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'''Norman Hammond''' (born 10 July 1944)<ref>{{cite news
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'''Norman Hammond''' (born 10 July 1944)<ref name="guardian 20140710">{{cite news |title=Birthdays |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |page=31 |date=10 July 2014 }}</ref> is a British [[archaeologist]], academic and [[Mesoamerica]]nist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the [[pre-Columbian]] [[Maya civilization]].
Since 1968, Dr. Hammond has worked in the Maya lowlands at the following sites in Belize, Central America:
[[Lubaantun]] (1970-1971),
[[Nohmul]] (1973-1986),
[[Cuello]] (1975-1986),
and most recently [[La Milpa]] (1992-2002).


==Career==
Professor Hammond is currently teaching at Boston University.
Hammond was educated at [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]]. He held academic posts at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] (1967–75), [[University of Bradford|Bradford]] (1975–77), and [[Rutgers University|Rutgers universities]] (1977–88), before he became a professor in the Archaeology Department at [[Boston University]]'s [[Boston University College of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]] (CAS) in 1988.<ref name="bubridge 19980925">{{cite news |author=Boston University Office of University Relations |date=25 September 1998 |title=Archaeology prof elected to British Academy |url=http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/1998/09-25/bulletin.html |newspaper=B.U. Bridge |location=Brookline, MA |publisher=[[Boston University]] |volume=2 |issue=7 |oclc=37915518 |access-date=25 March 2009}}</ref> Now retired at Boston, he is currently a Senior Fellow of the [[McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research]] at Cambridge.<ref name="cambridge fellow">{{cite web |url=https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/staff/prof-norman-hammond |title=Prof Norman Hammond |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=University of Cambridge |date=26 February 2020 |archive-date=25 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125194848/https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/staff/prof-norman-hammond |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="british academy fellow"/>
He held previous positions at:
Cambridge University (1967–75),
Bradford University (1975–77),
Rutgers University (1977–88)
and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn.


He has been a visiting professor at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]], [[Jilin University]] (China), the [[Paris-Sorbonne University|Sorbonne]] and the [[University of Bonn]].
Norman Hammond has served on the Editorial Boards of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Journal of Field Archaeology. He has also been the archaeology correspondent for [[The Times]] newspaper in London.


Since 1968, he worked in the Maya lowlands at the following sites in [[Belize]], Central America: [[Lubaantun]] (1970–1971), [[Nohmul]] (1973–1986), [[Cuello]] (1975–2002),<ref name="context v16 n2">{{cite journal |last1=Hammond |first1=Norman |author-link1=Norman Hammond |year=2002 |editor1-last=Wiseman |editor1-first=James R. |editor2-last=Wiseman |editor2-first=Lucy |title=Closing Down Cuello |url=https://www.bu.edu/archaeology/files/2016/02/Volume-16-No.2.pdf |access-date=25 November 2020 |journal=Context |location=Boston, Massachusetts |publisher=Boston University Center for Archaeological Studies |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=10–15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125193202/https://www.bu.edu/archaeology/files/2016/02/Volume-16-No.2.pdf |archive-date=25 November 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="faculty bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/faculty/hammond.htm |title=Norman Hammond: Professor of Archaeology |website= Boston University - College of Arts and Sciences |access-date=25 November 2020 |archive-date=12 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112233138/http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/faculty/hammond.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[La Milpa]] (1992–2002). As well as specialising in the archaeology of Maya lowland sites in Belize, he has written on the emergence of [[complex society|complex societies]] in general, and on the [[history of archaeology]].
In 1998 Hammond was elected as a corresponding Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (FBA), honouring his contributions to the field of [[Mayanist]] research.<ref name="Officeof" />


He has worked on the editorial boards of ''Ancient Mesoamerica'' and the ''Journal of Field Archaeology''. He has also been the archaeology correspondent for ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper in London.
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Oxycontin Lectures in Honour of Norman Hammond
Shortly before his death, Raymond Sackler and his wife Beverly endowed a series of lectures in Honour of Norman Hammond. These lectures are held annually at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK and are co-hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
==Published works==
Hammond's published works include:
* ''Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York (1991).
* ''Ancient Maya Civilization''. Cambridge University Press and Rutgers University Press. (1982, Fifth edition 1994)
* ''Lubaantun: A Classic Maya Realm''. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Monograph 2. Cambridge, MA (1975).


In 1998 he was elected as a corresponding Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (FBA), honouring his contributions to the field of [[Mayanist]] research.<ref name="bubridge 19980925" /><ref name="british academy fellow">{{cite web |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/norman-hammond-FBA/ |title=Professor Norman Hammond FBA |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=British Academy |archive-date=24 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024031333/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/norman-hammond-FBA/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
==Publications==
Hammond's published books include:
* ''Lubaantun, 1926-70: The British Museum in British Honduras'' (1972, [[British Museum]], {{isbn|0714115339}})
* ''Lubaantun: A Classic Maya Realm'' (1975, [[Harvard University Press]] for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, {{isbn|0873659015}})
* ''Ancient Maya Civilization'' (April 1982, Cambridge University Press and [[Rutgers University Press]], {{isbn|0813509041}}, fifth edition released 1994)
* ''Nohmul: A Prehistoric Maya Community in Belize'' (December 1985, British Archaeological Reports, {{isbn|0860543218}})
* ''Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize'' (May 1991, [[Cambridge University Press]], {{isbn|0521384222}})


===Selected papers and articles===
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Some of the papers and articles published by Hammond include:
: {{cite news |author=BU Office of University Relations |date=25 September 1998 |title=Archaeology prof elected to British Academy |url=http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/1998/09-25/bulletin.html |format=online reproduction |newspaper=B.U. Bridge |location=Brookline, MA |publisher=[[Boston University]] |volume=2 |issue=7 |oclc=37915518 |accessdate=2009-03-25}}
*{{cite journal |title=Obsidian Trade Routes in the Mayan Area |author1-first=Norman |author1-last=Hammond |journal=Science |volume=178 |issue=4065 |date=8 December 1972 |pages=1092–1093 |doi=10.1126/science.178.4065.1092 |pmid=17741982 |bibcode=1972Sci...178.1092H |s2cid=27212260 }}
: {{cite book |author=McKillop, Heather I. |authorlink=Heather McKillop |year=2004 |title=The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives |series=Understanding ancient civilizations series|location=Santa Barbara, CA|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=1-57607-696-2 |oclc=52706645}}
*{{cite journal |title=Child's Play: A Distorting Factor in Archaeological Distribution |author1-first=Gawain |author1-last=Hammond |author2-first=Norman |author2-last=Hammond |journal=American Antiquity |volume=46 |issue=3 |date=July 1981 |pages=634–636 |doi=10.2307/280608 |jstor=280608 |s2cid=163236114 }}
*{{cite journal |title=Hot dogs: Comestible Canids in Preclassic Maya Culture at Cuello, Belize |author1-first=Juliet |author1-last=Clutton-Brock |author2-first=Norman |author2-last=Hammond |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |volume=21 |issue=6 |date=November 1994 |pages=819–826 |doi=10.1006/jasc.1994.1079 |bibcode=1994JArSc..21..819C |doi-access=free }}
*{{cite journal |title=Pilgrimage's last mile: Late Maya monument veneration at La Milpa, Belize |author1-first=Norman |author1-last=Hammond |author2-first=Matthew R. |author2-last=Bobo |journal=Journal World Archaeology |volume=26 |issue=1 |date=1994 |pages=19–34 |doi=10.1080/00438243.1994.9980258 }}
*{{cite book |author1-first=Robert H. |author1-last=Tykot |author2-first=Nikolaas J. |author2-last=van der Merwe |author3-first=Norman |author3-last=Hammond |title=Archaeological Chemistry |chapter=Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen, Bone Apatite, and Tooth Enamel in the Reconstruction of Human Diet |series=ACS Symposium Series |date=5 May 1996 |volume=625 |pages=355–365 |doi=10.1021/bk-1996-0625.ch025 |isbn=9780841233959 }}
*{{cite journal |title=The Lowland Maya "Protoclassic": A reconsideration of its nature and significance |author1-first=James E. |author1-last=Brady |author2-first=Joseph W. |author2-last=Ball |author3-first=Ronald L. |author3-last=Bishop |author4-first=Duncan C. |author4-last=Pring |author5-first=Norman |author5-last=Hammond |author6-first=Rupert A. |author6-last=Housley |journal=Ancient Mesoamerica |volume=9 |issue=1 |date=1998 |pages=17–38 |doi=10.1017/S0956536100001826 |jstor=26308219 |s2cid=58926208 }}
*{{cite journal |title=Diet and Animal Husbandry of the Preclassic Maya at Cuello, Belize: Isotopic and Zooarchaeological Evidence |author1-first=Nikolaas J. |author1-last=van der Merwe |author2-first=Robert H. |author2-last=Tykot |author3-first=Norman |author3-last=Hammond |author4-first=Kim |author4-last=Oakberg |journal=Biogeochemical Approaches to Paleodietary Analysis |volume=5 |date=2002 |pages=23–38 |doi=10.1007/0-306-47194-9_2 |isbn=978-0-306-46457-7 }}


==References==
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==External links==
==Additional reading==
*{{cite book |author=McKillop, Heather I. |author-link=Heather McKillop |year=2004 |title=The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives |series=Understanding ancient civilizations series|location=Santa Barbara, CA|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=1-57607-696-2 |oclc=52706645}}
* {{worldcat id|lccn-n50-20026}}
* [http://www.bu.edu/archaeology/faculty/hammond.htm Faculty profile], Archaeology Dept, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences


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Norman Hammond
Born (1944-07-10) July 10, 1944 (age 80)
Academic work
Institutions

Norman Hammond (born 10 July 1944)[1] is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

Career

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Hammond was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He held academic posts at Cambridge (1967–75), Bradford (1975–77), and Rutgers universities (1977–88), before he became a professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) in 1988.[2] Now retired at Boston, he is currently a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.[3][4]

He has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn.

Since 1968, he worked in the Maya lowlands at the following sites in Belize, Central America: Lubaantun (1970–1971), Nohmul (1973–1986), Cuello (1975–2002),[5][6] and La Milpa (1992–2002). As well as specialising in the archaeology of Maya lowland sites in Belize, he has written on the emergence of complex societies in general, and on the history of archaeology.

He has worked on the editorial boards of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Journal of Field Archaeology. He has also been the archaeology correspondent for The Times newspaper in London.

In 1998 he was elected as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), honouring his contributions to the field of Mayanist research.[2][4]

Publications

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Hammond's published books include:

  • Lubaantun, 1926-70: The British Museum in British Honduras (1972, British Museum, ISBN 0714115339)
  • Lubaantun: A Classic Maya Realm (1975, Harvard University Press for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, ISBN 0873659015)
  • Ancient Maya Civilization (April 1982, Cambridge University Press and Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0813509041, fifth edition released 1994)
  • Nohmul: A Prehistoric Maya Community in Belize (December 1985, British Archaeological Reports, ISBN 0860543218)
  • Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize (May 1991, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521384222)

Selected papers and articles

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Some of the papers and articles published by Hammond include:

References

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  1. ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. 10 July 2014. p. 31.
  2. ^ a b Boston University Office of University Relations (25 September 1998). "Archaeology prof elected to British Academy". B.U. Bridge. Vol. 2, no. 7. Brookline, MA: Boston University. OCLC 37915518. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Prof Norman Hammond". University of Cambridge. 26 February 2020. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Norman Hammond FBA". British Academy. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  5. ^ Hammond, Norman (2002). Wiseman, James R.; Wiseman, Lucy (eds.). "Closing Down Cuello" (PDF). Context. 16 (2). Boston, Massachusetts: Boston University Center for Archaeological Studies: 10–15. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Norman Hammond: Professor of Archaeology". Boston University - College of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 12 January 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

Additional reading

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