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List of contents
1. Identity, Politics, & Violence: An Introduction to 3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands; 2. Identity and power of the earliest Maya: Preclassic architecture and cultural development of Nakum and Yaxha, Peten, Guatemala; 3. Migration and Conflict, or Emulation and Interaction? The Belize Valley during the Middle Preclassic; 4. Southern Belize from Paleoindian to Preclassic Times: Introduction to the Region, Early Origins, and Identity; 5. The Southern Belize Region in Early to Late Classic Period Mesoamerica: First Settlement, Nim li Punit, and Uxbenka; 6. The Southern Belize Region in Late to Terminal Classic Period Mesoamerica: Pusilha, Lubaantun, and Identity; 7. Queens and Statecraft: Royal Women in the Heart of the Fire Shrine at El Perú-Waka’; 8. Architecture as a Material Representation of Sociopolitical Structure: An Analysis of Lowland Maya Palace Complexes in the Late Eighth Century; 9. As the B’ak’tun Turned: Reconstructing Classic to Postclassic Population Dynamics in the Belize River Valley; 10. Dzehkabtun: Crisis and Violence in the Terminal Classic; 11. Foreign Encounters: Warfare, Trade, and Status at Chichen Itza; 12. The Sustenance Providers: War, Sacrifice, and the Origin of People in Ancient Mesoamerica; 13. Power and Politics on the Late Colonial Frontier of British Honduras
Summary
3,000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, art history, ethnohistory, and epigraphy. Together, they explore issues central to ancient Maya identity, political history, and warfare.
