Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast

Contributors

contributors Luis Barba (PhD National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1995) is director of the Geophysical Survey Laboratory at the Institute of Anthropological Investigations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research investigations include geophysical survey , archaeochemistry, archaeometry, and remote sensing, all of which contribute to our understanding of past human activities on ancient landscapes. Sarah B. Barber is a PhD candidate specializing in the archaeology of Mesoamerica at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been conducting research on social identity, community, and the household in the Lower Rio Valley of Oaxaca. Michael Blake (PhD University of Michigan, 1985) is associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia and director of UBC’s Laboratory of Archaeology. He has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico, and in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia . His research focuses on emerging social and political complexity, with an emphasis on household and settlement archaeology. Claude Chapdelaine (PhD Université de Montréal, 1988) is professor of archaeology at the Université de Montréal and has been conducting field research on the North Coast of Peru since 1994. He first worked at the Huacas of Moche Site, documenting the urban zone; in 2000 he moved to the Santa Valley to study the expansionist character of the southern Moche State. Jessica Joyce Christie (PhD University of Texas, 1995) is assistant professor in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University. She edited the volume Maya Palaces and Elite Residences: An Interdisciplinary Approach . Her research interests include classic and contemporary Maya Year Renewal Ceremonies and palace architecture. She is currently working on a book about the sculpted outcrops of the Inka. John E. Clark (PhD University of Michigan, 1994) is professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University and director of its New World Archaeo- 404 contributors logical Foundation. His research focuses on the origins of rank society in lowland Mesoamerica, as well as cultural theory, ethnoarchaeology, ancient technology, and craft specialization. Arthur A. Demarest (PhD Harvard, 1981) is professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University and director of the Vanderbilt Cancuen Archaeological and Community Development projects. His research interests include the origins, declines, and ‘‘collapses’’ of civilization; ideology; and indigenous rights and development. Susan Toby Evans (PhD Pennsylvania State University, 1980) is a professor in the Anthropology Department at Pennsylvania State University. Her archaeological and ethnohistorical research focuses on the Aztecs of Mexico. Her recent books include Palaces of the Ancient New World, coedited with Joanne Pillsbury, and Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History, which won the 2005 Society for American Archaeology award. Colin Grier (PhD Arizona State University, 2001) is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. His archaeological research has focused on complex hunter-gatherers and the origins of social inequality in the context of fieldwork on prehistoric Arctic whaling societies, Paleolithic Europe, and, most recently, the Gulf of Georgia region of Canada’s Northwest Coast. Warren D. Hill (PhD University of British Columbia, 1999) is a senior research analyst with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and executive director of the Canadian Viral Hepatitis Network. His research interests center on the evolution of human societies and infectious diseases and include the use of geographic information systems for molecular epidemiology. William H. Isbell (PhD University of Illinois, 1973) is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University. He is the author of several articles on the Central Andes, particularly Huari. His current research focuses on space, place, and the built environment in the interpretation of the past; he is presently investigating Huari’s iconographic relative, Tiwanaku. Arthur A. Joyce (PhD Rutgers, 1991) is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research focuses on the preColumbian states of Mesoamerica using poststructuralist social theories of practice and power. He has conducted interdisciplinary archaeological and paleoenvironmental research in Oaxaca since 1986. Stephen H. Lekson (PhD University of New Mexico, 1988) is curator and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests are in the origins of government, regional patterning , and architecture in the North American Southwest. Richard G. Lesure (PhD University of Michigan, 1995) is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has contributors 405 carried out archaeological fieldwork in both Chiapas and Central Mexico, investigating the role that ideologies of inequality plays in...