Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Tables xiii
5. Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities 3
6. Bioanthropological Approaches
7. Urban and Rural Population Movement Patterns during the Late and Terminal Classic in the Belize River Valley, Belize 23
8. Classic and Postclassic Population Movement and Cultural Change in the Belize Valley, Belize 43
9. The Bioarchaeology of Maya Population Mobility, Trade, and Settlement Growth during the Classic Maya Period 59
10. Immigrant Lives 79
11. Classic Lowland Maya Mobility
12. Mobility as Resilience 109
13. Maya on the Move 131
14. Water, Land, and Ancient Maya Population Dynamics in the Puuc Hills, Mexico 148
15. Maya Residential Architecture, Mobility, and the Terminal Classic Abandonment of Lowland Urban Settlements 164
16. Late Mesoamerican Migrations
17. Coalescence at Chicoloapan, Mexico 189
18. Ephemeral Cities? 208
19. Itza Maya Migration and Mobility 232
20. Cohesive Social Groups and the Formation of Enclaves in West-Central Mexico 251
21. Discussion
22. Migration and Its Close Linkages 269
23. References 285
24. Contributors 357
25. Index 365