Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

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5.3. The family tree of La Corona's main royal lineage and other La Corona rulers 5.4. South profile of Structure 13R-2 showing principal phases of construction 6.1. Location of architectural complexes mentioned in the text 155 6.2. Diachronic changes in total labor costs for the central precinct 6.3. Feathered Serpent Pyramid at the Ciudadela 6.4. Diachronic changes in labor costs for major pyramids and administrative/residential structures within the central precinct 6.5. Human representations during the Xolalpan-Metepec phases 6.6. Layout of some apartment compounds 6.7. Plan of the Street of the Dead Complex 7.1. Map of the Maya area 7.2. Detail map of Oaxaca showing selected sites in the Mixteca Alta 185 FIGURES xi 7.3. Map of the region between Piedras Negras, Guatemala, and Yaxchilan, Mexico, showing border sites and fortifications along the northern border of the Yaxchilan kingdom 195 7.4. Detail from page 22 of the Codex Zouche-Nuttall showing the toponyms of subsidiary and border settlements inside of the glyph for the ñuu 199 7.5. Detail of the Lienzo de Ocotepec, an early Colonial document showing the boundaries between Santo Tomas Ocotepec and Santa Maria Cuquila 200 8.1. Extent of the Tarascan empire and major lake basins referred to in text 219 8.2. Major Late Postclassic urban sites in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin 225 8.3. Local elite identity in burial 9 at Urichu. Spouted polychrome vessel and several bronze and shell earrings 227 8.4. Ritual center of Ihuatzio 228 This volume originated in a session we organized at the 77th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2012. Our goal was to bring together archaeologists working throughout Mesoamerica to discuss and debate the processes associated with the creation, perpetuation, and negation of politically authoritative relationships. We would like to thank the authors for their thoughtful chapters, as well as those who presented a paper at the SAAs but were unable to contribute to the volume: