The University of Arizona Press

Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Billman’s research interests include the prehistory of Andean South America and southwestern North America, community-based archaeology and heritage preservation, community organizing, prehistoric political economies, origins of states and empires, causes and consequences of warfare, household archaeology, and settlement pattern and landscape studies. His research has been published in Latin American Antiquity, American Antiquity, Ñawpa Pacha, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, and others. Billman has also directed several large archaeological projects in the Southwest for the Zuni Archaeology Program and Soil Systems, Inc.