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498 Acknowledgments At the University Press of Colorado,I express my deep thanks to Darrin Pratt for asking me to write this book and for guiding the manuscript to publication. Darrin is an ideal editor—supportive, full of useful suggestions, and committed to a successful book. Also at the University Press of Colorado, I thank Bill Nelson for producing the maps, Laura Furney for managing the publication process, and Jessica d’Arbonne for transforming manuscript into book and for coordinating the illustration program. Five peer reviewers read the manuscript, made suggestions, and were uniformly supportive of the text. Two of these reviewers have shared their names—Mark Aldenderfer and Elizabeth Klarich—and I thank them and the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Finally, I dedicate this book to two archaeologists who first took me to South America, Carol J. Mackey and A. M. Ulana Klymyshyn. Our 1981 field season in Peru literally changed my life. I first studied South American archaeology under Carol’s and Ulana’s tutelage, but they also taught me—by their personal examples —about the thrill of scientific discovery and the profound pleasure of conducting archaeological research in South America. If I can convey a sense of that excitement to the reader, it is due to Carol Mackey and Ulana Klymyshyn and the opportunity they gave me. I dedicate A Prehistory of South America to them as a small token of my enduring gratitude. ...

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