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Richard F. Townsend (Editor)

Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past

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Richard F. Townsend (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00016.022

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Richard F. Townsend, Curator in the Department of African and Amerindian Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, is a scholar specializing in Mesoamerican art and cultural history. He received his Ph.D. in the history of art in 1975 from Harvard University and has taught at the University of Nebraska and the University of Texas. His publications include The Aztecs (1992) and The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes (1992).

Patricia Rieff Anawalt is the Director of the Center for the Study of Regional Dress at the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of specialization include the history of pre-Hispanic, Spanish colonial, and present-day Mexican and Central American textiles and costumes; the prehistory and contemporary history of the cultures of middle America; and Mesoamerican ethnohistory. Among her many books and articles is Indian Clothing before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices (1990).

Christopher S. Beekman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1997. His archaeological research in Mesoamerica has encompassed studies of boundaries, political organization, migration and ethnicity, and chronology.

Barbara Braun is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in art history and archaeology from Columbia University. She has been a curator of pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and has taught pre-Columbian and modern art at various universities. Her publications include Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World. She is president of Barbara Braun Associates, Inc., a literary agency in New York City.

Kristi Butterwick received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Colorado. She has participated in several archaeological excavations in Mexico, Guatemala, and the United States and produced several teaching and educational programs and videos on the subject of Mesoamerican archaeology. She is now investigating the nature of sociopolitical complexity among West Mexican societies during the Late Formative period.

Maria Teresa Cabrero is a research archaeologist at the Instituto des Investigaciones Antropológicos at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in West Mexico and has a special interest in the mortuary practices of the shaft-tomb cultures. Her publications include La muerte en el Occidente del México prehispanico (1995).

Jane Stevenson Day retired in 1997 as Chief Curator at the Denver Museum of Natural History and Curator of Latin American Archaeology in the museum’s Department of Anthropology. She is an adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of Colorado at Denver and at the University of Denver. She has lectured and published extensively on the archaeology of Central America and produced numerous exhibitions. She is the coeditor (with Gary Seaman) of Ancient Traditions: Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas (1994).

Peter T. Furst is Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Adjunct Professor in the university’s Department of Anthropology, and a member of its Latin American Studies faculty. He has extensive field research experience in Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. His scholarly interests include art, iconography, mythology, shamanism, ethnobotany, and belief systems in the ancient Americas, particularly West Mexico. He is the author and coauthor of numerous books and articles, including (with Stacy B. Scheafer) People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival (1996).

Mark Miller Graham is Associate Professor of Art History at Auburn University. He received his Ph.D. in pre-Columbian art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985. He has published articles and lectured widely in the fields of art history and archaeology. One of his primary fields of interest is in what anthropologists term the Intermediate Area, which ranges from Costa Rica to Colombia.

Lorenza López Mestas Camberos is a research archaeologist at the Jalisco center of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. She has conducted extensive archaeological salvage work and regional surveying in West Mexico and is one of the principal excavators of the Huitzilapa tomb. She is currently directing an archaeological project in the valley of Cihuatlán and conducting a survey of highland Jalisco.

Joseph B. Mountjoy is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology. For the last twenty-five years, he has taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has done extensive fieldwork in the West Mexico, including mapping sites and establishing chronologies in the coastal areas. Among his numerous books, monographs, articles, and reviews is El Proyecto Tomatlán de Salvamento Arqueológico: fondo etno-histórico y arqueológico, desarrollo del proyecto, estudios de la superficie (1982).

Robert B. Pickering is a physical anthropologist and the head of the Department of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Natural History. His major interests include forensic anthropology, mortuary behavior studies, and museum studies. He worked closely with Jorge Ramos and Lorenza López on the skeletal materials recovered from the Huitzilapa tomb. His publications include the forthcoming book The Shaft-Tomb Cultures of Ancient West Mexico.

Jorge Ramos de la Vega is an investigative archaeologist at the Jalisco center of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. He has conducted several archaeological salvage projects in West Mexico and is one of the principal excavators of the Huitzilapa tomb. He is currently surveying the archaeological sites of highland Jalisco and conducting studies of Formative-period sites in the region of Huitzilapa, Jalisco, and Ortices, Colima.

Otto Schöndube, Curator of Archaeology at the Regional Museum of Guadalajara, is a field archaeologist specializing in material remains. He is a native of the West Mexican region and has a detailed knowledge of its flora and fauna. He is the author of numerous articles on the history and archaeology of Jalisco and Colima.

Francisco Valdez is an archaeologist at L’Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOM). He was formerly at the Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador and directed archaeological projects at the coastal site of La Tolita. He has published several books and articles on Ecuadorian and West Mexican art and archaeology, among them Signos amerindios: 5,000 Años de arte precolombino en Ecuador (1992).

Phil C. Weigand is President of the Council of Ethnohistory at the Colegio de Michoacán and a Research Professor at its Centro de Estudios Antropológicos. His projects have been focused upon the ethnography, ethnohistory, and archaeology of Jalisco, Nayarit, and Zacatecas. Over the past twenty-five years, he has documented and published numerous articles defining the Teuchitlán tradition. He is the principal formulator of the theory of complex societies in the West Mexico region. Among his numerous articles and books is Evolución de una civilización prehispánica: Arqueología de Jalisco, Nayarit y Zacatecas (1993).

Christopher L. Witmore is currently working on a master’s degree in landscape archaeology at the University of Sheffield in England. He recently served as co-director of paleobotanical and geological operations for the Mochlos Excavation in Crete with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Greek Archaeological Service. photo

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