Background
SHOOK, Edwin Martin was born on November 22, 1911 in Newton, N.C, United States of America.
SHOOK, Edwin Martin was born on November 22, 1911 in Newton, N.C, United States of America.
Educated Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. Columbia Institute of Technology, Washington, District of Columbia ¿ George Washington University. Harvard, 1937-1940.
At age 22 he took a job as a draftsman at the Carnegie Institution of Washington which was to lead him into Mesoamerican studies from 1934 to 1998. In 1955 he became the field director of the University of Pennsylvania"s Tikal Project, overseeing and publishing extensive work at Tikal, the largest Classic Maya site. Other Maya sites Shook worked at include Uaxactun, Copán, Mayapan, Kaminaljuyú, Piedras Negras, Palenque, Ceibal, Chichén Itzá, and Dos Pilas, in addition to pre-Columbian sites in Costa Rica.
In 1998 Shook donated his archives to the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
He died at his home in Antigua Guatemala two years later.
Member Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1933-1935, temporary staff member, 1935-1940, research staff member, since 1940. Member Co-ordination Committee for Guatemala, since 1943. Member Anthrop. Society of Mexico, Pan-American Society of Massachusetts, Harvard Faculty Club.