Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica

edited by David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce

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Contents and Preface

Rosemary A. Joyce and David C. Grove
Asking New Questions about the Mesoamerican Pre-Classic

Rosemary A. Joyce
Social Dimensions of Pre-Classic Burials

Norman Hammond
The Genesis of Hierarchy: Mortuary and Offertory Ritual in the Pre-Classic at Cuello, Belize

Joyce Marcus
Men's and Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca

Julia A. Hendon
The Pre-Classic Maya Compound as the Focus of Social Identity

Michael Love
Ideology, Material Culture, and Daily Practice in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica: A Pacific Coast Perspective

Ann Cyphers
From Stone to Symbols: Olmec Art in Social Context at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán

William M. Ringle
Pre-Classic Cityscapes: Ritual Politics among the Early Lowland Maya

Ponciano Ortíz C. and María del Carmen Rodríguez
Olmec Ritual Behavior at El Manatí: A Sacred Space

David C. Grove
Public Monuments and Sacred Mountains: Observations on Three Formative Period Sacred Landscapes

Barbara L. Stark
Commentary: Ritual, Social Identity, and Cosmology: Hard Stones and Flowing Water

Index

1999 6 x 9 inches 344 pp. 83 illus. 0-88402-252-8 $25.00