Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xi
4. Tables xvii
5. Foreword xxi
6. Preface xxiii
7. Acknowledgments xxix
8. Introduction
9. Pre-mamom 5
10. The end of an era 33
11. Who were the first ceramic-using villagers in the maya lowlands? 57
12. Belize
13. The swasey ceramic sphere of northern belize 89
14. Preclassic cunil to kanluk complex pottery at cahal pech, belize 117
15. Pre-mamom architecture and associated ceramics at the ancient maya site of pacbitun, belize 135
16. Peten
17. Refined chronology of middle preclassic ceramics at ceibal and in the pasión river region 167
18. In search of the oldest ceramics and architecture 204
19. K’awil and early eb 239
20. Dynamics of early pottery from the peten lakes area 271
21. Production, exchange, and the social value of mars orange paste ware in the middle preclassic period maya lowlands 296
22. Central karstic uplands and the yucatan peninsula
23. Defining macal complex at yaxnohcah, campeche, mexico 335
24. Early maya settlements and ceramics on the northern plains and the puuc region of yucatan 369
25. A reevaluation of yotolin pattern-burnished 408
26. The early laapal complex at yaxuna 430
27. The first potters in the rio champoton drainage 458
28. Comparative views
29. The early middle preclassic pottery of pacific guatemala 491
30. Becoming maya in early middle preclassic mesoamerica 513
31. Selected radiocarbon dates from the early middle preclassic period in the maya lowlands 543
32. Comparative catalogue of principle identifying attributes of pre-mamom pottery complexes 557
33. Index 615
34. Contributors 633