About Michael E. Smith
Born 1953. Michael E. Smith is an American anthropologist and archaeologist.
Michael Ernest Smith (born 1953) is an American archaeologist working primarily with Aztec and general Mesoamerican archaeology. He has written numerous scholarly articles about central Mexican archaeology as well as several books about the Aztecs, among them a widely used textbook (Smith 2003). He is currently Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is known for stressing the importance of assessing archaeological evidence independently of the ethnohistorical sources, and advocating its use as a source of knowledge about the Aztecs.
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American Mesoamerican archaeologist
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Michael E. Smith was born in 1953.
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Michael E. Smith is an anthropologist and archaeologist.
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