Marc A. Wolf

Lecturer in Anthropology/Archaeological Site Director
Tom Raper Hall 356
(765) 973-8546
marcwolf@iue.edu

Education

• PhD Candidate, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, 2012-Current
• Certificate, Geographic Information Systems, Hunter College, New York, NY, 2012-Current
• Certificate, Public Land Surveying, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 2012
• M.A., Mesoamerican Archaeology, Boston University, Boston, MA. (Thesis: A History of Maya Archaeological Mapping), 1997
• B.A., Anthropology and English, New York University, New York, NY, 1992

Current Research Interests

Settlement pattern analysis, topographic/survey technology, experimental archaeology, ancient Maya/Mesoamerican archaeology, New World archaeology, GIS, GPS

Courses Taught

• North American Indians
• Introduction to Maya Archaeology
• Human Origins and Prehistory
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• Introduction to Human Geography
• Geographic Issues in Africa
• Mapping Our World (survey/technologies/GIS/GPS/theodolite)
• Life in the Stone-Age (prehistoric technologies/experimental archaeology)

Selected Publications

• The Natural and Constructed Landscape at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala. Alphawood Foundation, USA (B. Woodfill and M. Wolf)
• Liminal Landscape: The Maya Cosmos Exemplified at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Verapaz, Guatemala, in Contested Landscapes of the Verapaz, B. Woodfill (ed.). University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL. (M. Wolf and A. Velasquez Lopez)
• (2017) In Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning across Academic Disciplines, Ross C. Alexander (ed).George Mason University Press. “Igniting the Passion: Examples from Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography” (D. Bullock, K. Miller Wolf, W. Mohammed, and M. Wolf)
• (2017) Class I/III Cultural Resources Inventory for a Linear Road Right-of-Way, T5N R89W S31, 32, Routt County, Colorado. Archaeologic USA, LLC, Vail, CO (A. Dowd and M. Wolf)
• In Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology, “Understanding Xnoha: Temporal and Spatial Dynamics” (T. Guderjan, C. Hanratty, B. Deschenes, H. Lincoln, M. Moodie, A. Parmington, H. Plumer, C. Quiroz, J. Telepak and M. Wolf)
• (2015) In Latin America Antiquity, 26 (1): 162-179: “Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: A Major Economic Center in the Southern Maya Lowlands” (B. Woodfill, B. Dillon, M. Wolf, C. Avendano, and R. Carr)
• (2015). In Ancient Mesoamerica, “Economy, Exchange, and Power: New Evidence from the Late Classic Maya Port City of Cancuen” (A. Demarest, C. Andrieu, P. Torres, M. Forne, T. Barrientos, M. Wolf)

Selected Field Projects/Research

• (2003-Present) Copan, Honduras
• (2004-Present) Cancuen, Guatemala
• (2010-Present) Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala
• (2013-Present) Ucanal, Guatemala
• (2013-Present) Maya Research Program, Northwest Belize