Sandra L López Varela Editor & Author

Sandra L. López Varela is Professor in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has dedicated her career to the promotion of science and technology in archaeological research. She received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2012 and has served on the executive board of the American Anthropological Association (2011–2014), as president of the Society for Archaeological Sciences (2009–2011), and as treasurer of the Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología. She has been published extensively in international journals.