The Ceramic Sequence of Piedras Negras, Guatemala: Type and Varieties

Acknowledgements

The permit for work at Piedras Negras came from the Instituto de Antropología e Historia de Guatemala, and the division of Monumentos Prehispánicos. I wish to thank the Defensores de la Naturaleza who, along with Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (CONAP) have helped to preserve the natural environment and cultural treasures of Piedras Negras. All research at Piedras Negras has been carried out as part of the Proyecto Arqueológico Piedras Negras, under the direction of Stephen D. Houston and Héctor L. Escobedo. The analysis of the Piedras Negras ceramics would not have been possible without the generous support of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., (FAMSI) and the National Science Foundation. T. Patrick Culbert, Ron Bishop, Antonia Foias, Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, Don Forsythe, Robert Rands, Cassandra Bill, and Melanié Forne all generously contributed their time and expertise at different stages of the analysis, and the work benefited greatly as a result. Finally, I cannot thank enough those students of San Carlos and Del Valle universities who spent months labeling, weighing, counting, sorting, and gathering data on thousands of sherds. Without their help, the timely completion of this research would have been impossible. Those students, in no particular order, are Mary Jane Acuña, Griselda Pérez, Edwin Roman, Irene Palma, Ana Lucia Arroyave, Juan Carlos Melendez, Fabiola Quiroa, Orlando Moreno, Damaris Melendez, Paty Ambrosi, Claudia Valenzuela, Elisa Mencos, and Lillian Padilla.

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