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William G. Haag Professor of Archaeology
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6178 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: hmckill@lsu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara, 1987.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ancient Coastal Maya
Maya Archaeology
Ancient Trade/Economics and Salt Workshops
Sea-level Rise and Coastal Adaptations
Ongoing Fieldwork in Southern Belize
Historic Cemeteries
Prehistoric Burials
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
McKillop, Heather. 2005. In Search of Maya Sea
Traders. College Station: Texas A & M
University Press.
McKillop, Heather. 2004. The Ancient Maya. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO
Publishers (paper and e-book).
McKillop, Heather. 2004. "The Classic Maya Trading Port of Moho Cay." In The
Ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: Half A Century of Archaeological Research,
James F. Garber, ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
McKillop, Heather, and Terance Winemiller. 2004. "Ancient Maya Environment,
Settlement, and Diet: Quantitative and GIS Analyses of Mollusca from Frenchman's
Cay." In Maya Zooarchaeology, Kitty Emery, ed., pp. 57-80. Los Angeles:
UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
McKillop, H., A. Magnoni, R. Watson, S. Ascher, B. Tucker, and T. Winemiller. 2003. "The Coral Foundations of Coastal Maya Architecture." In Archaeological Investigations in the Eastern Maya Lowlands: Papers of the 2003 Belize Archaeology Symposium, Jaime Awe, John Morris, and Sherilyne Jones, eds., pp. 347-58. Belize: Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History.
McKillop, H. 2002. Precolumbian Jade and Stone Carvings
from Costa Rica. Catalog for Exhibition. Baton Rouge: Museum of Art, Louisiana
State University.
McKillop, Heather. 2002. Salt, White Gold of the Ancient Maya. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida.
Braswell, Geoffrey E., J.E. Clark, K. Aoyama, H.I. McKillop, and M.D. Glascock.
2000. "Determining the Geological Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from the
Maya Region: A Test of Efficacy of Visual Sourcing." Latin American Antiquity
11: 269-82.
McKillop, Heather. 1996. "Ancient Maya Trading Ports and the Integration of
Long-Distance and Regional Economies: Wild Cane Cay in South-Coastal Belize."
Ancient Mesoamerica 7: 49-62.
McKillop, Heather. 1996. "Prehistoric Maya Use of Native Palms: Archaeobotanical
and Ethnobotanical Evidence," in The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture
and Resource Use, Scott L. Fedick, ed., pp. 278-94. Salt Lake City: University
of Utah Press.
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2003-2005. Sigma Xi, National Lecturer, College of
Distinguished Lecturers.
2002-present. William G. Haag Professor of Archaeology, endowed professorship,
Louisiana State
University.
2002. Guest Curator, Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, for "Costa
Rican Jade and Stone Artifacts" exhibition,
August 27 December 15.
2000-2002, NSF Dissertation Award, "Water Management by the Ancient Maya
of Yucatan, Mexico." Heather McKillop (principal investigator), Terance Winemiller
(student).
September 1996-present. Chair, Archaeological Survey and Antiquities
Commission, State of Louisiana.
In Development. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between LSU
and Toledo Institute for Development and the Environment (TIDE), Belize.
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Archaeology
Indian Civilizations of Middle & South America
The Archaeology of Death
Field Methods in Archaeology (in Belize, 2003, 2005, etc.)
Method & Theory in Archaeology
Mesoamerican Archaeology Graduate Seminar (The Ancient Maya)
Click here for Dr. McKillop's Maya Night Website
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Louisiana State University
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Fax: (225) 578-4420
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