Living Between Worlds

The first set of essays presenting in-depth investigations of the narrow area known as the Northern Transversal Strip, situated between the pre-Columbian Maya highlands and lowlands in Guatemala. It showcases the fruits of a multidisciplinary, five-project collaboration among archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, biologists, and paleoecologists that has been twenty-five years in the making.

Megan E. Leight is a teaching assistant professor of art history at West Virginia University. She has worked in the Maya region since 2011
Brent K. S. Woodfill is a professor of anthropology at Winthrop University. He is author of War in the Land of True Peace: The Fight for Maya Sacred Spaces and Ritual and Trade in the Pasión-Verapaz Region, Guatemala.