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Preface / Stephen Houston and Thomas G. Garrison -- Part I. The culture history of the Pa'ka'n Dynasty. A fortress in heaven : researching the long term at El Zotz, Guatemala / Stephen Houston, Thomas G. Garrison, and Edwin Román -- Monumental beginnings : the Preclassic Maya of El Palmar and the Buenavista Valley, Peten, Guatemala / James A. Doyle and Rony E. Piedrasanta -- Ruling through defense : the rise of an Early Classic Dynasty at El Zotz / Edwin Román, Thomas G. Garrison, and Stephen Houston -- Border lords and client kings : El Zotz and Bejucal in the Late Classic Period / Nicholas P. Carter, Yeny M. Gutiérrez Castillo, and Sarah Newman -- Collapse, continuity, change : El Zotz in the Terminal Classic Period / Sarah Newman, Jose Luis Garrido, and Nicholas P. Carter -- In the wake of "collapse" : the Post-Dynastic or Early Postclassic Period at El Zotz / Melanie J. Kingsley and Laura Gámez -- Part II. Technical analysis at El Zotz. Environments of El Zotz : water and soil chemistry, the El Zotz dam, and long-term environmental change / Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Colin Doyle, and William Delgado -- Understanding social, economic, and political change : the ceramics of El Zotz / Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday, Nicholas P. Carter, Melanie J. Kingsley, Sarah Newman, and Alyce de Carteret -- Lithic technologies and economies at El Zotz / Zachary Hruby -- A tableau in clay : the figurines and figurine-whistles of El Zotz / Alyce de Carteret and Jose Luis Garrido -- Constructed landscapes : architectural stratigraphy, behavioral practices, and building technologies at El Zotz / Cassandra Mesick Braun -- Grave matters : bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology of El Zotz, Bejucal, and El Palmar / Andrew K. Scherer -- An inconstant landscape : Pa'ka'n in regional view / Thomas G. Garrison and Stephen Houston. |
