Anne P. Underhill is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. Her interests include the development of complex societies in East Asia, the archaeology of East Asia, craft specialization, ceramic ethnoarchaeology, settlement organization, analysis of mortuary ritual and museums. Underhill’s field research has focused on settlement survey and excavations at Longshan sites in the Rizhao area of Shandong, China. In 2008 she was honored for her contributions by Premier Wen Jiabao with a National Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China.Lucy C. Salazar is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University and a Curatorial Affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum. She is an authority on Inca archaeology and the early prehistory of Peru. She has over three decades of experience in archeological fieldwork and museum research, and has co-directed numerous excavations in Peru. Salazar has written extensively on daily life at Machu Picchu, has several chapters in books and has received grant support for her work on the Incas from the NEH, NSF and the Josef Albers Fund. She coauthored the book Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas (2004). She has served at the Board of the Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and the Inca Culture at the National University, San Antonio de Abad, Cuzco (2012). She is involved in the study, research and conservation of the Bingham Collections and has installed the very successful traveling exhibit Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas.
