Officials from UCSB and the Caribbean nation of Belize signed a co-management memorandum of understanding for El Pilar Archaeological Reserve last month. From left (seated), Jaime Awe, director of the Institute of Archaeology, joins Yasser Musa, president of the National Institute of Culture and History, to sign for Belize while Chancellor Henry Yang, anthropologist Anabel Ford, director of the Meso-American Research Center, and sociologist Richard Appelbaum, director of ISBER (Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research), do the same for UCSB.

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