Abstract: Preface (Norman Hammond and Gordon R. Willey) Introduction (Gordon R. Willey and Norman Hammond) Theoretical Interpretations 1. Priests, Peasants, and Ceremonial Centers: The Intellectual History of a Model (Marshall Joseph Becker) 2. Cropping Cash in the Protoclassic: A Cultural Impact Statement (Bruce H. Dahlin) 3. A New Order and the Role of the Calendar: Some Characteristics of the Middle Classic Period at Tikal (Clemency Coggins) 4. Teotihuacan, Internal Militaristic Competition, and the Fall of the Classic Maya (George L. Cowgill) 5. An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count (Dennis E. Puleston) Data Presentations 6. Prehistoric Settlement at Copan (Gordon R. Willey and Richard M. Leventhal) 7. Prehispanic Terracing in the Central Maya Lowlands: Problems of Agricultural Intensification (B. L. Turner II) 8. The Representation of Underworld Processions in Maya Vase Painting: An Iconographic Study (Jacinto Quirarte) 9. A Sequence for Palenque Painting Techniques (Merle Greene Robertson) 10. The Lagartero Figurines (Susanna M. Ekholm) Ethnohistoric Approaches 11. The Lobil Postclassic Phase in the Southern Interior of the Yucatan Peninsula (Peter D. Harrison) 12. Coapa, Chiapas: A Sixteenth-Century Coxoh Maya Village on the Camino Real (Thomas A. Lee, Jr.) 13. Religious Syncretism in Colonial Yucatan: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from Tancah, Quintana Roo (Arthur G. Miller and Nancy M. Farriss) 14. Continuity in Maya Writing: New Readings of Two Passages in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Gordon Brotherston) Bibliography General Index Author Index