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Marion Popenoe Hatch[editar]
Marion Popenoe Hatch is an American-Guatemalan Anthropologist and Archaeologist, known for her studies in Maya ceramics, trade and astronomy. Also known by her contributions to tht edevelopment of Archaeology as a discipline in the Guatemalan academia.
Biography[editar]
Marion Popenoe Hatch born in Guatemala City in 1930 from American parents, Wilson Popenoe and Dorothy Hughes Popenoe. She finished the High School in 1948 at the Lehnsen School in Guatemala City. In 1953 she got a Bachelor's degree in International Relationships at the University of California Berkeley. That year she married Richard Lee Hatch with whom she had two daughters. in 1967 her husband passed away, event that motivated to her retunr to the university. In 1970 she got a second Bachelor's degree, now in Anthropology, also from the University of California, Berkeley. And later, in 1974 she got a Ph.D in Anthropology. Her personal affiliations with Guatemala led her to develope her studies in Mesoamérica, particularly in Maya civilization.
Research Contributions[editar]
From 1968 to 1980 she worked as field and laboratory assistant from his mentor Dr. Edwin Shook. During this period, she worked on the ceramic analysis of the sites Monte Alto (Guatemala) [1], El Balsamo [2], San Andrés Semetabaj[3], Ocos-Salinas La Blanca [4], Salinas Tilapa and others. She also performed by herself archaeological excavations at the sites San Andrés Semetabaj and Salinas Tilapa. In 1980 she performed the ceramic analysis for the French Mission at the site Los Encuentros[5]. After that, she figured as director of several project where she had the opportunity to collect and analyze information that support her ideas about trade and migration during the Prehispanic (Prehispanico) period. Some of these projects are El Baúl (sitio arqueológico)[6] (From 1982 to 1983),
Bibliography[editar]
- ↑ Hatch, Marion; Shook, Edwin (1989). «A seriation of Monte Alto Sculptures». New Frontiers in the Archaeology of the Pacific South Coast of Southern Mesoamerica (59): 25-41.
- ↑ Hatch, Marion; Shook, Edwin (1978). «The Ceramics of El Balsamo, Guatemala». Journal of New World Archaeology III (1).
- ↑ Shook, Edwin; Hatch, Marion; J.K., Donaldson (1980). «The Excavations at the site of Semetabaj, Department of Solola, Guatemala.». Contributions of the Archaeological Research.
- ↑ Shook, Edwin; Hatch, Marion (1980). «The Early Preclassic Squence of the Ocos-Salinas La Blanca Area, South Coast of Guatemala.». Contributions of the Archaeological Research Facility (41).
- ↑ Hatch, Marion (1982). «La Ceramique de Los Encuentros». Archeologie de Sauvetage dans la Vallee du Rio Chixoy. R.C.P. 500: 97-150.
- ↑ Hatch, Marion (1989). Observaciones sobre el Desarrollo Cultural Prehistórico en la Costa Sur de Guatemala (Monograph 31 edición). University of California, LA: Institute of Archaeology.