CNWA vol. 4

CONTRIBUTIONS IN NEW WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY

vol. 4 (2012)

MAYA POLITICAL RELATIONS AND STRATEGIES

 

 

 

 

 

Proceedings of the 14th European Maya Conference (WAYEB), Jagiellonian University and Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, November 2009

Edited by: Jarosław Źrałka, Wiesław Koszkul & Beata Golińska

 

CONTENTS

 

Jarosław Źrałka & Wiesław Koszkul

From the Editors of the volume

 

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 Gayol

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 A. Doyle

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

 

Robert J. Sharer & Loa P. Traxler

Copan and Quirigua Shifting Destinies in the Southeastern Maya Lowlands

 

Charles Golden & Andrew K. 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: ETHNOHISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY

 

Tsubasa Okoshi Harada

El cúuchcabal 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