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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American archeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher, and popular author (1929–2019)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the football player, see <a href="/wiki/Michael_Coe_(American_football)" title="Michael Coe (American football)">Michael Coe (American football)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Michael D. Coe</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Michael_D_Coe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/Michael_D_Coe.jpg/220px-Michael_D_Coe.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Michael_D_Coe.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="365" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Michael Douglas Coe</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1929-05-14</span>)</span>May 14, 1929<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">New York City, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 25, 2019<span style="display:none">(2019-09-25)</span> (aged 90)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data category">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya civilization</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archaeology" title="Archaeology">archaeology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epigraphy" title="Epigraphy">epigraphy</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michael Douglas Coe</b> (May 14, 1929 – September 25, 2019)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Archaeologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeologist">archaeologist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropologist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epigraphy" title="Epigraphy">epigrapher</a>, and author. He is known for his research on <a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Columbian">pre-Columbian</a> <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerica" title="Mesoamerica">Mesoamerica</a>, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization">Maya</a>, and was among the foremost <a href="/wiki/Mayanist" title="Mayanist">Mayanists</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the late twentieth century. He specialised in comparative studies of ancient tropical forest <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilizations</a>, such as those of Central America and Southeast Asia. He held the chair of <a href="/wiki/Charles_J._McCurdy" title="Charles J. McCurdy">Charles J. MacCurdy</a> Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>, and was curator emeritus of the Anthropology collection in the <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="Peabody Museum of Natural History">Peabody Museum of Natural History</a>, where he had been curator from 1968 to 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coe authored a number of popular works for the non-specialist audience, several of which were best-selling and much reprinted, such as <i>The Maya</i> (1966) and <i>Breaking the Maya Code</i> (1992). With Rex Koontz, he co-authored the book <i>Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs</i>, published in 1962. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coe was born in New York City, the son of designer Clover Simonton and banker <a href="/wiki/William_Rogers_Coe" title="William Rogers Coe">William Rogers Coe</a>. He attended <a href="/wiki/Fay_School" title="Fay School">Fay School</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Southborough,_Massachusetts" title="Southborough, Massachusetts">Southborough, Massachusetts</a>, and <a href="/wiki/St._Paul%27s_School_(New_Hampshire)" title="St. Paul's School (New Hampshire)">St. Paul’s School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire" title="Concord, New Hampshire">Concord, New Hampshire</a>. He graduated from <a href="/wiki/Harvard_College" title="Harvard College">Harvard College</a> in 1950, and he received his PhD in <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropology</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Arts_and_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences">Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1959. </p><p>In 1955, shortly after commencing his graduate studies program at Harvard University, he married <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Coe" title="Sophie Coe">Sophie Dobzhansky</a>, the daughter of the noted <a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_biologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Evolutionary biologist">evolutionary biologist</a> and Russian émigré <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky" title="Theodosius Dobzhansky">Theodosius Dobzhansky</a>. She was then an undergraduate anthropology student at <a href="/wiki/Radcliffe_College" title="Radcliffe College">Radcliffe College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sophie translated the work of Russian mayanist <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov" title="Yuri Knorozov">Yuri Knorozov</a>, <i>The Writing of the Maya Indians</i> (1967).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Knorozov based his studies on <a href="/wiki/De_Landa_alphabet" title="De Landa alphabet">De Landa's phonetic alphabet</a> and is credited with originally breaking the Maya code. </p><p>Coe's brother, <a href="/wiki/William_Robertson_Coe_II" title="William Robertson Coe II">William Robertson Coe II</a>, was also a prominent Mayanist, associated with the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>. The two brothers had a falling-out in the 1960s and rarely spoke of each other afterward.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>, Coe worked as a <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> case officer and as a part of a front organization, Western Enterprises in <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, as part of efforts to counter the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a> regime in China.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coe's graduate advisor was <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Willey" title="Gordon Willey">Gordon Willey</a>. In his Harvard dissertation at La Victoria, Guatemala, he established the first secure chronology of ceramics for southern Mesoamerica.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With <a href="/wiki/Richard_Diehl" title="Richard Diehl">Richard Diehl</a> at <a href="/wiki/San_Lorenzo_Tenochtitl%C3%A1n" title="San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán">San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán</a>, he used new <a href="/wiki/Magnetometer" title="Magnetometer">magnetometry</a> techniques to locate and salvage most of the Olmec colossal heads now known, such that he is now considered one of the discoverers of the Olmec.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coe and his students have contributed greatly to the decipherment of Maya writing. He championed <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Knorosov" class="mw-redirect" title="Yuri Knorosov">Yuri Knorosov</a> and the phonetic approach to decipherment, against the public rebukes of <a href="/wiki/J._E._S._Thompson" class="mw-redirect" title="J. E. S. Thompson">J. E. S. Thompson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Yale University he taught the Mayanists <a href="/wiki/Peter_Mathews_(archaeologist)" title="Peter Mathews (archaeologist)">Peter Mathews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Taube" title="Karl Taube">Karl Taube</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_D._Houston" title="Stephen D. Houston">Stephen D. Houston</a>, the latter of whom collaborated with <a href="/wiki/David_Stuart_(Mayanist)" title="David Stuart (Mayanist)">David Stuart</a>. </p><p>He sometimes collaborated with his Yale colleague, anthropological linguist <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Lounsbury" title="Floyd Lounsbury">Floyd Lounsbury</a>. Coe also advised the authors of <i>The Blood of Kings</i>, a work about Classic Maya rulership, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Miller_(art_historian)" title="Mary Miller (art historian)">Mary Ellen Miller</a>, at Yale, and <a href="/wiki/Linda_Schele" title="Linda Schele">Linda Schele</a>, at the University of Texas at Austin. Coe's <i>Breaking the Maya Code</i> (1992), which describes these breakthroughs, was nominated for a National Book Award. </p><p>Coe was the first to date El Baúl Stela 1 correctly (Coe 1957; cf. Parsons 1986:61); this sculpture from the Southern Maya Area (SMA) is one of three known with Cycle 7 Long-count dated monuments, predating all Lowland Long-count dated sculptures. With <a href="/wiki/Kent_V._Flannery" class="mw-redirect" title="Kent V. Flannery">Kent V. Flannery</a>, he was the first to observe that the greatest southern area site, <a href="/wiki/Kaminaljuyu" title="Kaminaljuyu">Kaminaljuyu</a>, probably profited greatly from its proximity to and exploitation of the enormous <a href="/wiki/Obsidian_use_in_Mesoamerica" title="Obsidian use in Mesoamerica">El Chayal obsidian fields</a>. Coe discovered the Primary Standard Sequence, a sequence of hieroglyphs appearing around the rim of many Classic Maya ceramic vessels. Coe organized an exhibit of some of those ceramics at the <a href="/wiki/Grolier_Club" title="Grolier Club">Grolier Club</a> in New York, where he also publicized, for the first time, a newly-discovered <a href="/wiki/Grolier_Codex" class="mw-redirect" title="Grolier Codex">Maya codex</a> — the first found in the Americas — and only the fourth known to exist.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of Coe's other insights were given in casual comments to his students or in short reports, including that the <a href="/wiki/Popol_Vuh" title="Popol Vuh">Popol Vuh</a> was but a fragment of a great lost pan-Maya mythology, and that Classic Maya rulers were shamanic figures as well as administrators. </p><p>Aside from his work on the Maya, his short paper published during the height of <a href="/wiki/Processual_archaeology" title="Processual archaeology">processual archaeology</a>, entitled "The Churches on the Green",<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which imagined how that approach would fail to discern the origins and purpose of three churches on the <a href="/wiki/New_Haven_Green" title="New Haven Green">New Haven Green</a> if they were studied five thousand years later. His book on the <a href="/wiki/Angkor" title="Angkor">Angkor civilization</a> of ancient Cambodia, <i>Angkor and the Khmer Civilization</i> (2003, 2nd ed. 2018), was described by <a href="/wiki/David_P._Chandler" title="David P. Chandler">David P. Chandler</a> as "the most thoroughgoing, accessible, and persuasive synthesis of precolonial Cambodian history, society and culture" that he had ever read.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Debates">Debates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Debates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coe added qualified support to the "Cultura Madre" view of the Olmec as the "mother culture of Mesoamerican civilization". His use of information obtainable from looted Maya ceramics attracted criticism. Some of Coe's work in the Olmec field came under scrutiny by two scholars of <a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian_art" title="Pre-Columbian art">Pre-Columbian art</a>. For example, his work on the <a href="/wiki/Cascajal_Block" title="Cascajal Block">Cascajal Block</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on the <a href="/wiki/The_Wrestler_(sculpture)" title="The Wrestler (sculpture)"><i>Wrestler</i></a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was called into question. </p><p>The scholars disputed his claims and found his work inadequately supported by evidence. The Cascajal block was argued to have many features fully consistent with Olmec imagery.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same was said for the <i>Wrestler</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their criticisms were based on what the other scholars considered poorly defined or undefined notions of Olmec iconography and of rulership. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coe married <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Dobzhansky" class="mw-redirect" title="Sophie Dobzhansky">Sophie Dobzhansky</a> in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in New York City on the June 5, 1955.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They travelled and worked together extensively. In 1969, they bought Skyline Farm in <a href="/wiki/Heath,_Massachusetts" title="Heath, Massachusetts">Heath, Massachusetts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had five children: Nicholas, Andrew, Sarah, Peter, and Natalie. </p><p>After Sophie died of cancer in 1994, Michael helped complete her book, <i>The True History of Chocolate</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-radcliffe_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-radcliffe-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coe died on September 25, 2019, in <a href="/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut" title="New Haven, Connecticut">New Haven, Connecticut</a>, at age 90. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_recognition">Awards and recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Awards and recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1981: <i>Senior Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities</i></li> <li>1986: <i>Member, National Academy of Sciences</i></li> <li>1989: <i><a href="/wiki/Tatiana_Proskouriakoff" title="Tatiana Proskouriakoff">Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></li> <li>2000: <i>Hitchcock Professorship, University of California, Berkeley</i></li> <li>2001: James D. Burke Prize in Fine Arts, Saint Louis Art Museum</li> <li>2004: <i><a href="/wiki/Orden_del_Quetzal" class="mw-redirect" title="Orden del Quetzal">Orden del Quetzal</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Republic of Guatemala</a></li> <li>2006: <i><a href="/wiki/Orden_del_Pop" title="Orden del Pop">Orden del Pop</a></i>, Museo Popol Vuh, <a href="/wiki/Universidad_Francisco_Marroqu%C3%ADn" title="Universidad Francisco Marroquín">Universidad Francisco Marroquín</a>, Guatemala<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_publications">Major publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Major publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Coe, Michael D. (1961) La Victoria, An Early Site on the Coast of Guatemala. Papers vol. 53. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1962) Mexico. Thames and Hudson, New York. (Four subsequent editions; with Rex Koontz, 2013).</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1965) The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico. Museum of Primitive Art, New York.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1966) The Maya. Thames and Hudson, New York. (8th ed. 2011, 9th ed. in press).</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. and Kent V. Flannery (1967) Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 3, Washington, D. C.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1968) America's First Civilization: Discovering the Olmec. American Heritage Press, New York.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1973) The Maya Scribe and His World. The Grolier Club, New York.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1978) Lords of the Underworld: Masterpieces of Classic Maya Ceramics. Princeton University Press, Princeton.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Diehl" title="Richard Diehl">Richard A. Diehl</a> (1980) In the Land of the Olmec. 2 vols. University of Texas Press, Austin.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. and Gordon Whittaker (1983) Aztec Sorcerers in 17th Century Mexico: The Treatise on Superstitions by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Albany.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1992) Breaking the Maya Code. Thames and Hudson, New York. (revised ed. 1999)</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (1995) The Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton.</li> <li>Coe, Sophie D. and Michael D. Coe (1996) The True History of Chocolate. Thames and Hudson, New York.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. and Justin Kerr (1998) The Art of the Maya Scribe. Harry N. Abrams, New York.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. and Mark Van Stone (2001) Reading the Maya Glyphs (2nd ed. 2005)</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (2003) Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. Thames and Hudson, New York (2nd ed. with Damian Evans 2018).</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (2006) Final Report: An Archaeologist Excavates His Past. Thames and Hudson, New York.</li> <li>Coe, Michael D. (2006) The Line of Forts: Historical Archaeology on the Colonial Frontier of Massachusetts. University Press of New England, Lebanon.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHoustonMillerTaubec2021" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_D._Houston" title="Stephen D. Houston">Houston, Stephen</a>; <a href="/wiki/Mary_Miller_(art_historian)" title="Mary Miller (art historian)">Miller, Mary</a>; <a href="/wiki/Karl_Taube" title="Karl Taube">Taubec, Karl</a> (2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/093127DD2765CE5DD0749505A7FB0415/S0956536120000541a.pdf/michael-d-coe-1929-2019-a-life-in-the-past.pdf">"Michael D. Coe (1929–2019): A Life in the Past"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Ancient Mesoamerica</i>. <b>32</b>: <span class="nowrap">1–</span>15. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0956536120000541">10.1017/S0956536120000541</a></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ancient+Mesoamerica&rft.atitle=Michael+D.+Coe+%281929%E2%80%932019%29%3A+A+Life+in+the+Past&rft.volume=32&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E1-%3C%2Fspan%3E15&rft.date=2021&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0956536120000541&rft.aulast=Houston&rft.aufirst=Stephen&rft.au=Miller%2C+Mary&rft.au=Taubec%2C+Karl&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2Fcore%2Fservices%2Faop-cambridge-core%2Fcontent%2Fview%2F093127DD2765CE5DD0749505A7FB0415%2FS0956536120000541a.pdf%2Fmichael-d-coe-1929-2019-a-life-in-the-past.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMichael+D.+Coe" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_D._Coe&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nhregister/obituary.aspx?n=michael-d-coe&pid=194021713">"Michael D. 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