Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare,9780759102835

Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare

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ISBN13: 9780759102835
ISBN10: 075910283X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-27
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix
Chapter 1 Studying Warfare in Ancient Mesoamerica 1(16)
Travis W. Stanton and M. Kathryn Brown
Part I: Warfare, Spatial Boundaries, and the Material Record 17(56)
Chapter 2 The Role of Ceramics in the Study of Conflict in Maya Archaeology
19(12)
George I Bey III
Chapter 3 The Politics of Warfare in the Usumacinta Basin: La Pasadita and the Realm of Bird Jaguar
31(18)
Charles W. Golden
Chapter 4 Imperialism in Pre-Aztec Mesoamerica: Monte Albán, Teotihuacan, and the Lower Rio Verde Valley
49(24)
Arthur A. Joyce
Part II: Warfare and Ritual 73(52)
Chapter 5 Evaluating the Archaeological Signatures of Maya Ritual and Conflict
75(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
91(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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