Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: Interaction and the Making of Ancient Mesoamerica

Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco

1. The Prehispanic Mesoamerican World: Framing Interaction

Gary M. Feinman

2. Interaction and Exchange in Early Formative Western and Central Mesoamerica: New Data from Coastal Oaxaca

Guy David Hepp

3. The Role of Interregional Interaction in Mesoamerican Script Development

Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco

4. Hieroglyphic Ch’olan to Ch’orti’: Tracing Linguistic and Social Interactions into Eastern Ch’olan

Kerry M. Hull

5. Reframing the Tripod: A Foreign Form Adopted by the Early Classic Maya

D. Bryan Schaeffer

6. Across the Hills, toward the Ocean: Teotihuacan-Style Monuments in Guerrero, Mexico

Jesper Nielsen, Elizabeth Jiménez García, and Iván Rivera

7. A Sprinkling of Culture: Contact and Connections between the Tuxtlas Region and the Coastal Maya

Philip J. Arnold III and Lourdes Budar

8. Zaragoza-Oyameles Obsidian Projectile Points: Cantona’s Place in Early Classic Period Long-Distance Gift Exchange and Interaction

Charles L. F. Knight

9. Interregional Interaction of the Chalchihuites Culture in Northwest Mesoamerica during the Classic and Postclassic Periods

José Luis Punzo Díaz

10. Round and Round We Go: Cholula, Rotating Power Structures, Social Stability, and Trade in Mesoamerica

Timothy J. Knab and John M. D. Pohl

11. The Movement of Metal Goods in the Mesoamerican Late Postclassic Period: A Case Study from the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlán

Niklas Schulze and Blanca E. Maldonado

12. Competitive versus Peaceful Interaction

Joyce Marcus

Conclusion: The World as They Knew It: The Interaction Sphere Concept in Current Mesoamerican Archaeology

David Freidel

Contributors

Index