Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Number 17, Rethinking Craft Specialization in Complex Societies: Archaeological Analyses of the Social Meaning of Production

Zachary X. Hruby, Ph.D., is lecturer and research affiliate at the University of California Riverside.  He received his undergraduate degree from Humboldt State University, his M.A. from Brigham Young University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Riverside.  He specializes in lithic technology, ancient Maya writing, Mesoamerican iconography, social and economic theory, and desert archaeology of southern California.

Rowan K. Flad is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.  He received his Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology at UCLA in 2004.  His research concerns the emergence of complex societies in East Asia and his fieldwork focuses on the Three Gorges and Sichuan Basin of southwestern China.