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Sabloff, Jeremy Arac Robert W. Preucel Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Basic Biographical Information Jeremy Arac Sabloff is a leading anthropological archaeologist, specializing in the comparative study of cities and urbanism with a focus on the ancient Maya. His work is characterized by an intellectual commitment to balancing science and humanism. Born in 1944, he grew up in Manhattan. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969 under the direction of Gordon R. Willey. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was chair of the department), the University of Pittsburgh (where he also was chair), and the University of Pennsylvania where he was Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. At Penn, he also served as the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1994 to 2004 and Interim Director from 2006 to 2007. He is currently the president of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico (Fig. 1). Sabloff has held or currently holds many influential positions in the profession. He has served as president of the Society for American Archaeology, chair of the anthropology section of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science, chair of the Smithsonian Science Commission, and editor of American Antiquity. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Natural History and the Board of Trustees of the SRI Foundation and chairs the visiting committee for the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. He is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors. Among the most prestigious of these are his memberships or fellowships in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Major Accomplishments Sabloff is a specialist in Maya archaeology and has made major contributions to the understanding of settlement and urbanism. As a graduate student, from 1965 to 1968, he joined Gordon Willey’s project at Seibal, Guatemala. His main focus was the study of ceramics. From 1972 to 1973, he and William Rathje developed the Harvard-Arizona Cozumel Project in Quintana Roo. In the course of two field seasons, they studied approximately 30 sites in order to understand the role of long-distance trade in the development of Mesoamerican states. Although the project results did not support the port-of-trade model, the research provided an important new perspective on the Late Postclassic Period.

C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

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Sabloff, Jeremy Arac, Fig. 1 Jeremy Arac Sabloff (InSight Foto Inc.)

From 1983 to 1988, he and Gair Tourtellot established a long-term project at the site of Sayil in Yucatan, Mexico. T