Wm. Clay Poe, Ph.D., RPA Professor of Archaeology Department of History Sonoma State University Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Office: email:

Stevenson 2085, 664-2580 poe@sonoma.edu

		Classes A directory of the classes that I teach with the current schedule and the projected semester of the next offering of each course.
	Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project The Mesoamerican Archaeology Field School of Sonoma State University is a component of the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project, which operates under the auspices of the Department of Archaeology of Belize. The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project (BVAR) has completed twelve seasons of field research in the Belize Valley. The project has a regional, rather than a site specific, focus with a principal objective of studying the settlement pattern in the valley and the relationships among sites. The project has mapped and gathered surface collections at a large number of sites in the valley and has conducted excavation at a number of locations including the sites, well known to archaeologists, of Baking Pot and Cahal Pech. A highly specialized additional component of BVAR is the Western Belize Regional Cave Project, devoted to documenting the Maya use of the numerous caves in the region. During the 2000 season Archaeology Magazine featured the cave project on its web site as an Interactive Dig: Exploring Maya Caves of Belize. The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project will conduct two sessions of an archaeological field school in the 2002 season. Session 1 will be from Sunday, June 3 to Saturday, June 30 Session 2 will be from Sunday, July 8 to Saturday, August 4
		GPS mapping at the prehistoric site of Ujuxte, Guatemala The preliminary report and analysis of the Global Positioning System mapping project at the site of Ujuxte and several other sites in its vicinity.
		GPS mapping at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru The site of Chavín de Huántar consists of a settlement and an associated monumental architectural complex. The settlement was founded early in the first millennium BCE and grew throughout much of that millennium from a village of perhaps around a thousand persons to one perhaps two or three times that size. The monumental architectural complex was constructed, remodeled and added onto through most of the millennium. Its use came to an end sometime in the third century BCE.
		Curriculum Vitae Wm. Clay Poe has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Jordan, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Belize over the past thirty-six years. This has included work at the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites of Petra and Chavín de Huántar.

Wm. Clay Poe 01/27/02