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Norman Hammond
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Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Hammond was a professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University"s College of Arts and Sciences (Chemical Abstracts Service), where he was a faculty member since 1988. Now Emeritus at Boston, he is currently a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University. As well as specialising in the archaeology of Maya lowland sites in Belize, Hammond has also written on the emergence of complex societies in general, and the history of archaeology.
Since 1968, Doctor Hammond has worked in the Maya lowlands at the following sites in Belize, Central America: Lubaantun (1970-1971), Nohmul (1973-1986), Cuello (1975-1986), and most recently Louisiana Milpa (1992-2002).
Professor Hammond is currently teaching at Boston University. He held previous positions at: Cambridge University (1967-1975), Bradford University (1975-1977), Rutgers University (1977-1988) and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn.
Norman Hammond has served on the Editorial Boards of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Journal of Field Archaeology. He has also been the archaeology correspondent for The Times newspaper in London.
In 1998 Hammond was elected as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (Federal Bar Association), honouring his contributions to the field of Mayanist research.
