Table of Contents 20:2

Ancient Mesoamerica 20:2 (Fall 2009) celebrates our 20th anniversary with a special Katun issue, in which we have invited prominent scholars in our discipline to write state-of-the-art articles on their particular specialties. These articles reflect on the development of various areas of ancient Mesoamerican archaeology over the past two decades and offer insightful commentaries on the potential of future research: where should we be at the next period ending?. This issue will feature an extensive cumulative bibliography which will also be posted to this web page as a scholarly resource.

 

Some of the exciting articles to be featured in the Katun issue include:

 

Wendy Ashmore

Mesoamerican Landscape Archaeologies 

 

Frances F. Berdan

Mesoamerican Ethnohistory 

 

Arlen Chase, Diane Chase, and Michael Smith

States and Empires in Ancient Mesoamerica 

 

Arthur A. Joyce

Urbanism in Ancient Mesoamerica 

 

Rex Koontz

Visual Culture Studies in Mesoamerica 

Deborah L. Nichols and Susan Toby Evans

Aztec Studies

 

Christopher A. Pool

Asking More and Better Questions: Olmec Archaeology for the Next Katun

 

Vernon Scarborough

The Archaeology of Sustainability: Mesoamerica 

 

Payson D. Sheets

Geoarchaeology in Mesoamerican Studies: From this Katun toward the Next 

 

Michael W. Spence and Christine D. White

Mesoamerican Bioarchaeology: Past and Future