title: The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya ("Scientific American" Library)
author:  Jeremy A. Sabloff 
description: Using high-tech equipment, chemical analyses and sampling strategies, archaeologists are learning more about how and why cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, this book shows how the transformation of archaeology has brought new understanding of past civilizations.
zlib_text: Professor Edwin Barnhart
  Maya Exploration Center
  History
  Topic
  Ancient History
  Subtopic
  Ancient Civilizations 
  of North America
  Course Guidebook
  
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  PROFESSOR BiOGRAPHY
  Edwin Barnhart, PhD
  DiRECTOR 
  MAYA EXPLORATiON CENTER
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  dwin Barnhart is the Director of the Maya Exploration Center. 
  He received his PhD in Anthropology with a focus on