This volume examines the organization and ritual economy of a pre-Columbian chiefdom that developed in central Honduras over a 1,400-year period from 400 BC to

This book explores the development and political history of Southeast Mesoamerica from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest.

Archaeological study of the emergence of the ethnohistorically documented Quijos chiefdoms in the eastern Ecuadorian Andes. This research evaluates links betwee

This comprehensive study offers a thematic approach to Latin America, focusing on the dynamic connections between people, places, and environments rather than o

In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored ela