at Boston, he is currently a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.[3]
He has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn.
Since 1968, he worked in the Maya lowlands at the following sites in Belize, Central America: Lubaantun (1970–1971), Nohmul (1973–1986), Cuello (1975–2002),[4] [5] and La Milpa (1992–2002). As well as specialising in the archaeology of Maya lowland sites in Belize, he has written on the emergence of complex societies in general, and on the history of archaeology.
He has worked on the editorial boards of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Journal of Field Archaeology. He has also been the archaeology correspondent for The Times newspaper in London.
In 1998 he was elected as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), honouring his contributions to the field of Mayanist research.[6]
Publications
Hammond's published books include:
- Lubaantun, 1926-70: The British Museum in British Honduras (1972, British Museum,)
- Lubaantun: A Classic Maya Realm (1975, Harvard University Press for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,)
- Ancient Maya Civilization (April 1982, Cambridge University Press and Rutgers University Press,, fifth edition released 1994)
- Nohmul: A Prehistoric Maya Community in Belize (December 1985, British Archaeological Reports,)
- Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize (May 1991, Cambridge University Press,)
Selected papers and articles
Some of the papers and articles published by Hammond include:
- Obsidian Trade Routes in the Mayan Area . Norman . Hammond . Science . 178 . 4065 . 8 December 1972 . 1092–1093 . 10.1126/science.178.4065.1092 . 17741982 . 1972Sci...178.1092H . 27212260 .
- Child's Play: A Distorting Factor in Archaeological Distribution . Gawain . Hammond . Norman . Hammond . American Antiquity . 46 . 3 . July 1981 . 634–636 . 10.2307/280608 . 280608 . 163236114 .
- Hot dogs: Comestible Canids in Preclassic Maya Culture at Cuello, Belize . Juliet . Clutton-Brock . Norman . Hammond . Journal of Archaeological Science . 21 . 6 . November 1994 . 819–826 . 10.1006/jasc.1994.1079 . 1994JArSc..21..819C . free .
- Pilgrimage's last mile: Late Maya monument veneration at La Milpa, Belize . Norman . Hammond . Matthew R. . Bobo . Journal World Archaeology . 26 . 1 . 1994 . 19–34 . 10.1080/00438243.1994.9980258 .
- Book: Robert H. . Tykot . Nikolaas J. . van der Merwe . Norman . Hammond . Archaeological Chemistry . Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen, Bone Apatite, and Tooth Enamel in the Reconstruction of Human Diet . ACS Symposium Series . 5 May 1996 . 625 . 355–365 . 10.1021/bk-1996-0625.ch025 . 9780841233959 .
- The Lowland Maya "Protoclassic": A reconsideration of its nature and significance . James E. . Brady . Joseph W. . Ball . Ronald L. . Bishop . Duncan C. . Pring . Norman . Hammond . Rupert A. . Housley . Ancient Mesoamerica . 9 . 1 . 1998 . 17–38 . 10.1017/S0956536100001826 . 26308219 . 58926208 .
- Diet and Animal Husbandry of the Preclassic Maya at Cuello, Belize: Isotopic and Zooarchaeological Evidence . Nikolaas J. . van der Merwe . Robert H. . Tykot . Norman . Hammond . Kim . Oakberg . Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analysis . 5 . 2002 . 23–38 . 10.1007/0-306-47194-9_2 . 978-0-306-46457-7 .
Additional reading
- Book: McKillop, Heather I. . Heather McKillop . 2004 . The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives . Understanding ancient civilizations series. Santa Barbara, CA. . 1-57607-696-2 . 52706645.
Notes and References
- News: Birthdays . . 31 . 10 July 2014 .
- News: Boston University Office of University Relations . 25 September 1998 . Archaeology prof elected to British Academy . B.U. Bridge . Brookline, MA . . 2 . 7 . 37915518 . 25 March 2009.
- Web site: Prof Norman Hammond . 25 November 2020 . University of Cambridge . 26 February 2020 . 25 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201125194848/https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/staff/prof-norman-hammond . live .
- Hammond . Norman . Norman Hammond . 2002 . Wiseman . James R. . Wiseman . Lucy . Closing Down Cuello . 25 November 2020 . Context . Boston, Massachusetts . Boston University Center for Archaeological Studies . 16 . 2 . 10–15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201125193202/https://www.bu.edu/archaeology/files/2016/02/Volume-16-No.2.pdf . 25 November 2020 . live .
- Web site: Norman Hammond: Professor of Archaeology . Boston University - College of Arts and Sciences . 25 November 2020 . 12 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090112233138/http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/faculty/hammond.htm . dead .
- Web site: Professor Norman Hammond FBA . 25 November 2020 . British Academy . 24 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201024031333/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/norman-hammond-FBA/ . live .