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SouthArc, Inc. 3700 NW 91st Street, Suite D300 |
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Phone: 352-372-2633 Toll Free: 1-888-707-2721 |
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ADOLFO IVÁN BATÚN-ALPUCHE, Ph.D., RPA Project Archaeologist |
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Education: Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville Dissertation: Agrarian Production and Intensification at a Postclassic Maya Community, Buena Vista, Cozumel, Mexico.
M.A. Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville. Thesis: Postclassic Cozumel, A Society of Houses: An Option to Interpret Maya Social Organization.
B.A. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan. Licenciado en Ciencias Antropológicas en la especialida de Arqueologia. Thesis: Importancia de algunas especies de la familia Iguanidae en el área Maya Precolombina.
Certification: Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) Florida Archaeological Council (FAC) Open Water Diving (PADI)
Professional Associations: Society for American Archaeology (SAA) American Anthropological Association (AAA) Florida Anthropological Society (FAS) Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC)
Cultural Resource Experience: 2005-Pres Project Archaeologist, SouthArc, Inc. 2007 Project Archaeologist. Fire recovery surveys, Osceola National Forest. USDA Forest Service, FL. 2003. Project Director. Buena Vista, Cozumel Archaeological Project (BVCAP), Cozumel Mexico. Founded by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies Inc. (FAMSI) 2000 Research Assistant, Paleo Aucilla prehistoric project, Apalachee Bay, Gulf of Mexico and Dog Island Shipwreck Survey, Apalachicola Bay, Gulf of Mexico. Florida State University, Tallahassee. 1995-99 Research Assistant, National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)-University of Yucatan (UADY) Yucatan, Mexico. 1994. Ethnographic Community Project in Tabi, a Mayan community in Municipio of Sotuta, Yucatan, Mexico.
Dr. Batún-Alpuche has extensive experience in archaeological survey and site excavation in Florida and Yucatan Mexico. His research has focused on historic and prehistoric agrarian land use, subsistence practices and settlement patterns. He has extensive mapping experience using total station, GPS, and other modern GIS technologies. He has also worked on maritime surveys and underwater (diving) excavation projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Batún-Alpuche is a Native Yucatec Maya and has worked with the USDA service, training U.S.A. Native Americans on basic archaeological survey and excavation techniques, and promoting the participation of Native American groups in the conservation and interpretation of their own cultural heritage. Dr. Batún-Alpuche‘s responsibilities at SouthArc include direction of field projects, artifact analysis and preparation of technical reports. He also completes detailed faunal and anthropogenic soil analyses for selected projects.
Some Recent Publications and Public Presentations:
In press The Postclassic Cozumel Trade System. In Ports, Polities and Political Economies: New Perspectives on Ancient Maya Trade. The University of Alabama Press.
2009 “Marketing Participation and Land Use Changes in a Prehistoric Maya Community: The Case of Late Postclassic Buena Vista, Cozumel, Mexico”. Paper to be presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Atlanta, Georgia.
2008 “Telling Our Own Stories”. Paper presented at the 7th Annual “To Bridge a Gap Conference” of the Tribal Relation Program of the USDA Forest Service, Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
2008 “Settlement and Subsistence of a Late Belle Glade Site at the Transitional St. Johns-Belle Glade area of Central Florida”. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference. Charlotte, NC.
2007 Buena Vista, Cozumel: Re-evaluating the Trading Center Model. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX.
2007 Decolorizing Maya Archaeology. Paper to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.
2006 Sacred Rejolladas and Agricultural Huayas: Distribution of Karstic Depressions in Buena Vista, Cozumel. Paper presented at the Southeast Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Boca Raton, FL.
2005 The Cozumel Maya Bee Gardens. Paper presented at the Southeast Conference on Mesoamerican Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Tampa, FL.
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E-mail: ivan@southarc.com |
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Phone: 352-372-2633 |
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