American Don Patterson reflects on a life in Mesoamerican archaeology

American Don Patterson reflects on a life in Mesoamerican archaeology

I had the recent honor and pleasure of chatting with Don Patterson in San Miguel de Allende about his fascinating career in Mesoamerican archaeology, which spanned three decades from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Over the course of his career, Patterson worked on more than 150 archaeological sites from Honduras to northern Mexico. He is an expert in archaeological illustration, recording innumerable discoveries of pre-Hispanic artworks by photog…