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About the Contributors Bennet Bronson is a curator of Asian archaeology and ethnology in the Department of Anthropology of the Field Museum. Bronson received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. He specializes in the economic and social evolution of human society, with special reference to early technology and trade. He has worked in close collaboration with other specialists in ancient metallurgy, ceramics, and textiles. Since 1988, he has also been an adjunct professor in the Anthropology Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a co-author of Pearls: A Natural History (2001). Arlen F. Chase is a Pegasus Professor and a professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida. He currently serves as chair for the Department of Anthropology. Chase received his B.A. in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1983 in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on archaeological method and theory in the Maya area with particular emphasis on contextual, settlement, and ceramic analysis and secondary interests on urbanism, ethnicity, and epigraphic interpretation. For the past quarter century, Chase has co-directed excavations at Caracol, Belize; before that, he worked on a seven-year project at Santa Rita Corozal in the same country. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications, as well as co-editor of numerous others, including Lowland Maya Postclassic (1985; edited with P. M. Rice) and, more recently , Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment (1992; edited with D. Z. Chase). He is currently working on a book being co-authored with Diane Z. Chase called Maya Archaeology: Reconstructing an Ancient Civilization. Diane Z. Chase is a Pegasus Professor and a professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida. She currently serves as vice provost for academic affairs. Chase received her B.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1982 in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania . Her research interests focus on archaeological method and theory in the Maya area with a particular emphasis on the rise and fall of complex societies, osteological and mortuary analysis, and ethnohistory. For more than twenty-five years, Chase has co-directed excavations at Caracol, Belize; before that, she directed a seven-year project at Santa Rita Corozal in the same country. She is author or co-author of more than 100 publications, as well as co-editor of several others, including Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment (1992; edited with A. F. Chase). She is currently working on a book being co-authored with A. F. Chase called Maya Archaeology: Reconstructing an Ancient Civilization. 280 About the Contributors Christina A. Conlee is an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas State University–San Marcos. She received her B.A. in anthropology from the University of California–Santa Cruz and her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California–Santa Barbara. Her research interests include the foundation and relations of power, ethnicity, rural society, and the effects of state collapse. She has conducted archaeological work in Peru and coastal California and has participated in projects in northern Mexico and Germany. Currently, Conlee is directing a multiyear archaeological project at the site of La Tiza in the Nasca region on the south coast of Peru. Lisa Cooper obtained her Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Toronto, where she studied Near Eastern history and archaeology. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Cooper has participated in several archaeological projects in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. At present, she is the assistant director of the Canadian archaeological mission to Tell ‘Acharneh in western Syria. She has also published a book entitled Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates (Routledge, 2006). Timothy S. Hare is an assistant professor of anthropology in the Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy and is affiliated with the Geography Department at Morehead State University. He specializes in the use of quantitative techniques for spatial and regional analysis to investigate issues of political economy and public health. Hare’s research interests include social theory, political economy, gender, health, and quantitative geography. He has directed and participated in several archaeological and ethnohistorical projects in Mexico and Belize aimed at reconstructing the transformation of political and economic systems in ancient Aztec and Mayan societies. In addition, he is developing software tools to facilitate quantitative geographic analysis and the comparison of multivariate spatial distributions. Hare’s...