Portrait – Remembering Robert J. Sharer (1940-2012)

摘要

While he may have been best known for directing two of the flagship archaeological projects of the Penn Museuma??s American Section, the Quirigua Archaeological Project (1974a??1979) in Guatemala, and the Early Copan Acropolis Program (1988a??2003) in Honduras, some of the best stories Bob would tell during downtime in the field came from the Verapaz Archaeological Project in highland Guatemala (1970a??1974) and the Honduras North Coast Project, which seems to have involved a lot of beach survey and relatively few archaeological sites. In the best tradition of archaeology, Bob worked hard and laughed hard, and I think he delighted most in telling the stories in which people who took themselves a little too seriously were forced to lighten up by the vagaries of life in the field.