Karl Butzer

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Karl W. Butzer is an American environmental archaeologist. He was born in Germany in 1934. While he was still a child, his family emigrated, first to England, and then to Canada. He obtained a master's degree in astronomy from McGill University and a doctorate in physical geography from the University of Bonn in Germany.

From 1959 through 1966 he taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. This was followed by a stint at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Next, he taught at the University of Chicago until 1984. After that, he went to the University of Texas at Austin.


[edit] Honors

  • Busk Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
  • Fryxell Medal of the Society of American Archaeology
  • 1986: Archaeological Geology Award
  • 2002: Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award
  • 1996: member, National Academy of Sciences
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences


[edit] Selected publications

  • 1988 "Cattle and Sheep from Old to New Spain: Historical Antecedents," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 78: 29-56.
  • 1964 Environment and Archaeology: An Ecological Approach to Prehistory.
  • 1993 "The Classical Tradition of Agronomic Science: Perspectives on Carolingian Agriculture and Agronomy," In: P.L. Butzer and D. Lohrmann (eds.), Science in Western and eastern Civilization in Carolingian Times, pp. 539-596.

(ed.) 1978 Dimensions of Human Geography: Essays on Some Familiar and Neglected Themes.

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