Isla Agaltepec: Postclassic Occupation in the Tuxtla Mountains, Veracruz, México

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank FAMSI and Dr. Sandra Noble for their support of the Isla Agaltepec research efforts. Additional funding for fieldwork was provided through Loyola University Chicago. Fieldwork was conducted with permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and in cooperation with the Instituto de Neuroetología at the Universidad Veracruzana. Thanks to Ing. Joaquín García-Bárcena González, Presidente del Consejo de Arqueología for expediting the project permit and to Dr. Domingo Canales Espinosa and Blgas. Guadalupe Medel Palacios and Edith Carrera Sánchez for their cooperation and collegiality. In Veracruz, the administrative efforts of Ing. Daniel Goeritz Rodríguez, Director of the Centro INAH Veracruz, and Virginia Martínez Murrieta (Centro INAH Veracruz) were invaluable, as always. Special thanks to Maria del Carmen Rodríguez M. (Centro INAH Veracruz) for her friendship and continued support. Marcie Venter (University of Kentucky) served as field director and Xochitl del Alba León Estrada and Gloria Biffano Marcial (both of the Universidad Veracruzana) oversaw survey activities. Thanks to Chris Pool for allowing the Isla Agaltepec materials to be stored in his field lab at Tres Zapotes. Christine Ecker and Mary Ecker (both of Loyola University Chicago) assisted with the translation of field notes. Geoff McCafferty, Chris Pool, Michael Smith, and Barbara Stark provided important feedback regarding the identification of Postclassic ceramics. Thanks to Shannon Fie for her help with the graphics.

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