Anabel Ford ( Anabel Ford ; born December 22, 1951, Los Angeles, California) - American archaeologist and anthropologist, Mayan. Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Director of its Mesoamerican Research Center. Known as the discoverer of the ancient Mayan city of (in 1983).
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Biography
The daughter of a famous sociologist and Hollywood actress. At the University of California at Santa Barbara, she received a bachelor's degree in anthropology (1974), a master's degree (1976), and a Ph.D. (1981) in anthropology (archeology). Since 1982 he has been teaching anthropology in the same place. In 1987, the founding director of the Mesoamerican Research Center in Alma Mater, which is headed today. Fello (2003).
Since 1972 he has been working in Mayan territories in Mesoamerica. In 1983, she discovered the ancient Mayan city of El Pilar ( ). He is a skeptic of the ecological theory of the disappearance of the Mayan civilization [1] .
Celebrated (2000) [2] , as well as Alumna of the Year 2002/03 alma mater. Winner of the Fulbright Program (1982).
He is the author of The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (Left Coast Press, 2015; co-authored with ).
Links
- CV (2014)
- http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/people/anabel-ford
- http://www.marc.ucsb.edu/about/director
- The Cultivated Maya (Tuesday, November 17, 2015)
- Archeology Under The Canopy (September 28, 2016)