Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xxi
5. Foreword xxiii
6. 1 See the Forest for the Trees 3
7. 2 “Terminal” Termination Rituals and the Felling of A Forest of Kings 9
8. 3 The Materialization of Classic Period Maya Warfare 20
9. 4 Maya Usurpers 49
10. 5 Forest of Queens 67
11. 6 Statecraft in the City of the Centipede 88
12. 7 Revisiting Bird Jaguar and the Sajal of the Yaxchilán Kingdom 107
13. 8 Macaw Mountain and Ancient Peoples of Southeast Mesoamerica 126
14. 9 Borderland Politics 135
15. 10 In Search of Paradise 154
16. 11 Empire at Chichén Itzá Revisited 187
17. 12 Closing the Portal at Itzmal Ch’en 204
18. 13 On Copán Stela 11 and the Origins of the Ill Omen of Katun 8 Ahau 236
19. 14 Into the Woods 248
20. References Cited 261
21. Contributors 317
22. Index 321