Living Between Worlds
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Brent K. S. Woodfill is a professor of anthropology at Winthrop University. He is author of War in the Land of True Peace: The Fight for Maya Sacred Spaces and Ritual and Trade in the Pasión-Verapaz Region, Guatemala.
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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
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