The University of Arizona Press

Michael T. Searcy is a professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Brigham Young University. He is also the director of the New World Archaeological Foundation. Michael has worked in the U.S. Southwest/Northwest Mexico and Guatemala for more than twenty years. He is author of The Life-Giving Stone: Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates and co-author of Hinterlands to Cities: The Archaeology of Northwest Mexico and Its Vecinos with Matthew C. Pailes.