Name: Geoffrey Braswell. Ph.D., Tulane, 1996
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Field of Expertise: Braswell is an expert on the archaeology of Mexico and Central America, particularly the ancient Maya civilization. He also studies ancient settlement patterns, geoarchaeology, stone tool production and technology, archaeometry, mathematical methods in anthropology and the emergence of complex society and economic systems.

Region of Interest: Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua

Media Interview Topics: Braswell can provide commentary on archaeology, art, and history of ancient peoples of Mexico and Central America, particularly the ancient Maya. *Some* commentary on modern living indigenous peoples of Guatemala and on contemporary political/environmental conditions in Guatemala and Belize. Also, some commentary on early colonial history (post-conquest) of Mexico and Central America.

Selected Publications:

• "Obsidian Exchange Spheres of Postclassic Mesoamerica." In The Postclassic Mesoamerican World, edited by M. Smith F. Berdan, 131-158. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003
• The Maya and Teotihuacan, editor, University of Texas Press, Austin, 2003.