Figures
0.1. Richard Blanton at age 18 on a climbing expedition in the Rockies with a friend
1.1. Spatial distribution and sizes of cities
1.2. Postclassic sites in the Central Mixteca Alta
1.3. Twentieth-century pottery-making villages and agricultural core areas in the Mixteca Alta
1.4. Relative interconnectedness of Mixteca Alta and Valley of Oaxaca regions
2.1. View of the Main Plaza of Monte Albán
2.2. The carved-stone monuments from Building L-sub
2.3. Plan: eastern half of Río Viejo, Mound 1 and Mound 9, Structure 4
2.4. Retaining wall of an adobe platform on the acropolis at Río Viejo
3.1. Forms of built space associated with specific social institutions and strategies
3.2. Ceramic model: burial procession with the dead and pallbearers
3.3. Ceramic model: simplified guachimontón public architecture
3.4. Ceramic model: ballcourt with ballgame in progress
3.5. Map: Tequila valleys, Jalisco, with sites by site-size hierarchy
3.6. Map: large residential groups, shaft tombs, and guachimontones
4.1. Central valleys of Jalisco, showing settlement patterns for the Postclassic
4.2. Postclassic settlement tiers, based on site size
4.3. Santa María architectural settlement clusters
4.4. Three sections of Santa María, residential groups: highest point of site
4.5. Three sections of Santa María, residential groups: hill
4.6. Three sections of Santa María, residential groups: piedmont
4.7. Late Postclassic ceramic diagnostic forms
5.1. South-central Veracruz: selected sites and regions
5.2. The secondary center of La Mixtequilla
5.3. Summary of facings of SPPGs and Long Plaza Plans
5.4. Mixtequilla survey: SPPG variants
6.1. Merchants’ feather merchandise
6.2. Aztec tribute demands in quetzal feathers
6.3. Aztec tribute demands in quetzal-feathered devices
7.1. Select archaeological sites, eastern periphery of the Maya lowlands
7.2. Civic centers: Xunantunich, Actuncan, and Buenavista del Cayo, Belize
7.3. Obsidian-to-sherd ratio over time in elite and commoner contexts
8.2. Sweden, major regions and the “small lands” of Småland
8.3. Four study blocks with varying proximity to Visingsö Island
8.4. Skärstad-Ölmstad Valley: changing landscape use, Iron Age to Medieval period
9.1. Approximate location of kingdom of Bunyoro, nineteenth century
10.1. Archaeological sites in northern and southern Mesopotamia
10.2. Locations of Indus civilization sites
11.1. Floor plan and its graph
11.2a. Walangama pil gē, built around 1940
11.2b. Floor plan of typical Walangama pil gē
11.3a. Walangama California-style house, built in 2011
11.3b. Floor plan of typical California-style house
11.4. Walangama two-story house under construction in 2013
12.1. Relationship between network strategy and natural disasters
13.1. Time from first settled agricultural villages to large villages
13.2. Village formation and state development in eight world areas where states ultimately developed
13.3. Sequence from first sedentary villages to more nucleated centers
13.4. Size of largest cities in early states
13.5. Internal and external sources of funds
13.6. Model of collective action
15.1. Correlation plots for corporate power: public goods and control of principals