Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1. Framing Complexity | Lisa DeLance
2. Heterarchy and the Emergence of Social Complexity in Early Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico | Guy David Hepp
3. Pottery and Society during the Preclassic Period at Yaxuná, Yucatán | Travis W. Stanton, Sara Dzul Góngora, Ryan H. Collins, and Rodrigo Martín Morales
4. The Emergence of Complex Imagery on Late Terminal Formative Gray Ware Pottery from Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico | Jeffrey S. Brzezinski, Sarah B. Barber, and Arthur A. Joyce
5. The Beginnings of Complexity in the Central Petén Lakes Area | Prudence M. Rice and Katherine E. South
6. Shifting Ceramic Styles in the Formative Period Basin of Mexico | Wesley D. Stoner and Deborah L. Nichols
7. Urban Organization and Origins of Complexity in the Puuc Region of Northern Yucatán | Michael P. Smyth
8. The Role of Monumental Architecture and Landscape Modification in the Development of Complexity at Early Xunantunich, Belize | Zoē J. Rawski and M. Kathryn Brown
9. The Complexity of Figurines: Ancestor Veneration at Cahal Pech, Cayo, Belize | Lisa DeLance and Jaime J. Awe
10. From Shell Beads to Symbolic Royal Bodies: A Diachronic Comparison of Body Ornamentation Production, Consumption, and Social Complexity at Prehispanic Pacbitun, Belize | Jon Spenard, George J. Micheletti, Kaitlin Crow, Terry G. Powis, and Teresa Tremb
11. Why the Mesoamerican Formative Period Matters: Vantages on Human Aggregation and Cooperation | Gary M. Feinman
Index
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