Editorial Comments
In Memoriam: Pierre Robert Colas, 1976-2008
William R. Fowler and Norbert Ross
Jeffrey R. Parsons: A Personal Retrospective
Reflections on my Life in Archaeology
The Art of War: Imagery of the Upper Temple of the Jaguars, Chichen Itza (COLOR)
William M. Ringle
Rethinking the Great Earthwork of Tikal: A Hydraulic Hypothesis for the Classic Maya Polity
Jay E. Silverstein, David Webster, Horacio Martinez and Alvaro Soto
William J. Folan, Armando Anaya Hernandez, Ellen R. Kintz, Laraine A. Fletcher, Raymundo Gonzalez Heredia, Jacinto May Hau, and Nicolas Caamal Canche
Imagining Courtly Communities: An Exploration of Classic Maya Experiences of Status and Identity through Painted Ceramic Vessels
Sarah E. Jackson
Special Section: New Directions in the Study of Mesoamerican Lithic Economy
Special Section Introduction
Kenneth G. Hirth, William R. Fowler and Geoffrey G. McCafferty
Craft Production in the Mesoamerican Marketplace
Kenneth G. Hirth
Ground Platform Preparation and the "Banalization" of the Prismatic Blade
Dan M. Healan
Exploring Formative Period Obsidian Blade Trade: Three Distribution Models
Jason P. De Leon, Kenneth G. Hirth, and David M. Carballo
Cambios en la Estrategia de la Exploitacion de la Obsidiana de Pachuca: Teotihuacan, Tula y la Triple Alianza
Alejandro Pastrana y Silvia Dominguez
Obsidian Biface Production at Teotihuacan: Reexamining a Coyotlatelco phase workshop from Hacienda Metepec
Zachary Nelson
Obsidian Blade Production for Craft Consumption at Kaminaljuyu
J. Heath Anderson and Kenneth G. Hirth