Formative Influences: A Gathering in Honor of J. Scott Raymond

Over a lifetime of work in South America, Scott Raymond has greatly contributed to the archaeology of the neotropics. Beginning with his dissertation on the archaeology of the Upper Amazon of Peru, under the supervision of Donald Lathrap at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Scott later moved his focus to the Valdivia culture of Early Formative Period Ecuador. During the span of his productive career his interests have included ceramic classification methodologies, the nature of subsistence systems, settlement patterns, and the social formations of Early Formative Ecuador. Friends, colleagues, and students of Scott will present on some of the ideas, research areas, and influences he has had on our discipline.