Harry J Shafer

Harry Shafer is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. He joined the faculty as the anthropology department's first archaeologist in 1972. He has forty years of research expertise in Texas prehistory, North American archaeology, Southwestern archaeology, Maya archaeology, and prehistoric stone technology. He is the editor of Ancient Texans: Rock Art and Lifeways along the Lower Pecos (Witte Museum, 1986), the coeditor of Field Methods of Archaeology (Left Coast Press, seventh edition,...See more

Harry Shafer is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. He joined the faculty as the anthropology department's first archaeologist in 1972. He has forty years of research expertise in Texas prehistory, North American archaeology, Southwestern archaeology, Maya archaeology, and prehistoric stone technology. He is the editor of Ancient Texans: Rock Art and Lifeways along the Lower Pecos (Witte Museum, 1986), the coeditor of Field Methods of Archaeology (Left Coast Press, seventh edition, 2008), and the author of Mimbres Archaeology at the Nan Ranch (University of New Mexico Press, 2009). See less