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Andrew Scherer

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
andrew_scherer@brown.edu
Giddings House, Room 215
Research Profile

Biography

Andrew Scherer is an archaeologist and biological anthropologist whose research focuses on the pre-colonial Maya of Mexico and Guatemala. He currently co-directs archaeological research among the ancient Maya kingdoms of Piedras Negras, Yaxchilan, and Sak Tz'i' (White Dog). This research involves collaboration with a number of local Indigenous communities. This work is part of a two decades long effort to reconstruct the dynamic history of Maya kingdoms of the Usumacinta River region.

Publications

“REGIONAL HOUSEHOLD VARIATION AND INEQUALITY ACROSS THE MAYA LANDSCAPE.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 72, (2023): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101552. 

“CHRONOLOGY AND THE EVIDENCE FOR WAR IN THE ANCIENT MAYA KINGDOM OF PIEDRAS NEGRAS.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 66, (2022): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101408.        

“HEALTH CARE IN THE MARKETPLACE: EXPLORING MAYA MEDICINAL PLANTS AND PRACTICES AT PIEDRAS NEGRAS, GUATEMALA.” Ancient Mesoamerica 34, no. 2 (2023): 383–406. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536122000037.