Donald W Forsyth

854 SWKT
Provo, UT 84602

(801) 422-3488

donald_forsyth@byu.edu

Education

• PHD, ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1979
• MA, ARCHAEOLOGY, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1972
• BA, ARCHAEOLOGY, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 1971

Research

• Analysis of ceramic artifiats in the Mesoamerican region, particularly the Maya area, and on the origin of complex society in that region. Archaeology of Mesoamerica. Ethnohistory of the native Americans of Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Awards

• Outstanding Investigator of Mesoamerican Cultures, Government of the State of Campeche, Mexico and the Autonomous University of Campeche, 2006

Selected Publications

• Donald W. Forsyth. (2005). La secuencia ocupacional en la Cuenca Mirador, Guatemala., Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, 13.
• Donald W. Forsyth. (2005). A Survey of Terminal Classic Ceramic Complexes and Their Socioeconomic Implications, Geographies of Power: Understanding the Nature of Terminal Classic Pottery in the Maya Lowlands, ISBN 1841718831.
• Donald W. Forsyth. (2006). El desarrollo cultural de la Cuenca Mirador a través de la cerámica., XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2005, XIX, 447-455.
• Bishop, Blackman, Sears, Folan, Forsyth. (2006). Observaciones iniciales sobre el consumo de la cerámica de Champotón, Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, 14, 137-145.
• Donald W. Forsyth. (2007). Problemas e interrogantes en la arqueología de la costa de Campeche., Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, 15, 18-26.