Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface: Stephen Houston and Thomas G. Garrison
Part I: The Culture History of the Pa’ka’n Dynasty
Chapter 1: A Fortress in Heaven: Researching the Long Term at El Zotz, Guatemala (Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román)
Chapter 2: Monumental Beginnings: The Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley, Peten, Guatemala (James A. Doyle and Rony E. Piedrasanta)
Chapter 3: Ruling through Defense: The Rise of an Early Classic Dynasty at El Zotz (Edwin Román, Thomas G. Garrison, and Stephen Houston)
Chapter 4: Border Lords and Client Kings: El Zotz and Bejucal in the Late Classic Period (Nicholas P. Carter, Yeny M. Gutiérrez Castillo, and Sarah Newman)
Chapter 5: Collapse, Continuity, Change: El Zotz in the Terminal Classic Period (Sarah Newman, Jose Luis Garrido, and Nicholas P. Carter)
Chapter 6: In the Wake of “Collapse”: The Post-Dynastic or Early Postclassic Period at El Zotz (Melanie J. Kingsley and Laura Gámez)
Part II: Technical Analysis at El Zotz
Chapter 7: Environments of El Zotz: Water and Soil Chemistry, the El Zotz Dam, and Long-Term Environmental Change (Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Colin Doyle, and William Delgado)
Chapter 8: Understanding Social, Economic, and Political Change: The Ceramics of El Zotz (Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Nicholas P. Carter, Melanie J. Kingsley, Sarah Newman, and Alyce de Carteret)
Chapter 9: Lithic Technologies and Economies at El Zotz (Zachary Hruby)
Chapter 10: A Tableau in Clay: Figurines and Figurine-Whistles of El Zotz (Alyce de Carteret and Jose Luis Garrido)
Chapter 11: Constructed Landscapes: Architectural Stratigraphy, Behavioral Practices, and Building Technologies at El Zotz (Cassandra Mesick Braun)
Chapter 12: Grave Matters: Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology at El Zotz, Bejucal, and El Palmar (Andrew K. Scherer)
Chapter 13: An Inconstant Landscape: Pa’ka’n in Regional View (Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston)
References Cited
Contributor Biographies
Index