Colin McEwan
Head of the Americas Section
Curator of Latin American Collections Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Contact
cmcewan@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7323 8070
Current projects
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Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes: Inca ushnus (with RHUL)
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Decoding Nasca Iconography
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Archaeology and Community, Agua Blanca, Ecuador
Previous projects
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Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico
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Unknown Amazon
External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
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Fellow of the R.A.I., London; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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Associate Fellow – Institute for American Studies
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Honorary Lecturer – Institute of Archaeology UCL
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FeMember - Society for American Archaeology
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Serving on the Area Panel for Latin America – The British Academy
Recent publications
C. McEwan, Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico, with A.Middleton, R.Stacey and C.Cartwright), (British Museum Press and Duke University Press, 2006)
C. McEwan, ‘Using the Past to Forge the Future: the Genesis of the Community Site Museum at Agua Blanca, Ecuador’ in Site Museums in Latin America, H.Silverman (ed.) (Florida University Press, 2006)
C. McEwan, ‘Buried in the Desert’ with E. K. de Bock, NACF Quarterly, (Spring 2005)
C. McEwan, Review of The Early Formative of Coastal Ecuador, S. Raymond and R. Burger(eds.) in Antiquity, 79 No. 305, (2005) pp. 717-19
C. McEwan, Review of Empire and Domestic Economy, T. N. D’Altroy and C. Hastorf (eds.) in Antiquity, 79 No. 303, (2005) pp 227-8