Includes bibliographical references (p. 573-652) and index
The Terminal Classic and the "classic Maya collapse" in perspective / Prudence M. Rice, Arthur A. Demarest and Don S. Rice -- Hermeneutics, transitions, and transformations in classic to postclassic Maya society / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase -- Terminal classic-period lowland ceramics / Prudence M. Rice and Donald Forsyth -- The last hurrah : continuity and transformation at Seibal / Gair Tourtellot and Jason J. González -- Settlement and late classic political disintegration in the Petexbatun / Matt O'Mansky and Nicholas P. Dunning -- After the maelstrom : collapse of the classic Maya kingdoms the Terminal Classic in the western Petén / Arthur A. Demarest -- Late classic to postclassic transformations in the Petén Lakes region, Guatemala / Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice -- Disaster in sight : the Terminal Classic at Tikal and Uaxactun / Juan Antonio Valdés and Federico Fahsen -- Defining the Terminal Classic at Calakmul, Campeche / Geoffrey E. Braswell ... [et al.] -- Terminal classic settlement and polity in the Mopán Valley, Petén, Guatemala / Juan Pedro Laporte -- Dating Copán culture history : implications for the Terminal Classic and the collapse / David Webster, AnnCorinne Freter and Rebecca Storey -- Political decentralization, dynastic collapse, and the early postclassic in the urban center of Copán, Honduras / William L. Fash, E. Wyllys Andrews and T. Kam Manahan -- Out with a whimper : La Milpa in the Terminal Classic / Norman Hammond and Gair Tourtellot -- Commoner sense : late and terminal classic social strategies in the Xunantunich area / Wendy Ashmore, Jason Yaeger and Cynthia Robin -- Transformations, periodicity, and urban development in the Three Rivers region / R.E.W. Adams ... [et al.] -- Terminal classic status-linked ceramics and the Maya "collapse" : de facto refuse at Caracol, Belize / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase -- Ceramics and settlement patterns at terminal classic-period lagoon sites in northeastern Belize / Marilyn A. Masson and Shirley Boteler Mock -- Out of sight : the postclassic and early colonial periods at Chau Hiix / Christopher R. Andres and K. Anne Pyburn -- High times in the hill country : a perspective from the terminal classic Puuc region / Kelli Carmean, Nicholas Dunning and Jeff Karl Kowalski -- The rise and fall of terminal classic Yaxuna, Yucatán, Mexico / Charles Suhler ... [et al.] -- The decline of the east : the classic to postclassic transition at Ek Balam, Yucatán / William M. Ringle ... [et al.] -- Chichén Itzá : settlement and hegemony during the Terminal Classic period / Rafael Cobos Palma -- The Terminal Classic in the Maya lowlands : assessing collapses, terminations, and transformations / Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice
