About the Author

Leslie G. Cecil is an assistant professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University, where her research has focused on Postclassic Mayans' use of pottery to identify themselves as part of a cohesive sociopolitical group. Timothy W. Pugh is an associate professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where his research has focused on reconstructing the political geography of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century central Peten, Guatemala.