Name: Geoffrey Braswell
Title: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: gbraswell@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 284
Phone: (858) 822-0726

Education: Ph.D., Tulane University, 1996

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.

Regions 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.