Acknowledgements
In a volume such as this, the sweep of contributors is enormous, and we recognize the more than 500 authors of the research reports and scholarly works from which we compiled this Atlas—see the references cited. Our patient and long-suffering wives, Joan and Flora, deserve medals of heroism for keeping the faith over multiple decades during the preparation of the Atlas. In addition, we owe special thanks to our institutional support from Longwood University, Florida Atlantic University, and Tulane University, and to the students who contributed to the Atlas.
To those who advised, and who made efforts to contribute data directly from their own research, we are most grateful. Among them are: Paul Baerenwald, Timothy Beach, Antonio Benavides Castillo, Jack Berry, George Bey, Justin Bracken, Rafael Burgos Villanueva, Tiffany C. Cain, Marcello A. Canuto, Elia del Carmen Trejo, Adrian Chase, Arlen F. Chase, Rafael Cobos Palma, Lilian Corzo D., Miguel Covarrubias Reyna, Thomas Crimmel, Pedro Delgado Kú, Nicholas P. Dunning, Jerry Ek, Kitty F. Emery, Bárbara Escamilla Ojeda, Francisco Estrada-Belli, Josalyn Ferguson, Anabel Ford, Tomás Gallareta Cervera, Jeffrey B. Glover, Maria Rocío González de la Mata, Richard D. Hansen, Christophe Helmke, David R. Hixson, Martin Hobel, Gyles Iannone, Takeshi Inomata, Joyce Kelly, Marie Kolbenstetter, Edward Kurjack, Richard M. Leventhal, Luís Leira, John Lohse, Marilyn A. Masson, Karl Herbert Mayer, Patricia Ann McAnany, Stephan Merk, Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Hector Neff, Carlos Peraza López, William Ringle, Patrick Rohrer, Thomas Ruhl, Justine M. Shaw, Ivan Šprajc, George E. Stuart, Eric Taladoire, Richard Terry, Mark Van Stone, Sallie Elizabeth Vaughn, and Adriana Velázquez Morlet.
We appreciate the insights provided by all our colleagues in the Maya area, and literally thousands of Maya who served on the field teams in every possible role.
We thank our colleagues at Brill and the two anonymous peer reviewers of the Atlas for their efforts to ensure our best work reached this volume. Thank you especially to Dr. Kate Hammond, Petra Stiglmayer, Alessandra Giliberto, Peter Buschman, and the Brill Editorial Board.