Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation (2006)
and Th e Babylonian World (forthcoming).
Lawrence Waldron, M.F.A., is an associate professor and doc-
toral candidate at the City University of New York, specializing
in non-Western fi elds of art history and culture. He has pre-
sented and published various articles on the art and culture of
the pre-Columbian Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
Ezekiel A. Walker, Ph.D., teaches African and world history
at the University of Central Florida. His forthcoming book
is entitled Growth, Crisis and Transformation in the Cocoa-
Farming Economy of Southwestern Nigeria (2007).
Peter S. Wells is professor of anthropology at the University
of Minnesota. His publications include Th e Barbarians Speak:
How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (1999), Be-
yond Celts, Germans and Scythians: Archaeology and Identity
in Iron Age Europe (2001), and Th e Battle Th at Stopped Rome:
Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions
in the Teutoburg Forest (2003).
Jacqui Wood is an archaeologist and authority on prehistoric
cooking and the lifestyles of prehistoric Europeans. She runs
her own excavation in Cornwall, England.Ronald Young, Ph.D., teaches in the Social Sciences Depart-
ment at Canterbury School in Fort Myers, Florida. His teach-
ing and research interests are in the area of Latin American
Studies. In addition to numerous reference articles, he is
presently working on a general history of Colombia to be
published by Greenwood Press.Katharina Zinn, M.A., is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on
ancient Egyptian libraries and archives at the University of
Leipzig, Germany. She works in a project on scarabs in the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (United Kingdom) and a
project on Middle Kingdom Reliefs from Lisht in the Prin-
ceton University Art Museum. She has published articles on
the organization of collective wisdom as well as multilingual-
ism in ancient Egypt.xii Advisers and Contributors