List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Part 1. Landesque Cosmography
Chapter 1. The Maya Materialization of Time: An Introduction
Arlen F. Chase, Anne S. Dowd, David A. Freidel, and Jerry Murdock
Chapter 2. Landesque Cosmography: Crafting Creation-Era Time on the Maya Lowland Landscape
David A. Freidel, Prudence M. Rice, and Michelle E. Rich
Part 2. Building Time into Place
Chapter 3. Spatial and Temporal Standardization in Southern Mesoamerica during the Preclassic Period: New Insights from the Middle Usumacinta Region, Mexico
Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan
Chapter 4. Ordering Time and Space at Yaxnohcah: Creation and Renewal in a Preclassic Landscape
Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Verónica A. Vázquez López, Shawn G. Morton, Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown, Sarah E. Bednar, F. C. Atasta Flores Esquivel, Debra S. Walker, Armando Anaya Hernández, and Nicholas P. Dunning
Chapter 5. Domesticating Time: Quadripartite Symbolism and Founding Rituals at Yaxuná
Travis W. Stanton, Karl A. Taube, and Ryan H. Collins
Chapter 6. In the Shadow of Descending Gods: Monumental Posts and Solar Cycles in the Preclassic Maya Lowlands
Francisco Estrada-Belli and David A. Freidel
Chapter 7. Stelae, Spirits, Desecration, and Devotion: The Fate of Some Time Lords in the Classic Maya World
David A. Freidel and Olivia Navarro-Farr
Part 3. Chambers of Time
Chapter 8. Balamkú’s History House: Harkening to Primordial Rhythms of Mythic Time
Anne S. Dowd and Gabrielle Vail
Chapter 9. Scorpion Star: Constellations, Seasons, and Convergences of Meaning in a Classic Maya Entity
Franco D. Rossi
Chapter 10. Time as Ordinary Practice: A Divination Building at Chan
Cynthia Robin
Chapter 11. The Chamber of Secrets at Xunantunich
M. Kathryn Brown, Leah McCurdy, and Jason Yaeger
Part 4. Bridging Time
Chapter 12. Imagery of the Yearbearers in Maya Culture and Beyond
Susan Milbrath
Chapter 13. Lived Experience and Monumental Time in the Classic Maya Lowlands
Patricia A. McAnany
Chapter 14. The Materialization of Time in the Maya Archaeological Record: Examples from Caracol and Santa Rita Corozal, Belize
Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
Chapter 15. Materializing Time on Wax: The Cozumel Maya Bee Gardens
Adolfo Iván Batún-Alpuche and David A. Freidel
Chapter 16. Temporal Fusion: Mythical and Mortal Time in Maya Art
James A. Doyle
Chapter 17. “How Much May They Not Have Written?” K’atuns 11 Ajaw and the Itzá
Prudence M. Rice
Part 5. Materializing Mesoamerican Chronoscapes
Chapter 18. The Ideas and Images of Cities and Centers: Teotihuacan and the Lowland Maya
David A. Freidel, Saburo Sugiyama, and Nawa Sugiyama
Chapter 19. Epilogue: Architects of Time
Anne S. Dowd
References
List of Contributors
Index
