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List of Tables
Introduction
Christopher S. Beekman, Joshua D. Englehardt, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza
Time: Revised Regional Chronologies
Chapter 1. The Cultural Sequence during the Formative Period in the Valley of Colima
Laura Almendros López
Chapter 2. The Early Segment of the Chronological Sequence at Los Guachimontones
Christopher S. Beekman
Chapter 3. Revisiting the Archaeology of the Huetamo area, South–Eastern Michoacán, Mexico
José Luis Punzo Díaz, Diego Rangel, Erika Ibarra, Jesús Zarco, and Mijaely Castañón
Chapter 4. The Early Postclassic Aztatlán Colonization of the Pacific Coast of Jalisco
Joseph B. Mountjoy, Fabio Germán Cupul–Magaña, Rafael García de Quevedo–Machain, and Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos
Space: Old Questions, New Methods
Chapter 5. Architectural Discourse and Sociocultural Structure at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco
Kimberly Sumano Ortega and Joshua D. Englehardt
Chapter 6. Constructing the pre–Hispanic landscape in the Santiago Bayacora Basin, Durango
David Arturo Muñiz García and Kimberly Sumano Ortega
Diversity: Refined Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 7. What the Teuchitlan Tradition is, and what the Teuchitlán Tradition is Not
Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza
Chapter 8. Cerro de Santiago: An Epiclassic Site within the World System of Central–Northern Mexico
M. Nicolás Caretta and Manuel Dueñas García
Chapter 9. Weaving our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico
Michael Mathiowetz
Chapter 10. Conclusions
Stephen A. Kowalewski
Index
Contributors