Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica

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Contributors Kurt F. Anschuelz has participated in archaeological research projects in the central Andes, the Valley of Mexico, and the northern Southwest of the United States. He became interested in the agricultural technologies and social organization of late prehistoric and early historic Pueblo Indians of the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico while working on his M.A. at the University of New Mexico (1984) and the Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico (1985-1987). His research also includes issues of Pueblo Indian ethnology, particularly uses and concepts of corn and water. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, where he is preparing to return to the lower Rio Chama valley to continue his studies of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century puebloan peoples and their gravel-mulched field systems. Joseph W. Ball, professor of anthropology at San Diego State University , received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1974. He is a specialist in ceramic typology, and his interests have centered on applying the principles of behavioral archaeology and contextual analysis to illuminating ancient Maya community structure and political organization. He has participated in fieldwork at Becan, Campeche, and Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, and since 1981 has been co325 CONTRIBUTORS director of the SDSU Mopan-Macal Triangle Archaeological Project in Belize. His publications include The Archaeological Ceramics of Becan, Campeche, Mexico (1977), The Archaeological Ceramics of Chinkultic, Chiapas, Mexico (1980), liThe Rise of the Northern Maya ChiefdomsII (1977), "Teotihuacan's Fall and the Rise of the Itza" (1989), and, with Jennifer Taschek, "Late Classic Lowland Maya Political Organization and Central-Place Analysis" (1991). William E. Doolittle, associate professor of geography at The University of Texas at Austin, received a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1979. He is a specialist in the analysis of dry-land agricultural systems, including prehistoric, historic, or small-scale traditional systems currently in use. He has carried out research in Mexico and the American Southwest with funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and various private sources. His publications include numerous articles in major geographical and archaeological journals as well as two books-PreHispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico: Archaeological Confirmation of Early Spanish Reports (1988) and Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change (1990). He is currently writing a book on the agricultural landscapes of North America on the eve of European Contact. Susan T. Evans is an archaeologist specializing in the Aztec period of the Teotihuacan Valley. This research focus involves settlement and agricultural studies (such as described in the paper in this volume) as well as testing ethnohistoric models of sociopolitical organization and ideological orientation. She edited and contributed to Excavations at Cihuatecpan (1988), and more recently has coauthored Out of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology (1992) with Pennsylvania State University colleagues David Webster and William Sanders. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1980. Richalene G. Kelsay is a senior environmental analyst for CALTRANS (California Department of Transportation) at the San Diego southern California regional office. Since leaving a first career as chief costume designer and script writer for the popular long-running television se326 CONTRIBUTORS ries, "Little House on the Prairie," she has participated in archaeological projects throughout southern California and in Belize. She currently is an M.A. candidate in the anthropology department at San Diego State University. Her research interests center around the archaeological recognition and interpretation of anthrosols on southern California collector-gatherer sites. Thomas W. Killion received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1987. He presently holds a research associate position in the Department of Archaeology at Boston University and is an archaeologist working in the Repatriation Office at the Smithsonian Institution. He has conducted archaeological and ethnoarchaeological fieldwork in southern Veracruz, Mexico, and also is involved with ongoing archaeological research in Guatemala and Belize. His research focus is the emergence of agricultural systems in tropical lowland Mesoamerica and the subsequent role of agricultural production in the rise of lowland urban centers. Recent articles and research papers have examined the ethnoarchaeology of peasant agriculture in southern Veracruz, intensive archaeological survey at the prehispanic urban center of Sayil, Yucatan, Mexico, and the intersite survey of settlement, agricultural terraces, and wall systems in the Petexbatun region of Peten, Guatemala. Timothy D. Maxwell is assistant...