Jaime Awe is a Belizean archaeologist with 22 years of field experience in Maya archaeology. He has taught at universities in Canada, England, and the United States and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. Awe is the director of the Western Belize Regional Cave Project, conducting intensive field research in several caves in western Belize and comparing the information gathered from this region with that recorded in other areas of the Maya lowlands. He is also currently directing excavations at Cahal Pech.