Patricia Urban is the J. K. Smail Professor of Anthropology, emerita, at Kenyon College. Her work in Southeast Mesoamerican has been supported by grants from numerous agencies, including the National Science Foundation. Edward Schortman is the J. K. Smail Professor of Anthropology, emeritus, at Kenyon College. His work in Southeast Mesoamerica has been supported by grants from numerous agencies including the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• 1. Ways of understanding Southeast Mesoamerica; 2. Power, hierarchy, and social differentiation; 3. Early arrivals, domestication, and emerging sociopolitical complexity in Southeast Mesoamerica (10,000 (?) – 400 BCE); 4. Reformulating social networks through the novel uses of things (400 BCE – CE200); 5. The arrival of divine lords: early classic Southeast Mesoamerica (CE 200 – 600); 6. The Copán realm, its colonies and allies (CE 600–800); 7. The end of days: political decentralization and its aftermath among Members of the Copán-centered network (CE 820–1000); 8. Concentrating power and building hierarchy beyond the Copán-centered network (CE 600–800); 9. Concentrating power in the terminal classic beyond Copán (CE 800–1000); 10. Power and political economy in the late classic Naco and Middle Chamelecón Valleys (CE 600–800); 11. Hierarchy to heterarchy in the terminal classic Naco and Middle Chamelecón Valleys (CE 800–1000); 12. Contrasting forms of complexity: the postclassic (CE 1000–1550) in Southeast Mesoamerica; 13. Contesting for power, challenging hierarchy, making history.