Description:
This volume, edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and David C. Grove, like its predecessor is both a summation of wark that has been carried out over a long period of time and a signpost pointing the way for future studies. In it, we can see the reflection not only of more than two decades’ research on early Mexoamerica, but also the theoretical infuences of the past twenty-five years. Issues regarding gender, social identity, and landscape archaeology are present, as are the analysis of mortuary practices, questions of social hierarchy, and conjunctive studies of art and society that are in the best tradition of scholarship at Dumbarton Oaks.


CONTENTS:

Preface......vii
Rosemary A. Joyce and David C. Grove: Asking New Questions about the Mesoamerican Pre-Classic......1

Rosemary A. Joyce: Social Dimensions of Pre-Classic Burials ......15

Norman Hammond: The Genesis of Hierarchy: Mortuary and Offertory Ritual in the Pre-Classic at Cuello, Belize ......49

Joyce Marcus: Men’s and Women’s Ritual in Formative Oaxaca ......67

Julia A. Hendon: The Pre-Classic Maya Compound as the Focus of Social Identity ......97

Michael Love: Ideology, Material Culture, and Daily Practice in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica: A Pacific Coast Perspective ......127

Ann Cyphers: From Stone to Symbols: Olmec Art in Social Context at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán ......155

William M. Ringle: Pre-Classic Cityscapes: Ritual Politics among the Early Lowland Maya ......183

Ponciano Ortíz C. and María del Carmen Rodríguez: Olmec Ritual Behavior at El Manatí: A Sacred Space ......225

David C. Grove: Public Monuments and Sacred Mountains: Observations on Three Formative Period Sacred Landscapes ......255

Barbara L. Stark: Commentary: Ritual, Social Identity, and Cosmology: Hard Stones and Flowing Water ......301

Index......319