Totógal: Investigations of Postclassic Occupation and the Aztec Frontier in the Tuxtla Mountains, Veracruz, México

Acknowledgements

This research was authorized by the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historía, specifically Pres. Joaquín García Bárcena and the director of the Veracruz office, Ing. Daniel Goeritz. In addition to funds provided by FAMSI (Grant 03045), complementary support was received from the National Science Foundation in the form of a Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS-0427511), the University of Kentucky, and Lambda Alpha (National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology).

I would like to specifically thank Don "Mancho" Cadena, President Gabriel Arnau Oliveros, Juan Jose Palagot Perea, Maria del Carmen Rodríguez, and Ponciano Ortíz Ceballos for their assistance in negotiations. I especially appreciate discussions I had with Ponciano Ortíz, about the site, local history, and Postclassic ceramics. The landowners that kindly permitted our fieldwork were Rogelio Somarriba, Leonardo Ibarra Castellanos and Honorio Mozo. Victor Thompson of the University of Kentucky and Jamie Waggoner of the University of Florida graciously provided their geophysical expertise and carried out the conductivity survey. Matt Reynolds from the University of Arkansas assisted with the data processing of those readings. Invaluable field assistance was provided by crewmembers Marcos Rodriguez Rojas, Juan Coto Masaba, Elias and Ramon Xalate Dominguez, Pedro Palagot Perea, and Antonio Perea. Students from the Universidad Veracruzana provided excavation direction and laboratory analysis: Sara Luz Rosiles Hernández, Xochitl del Alba León Estrada, and Nelly Nuñez Rendon. The project assistant was Erin Venter; she assisted with the shovel-testing phase of fieldwork, the initial processing and cataloguing of artifacts, and data entry. Anne Moore also assisted with the data entry back in Lexington. Finally, Chris Pool at the University of Kentucky and Philip Arnold at the Loyola University in Chicago provided much appreciated advice and field opportunities that partly inspired this project.

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