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 Gary M. Feinman, Ph.D.
Curator, Mesoamerican Anthropology
The Field Museum
For the last nine years, Dr. Gary Feinman has served as Curator of Mesoamerican Anthropology at The Field Museum, and as Department Chair from 1999-2006. Dr. Feinman has authored and edited more than 15 books and has written over 150 articles on topics ranging from world archaeology to settlement pattern research and from ceramic production to shell ornament manufacture.
For 30 years he has been conducting archaeological field research on the emergence and development of the prehispanic Zapotec civilization in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. With Linda M. Nicholas, he most recently has led 10 seasons of residential excavations at the Classic-period site of El Palmillo in the eastern arm of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.
He also co-directs a collaborative, 13-season archaeological project on the rise of civilization in eastern Shandong, China. A series of grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and other public agencies and private foundations have supported his research projects. He is the founding and contact editor of the Journal of Archaeological Research and has served an elected term as the co-editor of Latin American Antiquity.
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