Fabio Esteban Amador
Program Officer, NGS/Waitt Grants Program
National Geographic Society
Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University

Dr. Amador is an archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerican cultures and Pre-Columbian and historic earthen architectural conservation. Amador studied archaeology at Rutgers University and advance degrees at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He has worked in prehistoric sites in North, Central and South America and is presently conducting research in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Before joining National Geographic, he was a professor of archaeology and a researcher for the Council for Scientific Investigation at the National University of El Salvador.

Research

Dr. Amador’s recent work has focused on conducting survey, excavation and ceramic analysis of eastern El Salvador for the Archaeological Atlas of Eastern El Salvador Project and in northern Quintana Roo for the Costa Escondida Archaeological Project.

Selected Publications

Amador, F.E. Atlas Arqueológico de la Región de Oriente de El Salvador. In XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala 20th session, 2006. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes. (2007)

Amador, F.E., and J.B. Glover. “Recent research in the Yalahua region: Methodological concerns and preliminary results of a regional survey.” In J.M. Shaw and J.P. Mathews, eds. Quintana Roo Archaeology, p. 51-65. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (2005)

Amador, F.E., and D. Rissolo. “Evaluación cerámica preliminar de investigaciones recientes en el noreste de la peninsula de Yucatan, Mexico: reconsiderando el preclásico medio en las tierras bajas Mayas del norte.” In Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 17th session, 2003, p. 381-90. Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes (2003)

Education

- Ph.D. (Mesoamerican Archaeology) 2005, SUNY-Buffalo
- B.A. 1994, Rutgers University