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Contributors William Balée is professor of anthropology at Tulane University. He is currently studying the impacts that societies in species-rich areas have had on the diversity of flora and fauna and how these impacts are recognized in the context of traditional knowledge. He has carried out fieldwork since 1979 on relationships between forest-dwelling peoples and their landscapes in the Amazon region, with special attention to the Tupí-Guaraní–speaking Ka’apor people of eastern Brazil. His research interests include historical ecology, ethnobiology, and lowland South American ethnology. Nicholas H. Beale is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oklahoma. He has field experience in both the American Southeast and American Southwest. His research interests include the American Southwest Archaic , hunter-gatherer mobility strategies, lithic technology, resource procurement , and identity. His recent research delves into Late Archaic and early agricultural peoples’ interaction in terms of alliances and competition across the American Southwest. Paulo DeBlasis is professor of archaeology at the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo. He has been involved in field research throughout Brazil, particularly in southern Amazonia, Central Plateau , and Southern Coastal areas. His research interests include Paleoindian studies, rock art, and hunter-gatherer societies. Recently he has been focusing on ritual and religious patterns among pre-Columbian societies. Chester B. DePratter is an archaeologist with the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. His research has focused on a wide range of topics in Georgia and South Carolina, including coastal shell rings, Spanish explorations in the south- eastern United States, coastal progradation and sea level fluctuation, Spanish colonial Santa Elena (1566–87), southeastern chiefdoms, and reservoir archaeology. Paul R. Fish is professor in the School of Anthropology and curator at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. His field research focuses on middle-range societies in the American Southwest and Northwest Mexico, particularly the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, and southern coastal Brazil. Methodological and theoretical interests include regional analysis, political and social organization, and landscapes. Suzanne K. Fish is professor in the School of Anthropology and curator at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. Her field research involves the American Southwest, Mexico, and Brazil. She has been co-editor of Latin American Antiquity and publications include topics on the organization of middle-range societies, ethnobotany, archaeological palynology, survey, and traditional farming practices. Maria Dulce Gaspar is professor of anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She publishes widely on shell mounds, rock art, and archaeological method and theory. She was co-editor of Latin American Antiquity and has archaeological projects in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, Brazil. Patricia A. Gilman is associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. She has done southwestern archaeology since 1972 and began her focus on all things Mimbres in 1974. Gilman has worked in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona and is currently directing a multiyear survey project on the Mimbres phenomenon beyond the heartland of the Mimbres Valley. Her present research interests include the social contexts of early agriculture and pithouse architecture and the possible relationships of representational Mesoamerican symbols and those on Mimbres painted pottery. Junko Habu is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been involved in a number of field and laboratory projects on prehistoric and historic sites in Japan, as well as in the Canadian 224 · Contributors [54.221.43.155] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 09:52 GMT) Arctic. Her publications include Ancient Jomon of Japan, Beyond Foraging and Collecting (co-edited with B. Fitzhugh), and Evaluating Multiple Narratives (co-edited with C. Fawcett and J. M. Matsunaga). She is currently researching long-term changes in the prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers of Japan. Mark E. Hall is an archaeologist and Native American coordinator with the Bureau of Land Management in Winnemucca, Nevada. He has conducted field and museum research in California, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, and Nevada. Archaeometallurgy, Bayesian modeling, and geochemical studies of pottery are just a few of his interests. Tristram R. Kidder is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He does fieldwork in the American Southeast as well as in China. His research spans the Holocene and focuses on environmental archaeology, the archaeology of climate change, and the archaeology of hunter-gatherer complexity. He has published in Science, American Antiquity, Southeastern Archaeology, Journal of Field Archaeology, Quaternary Science Reviews, and...