The Southeast Classic Maya Zone (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1988 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 412 pp. Publisher's cloth. Papers presented at the October 6-7, 1984 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Copan as a Classic Maya center" by David Webster; "Quirigua as a Classic Maya center" by Robert J. Sharer; "Epigraphy of the Southeast Zone in relation to other parts of Mesoamerica" by Berthold Riese; "On the historical significance of decorated ceramics at Copan and Quirigua and related Classic Maya sites" by Clemency Chase Coggins; "Solar cycle and dynastic succession in the Southeast Maya Zone" by Claude F. Baudez; "The meaning and function of the Main Acropolis, Copan" by Mary Ellen Miller; "The compositions and contexts of the classic stelae at Copan and Quirigua" by Flora S. Clancy; "The Southeast Zone viewed from the east: lower Motagua-Naco Valleys" by Patricia A. Urban and Edward M. Schortman; "The Ulua Valley and the coastal Maya lowlands: the view from Cerro Palenque" by Rosemary A. Joyce; "Beyond the Maya frontier: cultural interaction and syncretism along the central Honduran corridor" by Kenneth G. Hirth; "Political evolution in the Maya borderlands: the Salvadoran frontier" by Arthur A. Demarest; "The Southeast Classic Maya Zone: a summary" by Gordon R. Willey.