The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

List of Abbreviations

Part 1. Theoretical Approaches

Chapter 1. Nuts, Bolts, and Bridges: Some Reflections
David A. Freidel

Chapter 2. Modeling Maya Markets
Eleanor M. King

Chapter 3. A New Direction in the Study of Ancient Maya Economics: Language, Logic, and Models from Strategic Management Studies
Arthur A. Demarest, Bart Victor, Chloe Andrieu, and Paola Torres

Part 2. Household and Community Economies and Resources

Chapter 4. Similar Markets, Different Economies: Comparing Small Households at Tikal and Chunchucmil
Scott R. Hutson

Chapter 5. Rural Economies of Agrarian Houselots before and after the Rise of Urban Mayapan
Marilyn A. Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Timothy S. Hare, Bradley W. Russell, Pedro Delgado Ku, Barbara Escamilla Ojeda, and Luis Flores Coba

Chapter 6. Stone for My House: The Economics of Stoneworking and Elite Housing in the Puuc Hills of Yucatan
William Ringle, Tomas Gallareta Negron, and George Bey

Chapter 7. Chert Resource Availability, Production, and Economic Logic: Case Studies from the Northwestern Peten, Guatemala, and Western Belize
Rachel A. Horowitz, Marcello Canuto, and Chloe Andrieu

Chapter 8. The Ancient Maya Economic Landscape of Caracol, Belize
Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Chapter 9. Commerce, Redistribution, Autarky, and Barter: The Multitiered Urban Economy of El Peru–Waka’, Guatemala
Keith Eppich

Chapter 10. Large-Scale Production of Basic Commodities at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala: Implications for Ancient Maya Political Economy
Brent K. S. Woodfill

Part 3. Agriculture, Climate, Land

Chapter 11. Gardens of the Maya
Andrew R. Wyatt

Chapter 12. Yucatec Land and Labor before and after Spanish Incursions
Adolfo Ivan Batun Alpuche, Patricia A. McAnany, and Maia Dedrick

Chapter 13. Maya Cornucopia: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands
Scott L. Fedick

Chapter 14. Service Relationships within the Broader Economy of Ceren, a Young Maya Village
Payson Sheets

Part 4. Political Elites, Wealthy Persons, and Economic Administration

Chapter 15. A Discrepancy between Elite Office and Economic Status in the El Palmar Dynasty: A View from the Guzman Group of El Palmar, Mexico
Kenichiro Tsukamoto

Chapter 16. Bundling the Sticks: A Case for Classic Maya Tallies
Alexandre Tokovinine

Chapter 17. Maya Economic Organization and Power: A View from Elite Households at Aguateca
Daniela Triadan and Takeshi Inomata

Part 5. Economic Exchange Spheres: Routes, Facilities, and Symbolic Contexts

Chapter 18. Economic Interactions and the Rise of Sociopolitical Complexity in the Maya Lowlands: A Perspective from the Mirador-Calakmul Basin
Richard D. Hansen, Edgar Suyuc, Stanley P. Guenter, Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Enrique Hernandez, and Beatriz Balcarcel

Chapter 19. Classic Maya Interaction Networks and the Production and Consumption of Cotton Fiber and Textiles
Dorie Reents-Budet and Ronald L. Bishop

Chapter 20. The Political Geography of Long-Distance Exchange in the Elevated Interior Region of the Yucatan Peninsula
Beniamino Volta, Joel D. Gunn, Lynda Florey Folan, William J. Folan, and Geoffrey E. Braswell

Chapter 21. An Intracoastal Waterway and Trading Port System in Prehispanic Northwest Yucatan, Mexico
Fernando Robles Castellanos, Anthony P. Andrews, and Ruben Chuc Aguilar

Chapter 22. The Difference a Marketplace Makes: A View of Maya Market Exchange from the Late Classic Buenavista del Cayo Marketplace
Bernadette Cap

Chapter 23. Decentralizing the Economies of the Maya West
Charles Golden, Andrew Scherer, Whittaker Schroder, Clive Vella, and Alejandra Roche Recinos

Chapter 24. A Stone Duty? Flake Ritual Deposits and the Missing Workshops of the Maya Lowlands
Chloe Andrieu

Chapter 25. Terminal Classic Interactions between the Western Peten Lakes Chain and the Western Lowlands
Prudence M. Rice

Chapter 26. Maya Economics: Through a Glass, Sideways (One More Time)
Norman Yoffee

Chapter 27. Conclusion: The Ties That Bind
Marilyn A. Masson

Appendix: Indigenous Food Plants of the Maya Lowlands
Scott L. Fedick

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index