* Preface (Norman Hammond and Gordon R. Willey) * Introduction (Gordon R. Willey and Norman Hammond) * Theoretical Interpretations *1. Priests, Peasants, and Ceremonial Centers: The Intellectual History of a Model (Marshall Joseph Becker) *2. Cropping Cash in the Protoclassic: A Cultural Impact Statement (Bruce H. Dahlin) *3. A New Order and the Role of the Calendar: Some Characteristics of the Middle Classic Period at Tikal (Clemency Coggins) *4. Teotihuacan, Internal Militaristic Competition, and the Fall of the Classic Maya (George L. Cowgill) *5. An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count (Dennis E. Puleston) * Data Presentations *6. Prehistoric Settlement at Copan (Gordon R. Willey and Richard M. Leventhal) *7. Prehispanic Terracing in the Central Maya Lowlands: Problems of Agricultural Intensification (B. L. Turner II) *8. The Representation of Underworld Processions in Maya Vase Painting: An Iconographic Study (Jacinto Quirarte) *9. A Sequence for Palenque Painting Techniques (Merle Greene Robertson) *10. The Lagartero Figurines (Susanna M. Ekholm) * Ethnohistoric Approaches *11. The Lobil Postclassic Phase in the Southern Interior of the Yucatan Peninsula (Peter D. Harrison) *12. Coapa, Chiapas: A Sixteenth-Century Coxoh Maya Village on the Camino Real (Thomas A. Lee, Jr.) *13. Religious Syncretism in Colonial Yucatan: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from Tancah, Quintana Roo (Arthur G. Miller and Nancy M. Farriss) *14. Continuity in Maya Writing: New Readings of Two Passages in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel (Gordon Brotherston) * Bibliography * General Index * Author Index