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The Friends of the Medford Public Library present…
Maya Archaeology in Northwestern Belize
A Lecture by Lauren Sullivan
Thursday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Join archaeologist Lauren Sullivan for a talk about her experiences with Mayan archaeology in Belize. Sullivan runs a UMass/Boston field school in a tropical rainforest setting that was the site of Maya occupation from ca. 900 B.C. to 900 A.D. During the evening, she will describe the challenges of the project, and will talk about what the excavations have revealed about the Maya occupation. The program will include pictures of the environment, structures, and artifacts that have been found.
Lauren Sullivan received her PHD from UT Austin in 1997 in Anthropology and has been working in the Maya area since 1987. She specializes in ceramic analysis. She teaches at UMass/Boston and runs a UMass/Boston field school in Belize each summer. She also lectures at Tufts. . remains. ? In addition to more than 50 ancient Maya sites (ranging from hamlets to villages to large cities) the natural habitat contains a great variety of plant and animal life.
