Using high-tech equipment, chemical analyses and sampling strategies, archaeologists are learning more about how and why cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, this book shows how the transformation of archaeology has brought new understanding of past civilizations.

Jeremy (Jerry) Arac Sabloff (1944 - present) is an American anthropologist and president of the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sabloff is an expert on ancient and pre-industrial urbanism. His academic interests have included settlement pattern studies, archaeological theory and method, the history of archaeology, the relevance of archaeology in the modern world, complexity science, and transdisciplinary science. 

Sabloff received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in 1969 from Harvard, where his doctoral supervisor was archaeologist Gordon Willey.
 
Prior to coming to the Santa Fe Institute, Sabloff was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, as well as the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (1994-2004) and interim director of the museum (2006-2007). He also has taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was chair of the Department )

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