Steve Houston was born 1958, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, A.B. (1980, the University of Edinburgh (Exchange student), and Yale University (M.Phil., 1983, Ph. D., 1987). Prior to Brown he served as Jesse Knight University Professor at Brigham Young University. He has two kids and is married to Nancy Dayton Houston.
Steve recently began excavations at the Classic Maya city of El Zotz, Guatemala, and has finished five seasons of work at the ruins of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. A book in Maya color concepts and use is in the works, along with another volume on the death or extinction of writing systems, and another on Classic Maya civilization. Articles on Maya epigraphy and fieldwork are now in press or in the works. His research interests include: archaeology; kingship and court systems; body concepts in antiquity; writing systems; epigraphy and decipherment; architecture and urbanism; Classic Maya; South America; Europe.
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