Keith Eppich

Harri Kettunen, University of Helsinki

Keith Eppich joined his first archaeological project at age eight, at Bedico Creek, Louisiana.  Since then, he has excavated Tchefuncte shell mounds, Pleistocene bone beds, Antebellum plantations, California missions, Chumash camp-sites, and ancient Maya cities.  With his co-directors, he heads the Proyecto Arqueológico Waka’, a large-scale and long-term archaeological project located in northwestern Guatemala at the ruined Maya city of El Perú-Waka’.  Dr. Eppich holds multiple degrees from Louisiana State University, San Diego State University, and a PhD from Southern Methodist University.  He specializes in the study of the Classic Maya ceramic arts, Native American urbanism, and the Mesoamerican economy.  He has recently published on all three.  He is the author of the forthcoming volume The Ceramics of El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala and the co-editor of Breath and Smoke: Tobacco among the Maya.  He is currently a professor in the Department of History, Geography, and Anthropology at TJC—The College of East Texas.