Graduated from Harvard College in 1950, he then received his Ph.D. He attended Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and St. With Rex Koontz, he co-authored the book Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs published in 1962.Ĭoe was the son of designer Clover Simonton and banker William Rogers Coe. Ĭoe authored a number of popular works for the non-specialist audience, several of which were best-selling and much reprinted, such as The Maya (1966) and Breaking the Maya Code (1992). MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Yale University, and was curator emeritus of the Anthropology collection in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, where he had been curator from 1968 to 1994. He specialised in comparative studies of ancient tropical forest civilizations, such as those of Central America and Southeast Asia. He is known for his research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly the Maya, and was among the foremost Mayanists of the late twentieth century. Michael Douglas Coe (– September 25, 2019) was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher, and author.
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