Christopher Beekman Editor & Author

M. Charlotte Arnauld is an archaeologist and research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Archéologie des Amériques in France. She has directed or codirected five long-term projects in highland Verapaz and northwest lowland La Joyanca in Petén, Guatemala; Balamku and Río Bec in Campeche, Mexico; and Zacapu in west Mexico. Her publications include several books and coedited books on the archaeology of Michoacán and the Maya lowlands and papers in numerous journals.   Christopher Beekman is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. His research focuses on sociopolitical organization in ancient western Mexico. He has directed or codirected excavation projects at Llano Grande and Navajas and surveys in the La Primavera region and the Magdalena Valley. He is a coauthor of the first volume of Historia de Jalisco and has coedited several books, including Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands.   Grégory Pereira is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Archéologie des Amériques in France. He coordinates the Uacúsecha Project in the Zacapu basin, Michoacán, and collaborates in distinct projects in western and central México, the Gulf Coast, and the Maya area. He has coedited several books including Tradiciones cerámicas del Epiclásico en el Bajío y regiones aledañas, La Ciudad Perdida, Raíces de los soberanos tarascos, and Vista Hermosa,Nobles, artesanos y mercaderes en los confines del mundo huasteco.