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xxi Acknowledgments By C. Roger Nance vvvThe archaeology behind this book was a long process that involved many individuals. I am indebted to the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Fowler Museum for permission to study the Long-Glassow pottery. Those facilitating the project at UCLA included Marilyn Beaudry, Richard Leventhal, Wendy Teeter, Julia Sanchez, and Charles Stanish. After considerable time working at UCLA, we lost our laboratory space. At the Westside Pavilion in Westwood, Erica BoatmanDixon , then marketing manager, agreed to my request for use of a vacant store as an archaeology lab. We used this donated space for over a year and are grateful to Westside Pavilion for not only the space but also the free utilities and benefit of mall security. This donation required a contract between UCLA and Westside Pavilion, a lot to ask by a visiting archaeologist with few ties to the university. A grant by the Cotsen Institute, Charles Stanish, director, covered the expense of painting the store and moving artifacts and furniture between the mall and university. The contract stipulated a professionally rendered sign over the storefront, and this sign was prepared and donated by a company in Culver City. Thanks to Guy Anderson of Designtown, USA. Others helped out by participating directly in the process of recording potsherds, including several UCLA undergraduate students , most notably Jacob Lee. Thanks go to Helle Girey, also with acknowledgments / xxii the Cotsen Institute, who donated her time to produce the line drawings of potsherds in chapter 3. Also, several archaeologists with substantial experience in the archaeology of West Mexico provided ideas, information, and encouragement at critical junctures in the research: the late Phil Weigand of the Colegio de Michoacán with whom I was to collaborate herein and Christopher Beekman at the University of Colorado–Denver. Later, two other archaeologists read and provided critical comments on a draft of the book: Michael Love, California State University–Northridge, and Marvin Jeter, recently retired from the Arkansas Archaeological Survey and the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Thanks to all of these people as well as to two anonymous reviewers for the University of New Mexico Press who made helpful suggestions. Closer to home, I would like to thank my son, Charles Nance, for his work in restoring the text in some of the illustrations for chapter 1. My wife, Vally, once again proved indispensable in the writing and completion of this book. ...

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