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Dr. Richard HansenDr. Richard D. Hansen is a specialist on the early Maya and is the Director of the Mirador Basin Project in northern Guatemala leading archaeological research and scientific studies for over 28 years.. He is currently Executive Senior Scientist for the newly formed Institute for Mesoamerican Research (Anthropology) at Idaho State University. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES), a non-profit scientific research institution based in Idaho. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Archaeology from UCLA in January 1992. He previously held a double major B.S. degree in Spanish and Archaeology from Brigham Young University in 1978, and a M.S. degree in Anthropology in 1984. While a Ph.D. student at UCLA, he was : * selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Graduate Fellow Since he graduated, he has been a scientific researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA for 12 years, and was awarded the National Order of the Cultural Patrimony of Guatemala by Guatemalan President Oscar Berger in the National Palace of Guatemala in December 2005. He has published 89 papers and book chapters in scientific and popular publications and has presented more than 184 professional papers in scientific symposia throughout the world. He has conducted and/or directed archaeological research in Israel, the U.S. Great Basin, the U.S. Southwest, and Central America. Some of his most recent publications include: Hansen, Richard D., Wayne K. Howell, and Stanley P. Guenter 2007 Estudios Botánicos en la Cuenca Mirador: Desarrollo de Vegetación y su Significado Cultural. In XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, edited by Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, and Hector E. Mejia, pp. 111-120. Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropologia e Historia, Asociacion Tikal, Fundación Arqueologica del Nuevo Mundo. Hansen, Richard D. 2007. Mapping the Ancient Cities and the Environmental Features of the Mirador Basin: Exploration and New Technology in the Cradle of Maya Civilization. Paper presented at the International Map Collectors Society, IMCoS, Universidad de Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala City Feb 5, 2007 http://newmedia.ufm.edu/pagina.asp?nom=hansenmiradorbasin Hansen, Richard D., Edgar Suyuc-Ley, Abel Morales, Carlos Morales, Thomas Schreiner, Enrique Hernandez, and Douglas Mauricio 2007 La Cuenca Mirador: Avances de la Investigacion y Conservación del Estado Kan en los períodos Preclásico y Clásico. In XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, edited by Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, and Hector E. Mejia, pp. 349-362. Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Etnologia, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal, Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo, Guatemala City. Wahl, David, Roger Byrne, Thomas Schreiner, and Richard Hansen 2007 Palaeolimnological Evidence of late-Holocene Settlement and Abandonment in the Mirador Basin, Peten, Guatemala, The Holocene 17 (6):813-820. Sage Publications. (http://hol.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/6/813) Wahl, David, Thomas Schreiner, Roger Byrne, and Richard Hansen 2007A Paleoecological Record from a Late Classic Maya Reservoir in the North Peten. Latin American Antiquity, 18(2): 212-222. Society for American Archaeology. Hansen, Richard D., Beatriz Balcarcel, Edgar Suyuc, Hector E. Mejia, Enrique Hernandez, Gendry Valle, Stanley P. Guenter, and Shannon Novak 2006. Investigaciones arqueológicas en el sitio Tintal, Peten. In XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, edited by Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, Hector E. Mejia, pp. 683-694. Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropología e Historia, Asociación Tikal, Fundación Arqueológica del Nuevo Mundo.
Hansen, Richard D., Edgar Suyuc, Adriana Linares, Carlos Morales Aguilar, Beatriz Balcarcel, Francisco Lopez, Antonieta Cajas, Abel Morales Lopez, Enrique Monterroso Tun, Enrique Monterroso Rosado, Carolina Castellanos, Lilian de Zea, Adelzo Pozuelos, David Wahl, and Thomas Schreiner. 2006. Investigaciones en la zona cultural Mirador Peten. In XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, edited by Juan Pedro Laporte, Barbara Arroyo, Hector E. Mejia, pp. 867-876. Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Instituto de Antropologia e Historia, Asociacion Tikal, Fundacion Arqueologica del Nuevo Mundo.
Wahl, David, Roger Byrne, Thomas Schreiner, Richard Hansen 2006. Holocene vegetation change in the northern Peten and its implications for Maya prehistory. Quaternary Research, 65:380-389. University of Washington. (www.sciencedirect.com; www.elsevier.com/locate/yqres)
Hansen, Richard D. 2005. Perspectives on Olmec-Maya Interaction in the Middle Formative Period. In New Perspectives on Formative Mesoamerican Cultures, edited by T.G. Powis, pp. 51-72. BAR International Series 1377, Oxford, England.
2004. El Mirador, Guatemala: El Apogeo del Preclásico en el Área Maya. In Arqueología Mexicana, Vol. XI, No. 66, pp. 28-33.
Hansen, Richard D., and Stanley P. Guenter 2005 Early Social Complexity and Kingship in the Mirador Basin. In Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship, edited by Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet, pp. 60-61. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Scala Publishers. Suyuc, Edgar and Richard D. Hansen 2003 Significado de la Cuenca Mirador. Arqueología Guatemalteca, Year (Año) 1, No. 1, pp. 33-41. Hansen, Richard D., Steven Bozarth, John Jacob, David Wahl, and Thomas Schreiner 2002 Climatic and Environmental Variability in the Rise of Maya Civilization: A Preliminary Perspective from Northern Peten. Ancient Mesoamerica, 13 ( 2002): 273-295. Cambridge University Press. Clark, John E., and Richard D. Hansen 2001 The Architecture of Early Kingship and the Origins of the Mesoamerican Royal Court. The Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya , Vol 2: Data and Case Studies, edited by T. Inomata and S. D. Houston, pp. 1-45. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. Hansen, Richard D. 2001a Marvels of the Ancient Maya, Guatemala: The Past Engages the Future. Archaeology, September/October 2001, pp. 51-58. 2001b The First Cities- The Beginnings of Urbanization and State Formation in the Maya Lowlands. In Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest, edited by Nikolai Grube, pp. 50-65. Konemann Press, Verlag, Germany. 2000. Ideología y Arquitectura: Poder y Dinámicas Culturales de los Mayas del Período Preclásico en las Tierras Bajas. Arquitectura e ideología de los antiguos mayas: Memoria de la Segunda Mesa Redonda de Palenque, edited by Silvia Trejo, pp. 73-108. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Consejo Nacional Cultura y Artes. Mexico.
1998. Continuity and Disjunction: The Preclassic Antecedents of Classic Architecture. Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture, edited by S. Houston, pp. 49-122. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Hansen has conducted research in the remote rainforests of northern Guatemala since 1978 and is the director of the Mirador Basin Project which is a long-term, multi-disciplinary investigation of a vast unexplored area of the northern Peten. This on-going project represents a comprehensive scientific study of the ancient Maya. and currently involves scholars from 38 universities and research institutions from throughout the world. As a project, his team has currently published 176 scientific papers. abstracts, and books, and 374 technical reports and scientific presentations. Hansen’s studies have identified some of the largest and earliest ancient cities in Central America, and his work has been an important contribution to the developmental history of Maya civilization. His work has recently been featured in film documentaries on the Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, ABC's 20/20, 60 Minutes Australia, ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Primetime Live, CNN Global Challenges, The History Channel, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of London, and a National Geographic special entitled Dawn of the Maya. He has been a consultant for many national and international television and major motion picture networks. He is currently involved in the investigation and conservation of a preserve system in northern Guatemala with the government of Guatemala, the U.S. Dept. of Interior, Global Heritage Fund, Foundation for Free Expression, Fundación del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural Maya (PACUNAM), Asociacion del Patrimonio Natural y Cultural de Guatemala (APANAC), and many other private and governmental institutions. He and his wife, Jody, live with their children in Idaho and Guatemala.
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