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Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished Professor of Social Evolution,
Department of Anthropology
and Director, Museum of Anthropology; Curator of Latin American Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology

• Affiliation(s)

  • Anthropology

• About

  Village life and household archaeology, ritual and religion, chiefly societies, origins of writing and origins of the state, hierarchy and complexity in imperial expansion.  Mesoamerica, the Andes.  

• Education

  • A.B., University of California-Berkeley, 1969
  • M.A., Harvard University, 1971
  • Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974

• Awards

  • 2005–2007, Chair of Anthropology, National Academy of Sciences
  • 1997, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997, National Academy of Sciences
  • 1995, LSA Excellence in Research Award

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (1998) 33. Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca
  • (1994) 89. Caciques and Their People
  • (1990) 84. Debating Oaxaca Archaeology
  • (1987) 20. Late Intermediate Occupation at Cerro Azul, Perú