of Mexico as Coordinador of the “Proyecto Atlas Arqueológico de Yucatán, Centro Regional De Yucatán, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mérida, Yucatán, México. He served as Coordinador of the “Reconociemento del Valle, Proyecto Copán, del Secretaría de Estado en Despacho de Cultura, Turismo y Información,” from December, 1977 to July, 1978. To facilitate foreign area research, the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University, the Precolumbian Art Research Institute of San Francisco, and the Philippine National Museum granted Kurjack honorary positions in their organizations. He held a regular civil service appointment in the Mexican government with their National Institute of Anthropology and History for several years. Kurjack has worked extensively studying sacebeob and social organization and is involved in archaeological research projects in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Ecuador. Kurjack proposed that Dzibilchaltun was composed of several classes, not just upper and lower class, but a middle class that could be analogous to the Western merchant class. This theory contradicts earlier arguments that state there were just two classes, the upper religious leader class and the lower 'peasant' class. He was honored with a special session, "Regional and Community Organization in the Northern Lowlands: Papers in Honor of the Life and Legacy of Ed Kurjack", at the annual meeting of the Society for American Arachaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 29, 2006. Edward Kurjack died on August 2, 2014, in Melbourne Florida. Bibliography Edward B. Kurjack, E. Wyllys Andrews, V American Antiquity, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Jul., 1976), pp. 318–325 Edward B. Kurjack Reviewed work(s): Geografía Económica de México (Siglo XVI) by Alejandra Moreno Toscano American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 75, No. 6 (Dec., 1973), pp. 1808–1809 Melvin L. Fowler Reviewed work(s): Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter Excavations by David DeJarnette; Edward Kurjack; James W. Cambron American Antiquity, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Apr., 1965), p. 515 David L. Webster Reviewed work(s): Map of the Ruins of Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico by George E. Stuart; John C. Scheffler; Edward B. Kurjack; John W. Cottier American Antiquity, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), p. 246 Garza T. de González, Silvia y Edward.B. Kurjack Bacso. Atlas Arqueológico del Estado de Yucatán, Tomo 1. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México, 1980 Kurjack, Edward B. 1974 Prehistoric Lowland Maya Community and Social Organization: A Case of Study at Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. Middle American Research Institute, Pub.38. Tulane University, New Orleans. References 1938 births 2014 deaths 21st-century American