Colin McEwan

Head of the Americas Section

Curator of Latin American Collections

Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Telephone: +44 (0)20 73238070
Email: cmcewan @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Current British Museum projects

Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes: Inca ushnus (with RHUL)

Decoding Nasca Iconography

Archaeology and Community, Agua Blanca, Ecuador

Previous British Museum projects

Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico

Unknown Amazon

External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

Fellow of the R.A.I., London; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

Associate Fellow – Institute for American Studies

Honorary Lecturer – Institute of Archaeology UCL

FeMember - Society for American Archaeology

Serving on the Area Panel for Latin America – The British Academy

Publications

Most 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