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Contributors Julienne Bernard is an associate professor of anthropology at East Los Angeles College. She received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles . She has conducted archaeological fieldwork in multiple parts of California, British Columbia, and Mexico. She is currently involved in a multiyear, collaborative research project with David Robinson and Fraser Sturt in the interior Chumash region of California, which is elucidating many aspects of Emigdiano Chumash prehistory and colonial-era culture change. Bernard’s publications include several articles addressing the relationship between Chumash watercraft , status enhancement, and the ability to acquire large, pelagic fish species and the changing role of food in colonial indigenous contexts. Elliot H. Blair is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley . He worked for a number of years at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, where he was part of the research project at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale on St. Catherines Island in present-day Georgia . His dissertation research similarly focuses on Mission Santa Catalina de Guale. He is the lead author on Beads of St. Catherines Island (2009), a research monograph of the AMNH based on the analysis of nearly 70,000 glass trade beads found on the island. Willet A. Boyer III received his PhD from the University of Florida, where his doctoral research focused on the Acuera chiefdom and their negotiations of Spanish colonialism. A seventh-generation Floridian, his research focus is the effects of systems of belief and social interchange on the late precontact and colonial-era Native American cultures of the Southeast, particularly in northern Florida. He currently serves as the curator of the Marion County Museum of History and Archaeology and as a member of the faculty at the College of Central Florida in Ocala. Glenn J. Farris is a historical archaeologist who has shifted over time increasingly into the study of historical documents in California and how they might inform the finds of archaeological studies. His PhD research at the University of California, Davis addressed the use of pine nuts by the Indians of Northern California and established his interest in subsistence practices of the Native peoples of California. His subsequent archaeological projects at Mission La Contributors 245 Purísima Concepción State Historic Park during his thirty-year career as an archaeologist for California State Parks provided a stimulus for the subject of his chapter in this volume. In retirement he continues to do research in conjunction with the University of California, Berkeley and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, which have each extended him research associate status. Thomas R. Hester is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was also director of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has over forty-five years of archaeological experience in Texas and has also worked in California, Montana, and the Great Basin, as well as in Mexico, Belize, and Egypt. In the late 1970s, Hester was involved in the Gateway Project, which entailed the excavation and analysis of the two Spanish missions described in this volume. In Belize, he directed the Colha Project, the fifteen-season study of Maya stone tool mass production. His research specialties include hunter-gatherers, lithic analysis, obsidian sourcing, and other aspects of ancient technologies. He has authored over five hundred publications reflecting a wide array of experience and research interests. Richard W. Jefferies is a professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky . He has more than thirty years of research experience in the southeastern and midwestern United States, with a focus on both precontact and colonial-era Native American sites. Since 2003, he has been investigating Spanish–Native American interactions in the coastal Southeast, particularly on Sapelo Island, one of the Georgia Sea Islands. This research examines the interactions between local Guale Indians and the Spanish, as well as changes in Guale community organization and subsistence during the mission period . Jefferies’s research has appeared in numerous scholarly publications, including American Antiquity, Southeastern Archaeology, and the Journal of Field Archaeology. Kent G. Lightfoot is a professor of anthropology at the University of California , Berkeley. He is a leading expert on the archaeology of colonial California, having conducted nearly two decades of research investigating the complex cultural interactions that unfolded at the Russian mercantile colony at Fort Ross. His current research explores the long-term implications of indigenous landscape management practices in Central California. Lightfoot has...

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