Robert Bednarik

This volume contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Editor's Preface" by Monica Barnes; Lynda Elliot Spickard, July 14, 1944 - August 10, 1999" by Robin M. Brown; "The Nanchoc Lithic Tradition of Northern Peru: Microscopic Use-Wear Analysis" by Tom D. Dillehay and Jack Rossen; "Archaeological Investigations at the Initial Period Center of Huaca El Gallo/Huaca La Gallina, Viru Valley, Peru: the 1994 Field Season" by Thomas A. Zoubek; "Bodiless Human Heads in Paracas Necropolis Textile Iconography" by Anne Paul; "The Miraflores El Nino Disaster: Convergent Catastrophes and Prehistoric Agrarian Change in Southern Peru" by Dennis R. Satterlee, Michael E. Moseley, David K. Keefer, and Jorge E. Tapia A.; "The Jeli Phase Complex at La Emerenciana, a Late Valdivia Site in Southern El Oro Province, Ecuador by John Edward Staller; "Defining Ceramic Change and Cultural Interaction: Results of Typological, Chronological, and Technological Analyses of Guangala Phase Ceramics" by Maria Masucci; "The Many Facets of Mullu: More Than just a Spondylus Shell" by David Blower; "Inca Estates and the Encomienda: Hernando Pizarro's Holdings in Cusco" by Catherine Julien; "Age Estimates for the Petroglyph Sequence of Inca Huasi, Mizque, Bolivia" by Robert G. Bednarik; "The Puzolana Obsidian Source: Locating the Geologic Source of Ayacucho Type Obsidian" by Richard L. Burger and Michael D. Glascock; "The Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory: The First Eighteen Years" by Richard E. Daggett; "The Origins and the First 25 years (1973-1997) of the Midwestern Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory" by David L. Browman; "Pimampiro Project" by Tamara L. Bray; "Hacienda La Florida, Ayalan Cemetery, Anllulla Shell Midden Mound, and Ferdon's Surface Collection" by Earl H. Lubensky; "Pichincha Province" by Ronald D. Lippi; "Batan Grande, Lambayeque Valley" by Izumi Shimada and Julie Farnum; "Zana-Niepos Project" by Jack Rossen; "Beach Ridges, Santa Valley" by Dan Sandweiss, Daniel F. Belknap, Stacy H. Schafer Rogers, and Jeffrey N. Rogers; "Villa Salvador and Huaca Pucllana, Lima" by Kate Pechenkina; "Manchay Bajo, Lurin Valley" by Richard Burger and Lucy Salazar Burger; "La Paloma, Chilca Valley" by Bob Benfer; "Antibal, Chilca Valley" by Bob Benfer, Neil Duncan, Kate Pechenkina, and Bernardino Ojeda; "Asia Site" by Kate Pechenkina, Julie Farnum, Joe Vrandenburg, and Bob Bener; "Nazca Drainage" by Donald A. Proulx, Ana Nieves, Henry Falcon Amado, and Miriam Gavilan Roayza; "California Institute of Peruvian Studies on the South Coast" by Francis A. Riddell, Richard Brooks, Anna Noah, Alina Aparicio, Sheilagh Brooks, Sandra Asmussen, J. Arthur Freed, Marie Cottrell, Lidio Valdez, William Fowlks, Zasha Trivisonno, Frances Durocher, John Schaller, Nathan Parker, Dwight Wallace, Julio Manrique, Grace Katterman, Oscar Bendezu, Catherine Julien, Margaret Enrile, and Juan Segura; "Chivay, Colca Valley" by Dan Sandweiss, Hal Borns, and Bernardino Ojeda; "Quebrada Jaguay" by Dan Sandweiss, Roland Paredes, Bernardino Ojeda, Maria del Carmen Sandweiss, Heather McInnis, Trevor Ott, Osvaldo Chozo, Miguel Cabrera, Arturo Santos, Ted McClure, Ben Tanner, Fred Andrus, Oswaldo Chozo, Julissa Ugarte, Dave Sanger, Dolores Piperno, Elizabeth Reitz, Howard Melville, and Bruce Smith; "Dental Research" by Rick Sutter; "Taraco Project" by Christine Hastorf, Matt Bandy, Lee Stedman, Kate Moore, William Whitehead, Jose Luis Paz, Melissa Goodman, Ian Hodder, Donald Johnson, John Southon, Susan D. de France, David W. Steadman, Kate Moore, Deborah Blom, Sonia Alconini, Sigrid Arnott, Emily Dean,  David Kojan, Rene Ayon, Franz Choque, and Mario Montano Aragon.