Archaeology in PNAS
Area of the Puchituk Terminus at Caracol I just found two Mesoamerican articles in the online-first section at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's great to see good archaeology receive high-profile coverage in places that are seen by a wide range of disciplines. These papers describe early steps toward larger research goals, although they tend to be phrased as if they were reaching those goals right now. Chase, Arlen F., Diane Z. Chase, Christopher T. Fisher, Stephen J. Leisz, and John F. Weishampel 2012 Geospatial revolution and remote sensing LiDAR in Mesoamerican archaeology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (published online first). Scarborough, Vernon L., Nicholas P. Dunning, Kenneth B. Tankersley, Christopher Carr, Eric Weaver, Liwy Grazioso, Brian Lane, John G. Jones, Palma Buttles, Fred Valdez, and David L. Lentz 2012 Water and sustainable land use at the ancient tropical city of Tikal, Guatemala. Proceed...