Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xv
5. Contributors xvii
6. Chapter One Introduction 1
7. I Sacred Landscape and Artificial Caves
8. Chapter Two Replicating the Sacred Landscape 25
9. Chapter Three Caves and Artificial Caves in Late Postclassic Maya Ceremonial Groups 47
10. Chapter Four Social Power and Sacred Space at Actun Nak Beh, Belize 71
11. Chapter Five Pilgrimage and Caves on Cozumel 91
12. II Reconstructing Ritual and Cosmology
13. Chapter Six The Impact of Ritual on Ancient Maya Economy 115
14. Chapter Seven Scribes and Caves in the Maya Lowlands 135
15. Chapter Eight Nikte’ Mo’ Scattered Fire in the Cave of K’ab Chante’ 149
16. Chapter Nine Plants and Caves in Ancient Maya Society 167
17. Chapter Ten The Sweatbath in the Cave 187
18. Chapter Eleven An Analysis of Ancient Maya Stalactite Breakage at Balam Na Cave, Guatemala 213
19. Chapter Tweleve De-fanging the Earth Monster 225
20. Chapter Thirteen Showing the Way 249
21. III Interpretations of Human Skeletal Material in Caves
22. Chapter Fourteen Human Remains in Lowland Maya Caves 263
23. Chapter Fifteen Mortuary Practices of the Prehistoric Maya From Caves Branch Rock Shelter, Belize 285
24. Chapter Sixteen Nearer to the Gods 297
25. Chapter Seventeen A Question of Sacrifice 323
26. Chapter Eighteen What Can the Bones Really Tell Us? 341
27. Chapter Nineteen Maya Cave Archaeology 365
28. Index 381