Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Understanding the Northern Transversal Strip Introduction: Shining a Light on the Borderlands between the Maya Lowlands and the Guatemalan Highlands Megan E. Leight and Brent K. S. Woodfill 1. The Key to Understanding Both Maya Lowland and Highland Ancient Political Economies: The Trajectory and Impact of Research in the Transversal Interface Region Arthur A. Demarest Part II: Sites, Regions, and Regional History 2. The Transversal Economic Network: Forming a Breakaway Network through Economic Benefits and Ideological Seduction Arthur A. Demarest and Paola Torres 3.
The Archaeology of the Chixoy Basin Brent K. S. Woodfill, Caitlin Earley, and Alexander E. Rivas 4. Entre Dos Cuencas : The Chaculá Region in Northwestern Huehuetenango Ulrich Wölfel Part III: Interrelations and Environment 5. Ceramic Interaction in the Northern Transversal Strip during the Late Classic Period Jorge Mario Ortíz de León, Socorro Jiménez Álvarez, Paola Torres, Claudia Arriaza, Miryam Saravia, Juan Francisco Saravia, Carlos Fidel Tuyuc Nij, and Diana Méndez Lee 6. Changing Ritual Intent in a Stone Coffer from an Unlooted Cave in Central Guatemala Erin L. Sears 7.
Not All Distance Is Kilometric: Obsidian Procurement at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros and Cancuen Chloé Andrieu and Edgar H. Carpio Rezzio 8. The Prehispanic and Colonial Exchange of Perishable Goods in and through the Northern Transversal Strip: Achiote, Cacao, Salt, and Exotic Feathers Brent K. S. Woodfill, Mark W. Lentz, and Megan E. Leight 9. The Sacred, Urban Landscape of Cancuen and Salinas de los Nueve Cerros Marc Wolf 10.
Paleoecology of the Chixoy Alluvial Plains along the Northern Transversal Strip Carlos Avendaño, Claudia L. M. Morales-Flores, Juan Carlos Berrio, Carla Paola del Cid López, Silvia Carolina Duarte Morales, Rosa Delfina Sunum Orellana, Mónica María Cajas Castillo, Nora Machuca Mejía, Sharon A. Cowling, Sarah Finkelstein, Ramiro Tox, Oscar A. Rojas-Castillo, and Carolina Rosales de Zea 11. Born in Xibalba: Kanek?-Kaweq Lineage History in the Franja Transversal del Norte Ruud van Akkeren Bibliography Contributors Index.