Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare

, by Brown, Kathryn M.; Stanton, Travis W.; Ambrosino, James M.; Ardren, Traci; Bey, George; Brown, M Kathryn; Chase, Arlen; Chase, Diane Z.; Freidel, David; Garber, James F.; Golden, Charles; Headrick, Annabeth; Joyce, Arthur; LeBlanc, Steven; MacLeod, Barbar

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ISBN: 9780759102828 | 0759102821
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Copyright: 10/7/2003

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Collection of articles providing new research on warfare in ancient Maya and other Mesoamerican societies based on archaeological, ethnohistorical, and linguistic evidence

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Chapter 1 Studying Warfare in Ancient Mesoamerica

(16)

Travis W. Stanton and M. Kathryn Brown

Part I: Warfare, Spatial Boundaries, and the Material Record

(56)

Chapter 2 The Role of Ceramics in the Study of Conflict in Maya Archaeology

(12)

George J. Bey III

Chapter 3 The Politics of Warfare in the Usumacinta Basin: La Pasadita and the Realm of Bird Jaguar

(18)

Charles W. Golden

Chapter 4 Imperialism in Pre-Aztec Mesoamerica: Monte Albán, Teotihuacan, and the Lower Rio Verde Valley

(24)

Arthur A. Joyce

Part II: Warfare and Ritual

(52)

Chapter 5 Evaluating the Archaeological Signatures of Maya Ritual and Conflict

(16)

Jonathan B. Pagliaro, James F. Garber, and Travis W. Stanton

Chapter 6 Evidence of Conflict during the Middle Formative in the Maya Lowlands: A View from Blackman Eddy, Belize

(18)

M. Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber

Chapter 7 The History of Warfare at Yaxuná

109

(16)

James N. Ambrosino, Traci Ardren, and Travis W. Stanton

Part III: Epigraphic and Iconographic Approaches to Warfare

125

(92)

Chapter 8 The Symbolic Representation of Warfare in Formative Period Mesoamerica

127

(22)

F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber

Chapter 9 Butterfly War at Teotihuacan

149

(22)

Annabeth Headrick

Chapter 10 Texts and Contexts in Maya Warfare: A Brief Consideration of Epigraphy and Archaeology at Caracol, Belize

171

(18)

Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Chapter 11 Early Classic Maya Conquest in Words and Deeds

189

(28)

David A. Freidel, Barbara MacLeod, and Charles K. Suhler

Part IV: Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Approaches to Warfare

217

(46)

Chapter 12 Ethnic Conflict in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico

219

(26)

Geoffrey G. McCafferty

Chapter 13 A Macabre Sense of Humor: Dramas of Conflict and War in Mesoamerica

245

(18)

Shirley Boteler Mock

Part V: Comparative Study and Summary View

263

(40)

Chapter 14 Warfare in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Parallels and Contrasts

265

(22)

Steven A. LeBlanc

Chapter 15 Warfare in Ancient Mesoamerica: A Summary View

287

(16)

Payson D. Sheets

Bibliography

303

(56)

Index

359

(6)

About the Contributors

365

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