We will be hosting the 32^nd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference of Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut from Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2013.

I would also like to announce the publication of monograph Number 91 in the Yale University PUblications in Anthropology entitled The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu: Metal Artifacts, edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar. It includes contributions by Bruce D. Owen and Robert B. Gordon. Like the other volumes in the YUPA series, it can be acquired through www.yalebooks.com

The edited volume Early New World Monumentality edited by Richard L. Burger and Robert M. Rosenswig was published in 2012 by University of Florida Press (http://upf.com/book.asp?id=BURGE002). It includes articles on South American monumental constructions by Lucy and I, Tom and Shelia Pozorski, Sergio Chavez, Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer, and Anna Roosevelt, as well as others on early monumentality in Central America, Mesoamerica and North America.