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Mesoamerican elites : assumptions, definitions, and models / Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase -- Interregional exchange as elite behavior : an evolutionary perspective / Kenneth Hirth -- Elites and the changing organization of classic Maya society / Arlen F. Chase -- Distinguishing the high and mighty from the hoi polloi at Tikal, Guatemala / William A. Haviland and Hattula Moholy-Nagy -- Noblesse oblige : the elites of Altun Ha and Lamanai, Belize / David M. Pendergast -- "Will the real elites please stand up?" : an archaeological assessment of Maya elite behavior in the Terminal Classic period / Gair Tourtellot, Jeremy A. Sabloff, and Kelli Carmean -- Children of the first father's skull : terminal classic warfare in the northern Maya lowlands and the transformation of kingship and elite hierarchies / David A. Freidel. |
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Postclassic Maya elites : ethnohistory and archaeology / Diane Z. Chase -- Maya elites : the perspective from Copan / David Webster -- Elites and ethnicity along the southeastern fringe of Mesoamerica / John S. Henderson -- The emergence of the Quiche elite : the Putun-Palenque connection / John W. Fox, Dwight T. Wallace, and Kenneth L. Brown -- Archaeological indicators of formative period elites : a perspective from central Mexico / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie -- Social differentiation at Teotihuacan / George L. Cowgill -- Royal families, royal texts : examples from the Zapotec and Maya / Joyce Marcus -- Late Postclassic and Colonial period elites at Otumba, Mexico : the archaeological dimensions / Thomas H. Charlton and Deborah L. Nichols -- The elite and assessment of social stratification in Mesoamerican archaeology / Stephen A. Kowalewski, Gary M. Feinman, and Laura Finsten -- Ranking and stratification in prehispanic Mesoamerica / William T. Sanders -- The concern with elites in archaeological reconstructions : Mesoamerican materials / George E. Marcus -- An archaeological assessment of Mesoamerican elites / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase. |
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0585145792 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585145792 (electronic bk.) |
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