Acknowledgment (Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest‪)‬

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper results from a reworking and integration of essays prepared for three different venues: Wilcox's (1996b) paper "Organizational Parameters of Southwest/Mesoamerican Connectivity.," presented at the 1996 Southwest Symposium held in Tempe, Arizona; Wood and Wilcox's (2000) paper, "Where Did All the Flowers Go? Warfare and Religion in the Evolution of Hohokam Political Organization," presented at the Hohokam Political Organization symposium organized by David R. Abbott and David R. Wilcox, sixty-fifth annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,, Philadelphia, April 7, 2000; and Wilcox's paper "Whence the Hohokam: A Tepiman Hypothesis" (Wilcox 2006b) presented at the Third International Colloquium of the Pathways of the Northwest seminar held at Northern Arizona University, May 22-25, 2006. We thank the organizers of all three of these symposia for the opportunity to participate, especially Sara Schlanger, David Abbott, and Kelley Hays-Gilpin, respectively. Phil Weigand, as ever, has continued to be Wilcox's mentor on things West or Northwest Mexican, and Wilcox is deeply grateful to him for his continuing encouragement to engage actively in debates about the archaeology, of this region. Others who generously provided Wilcox with recent publications or manuscripts include David Abbott, Brett Hill, Linda Cordell, Jane Hill, David Shaul, and Carlo Bonliglioli. The Bilby Research Center prepared the slides for the original presentations, Ryan Belnap there scanned and improved several of the figures for publication. Jodi Griffith at the Museum of Northern Arizona drafted or otherwise produced most of the figures. Thanks also go to Brett Hill, Center for Desert Archaeology, for permitting us to cite his recent paper and for permission to reproduce two of his figures. We especially thank Carroll Riley, Raymond Thompson, and Manuel Gadara for reviewing this paper and providing constructive criticism and suggestions. Polly and Curtis Schaafsma, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, and Todd Bostwick also offered excellent suggestions for improvement. For any errors of fact or interpretation, we alone are responsible.