an inconstant landscape: the maya kingdom of el zotz, guatemala

Thomas G. Garrison is assistant professor of anthropology at Ithaca College, director of the Proyecto Arqueológico El Zotz, and coauthor of Temple of the Night Sun: A Royal Tomb at El Diablo.

Stephen Houston is the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University, where he also holds an appointment in anthropology. He is the author of many books and articles, including The Gifted Passage: Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text, and was awarded, in 2011, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Quetzal, Guatemala’s highest decoration.