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Kirk D French Editor

Nancy Gonlin is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington, where she was awarded the Margin of Excellence Award in 2012. She is coeditor of Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica and Ancient Households of the Americas and coauthor of Copan: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom. Kirk D. French is lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on complex societies in Mesoamerica and relies on an analytical approach to better understand human adaptations to environmental change through a combination of field-based archaeology, watershed modeling, and documentary film.