Russell Sheptak spent 20 years architecting and writing software at startups, retiring as a VP of Engineering at his last company. He then returned to research on the history and life of Central American indigenous people, a topic that has interested him since his early days as an Anthropology undergraduate at Cornell University in the 1970s.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Archaeology from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2013, combining both historical and archaeological data to provide a rich view into the ways the indigenous people of the lower Ulua River valley in Honduras co-...
