Karl W. Butzer
Professor — D.Sc., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Raymond C. Dickson Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts, Dept. of Geography and the Environment
Contact
- E-mail: karl.butzer@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512.328.3255
- Office: GRG 404
- Office Hours: Call for appointment
- Campus Mail Code: A3100
Biography
Butzer regularly teaches Geoarchaeology and Environmental History; Indigenous maps, Architecture, and Enculturation in Colonial Mexico; Landscape, Society and Meaning; Research and Issues in Geography
Butzer's research intrests are Environmental history; Human impact on the environment; Colonial Mexico; Mediterranean soil erosion; Climatic change in Egypt; Land cover change in 19th century Australia
Selected Publications
Archaeology as Human Ecology 1982, 2006
Domestic architecture in early Colonial Mexico (with Elisabeth Butzer), in Cultural Encounters with the Environment, pp.17 37, 2000
French wetland agriculture in Atlantic Canada, Annals AAG 92 (2002) 83-97
Coastal eolian sands, paleosols, and Pleistocene geoarchaeology of the Southwestern Cape, South Africa, Jour.Arch.Sci. 31 ( 2004)
1743-1781: Livestock, land cover and environmental history: the Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, 1820 - 1920 (with David Helgren)
Annals AAG 95 (2005) 80-111; Environmental history in the Mediterranean world, Jour.Arch.Sci. 32 (2005) 1773-1800
