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

• ISBN13: 9780759102828
• ISBN10: 0759102821
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-07
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

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 J. 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