Norman Hammond

Norman Hammond (born 10 July 1944) is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Career.
Hammond was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He held academic positions at Cambridge (1967–75), Bradford (1975–77), and Rutgers universities (1977–88), before becoming a professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) in 1988. Now emeritus at Boston, he is currently a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn.
Since 1968, he has worked in the Maya lowlands at the following sites in Belize, Central America: Lubaantun (1970–1971), Nohmul (1973–1986), Cuello (1975–2002), and La Milpa (1992–2002). As well as specialising in the archaeology of Maya lowland sites in Belize, he has written on the emergence of complex societies in general, and on the history of archaeology.
He has served on the editorial boards of "Ancient Mesoamerica" and the "Journal of Field Archaeology". He has also been the archaeology correspondent for "The Times" newspaper in London.
In 1998 he was elected as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), honouring his contributions to the field of Mayanist research.
Publications.
Hammond's published books include:
Selected papers and articles.
Some of the papers and articles published by Hammond include: