Elizabeth Graham (academic)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prof

Elizabeth Graham
OccupationArchaeologist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
InstitutionsUCL

Elizabeth Graham is a Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at UCL. She has worked, for decades, on the Maya civilization, both in prehispanic and colonial times, specifically in Belize.[1] She has recently turned her attention to Maya Dark Earths, and conducts pioneering work in the maya region as dark earths have mostly been studied in the Amazonia.[1] She particularly focuses on how human occupation (domestic and industrial waste, burials, abandoned houses and processing sites) influences soil formation and production.[1]

Education[]

Graham completed a BA in History at the University of Rhode Island in 1970.[1] She obtained a Phd in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 1983, entitled The Highlands of the Lowlands: Environment and Archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America.[1]

Career[]

From 1978 to 1980, Graham was the Archaeological Commissioner in Belize. During this time she orchestrated the international training of colleagues in Belize .[2]

During the 1980s, she conducted coastal surveys in the Stann Creek District region of Belize.[3] In the late 1980s she commenced work on Postclassic site at Lamanai.[2] She has also conducted excavations at Negroman-Tipu, Belize. Graham directs excavations at Lamanai on the New River Lagoon in Belize, and at Marco Gonzalez, on Ambergris Caye.[1][4] Recent work has focused on mission churches from the early Spanish colonial period.[5]

In the late 1980s, Graham was a Canada Research Fellow at York University, Ontario as well as a research associate in New World Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum.[6] Graham joined UCL in 1999.[7]

Graham has written on Mesoamerican archaeology in the Guardian,[8] Apollo Magazine,[9] and the Conversation.[10]

Awards and honours[]

Graham was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2003.[11]

Selected publications[]

Books[]

  • E. Graham 1994. The highlands of the lowlands: environment and archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize Central America. Prehistory Press & Royal Ontario Museum.
  • E. Graham 2011. Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize. University Press of Florida.

Book chapters[]

  • E. Graham 1989. Brief Synthesis of Coastal Site Data from Colson Point, Placencia, and Marco Gonzalez, Belize. In H. McKillop and P. F. Healy (eds) Coastal Maya Trade, pp. 135-154. Peterborough (CA): Trent University.
  • E. Graham 2004. Lamanai Reloaded: Alive and Well in the Early Postclassic. In Awe, J., Morris, J., and Jones, S. (eds) Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology Volume I, pp. 223-241. Belmopan, Belize: National Institute of Culture and History.
  • Howie, L., Powis, T. G., and E. Graham (2016). Sitting on the Dock of the Bay: Ceramic Connections between Lamanai and the Chetumal Bay Area over More than Two Millennia. In D. S. Walker (ed) Perspectives on the Ancient Maya of Chetumal Bay, pp. 162-185. Tampa: University Press of Florida.

Journal articles[]

  • E. Graham 1987. Resource diversity in Belize and its implications for models of lowland trade. American Antiquity 52(4): 753-767.
  • E. Graham and D. Pendergast 1987. Cays to the Kingdom. Archaeological Newsletter from the Royal Ontario Museum 11 (18), pp. 1-4.
  • E. Graham and D. Pendergast 1989. Excavations at the Marco Gonzalez Site, Ambergris Cay, Belize, 1986, Journal of Field Archaeology, 16(1), pp. 1–16.
  • E. Graham, David M. Pendergast, and Grant D. Jones. 1989 On the fringes of conquest: Maya-Spanish contact in colonial Belize. Science 246.4935: 1254-1259.
  • E. Graham 2000. Collapse, conquest and Maya survival at Lamanai, Belize. Archaeology International 4: 52-56.
  • E. Graham, S. E. Simmons & C. D. White (2013). The Spanish conquest and the Maya collapse: how ‘religious’ is change? World Archaeology 45 (1): 161-185.
  • Lentz, D. L., Graham, E., Vinaja, X., Slotten, V., and R. Jain (2016). Agroforestry and ritual at the ancient Maya centre of Lamanai. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 8: 284-294.
  • E. Graham et al. 2017. The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize: Assessing the impact of human activities by examining diachronic processes at the local scale. Quaternary International 437, pp. 115-142.
  • E. Graham et al. 2017 The Marco Gonzalez Maya site, Ambergris Caye, Belize: Assessing the impact of human activities by examining diachronic processes at the local scale. Quaternary International 437: 115 - 142.
  • E. Graham 2018. Do You Believe in Magic? Material Religion: the journal of objects, art and belief 14:

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f UCL (2019-01-22). "Elizabeth Graham - Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Awe, Jaime J. (2012-09-24). The Archaeology of Belize in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press. p. 72. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195390933.013.0005.
  3. ^ Graham, Elizabeth (1987). "Resource Diversity in Belize and Its Implications for Models of Lowland Trade". American Antiquity. 52 (4): 753–767. doi:10.2307/281383. ISSN 0002-7316. JSTOR 281383.
  4. ^ Rosique, Cristina; Macphail, Richard; Crowther, John; Turner, Simon; Stegemann, Julia; Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel; Duncan, Lindsay; Austin, Phillip; Whittet, Richard (2016-12-12). "Past and Future Earth: Archaeology and Soil Studies on Ambergris Caye, Belize". Archaeology International. 19: 97–108. doi:10.5334/ai.1916. ISSN 2048-4194.
  5. ^ Graham, Elizabeth A., 1949- (2011). Maya Christians and their churches in sixteenth-century Belize. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813040721. OCLC 758668809.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Graham, E.; Pendergast, D. M.; Jones, G. D. (1989-12-08). "On the Fringes of Conquest: Maya-Spanish Contact in Colonial Belize". Science. 246 (4935): 1254–1259. Bibcode:1989Sci...246.1254G. doi:10.1126/science.246.4935.1254. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17832220. S2CID 8476626.
  7. ^ UCL (2019-01-22). "Elizabeth Graham - Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  8. ^ Graham, Elizabeth (2007-01-08). "Maya archaeologist Elizabeth Graham on Apocalypto". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  9. ^ "Author: Elizabeth Graham". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  10. ^ "Elizabeth Graham". The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  11. ^ "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
Retrieved from ""