Living Between Worlds
Living Between Worlds
Archaeology and History at the Southern Edge of the Maya Lowlands
Woodfill, Brent K. S.; Cajas Castillo, Monica Maria; Avendano, Carlos; Cowling, Sharon A.; Leight, Megan E.; Andrieu, Chloe; Berrio, Juan Carlos; Carpio Rezzio, Edgar H.; Demarest, Arthur A.; Arriaza, Claudia
University Alabama Press
02/2026
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9780817322564
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Acknowledgments
Part I: Understanding the Northern Transversal Strip
Introduction: Shining a Light on the Borderlands between the Maya Lowlands and the Guatemalan Highlands
Megan E. Leight and Brent K. S. Woodfill
1. The Key to Understanding Both Maya Lowland and Highland Ancient Political Economies: The Trajectory and Impact of Research in the Transversal Interface Region
Arthur A. Demarest
Part II: Sites, Regions, and Regional History
2. The Transversal Economic Network: Forming a Breakaway Network through Economic Benefits and Ideological Seduction
Arthur A. Demarest and Paola Torres
3. The Archaeology of the Chixoy Basin
Brent K. S. Woodfill, Caitlin Earley, and Alexander E. Rivas
4. Entre Dos Cuencas: The Chacula Region in Northwestern Huehuetenango
Ulrich Woelfel
Part III: Interrelations and Environment
5. Ceramic Interaction in the Northern Transversal Strip during the Late Classic Period
Jorge Mario Ortiz de Leon, Socorro Jimenez Alvarez, Paola Torres, Claudia Arriaza, Miryam Saravia, Juan Francisco Saravia, Carlos Fidel Tuyuc Nij, and Diana Mendez Lee
6. Changing Ritual Intent in a Stone Coffer from an Unlooted Cave in Central Guatemala
Erin L. Sears
7. Not All Distance Is Kilometric: Obsidian Procurement at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros and Cancuen
Chloe Andrieu and Edgar H. Carpio Rezzio
8. The Prehispanic and Colonial Exchange of Perishable Goods in and through
the Northern Transversal Strip: Achiote, Cacao, Salt, and Exotic Feathers
Brent K. S. Woodfill, Mark W. Lentz, and Megan E. Leight
9. The Sacred, Urban Landscape of Cancuen and Salinas de los Nueve Cerros
Marc Wolf
10. Paleoecology of the Chixoy Alluvial Plains along the Northern Transversal Strip
Carlos Avendano, Claudia L. M. Morales-Flores, Juan Carlos Berrio, Carla Paola del Cid Lopez, Silvia Carolina Duarte Morales, Rosa Delfina Sunum Orellana, Monica Maria Cajas Castillo, Nora Machuca Mejia, Sharon A. Cowling, Sarah Finkelstein, Ramiro Tox, Oscar A. Rojas-Castillo, and Carolina Rosales de Zea
11. Born in Xibalba: Kanek'-Kaweq Lineage History in the Franja Transversal del Norte
Ruud van Akkeren
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Part I: Understanding the Northern Transversal Strip
Introduction: Shining a Light on the Borderlands between the Maya Lowlands and the Guatemalan Highlands
Megan E. Leight and Brent K. S. Woodfill
1. The Key to Understanding Both Maya Lowland and Highland Ancient Political Economies: The Trajectory and Impact of Research in the Transversal Interface Region
Arthur A. Demarest
Part II: Sites, Regions, and Regional History
2. The Transversal Economic Network: Forming a Breakaway Network through Economic Benefits and Ideological Seduction
Arthur A. Demarest and Paola Torres
3. The Archaeology of the Chixoy Basin
Brent K. S. Woodfill, Caitlin Earley, and Alexander E. Rivas
4. Entre Dos Cuencas: The Chacula Region in Northwestern Huehuetenango
Ulrich Woelfel
Part III: Interrelations and Environment
5. Ceramic Interaction in the Northern Transversal Strip during the Late Classic Period
Jorge Mario Ortiz de Leon, Socorro Jimenez Alvarez, Paola Torres, Claudia Arriaza, Miryam Saravia, Juan Francisco Saravia, Carlos Fidel Tuyuc Nij, and Diana Mendez Lee
6. Changing Ritual Intent in a Stone Coffer from an Unlooted Cave in Central Guatemala
Erin L. Sears
7. Not All Distance Is Kilometric: Obsidian Procurement at Salinas de los Nueve Cerros and Cancuen
Chloe Andrieu and Edgar H. Carpio Rezzio
8. The Prehispanic and Colonial Exchange of Perishable Goods in and through
the Northern Transversal Strip: Achiote, Cacao, Salt, and Exotic Feathers
Brent K. S. Woodfill, Mark W. Lentz, and Megan E. Leight
9. The Sacred, Urban Landscape of Cancuen and Salinas de los Nueve Cerros
Marc Wolf
10. Paleoecology of the Chixoy Alluvial Plains along the Northern Transversal Strip
Carlos Avendano, Claudia L. M. Morales-Flores, Juan Carlos Berrio, Carla Paola del Cid Lopez, Silvia Carolina Duarte Morales, Rosa Delfina Sunum Orellana, Monica Maria Cajas Castillo, Nora Machuca Mejia, Sharon A. Cowling, Sarah Finkelstein, Ramiro Tox, Oscar A. Rojas-Castillo, and Carolina Rosales de Zea
11. Born in Xibalba: Kanek'-Kaweq Lineage History in the Franja Transversal del Norte
Ruud van Akkeren
Bibliography
Contributors
Index