SPOTLIGHT

Anthropology Student and Faculty Papers at the 71st Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Puerto Rico. April 2006.

(CSULB Participants are in BOLD)

Ileana Bradford, Hector Neff and Bret Plaskey - Laser Ablation ICP-MS for the Chemical Characterization of Glass Beads from the Great Basin Area of Eastern California

Janine Gasco, Hector Neff and Gloria Evins -- Postclassic Ceramics in the Soconusco: Patterns of Production and Exchange

Hector Neff and Sonia Medrano -- Central Mexicans on the Guatemalan Coast

Susana Gonzalez, Gregory Hodgins, George Burr, Jeffrey Dean and Hector Neff—Differences in Measurable Radiocarbon Due to Latitude and Elevation

Maria Masucci and Hector Neff -- Ceramic Production and Societal Change in the Manteno of Coastal Ecuado

Krzysztof Makowski, Ivan Ghezzi and Hector Neff -- LA-ICPMS Analysis of Ceramics from Pueblo Viejo (Lurin, Peru): Discussion of Results

Lisa N. Schaaf, Mary Ann Vicari, Eugene W. Domack, George T. Jones and Michael D. Cannon -- Geoarchaeological Investigations at Smith Creek Cave, White Pine County, Nevada

Mike Cannon -- Efficiency, Risk, and the Evolution of Agricultural Economies

Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo and Sergio Rapu-Haoa -- An Elephant in the Room: Current Problems in Easter Island Archaeology

Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt -- The Cultural Phylogeny of Monumental Statues on Easter Island

Sachiko Sakai -- Investigation of Olivine Tempered Ceramics and Clay Procurement Patterns in the Virgin Branch Anasazi Region

Paul Buck and Sachiko Sakai -- Testing of Virgin Anasazi Sites at Mt. Trumbull, Arizona