Routes, Interaction and Exchange in the Southern Maya Area

Eugenia J. Robinson is a Research Fellow of the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University and a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Montgomery College. Her research interests are settlement and landscape studies, interaction and rock images in the Kaqchikel Maya highlands. Gavin R. Davies has a PhD in anthropological archaeology from the University of Kentucky and is a Project Archaeologist with TRC. His doctoral thesis investigated long-term resilience and adaptation in the Lake Atitlan Basin of Highland Guatemala.

1. Introduction to Routes, Interaction and Exchange; Part I: Hubs, Networks and Economies of the Preclassic Period; 2. Chiapa de Corzo: Exchange Routes and Cultural Interaction between Zoque and Maya Regions; 3. Tak’alik Ab’aj and its Neighbors in the Network of the Ritual Market Economy; 4. Izapa and the Formative Period Kingdoms of Southern Pacific Mesoamerica; Part II: Routes, Interaction and Exchange during the Classic Period; 5. About-Faces: Stylistic Evolutions and Interactions at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala; 6. Interaction and Ideology: The Teotihuacan-Style Censers from the Pacific Coast of Guatemala; 7. Long-Distance Exchange and the Ballgame at Kaminaljuyu; 8. "The Mountain Trails are Well Traveled": Routes and Economic Organization in the Lake Atitlan Basin; 9. Least-Cost Routes and the Kaqchikel Maya Region: Intercommunity Trade, Movement and Communication; 10. American Pompeii: Old Evidence on Late Classic Ties between the Pacific Coast and the Antigua Valley; 11. Raxruha Viejo and Highland–Lowland Interaction during the Classic Period; 12. Tracking Trade: Explaining the Rise of Copan’s Polity in Southeastern Mesoamerica; Part III: Production, Trade and Migration in the Postclassic Period; 13. Export Craft Production in Soconusco: An Update on Tohil Plumbate; 14. Trade, Migration, and Continuity at Plumbate Era Izapa; 15. lnteraction and Exchange in Late Postclassic Xoconochco; 16. An Uphill View of the Northern Guatemalan Highlands from the Southern Maya Lowlands