Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword | Jeremy A. Sabloff
1. See the Forest for the Trees: An Introduction to the Volume | Travis W. Stanton and M. Kathryn Brown
2. “Terminal” Termination Rituals and the Felling of A Forest of Kings: Past Struggles and Recent Triumphs of the Core Concepts of a Seminal Work | Arthur A. Demarest
3. The Materialization of Classic Period Maya Warfare: Caracol Stranger-Kings at Tikal | Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
4. Maya Usurpers | Joyce Marcus
5. Forest of Queens: The Legacy of Royal Calakmul Women at El Perú–Waka’s Central Civic-Ceremonial Temple | Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Griselda Pérez Robles, Damaris Menéndez, and Juan Carlos Pérez Calderón
6. Statecraft in the City of the Centipede: Burials 39, 38, and Internal Alliance Building at El Perú–Waka’, Guatemala | Michelle Rich and Keith Eppich
7. Revisiting Bird Jaguar and the Sajal of the Yaxchilán Kingdom | Charles W. Golden and Andrew K. Scherer
8. Macaw Mountain and Ancient Peoples of Southeast Mesoamerica | Wendy Ashmore
9. Borderland Politics: A Reconsideration of the Role of Yaxuná in Regional Maya Politics in the Latter Part of the Classic | Travis W. Stanton, Aline Magnoni, Stanley P. Guenter, José Osorio León, Francisco Pérez Ruíz, and María Rocio González de la Mata
10. In Search of Paradise: Religion and Cultural Exchange in Early Postclassic Mesoamerica | Karl A. Taube
11. Empire at Chichén Itzá Revisited | Annabeth Headrick
12. Closing the Portal at Itzmal Ch’en: Effigy Censers and Termination Rituals at a Mayapán Ceremonial Group | Marilyn A. Masson, Wilberth Cruz Alvarado, Carlos Peraza Lope, and Susan Milbrath
13. On Copán Stela 11 and the Origins of the Ill Omen of Katun 8 Ahau | Stanley P. Guenter
14. Into the Woods: Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Iconography in Classic Maya Studies | David A. Freidel
References Cited
Contributors
Index