Ancient Mesoamerican warfare
By: edited by M. Kathryn Brown, Travis W. Stanton
Contributors: Brown, M. Kathryn, 1965-; Stanton, Travis W., 1971-
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Warfare; Indians of Central America -- Warfare; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities; Archaeology -- Methodology; Mexico -- Antiquities; Central America -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-358) and index
Table of contents: title: Studying warfare in ancient Mesoamerica / Travis W. Stanton and M. Kathryn Brown; title: The role of ceramics in the study of conflict in Maya archaeology / George J. Bey III; title: The politics of warfare in the Usumacinta basin: la Pasadita and the realm of bird jaguar / Charles W. Golden; title: Imperialism in pre-Aztec Mesoamerica: Monte Albán, Teotihuacan, and the lower Río Verde valley / Arthur A. Joyce; title: Evaluating the archaeological signatures of Maya ritual and conflict / Jonathan B. Pagliaro, James F. Garber, and Travis W. Stanton; title: Evidence of conflict during the middle formative in the Maya lowlands: a view from Blackman Eddy, Belize / M. Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber; title: The history of warfare at Yaxuná / James N. Ambrosino, Traci Arden, and Travis W. Stanton; title: The symbolic representation of warfare in formative period Mesoamerica / F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber; title: Butterfly war at Teotihuacan / Annabeth Headrick; title: Texts and contexts in Maya warfare: a brief consideration of epigraphy and archaeology at Caracol, Belize / Diana Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase; title: Early classic Maya conquest in words and deeds / David A. Freidel, Barbara MacLeod, and Charles K. Suhler; title: Ethnic conflict in postclassic Cholula, Mexico / Geoffrey G. McCafferty; title: A marcarbe sense of humor: dramas of conflict and war in Mesoamerica / Shirley Boteler Mock; title: Warfare in the American southwest and Mesoamerica: parallels and contrasts / Steven A. LeBlanc; title: Warfare in ancient Mesoamerica: a summary view / Payson D. Sheets