Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword | Marilyn Masson
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. Pre-Mamom: The Unnamed Era Takes Shape | Debra S. Walker
2. The End of an Era: Closing Out the Archaic in the Maya Lowlands | Jon C. Lohse
3. Who Were the First Ceramic-Using Villagers in the Maya Lowlands? | Robert M. Rosenswig
Part II: Belize
4. The Swasey Ceramic Sphere of Northern Belize | Kerry L. Sagebiel, Laura J. Kosakowsky, and Duncan C. Pring
5. Preclassic Cunil to Kanluk Complex Pottery at Cahal Pech, Belize | Lauren A. Sullivan and Jaime J. Awe
6. Pre-Mamom Architecture and Associated Ceramics at the Ancient Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize | Kaitlin Crow and Terry G. Powis
Part III: Peten
7. Refined Chronology of Middle Preclassic Ceramics at Ceibal and in the Pasión River Region | Takeshi Inomata
8. In Search of the Oldest Ceramics and Architecture: Pre-Mamom Phase at Nakum, Peten, Guatemala, and Its Surroundings | Jarosław Źrałka, Wiesław Koszkul, Bernard Hermes, Juan Luis Velásquez, Ronald Bishop, and Michał Wasilewski
9. K’awil and Early Eb: The Pre-Mamom Ceramics from Holmul and Tikal, Guatemala | Nina Neivens
10. Dynamics of Early Pottery from the Peten Lakes Area | Katherine E. South and Prudence M. Rice
11. Production, Exchange, and the Social Value of Mars Orange Paste Ware in the Middle Preclassic Period Maya Lowlands | Michael G. Callaghan
Part IV: Central Karstic Uplands and the Yucatan Peninsula
12. Defining Macal Complex at Yaxnohcah, Campeche, Mexico | Debra S. Walker
13. Early Maya Settlements and Ceramics on the Northern Plains and the Puuc Region of Yucatan: The Early Middle Preclassic Ek Complex | E. Wyllys Andrews V and George J. Bey III
14. A Reevaluation of Yotolin Pattern-burnished: Evidence for the Earliest Ceramics in the Northern Maya Lowlands | Betsy M. Kohut, George J. Bey III, Tomás Gallareta Negrón, and E. Wyllys Andrews V
15. The Early Laapal Complex at Yaxuna: Early Middle Preclassic Ceramics from the E Group | Travis W. Stanton, Sara Dzul Góngora, Ryan H. Collins, and Donald A. Slater
16. The First Potters in the Rio Champoton Drainage | Jerald Ek
Part V: Comparative Views
17. The Early Middle Preclassic Pottery of Pacific Guatemala Michael Love
18. Becoming Maya in Early Middle Preclassic Mesoamerica | Kathryn Reese-Taylor
Appendix 1: Selected Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Middle Preclassic Period in the Maya Lowlands
Appendix 2: Comparative Catalogue of Principle Identifying Attributes of Pre-Mamom Pottery Complexes
Index
List of Contributors