8. Summing Up the Yields

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Tables viii
4. List of Figures ix
5. Portrait xiii
6. Preface: An Amiable Collaboration xv
7. 1. Finding and Deciphering Patterned Ground in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica 1
8. 2. Deducing the San Juan Basin in A.D. 500 45
9. 3. Probing the Ethnohistorical Literature Surrounding the Encounter 101
10. 4. Reformatting Sixteenth-Century Documents 110
11. 5. Maximizing Some Late-Eighteenth-Century Observations 148
12. 6. Appreciating a Naturalist's Rendition of Central Veracruz in the Nineteenth Century 160
13. 7. Struggling with a Technocratic Pathology of the Basin in Mid-Twentieth Century 196
14. 8. Summing Up the Yields 251
15. References 273
16. Index 291