Description: Karen Pierce is a metalsmith from Evergreen, Colorado making unique bowls and hollowware in copper, silver and gold-electroplate.
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Maya Archaeology , my personal passion. The past couple of summers in Belize I have been working with Dr. Elizabeth Graham and Dr. David Pendergast to rehouse and curate artifacts from previous excavations at Lamanai. In 2017 and 2018 I also participated in excavations at the site of Pacbitun with Dr. Terry Powis and Dr. Sheldon Skaggs. Although very preliminary, it's exciting to see how a "palace" group at Pacbitun compares with one at Lamanai--the Ottawa Group, which is the subject of my MA thesis : Late
Colorado Historic Archaeology and Architecture, a new passion. I worked as a seasonal archaeologist for the US Forest Service in the summer of 2017 and winter of 2018, doing research and report writing, and as an offshoot of this work I was hired by Park County to prepare nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties for two historic houses, and their asssociated outbuildings, located on the AG Ranch in Shawnee, Colorado. The nomination for th
Click here to watch a 14.5 minute digital video on my investigations of the architectural building sequence of Structure N10-15 in the Ottawa N10[3] elite-residential-administrative "palace" complex at Lamanai.