Lords of creation: the origins of sacred Maya kingship

Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet

Between heaven and earth: the cival cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R. Bauer

Olmec ideological, ritual, and symbolic contributions to the institution of classic Maya kingship / F. Kent Reilly III

Late preclassic expressions of authority on the Pacific slope / Julia Guernsey and Michael Love

The principal bird deity in preclassic and early classic art / Constance Cortez

Preclassic architecture, ritual, and the emergence of cultural complexity: a diachronic perspective from the Belize Valley / M Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber

The creation mountains: structure 5C-2nd and late preclassic kingship / David A Freidel

Precincts for gods and men: the architecture of the cities of the Peten, Guatemala / Juan Antonio Valdés

Early social complexity and kingship in the Mirador Basin / Richard D Hansen and Stanley P Guenter

The sacred mountain: preclassic architecture in Calakmul / Ramón Carrasco Vargas

Building a dynasty: early classic kingship at Copan / Ellen E Bell

Rosalila: temple of the sun king at Copan / Richardo Agurcia Fasquelle

The origins of Maya writing / Federico Fahsen and Nikolai Grube

Strangers in the Maya area: early classic interaction with Teotihuacan / Robert J Sharer and Simon Martin

Dancing in the footsteps of the ancestors / Allen J Christenson

Catalogue / Virginia M Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet.