The 200-year period from AD 230 to 430 witnessed the transition from chiefdom to state in
the Maya Lowlands and the founding of several early political dynasties. Considerable …

or more than one thousand years, Calakmul, located in southeastern Campeche, Mexico,
was the capital of one of the largest and most powerful regional states in the Maya lowlands …

Classic period Maya rulers are distinctly tied to epigraphic statements of warfare and to
hostile actions with neighboring and distant sites and polities. Long-term research at …

This article presents a synthesis of new epigraphic readings of hieroglyphic texts from the
sites of Sacul and Ixkun, in the northwestern Maya Mountains of Guatemala, with …

Many questions remain about the hieroglyphic stair dedicated in ad 642 by K'an II, the great
king of Caracol. Constituent panels have been found at Caracol, Ucanal, Naranjo, and …

In this paper we summarize more than a decade of interdisciplinary work at Calakmul,
including (1) the mapping project, which has covered more than 30 km2;(2) the excavation …

Thanks to many epigraphic references compiled in the last 35 years, there is a growing
consensus among Mayanists that a hegemonic state existed in the Maya Lowlands during …

This study examines the political organization of two polities in the northern Maya lowlands
of Yucatán, Mexico, during the Late/Terminal Classic Period (AD 700–1050/1100). The two …

The Maya “collapse” began shortly after AD 750, and the events associated with this
transition period would play out over the next three centuries. Many factors contributed to the …

Kaminaljuyú has been an important focus of archaeological research since the 1930s, and
the chronologies of various sites of the Southern Maya Area are linked directly to that of …