The University of Arizona Press

Daniela Triadan, of Swiss nationality, was born in Bern and educated in Germany. She received her master’s degree and her doctorate (summa cum laude) from the Freie Universität Berlin in American Archaeology, European Prehistory, and Ethnology. Dr. Triadan has conducted extensive research in the American Southwest and in Mesoamerica. From 1987 through 1992 she was a staff member of the University of Arizona Archaeological Field School at Grasshopper. She served as the assistant director of the San Estevan project in Belize and of various subprojects of the Petexbatún Regional Archaeological Project in Guatemala under the auspices of Vanderbilt University, and she is a co-principal investigator of the Aguateca Archaeological Project. In 1995 Dr. Triadan was appointed a material analysis postdoctoral fellow at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution, where she continues chemical and petrographic analyses of ceramics.