Robert Sharer

Robert J. Sharer (March 16, 1940 – September 20, 2012) was an American archaeologist, academic and Mayanist researcher. He was known for his archaeological investigations at a number of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites conducted over a career spanning four decades, and for his archaeological reports, theorizing, and writings in his field of specialty, the ancient Maya civilization. Sharer was a lecturer and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Anthropology for more than 30 years, and as of 2008 occupied the endowed chair of Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor in Anthropology, an appointment which he held beginning in 1995. He also had an extensive association with Penn's University Museum of archaeology and anthropology, where from 1987 to 2009 he was the curator-in-charge of the Museum's American collection and research section. He died on September 20, 2012.

He was the author of Daily Life in Maya Civilization (Greenwood Press 2009), which appeared in two editions; and, with Loa P. Traxler, The Ancient Maya (Stanford University Press, 2006), which appeared in six editions.

See also

• "Works of Robert Sharer". Google Scholar.

References

• Penn Museum (2007). "Robert J. Sharer". Research: American Section. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
• "American Academy of Arts and Sciences Welcomes Two SAS Professors" (Press release). SAS (School of Arts and Sciences). May 7, 2004. Retrieved 2008-08-01.
• Sharer, Robert J. (June 1974). "The Prehistory of the Southeastern Maya Periphery". Current Anthropology. 15 (2). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, sponsored by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: 165–187. doi:10.1086/201454. OCLC 62217742. S2CID 144899776.