Heather Hurst (born 1975) is an American archaeologist and archaeological illustrator.

Career

Dr. Hurst graduated from

Skidmore College Skidmore College is a Private school, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. Approximately 2,650 students are enrolled at Skidmore pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Scien ...

in 1997 and from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

in 2009 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. She teaches at

. Her research is focused on art and iconography, with a focus on Maya murals and Olmec rock art. She has studied the art and architecture of

Bonampak Bonampak (known anciently as ''Ak'e'' or, in its immediate area as ''Usiij Witz'', 'Vulture Hill') is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The site is approximately south of the larger site of the people Yaxchilan, ...

, Copan,

Holmul Holmul is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the northeastern Petén Basin region in Guatemala near the modern-day border with Belize. Location In spite of its relatively modest size, Holmul was important t ...

, Oxtotitlan,

Palenque Palenque (; Yucatec Maya: ), also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamhaʼ ("Big Water or Big Waters"), was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD. ...

Piedras Negras Piedras Negras may refer to: * Piedras Negras, Coahuila, a city in the state of Coahuila, Mexico ** Piedras Negras Municipality, a municipality in Mexico, with the center in the eponymous city * Piedras Negras (Maya site) Piedras Negras is the ...

, San Bartolo, and Xultun. Hurst has been an archaeological illustrator at sites in Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. Her illustrations have appeared in ''National Geographic'' and ''Arqueología Mexicana'' and have been exhibited at the

Peabody Museum of Natural History The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is among the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world. It was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Oth ...

and the National Gallery of Art, as well as the Science Museum of Minnesota's 2013 exhibit on the Maya. She gave a talk: "Tres Pintores Magníficos y Un Viajero: La Identificación de Artistas por los Pasos de Producción en Pintura Mural" at the 2010 Maya Meetings, Casa Herrera. In 2013, she gave a talk on recently discovered Maya murals.

Awards

*2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship *2013, 2015 Site Preservation Award, Archaeological Institute of America *2004 MacArthur Fellows Program

References

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Heather Hurst exploring the ruins of Temple XXVI
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hurst, Heather American archaeologists 1976 births Skidmore College alumni Yale University alumni Skidmore College faculty MacArthur Fellows Living people American Mesoamericanists Women Mesoamericanists 21st-century Mesoamericanists American women archaeologists American women academics 21st-century American women