Archaeological Reconnaissance in Southeastern Campeche, México: 2002 Field Season Report

Acknowledgments

The 2002 field season, like the former one, was accomplished thanks to the research grant received from the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI); the support of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México, and the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Slovenia, was also vital, and I wish to express my sincere thanks to the three institutions.

My field collaborators were topographers José Guadalupe Orta Bautista and Pascual Medina Meléndrez (Dirección de Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, INAH), and archaeologists Daniel Juárez Cossío (Dirección de Estudios Arqueológicos, INAH) and Adrián Baker Pedroza (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México). I am particularly indebted to Pepe Orta, who assisted me throughout the field season. Various types of support offered by Pedro Francisco Sánchez Nava, Director of Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, INAH, were decisive for a successful accomplishment of field activities. Important aid was received from Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Cristóbal García Melgar, Commandant of the 25 C.I.N.E. of the Mexican Army at Xpujil, Campeche, as well as from the authorities of Municipio de Calakmul. Kathe Lawton (Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), put at my disposal interesting archival data on former archaeological research in southeastern Campeche. María Isabel García López (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) assumed the task of analyzing the surface ceramics collected at various sites. Nikolai Grube (University of Texas, Austin, TX), drew the main monument of Altar de los Reyes and prepared a separate report on its iconographic and inscriptional contents (Appendix 2). Rubén Escartín Adam (Dirección de Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, INAH), and Tomaž Podobnikar and Krištof Oštir (ZRC SAZU), offered their support in the preparation of maps and final elaboration of this report. I owe my gratitude to all of them, as well as to many collaborators and informants in southeastern Campeche, who made possible our fieldwork.

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