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Andrew K. Scherer

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Andrew K. Scherer
Born
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
💼 Occupation
TitleProfessor of Anthropology and Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World
👩 Spouse(s)Shanti Morell-Hart

Andrew K. Scherer is an anthropological archaeologist and biological anthropologist with a geographic focus in Mesoamerica (Maya).[1][2] Scherer's research interests include mortuary archaeology, bioarchaeology, landscape archaeology, ritual practice, warfare and violence, political practice, and diet and subsistence. He has been Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University since July 2023.

Early life and education

Among Scherer's earliest experiences with archaeology was his position as first Team Member (from July 2002 through March 2003) then Team Leader (January 2005) with Kenyon International Emergency Services, where he assisted with the processing of human remains from the World Trade Center disaster and American Airlines Flight 587, and repatriation of human remains from the December 26, 2004 Tsunami Disaster, Phukut and Krabi, Thailand.[2]

Scherer studied anthropology at Texas A&M University. He completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2004.[2] His doctoral dissertation was titled "Dental Analysis of Classic Period Population Variability in the Maya Area".[3]

Academic career

Scherer's first academic appointment was as Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wagner College, starting in August 2004.[2] In 2007, he left Wagner to become Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Baylor University's Department of Anthropology, Forensic Science, and Archaeology.

In 2010, Scherer moved to Brown University where he was appointed Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology and in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.[1][2]. He became Associate Professor in July 2016, and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in July 2024. In July 2023, he was appointed Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown.[4]

Scherer is the Joukowsky Institute Representative to the Archaeological Centers Coalition[5], and serves on the Editorial Committee of Anales de Antropología[6], the Comité de Arqueología of Guatemala's Fundaciόn Defensores de la Naturaleza[2][7], and the Advisory Board of Friends of the Fundaciόn Defensores de la Naturaleza.[7]

Research

Scherer has conducted bioarchaeological research at Maya sites throughout Mexico and Guatemala, including Lacanja Tzeltal (Sak tzʼi'), Piedras Negras,[8][9][10] Yaxha, and El Zotz.

Scherer co-directs an interdisciplinary archaeological research project that is exploring Classic Maya polities along the Usumacinta River in Mexico. In 2022, The New York Times reported that a team led by Scherer and the project's co-director, Dr. Charles Golden, working at a site later named Lacanjá Tzeltal, discovered artifacts and human remains that, based on later radiocarbon dating, established that the site had been "a — if not the — capital of the Sak Tz’i' dynasty."[11] The project had previously been profiled by Archaeology Magazine, which focused on Scherer and Golden's discovery of the first known case of Maya kingdoms using walls to defend a border.[12]

Scherer is frequently consulted by scientific news sources on topics relevant to Maya civilization[13], particularly the use of lidar in archaeology of Mesoamerica [14][15] and mortuary archaeology.[16]

Selected works

  • Scherer, Andrew; Garrison, Thomas (2024). Substance of the Ancient Maya: Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826366566. Search this book on [17]
  • Scherer, Andrew; Tiesler, Vera (2018). Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780884024262. Search this book on [18][19][20]
  • Scherer, Andrew (2015). Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9781477300510. Search this book on [21][22][23]
  • Scherer, Andrew; Verano, John (2014). Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places: War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780884023951. Search this book on [24]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Andrew K Scherer". vivo.brown.edu. Brown University. 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Curriculum Vitae: Prof. Andrew K Scherer" (PDF). vivo.brown.edu. Brown University. 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  3. ↑ Scherer, Andrew Kenneth (17 February 2005). Dental Analysis of Classic Period Population Variability in the Maya Area (Thesis). Texas A&M Univeristy. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "About Us". Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Brown University. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "About Us". Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Equipo Editorial". Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Defensores de la Naturaleza". Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Proyecto Arqueológico Busiljá-Chocoljá". 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "Summer Update: Fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico". 2025. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  10. ↑ Scherer, Andrew K.; Golden, Charles; Houston, Stephen; Matsumoto, Mallory E.; Alcover Firpi, Omar A.; Schroder, Whittaker; Recinos, Alejandra Roche; Álvarez, Socorro Jiménez; Urquizú, Mónica; Pérez Robles, Griselda; Schnell, Joshua T.; Hruby, Zachary X. (June 2022). "Chronology and the evidence for war in the ancient Maya kingdom of Piedras Negras". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 66. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101408. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  11. ↑ "Unearthing a Maya Civilization That 'Punched Above Its Weight'". New York Times. September 13, 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  12. ↑ "Defending a Jungle Kingdom". Archaeology Magazine. 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  13. ↑ Pringle, Heather (24 April 2009). "A New Look at the Mayas' End". Science. 324 (5926): 454–456. Bibcode:2009Sci...324..454P. doi:10.1126/science.324_454. PMID 19390018. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  14. ↑ "Ancient Maya power brokers lived in neighborhoods, not just palaces". Science News. December 4, 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  15. ↑ "Lidar reveals the oldest and biggest Maya structure yet found". Science News. June 3, 2020. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  16. ↑ Gibbons, Ann (2012). "The Ultimate Sacrifice". Science. 336 (6083): 834–837. doi:10.1126/science.336.6083.834. PMID 22605754. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  17. ↑ "Substance of the Ancient Maya". University of New Mexico Press. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  18. ↑ "Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  19. ↑ "Book Review: Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice". Hispanic American Historical Review. Duke University Press. February 1, 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  20. ↑ Domenici, Davide (27 March 2019). "Book Review: Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice". Latin American Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. 30 (1): 233–234. doi:10.1017/laq.2019.5. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  21. ↑ "Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya". University of Texas Press. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  22. ↑ "Book Review: Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya". Ethnohistory. Duke University Press. July 1, 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  23. ↑ "Book Review: Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya". American Anthropologist. Wiley. August 21, 2018. doi:10.1111/aman.13068. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  24. ↑ "Embattled Bodies, Embattled Places: War in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 24 February 2025.


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