Product Description: This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors to this volume consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physical—and metaphysical—place via their built environment...read more

Product Description: Gauging the impact of one scholar’s contributions to modern archaeologyFor an appreciation of the growth of American archaeology over the second half of the twentieth century, one need look no further than the career of Gordon R...read more

Product Description: Addresses enduring themes in Maya archaeology. Explores questions of broad interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology. North America: School for Advanced Research Press

Traces the history of the city of Copan, and describes how new discoveries are shedding light on the city's collapse (view table of contents)