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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.

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

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. Further Information

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