Dr. Andrew R. Wyatt
Dr. Andrew R. Wyatt is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has worked in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Belgium, and the Midwestern U.S. studying agriculture, landscapes, and ancient environments in rural and hinterland societies. His research at the ancient Maya farming community of Chan in western Belize studied the development of the complex system of agricultural terraces at the site, as well as the relationship between farmers and complex political society. Currently he is working at Lake Mendoza in western Guatemala, studying the lives of the ancient Maya living in the far hinterlands of Maya society. Dr. Wyatt is an archaeologist as well as a paleoethnobotanist, and studies the use of plants by ancient cultures.
Current Tours
Affiliations
• Member, American Anthropological Association
• Member, Society for American Archaeology
• Member, Chicago Maya Society
Publications include
with David Jarzen and Kitty Emery, 'Paleoecological Investigations at Motul de San Jose', in Politics, History, and Economy at the Classic Maya Center Motul de San Jose, Guatemala. Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery, ed. University Press of Florida, forthcoming
'Pine as an Element of Household Refuse in the Fertilization of Ancient Maya Agricultural Fields', Journal of Ethnobiology 28(2) 2008: 244-258
With John Monaghan, 'Mesoamerica', in A Companion to Latin American History, eds., Thomas Holloway, Blackwell Publishing, Boston, 2008, pp. 30-45
'Excavations of Agricultural Terraces at Chan Belize', Papers of the 2005 Belize Archaeology Symposium, Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belize, 2006
'Mexico and Central America, Pre-Columbian', The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, ed., William Woys Weaver, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 2002, pp. 497-502
