Michael Edward Moseley is an American anthropologist at the

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Early life

Moseley received his

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in anthropology from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1963, and his

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and

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in anthropology from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

in 1965 and 1968, respectively. Moseley took part in excavation of a Lower Paleolithic (

Acheulean Acheulean (; also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French ''acheuléen'' after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated ...

) site in

Ambrona Torralba and Ambrona (Province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain) are two paleontological and archaeological sites that correspond to various fossiliferous levels with Acheulean lithic industry ( Lower Paleolithic) associated, at least about 3 ...

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, under F. Clark Howell in 1963, a survey and excavation of Cauca Valley sites in Colombia as assistant director of the

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Second Colombian Expedition in 1964, and an excavation of preceramic and early agricultural sites in central

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from 1966 to 1967.

Career

Moseley served at Harvard as instructor and lecturer from 1968 to 1970 and as assistant and associate

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from 1970 to 1976. He served at the

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with ...

at Harvard as assistant

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from 1969 to 1973 and as associate curator from 1973 and 1975. He was director of the

Chan Chan Chan Chan was the largest city of the pre-Columbian era in South America. It is now an archaeological site in La Libertad Region west of Trujillo, Peru. Chan Chan is located in the mouth of the Moche Valley and was the capital of the historic ...

Moche Valley The Valley of Moche, or ''Valley of Santa Catalina,'' is a large area of the La Libertad Region in northern Peru surrounding the Moche River. It has been farmed since the pre-Columbian era and currently contains rural and urban settlements. Truj ...

Project in Peru, a survey and excavation of urban and pre-urban sites in the Moche Valley, from 1969 to 1975, and was advisor to the Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia in reconnaissance of

Tiwanaku Tiwanaku ( es, Tiahuanaco or ) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia near Lake Titicaca, about 70 kilometers from La Paz, and it is one of the largest sites in South America. Surface remains currently cover around 4 square kilo ...

and related sites in the north highlands of Bolivia in 1976 and 1978–1979. He was project director of survey, mapping, and excavation of pre-Hispanic irrigation systems in northern Peru from 1976–1980. Moseley was a research associate at the

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from 1980 to 1984 and was curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1983 to 1984. Moseley became a professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1984. He was project director of survey and excavations of historic sites in

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from 1989 to 1992 and senior scientist for Programa Contisuyo, exploration of archaeological sites in the

Department of Moquegua Moquegua () is a department and region in southern Peru that extends from the coast to the highlands. Its capital is the city of Moquegua, which is among the main Peruvian cities for its high rates of GDP and national education. Geography The ...

in southern Peru, from 1980 to present. Moseley has served on the

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s of the journals ''Geoarchaeology'' (1986–1993), ''Latin American Archaeology'' (1991–1995) and ''Review of Archaeology'' (1987–present). He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2000 and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the

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.Newly Elected Members, April 2013
/ref> He was Dumbarton Oaks Senior Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies from 1983–1985 and was a

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during 1988–1989. Moseley is also a research associate of the Carnegie Museum.

References

External links

Official website
from the

University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is the college for the liberal arts and sciences of the University of Florida, and the largest of the university's 16 academic colleges. Most core curriculum classes, 4 ...

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