Table of Contents:
  • Summary of archaeological evidence from the Valsequillo region, Puebla, Mexico / Cynthia Irwin-Williams
  • The origin of Zea mays / George W. Beadle
  • Obsidian exchange networks: inferences and speculation on the development of social organization in formative Mesoamerica / Jane Wheeler Pires-Ferreira
  • Shell exchange networks in formative Mesoamerica / Jane Wheeler Pires-Ferreira
  • Mossbauer spectral analysis of Olmec iron ore mirrors: new evidence of formative period exchange networks in Mesoamerica / Jane Wheeler Pires-Ferreira and Billy Joe Evans
  • The significance of the 'epiclassic' period in Mesoamerican prehistory / Malcolm C. Webb
  • Ports of trade in Mesoamerica: a reappraisal / Frances Frei Berdan
  • The ancient Maya in light of their ethnographic present / James C. Gifford
  • Ideas concerning Maya concepts of the future / James C. Gifford
  • Ethnographic realities of Mayan prehistory / Jeffrey C. Howry
  • Mesoamericans as cultural brokers in northern New Spain / John Hobgood and Carroll L. Riley
  • Toward the reconstruction of the Olmec mythological system / R.V. Kinzhalov
  • Maya and Teotihuacan traits in classic Maya vase painting of the Peten / Jacinto Quirarte
  • The Aztec system of writing: problems of research / Joaquin Galarza
  • The deciphering of glyphs representing Mexica governmental titles / Horacio Corona Olea
  • The Aztec day names / Herbert Landar
  • The relationship between painting and scripts / Jorge Elliott
  • Petroglyphs of the Antilles / Ripley P. Bullen
  • Contribution to the study of cultural sequences in the central area of Costa Rica / Carlos H. Aguilar.