Pre-Columbian Studies

Enlivening the Textiles of Paracas

Ann Peters unravels the living history behind textiles in mortuary bundles at Paracas

Treasuring Lake Titicaca

Annick Benavides traces the connections between the Virgin of Copacabana and the Carabuco Cross in the colonial period

Finding Agency in Captivity

Christina Halperin considers the lives of women and other lower-status captives and/or slaves in the ancient Maya region

Labor and Building a Maya Palace

Jacob Welch uncovers ancient Maya labor relations in a palace at Ucanha

The Words of Maya Elders

Crystal Sheedy documents a contemporary speech genre in Xocén that has preserved Maya cultural knowledge across centuries

A Tale of Two Polities

Patricia Chirinos Ogata examines sites of unsuccessful Wari imperial expansion in the northern highlands of Peru

Ancient Maya Resource Management

David Lentz revises our understanding of ancient Maya land, water, and forest management

A Chronicle of Inca Resistance

Bat-ami Artzi interprets and contextualizes the messianic Andean iconography of the Vilcabamba Piece

Of Fishing and Farming

Jo Osborn explores economic specialization in Early Horizon coastal communities

The Stories Stones Tell

Alejandra Roche Recinos unearths classic Maya obsidian trade networks

Probing New Histories in Plainwares

Beth Grávalos uncovers new Recuay histories by analyzing plainware ceramics

Transmitting Change in Maya Hieroglyphs

Mallory Matsumoto studies classic Maya sociocultural history through paleographic changes

Retelling the Fall of Tenochtitlan

Felipe Ledesma-Núñez discusses the fall of the Aztec Empire, based on Nahua accounts of the epidemics brought by Spanish invaders

Embodying Sacred Aztec Knowledge

Patrick Hajovsky reorients the forms of knowledge embodied in Aztec sculpture

Montezuma in the Popular Imagination

Norman Storer Corrada uses ephemera to challenge representations of Montezuma