"This volume is the first of its kind. A complex mosaic of how a relatively small Late Classic Maya polity was economically, socially, and politically organized

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes,

Foias argues that there is no single Maya political history, but multiple histories, no single Maya state, but multiple polities that need to be understood at t