Volume 18 Number 1 December 2007

Articles

Elite Artists and Craft Producers in Classic Maya Society: Lithic Evidence From Aguateca, Guatemala 
Kazuo Aoyama

Reports

Formative and Classic Period Obsidian Procurement in Central Mexico: A Compositional Study Using Laser Ablation--Inductively Coupled Plasma--Mass Spectrometry
David M. Carballo, Jennifer Carballo, and Hector Neff

Sourcing the Palygorskite Used in Maya Blue: A Pilot Study Comparing the Results of Inaa and La-Icp-Ms
Dean E. Arnold, Hector Neff, Michael D. Glascock and Robert J. Speakman

Inter-Regional and Intra-Regional Scale Compositional Variability in Pottery from South-Central Veracruz, Mexico
Barbara L. Stark, Robert J. Speakman, and Michael D. Glascock

Bioarchaeological Evidence for Social and Temporal Differences in Diet at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
Andrew K. Scherer, Lori E. Wright, And Cassady J. Yoder

Reviews

Noble Savages Versus Savage Nobles: Gibson's Apocalyptic View of the Maya. Review of Apocalypto, directed By Mel Gibson
James J. Aimers and Elizabeth Graham

Continuity and Change in Text and Image at Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico: A Study of the Inscriptions, Iconography, and Architecture at a Late Classic to Early Postclassic Maya Site, by Erik Boot
Julia Guernsey

Historias Del Desierto: Arqueología Del Norte De Chile, by Mario Rivera
Carlos A. Baied

Greater Mesoamerica: The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico, edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley Gorenstein
Todd L. VanPool

Surveying the Archaeology of Northwest Mexico, by Gillian E. Newell and Emiliano Gallaga
Daniela Triadan

Hilltop Terrace Sites of Oaxaca, Mexico: Intensive Surface Survey at Guirún, El Palmillo and the Mitla Fortress, by Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
Stacie M. King

Understanding Early Classic Copan, edited by Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, and Robert J. Sharer
Jesper Nielsen

Andean Diaspora: The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of South American Empire, by Paul S. Goldstein
Kevin J. Vaughn

Tafonomía Regional y Estudios Arqueofaunísticos de Cetáceos en Tierra del Fuego y Patagonia Meridional, by Florencia Borella
Arleen E. Garcia-Herbst