PART ONE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY

Sven Gronemeyer
Statements of Identity – Emblem Glyphs in the Nexus of Political Relations

Hugo Garcia Capistran
El reino de la serpiente bajo la mirada de sus aliados

Christophe Helmke & Jaime Awe
Ancient Maya Territorial Organisation of Central Belize: Confluence of Archaeological and
Epigraphic Data

Carlos Pallan
A glimpse from Edzna’s hieroglyphics: Middle, Late and Terminal Classic Processes of
Cultural Interaction between the Southern, Northern and Western Lowlands

Milan Kováč & Ramzy R. Barrois
El papel de Siyaj K´ahk´ en Uaxactun y el Petén Central

James Doyle
A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants

Robert Sharer & Loa Traxler
Copan and Quirigua: Shifting Destinies in the Southeastern Maya Lowlands

Charles Golden & Andrew Scherer
All of a Piece: The Politics of Growth and Collapse in Classic Maya Kingdoms

Bernard Hermes & Jarosław Źrałka
Nakum and Yaxha During the Terminal Classic Period: External Relations and Strategies of
Survival at the Time of the Collapse

Arturo Pascual Soto & Erik Velásquez García
Relaciones y estrategias políticas entre El Tajín y diversas entidades mayas durante el siglo IX d.C.

PART TWO: ETNOHISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY

Tsubasa Okoshi Harada
El cúuchcbal de los Xiu: análisis de su formación y consolidación

Lorraine A. Williams-Beck, Bodil Liljefors Persson & Armando Anaya Hernández
Back to the Future for Predicting the Past: Cuchcabal – Batabil – Cuchteel and May Ritual
Political Structures across Archaeological Landscapes, in Ethnohistoric Texts, and through
Cosmological Time

Iyaxel Ixkan A. Cojtí Ren
El Saqarik o Amanecer como ritual de fundación descrito en los documentos históricos k’iche’s y kaqchikeles