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Contributors David G. Anderson is professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee , Knoxville. He has practiced archaeology for some 40 years, primarily in the southeastern United States. Robert A. Benfer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri. His research has largely been in the bioarchaeology and archaeoastronomy of Perú, related to the development of sedentism and monumental architecture. Recent articles include “La tradición religioso-astronómica en Buena Vista,” Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 11 (2010): 53–102; and “Gourd and Squash Artifacts Yield Starch Grains of Feasting Foods from Preceramic Peru,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 196 (2009): 13202–13206. Bruce Bevan is a geophysicist and operator of the exploration firm Geosight. He is the author of “Archaeological Dating from Magnetic Maps: Some failures,” Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics 14 (2009): 129–144; and “Geophysical Exploration for Buried Buildings,” Historical Archaeology 40, no. 4 (2006): 27–50. Linda Brown is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Montana. She is a contributor to The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World, ed. Nina G. Jablonski (California Academy of Sciences, 2002) and coauthor of “Early Hunter-Gatherers in the Terra Firme Rainforests: Stemmed Projectile Points from the Curuá Goldmines,” Amazônica 1, no. 2 (2009): 442–483. Richard L. Burger is professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is an archaeologist specializing in the Central Andes and has carried out research in Peru for over three decades. He has directed excavations at Chavín de Huántar and Huaricoto in Peru’s northern highlands and at Cardal, Mina Perdida, and Manchay Bajo on Peru’s central coast. In Peru, Burger has taught on the archaeology faculties of Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Burger also served as chair of the Senior Fellows of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. Burger has written numerous books and articles on South American prehistory. Sergio J. Chávez teaches archaeology and cultural anthropology at Central Michigan University. He is the director of the Interdisciplinary Yaya-Mama Contributors · 467 Archaeological Project in the Lake Titicaca basin. He has conducted excavations in Peru (Cuzco and Puno regions), in Bolivia (Copacabana Peninsula), and in the United States (Michigan and New Haven). He has published several articles dealing with the four-field approach in Andean anthropology, including stone sculpture, iconography, pottery, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Winifred Creamer is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University. She has directed research on the development of social complexity, contact between indigenous and colonial cultures, and boundary formation in Peru, the American Southwest and Costa Rica. She is co-editor (with Jonathan Haas and Alvaro Ruiz) of Archaeological Investigation of Late Archaic Sites (3000–1800 BC) in the Pativilca Valley, Peru (Field Museum of Natural History, 2007). Ann Cyphers is a senior research scientist at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has conducted research on the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica with emphasis on the Olmec culture. Her publications include Escultura Olmeca de San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán (UNAM, 2004). Maura Imazio da Silveira is a researcher with the Emilio Goeldi Museum in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. John Douglas is professor of anthropology and department chair at the University of Montana. He is a contributor to Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest, edited by Alan P. Sullivan III and James M. Bayman (University of Arizona Press, 2007). His work has also appeared in Latin American Antiquity. Francisco Estrada-Belli is Research Assistant Professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University. Among his research interests are the beginnings of Maya civilization, remote sensing and GIS applications in archaeology. He is director of the Holmul Archaeological Project in Guatemala and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He is author of The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power before the Classic Period (Routledge, 2011). R. Jeffrey Frost is visiting lecturer of anthropology at California State UniversityStanislaus . His research focuses on the organization and development of chiefdom polities in southern Central America. He has conducted archaeological investigations in Costa Rica, Peru, and throughout the Midwestern United States. [54.146.154.243] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:51 GMT) 468 · Contributors Jonathan Haas is adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of Illinois at Chicago...