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Keith Malcolm Prufer
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 2007
Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM
Mesoamerican Prehistory (322/522)
Seminar in Maya Archaeology (570)
Introduction to Anthropology (101)
Education
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Ph.D. 2002
Communities, Caves, and Ritual Specialists: A Study of Sacred Space in the Maya Mountains of Southern Belize.
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, M.A. 1996
Cycles of Violence, Ethnogenesis, and Flight: Historical Movements of the Q'eqchi' Maya of Belize, Central America.
Fieldwork
Mesoamerica, Eastern Woodlands
Selected Publications
2007 Keith M. Prufer and W. Jeffrey Hurst
Chocolate and the Underworld Space of Death: The Recovery of Intact Cacao from an Early Classic Mortuary Cave. Ethnohistory 54(2): 273-303.
2006 Keith M. Prufer, Andrew Kindon, and Phillip Wanyerka.
Mapping Uxbenká: Site Settlement in the Rio Blanco Valley, Belize. In Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, 2006, J. Morris and J. Awe, editors. Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize
2005 Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady (editors)
Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context. David Carasco Series Mesoamerican Worlds, University Press of Colorado
2005 James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer (editors)
In The Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use. Linda Schele Series in Precolumbian Art and Archaeology, University of Texas Press
2005 Christopher Morehart, David Lentz, and Keith M. Prufer
Wood of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Pine (Pinus sp.) by the Ancient Lowland Maya. Latin American Antiquity 16(3): 255-274
2005 Julie Saul, Keith M. Prufer, and Frank Saul
Osteobiographical Studies of a Skeletal Population from Settlement Rockshelters in the Ek Xux Valley, Belize. In Keith M. Prufer and James Brady, editors Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2003 Keith M. Prufer, Phil Wanyerka, and Monica Shah
Wood Figurines, Manikin Scepters, and Religious Specialists in Ancient Maya Society. Ancient Mesoamerica 14(2): 218-236.
Personal Webpage: http://www.unm.edu/~kmp
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