Table of Contents:
  • Early Olmec architecture and imagery / Ann Cyphers and Anna Di Castro
  • People of the Cerro : landscape, settlement, and art at middle formative period Chalcatzingo / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie
  • How Monte Albán represented itself / Joyce Marcus
  • Centering the kingdom, centering the king : Maya creation and legitimation at San Bartolo / William A. Saturno
  • Cholula : art and architecture of an archetypal city / Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara, Patricia Plunket Nagoda, and Amparo Robles Salmerón
  • A mountain god in Teotihuacan art / Zoltán Paulinyi
  • The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica / William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash
  • Watery places and urban foundations depicted in Maya art and architecture / Barbara W. Fash
  • Social identity and cosmology at El Tajín / Rex Koontz
  • Four hundred years of settlement and cultural continuity in epiclassic and early postclassic Tula / Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Dan M. Healan, and Robert H. Cobean
  • The face of the Itzas / William M. Ringle and George J. Bey III
  • The Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján and Alfredo López Austin
  • Configuration of the sacred precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  • Summary: Cities as cosmological art : the art of politics / Davíd Carrasco.