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Author photo. Michael D. Coe with Monument 34 of San Lorenzo

Michael D. Coe with Monument 34 of San Lorenzo

Michael D. Coe

Author of The Maya

Includes the names: M.D. Coe, Michael Coe, Coe Michael, Michael D. Coe, Michael D. et al. Coe

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Works by Michael D. Coe

The Maya 696 copies, 9 reviews
Breaking the Maya Code 503 copies, 5 reviews
The True History of Chocolate 434 copies, 5 reviews
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs 317 copies, 2 reviews
Atlas of Ancient America 165 copies, 1 review
Swords and Hilt Weapons 165 copies, 1 review
Reading the Maya Glyphs 139 copies, 1 review
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization 44 copies, 1 review
Art of the Maya Scribe 42 copies, 2 reviews
America's first civilization 33 copies
The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership 24 copies
Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavates His Past 23 copies, 1 review
The Line of Forts: Historical Archaeology on the Colonial Frontier of… 14 copies
Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya 12 copies

Old gods and young heroes: The Pearlman collection of Maya ceramics 11 copies

In the Land of the Olmec (The Dan Danciger Publication Series) 8 copies

Early cultures and human ecology in south coastal Guatemala 6 copies

Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classical Maya Ceramics 5 copies, 1 review

Aztec Sorcerers in Seventeenth Century Mexico: The Treatise on… 5 copies

The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico 5 copies

The Maya scribe and his world 4 copies

AN EARLY STONE PECTORAL FROM SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO - Studies in… 3 copies

Preah Khan Monastic Complex: Angkor, Cambodia (World Monuments Fund) 3 copies

The Olmec and Their Neighbors: Essays in Memory of Matthew W. Stirling… 2 copies

Classic Maya Pottery at Dumbarton Oaks 2 copies

Maya archaeology 3 2 copies

Schwerter - Degen - Dolche : Kulturgeschichte der Blankwaffen (Author) 2 copies

Pre-Columbian Mexican miniatures: The Josef and Anni Albers collection; 2 copies

Three Maya relief panels at Dumbarton Oaks 2 copies

A late preclassic village in Santa Rosa, Guatemala 1 copy

'The Old New World' in American Scientist, July-Aug 2006 [review of Mann's… 1 copy

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De Azteken kunstschatten uit het Oude Mexico (Object descriptions) 29 copies
The Face of Ancient America: The Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection of… (Foreword) 5 copies
Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (Introduction) 4 copies
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer 1973) (Contributor) 2 copies

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Coe, Michael Douglas

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Massachusetts, USA

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Harvard University (PhD) 1950, 1959 (PhD)

Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts

St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire

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university professor

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Coe, Sophie D. (spouse)

Dobzhansky, Theodosius (father-in-law)

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Yale University Department of Anthropology

Yale University Peabody Museum

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National Academy of Sciences

Orden del Quetzal, Republic of Guatemala, 2004

Orden del Pop, Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala, 2006

The Royal Anthropological Institute

Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award, 1989

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