Neill Wallis is Associate Curator of Florida Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, and the Ceramic Technology Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where he also supervises the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) program. The archaeological collections he curates represent more than 14,000 years of history and nearly 2000 sites, almost all associated with Native American inhabitants of Florida. His research is focused on understanding the origins, persistence, and reorganization of early villages and associated communities of the ancient American Southeast, and the role of regional and interregional social networks that connected them. Neill approaches these topics through a program of multisite collections analysis, particularly of archaeological pottery assemblages, and targeted fieldwork at sites in northern Florida, both along the Gulf coast and interior areas of the peninsula.