Larry Steinbrenner
Biography
Dr. Larry Steinbrenner is a specialist in Mesoamerican and Central American cultures with a particular focus on archaeological ceramic studies. He has been teaching courses in anthropology and archaeology at Red Deer Polytechnic since 2006. Born and raised in southern Alberta, Dr. Steinbrenner obtained degrees in English from the universities of Lethbridge and Calgary before changing course to study archaeology at the University of Calgary. His graduate research focused on the ceramics from the archaeological site of Santa Isabel in Rivas, Nicaragua, where he did field work from 2000 to 2005.
Dr. Steinbrenner has also taught archaeology courses for the University of Lethbridge and the University of Calgary while working as a contract archaeologist in northern Alberta. His current research interests involve exploring the connections between the ceramics of Pacific Nicaragua and related ceramic types from the southeastern Mesoamerican periphery, particularly in El Salvador and Honduras.
He is also the principal editor of and primary contributor to the recently published volume The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya which is the first major collection of research papers on the archaeology of Pacific Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica to be published in more than twenty years.
Education
- Ph.D. (Archaeology), University of Calgary
- M.A. (Archaeology), University of Calgary
- M.A. (English), University of Calgary
- B.A./B.Sc. (English), University of Lethbridge