Books by Michael Ernest Smith

Michael Smith is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. He was born in the Philippine Islands and grew up in New York State. He attended Brandeis University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied Mesoamerican archaeology and was awarded MA and PhD degrees. For the last fifteen years his work has focused on Aztec sites, where he is frequently joined by his wife Cynthia, also an archaeologist, and their two daughters. His excavations have transformed knowledge of Aztec daily life and of the way in which their Empire was established and ruled.