JAMES C. GIFFORD (1927 -1973)

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Robert Eliot Smith

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As an Archaeologist James C. Gifford has played a very distinctive role in the development of taxanomy and typology. He was one of the co-authors of the Type-Variety Concept as a method for analyzing pottery. He amplified this concept by establishing a publication, Ceramica de Cultura Maya, with a primary function of listing all of the new place and geographic names used in the archaeological nomenclature of the Maya territory and neighboring regions. He was also especially interested in the archaeology of Mesoamerica with particular reference to the Ancient Maya. His other major interests included : synthesis, prehistory as anthropology; the Prehistory of Pennsylvania, and the History of Archaeology.

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Smith, R. E. (2013). JAMES C. GIFFORD (1927 -1973). Estudios De Cultura Maya, 10. https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.1976.10.503
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Robert Eliot Smith

Bachiller en Arte de la Universidad de Harvard. De 1933 hasta 1959, arqueólogo de la Institutción Carnegie de Washington, realizando, entre otros, trabajos arqueológicos en la región maya (Kaminaljuyú, Uaxactún, Alta Verapaz de Guatemala, y en Yucatán las ruinas de Chichén-Itzá, Uxmal, Cava y Mazapán). De 1959 hasta 1963 ha hecho excavaciones en Teotihuacan, especialmente en la Pirámide del Sol. Principales publicaciones: A Study of Structure A-I Complex at Uaxactún, Petén, Guatemala, Pottey from Chipoc, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala; Ceramic Sequence at Uaxactún, Guatemala; The Place of Fine Orange Pottery in Mesoamerican Archaeology; The Pottery of Mayapán; Incluiding Studies of Ceramic Material from Uxmal, Kabah, and Chichén-Itzá.