Contents
1. Introduction | Whitney A. Goodwin, Alejandro J. Figueroa, and Erlend Johnson
2. Integrating the Prehistoric Natural and Social Landscapes of the Highlands of Southwest Honduras: A Deep History | Alejandro J. Figueroa and Timothy Scheffler
3. Evaluating the Size, Limits, and Influence of the Copán Polity in Western Honduras: Protoclassic to Late Classic Transformations in the Cucuyagua and Sensenti Valleys | Erlend Johnson
4. Río Amarillo: A Community on the Margins of Ancient Copán | Cameron L. McNeil, Edy Barrios, Walter Burgos, Antolín Velásquez, and Mauricio Díaz García
5. The Archaeology of Jesús de Otoro and Intervalley Variation in Central Honduras | William J. McFarlane and Miranda Stockett Suri
6. Archaeological Research in Southeastern Honduras: The Case of the Jamastrán Valley | Eva L. Martínez
7. Ancient Mosquito Coast: Why Only Certain Material Culture Was Adopted from Outsiders | Christopher Begley
8. The Royalization of Roatán: Colonial Encounters with the Pech and Miskitu | Lorena D. Mihok, E. Christian Wells, and Whitney A. Goodwin
9. Historical Archaeology in Honduras | Russell Sheptak
10. The Politics of Ethnic Identity in the Context of the “Frontier”: Ethnohistory of the Lenca, Chortí, and Nahua Peoples of Honduras | Gloria Lara-Pinto
11. Honduran Lenca Chiefdoms of the Contact Period (1502–1550) | Pastor Rodolfo Gómez Zúñiga
12. Sixteenth-Century Mobility and Interaction in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Clues from Conquistador Routes | William R. Fowler
13. An Alternative Framework for Honduran Archaeology | Rosemary A. Joyce
14. Sociopolitical Dynamism, Fluidity, and Fragmentation in Southeast Mesoamerica | Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban
Contributors
Index