Dean E Arnold

Dean E. Arnold is adjunct curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and professor emeritus of anthropology at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he taught for thirty-nine years. He has done fieldwork in Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, and the Southwest; authored six books, including the seminal Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process; coedited two books; and published more than sixty articles about potters, pottery, and pottery production and related subjects (such as Maya Blue). Arnold was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico and Peru, a visiting fellow at Clare Hall at University of Cambridge in 1985, and a visiting scholar at the Department of Archaeology there in 1985, 1992, and 2000. He received the Society for American Archaeology’s Award for Excellence in Ceramic Studies in 1996.

Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

Learning about Peruvian archaeology through books, articles, and lectures is one thing, but there is no substitute for seeing an archaeological site on the ground and walking through it. One of my graduate school professors, Pedro Armillas, called this "pedestrian archaeology."