14 Continuity in Maya Writing: New Readings of Two Passages in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contributors v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Theoretical Interpretations
7. 1 Priests, Peasants, and Ceremonial Centers: The Intellectual History of a Model 3
8. 2 Cropping Cash in the Protoclassic: A Cultural Impact Statement 21
9. 3 A New Order and the Role of the Calendar: Some Characteristics of the Middle Classic Period at Tikal by Clemency Coggins 38
10. 4 Teotihuacan, Internal Militaristic Competition, and the Fall of the Classic Maya 51
11. 5 An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count 63
12. Data Presentations
13. 6 Prehistoric Settlement at Copan by Gordon R. Willey 75
14. 7 Prehispanic Terracing in the Central Maya Lowlands: Problems of Agricultural Intensification 103
15. 8 The Representation of Underworld Processions in Maya Vase Painting: An Iconographic Study 116
16. 9 A Sequence for Palenque Painting Techniques 149
17. 10 The Lagartero Figurines 172
18. Ethnohistoric Approaches
19. 11 The Lobil Postclassic Phase in the Southern Interior of the Yucatan Peninsula 189
20. 12 Coapa, Chiapas: A Sixteenth-Century Coxoh Maya Village on the Camino Real 208
21. 13 Religious Syncretism in Colonial Yucatan: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from Tancah, Quintana Roo 223
22. 14 Continuity in Maya Writing: New Readings of Two Passages in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel 241
23. Bibliography 259
24. General Index 285
25. Author Index 289