Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Interaction and the Making of Ancient Mesoamerica / Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco
1. The Prehispanic Mesoamerican World: Framing Interaction / Gary M. Feinman
2. Interaction and Exchange in Early Formative Western and Central Mesoamerica: New Data from Coastal Oaxaca / Guy David Hepp
3. The Role of Interregional Interaction in Mesoamerican Script Development / Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco
4. Hieroglyphic Ch'olan to Ch'orti': Tracing Linguistic and Social Interactions into Eastern Ch'olan / Kerry M. Hull
5. Reframing the Tripod: A Foreign Form Adopted by the Early Classic Maya / D. Bryan Schaeffer
6. Across the Hills, toward the Ocean: Teotihuacan-Style Monuments in Guerrero, Mexico / Jesper Nielsen, Elizabeth Jiménez García, and Iván Rivera
7. A Sprinkling of Culture: Contact and Connections between the Tuxtlas Region and the Coastal Maya / Philip J. Arnold III and Lourdes Budar
8. Zaragoza-Oyameles Obsidian Projectile Points: Cantona's Place in Early Classic Period Long-Distance Gift Exchange and Interaction / Charles L. F. Knight
9. Interregional Interaction of the Chalchihuites Culture in Northwest Mesoamerica during the Classic and Postclassic Periods / José Luis Punzo Díaz
10. Round and Round We Go: Cholula, Rotating Power Structures, Social Stability, and Trade in Mesoamerica / Timothy J. Knab and John M. D. Pohl
11. The Movement of Metal Goods in the Mesoamerican Late Postclassic Period: A Case Study from the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlán / Niklas Schulze and Blanca E. Maldonado
12. Competitive versus Peaceful Interaction / Joyce Marcus
Conclusion: The World as They Knew It: The Interaction Sphere Concept in Current Mesoamerican Archaeology / David Freidel
Contributors
Index