Verenice Y Heredia Espinoza Editor & Author

Lane F. Fargher is investigator in the Department of Human Ecology, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN-Unidad Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, and codirector of the Tlaxcallan Archaeological Project (in Tlaxcala, Mexico). A Mesoamerican archaeologist and cross-cultural researcher, he is interested in the role of cooperation and collective action in markets, ancient cities, landscapes, and households. Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza is investigator in the Centro de Estudios Arqueologicos of El Colegio de Michoacan, A.C. and codirector of the Regional Survey and the Trajectory of Complexity in the Magdalena Lake Basin (in Jalisco, Mexico) and the Tlaxcallan Archaeological Project (in Tlaxcala, Mexico). Her research interests are alternative pathways to complexity, political economy, settlement patterns, regional analysis, and cross-cultural research.