Table of Contents

Ethnography, Ethnobotany, Language and Diet.- An Epigraphic Analysis of Classic-Period Maya Foodstuffs.- Sweet Cacao and Sour Atole: Mixed Drinks on Classic Maya Ceramic Vases.- Prehistoric Chronology of the Common Bean in the New World: The Linguistic Evidence.- Death and Chocolate: The Significance of Cacao Offerings in Ancient Maya Tombs and Caches at Copan, Honduras.- Feasting with Foam: Ceremonial Drinks of Cacao, Maize, and Pataxte Cacao.- Corn, Colanders, and Cooking: Early Maize Processing in the Maya Lowlands and Its Implications.- Potographies and Biographies: The Role of Food in Ritual and Identity as Seen Through Life Histories of Selected Maya Pots and People.- Dietary Diversity in the Upper Belize River Valley: A Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Perspective.- Power Plants: Paleobotanical Evidence of Rural Feasting in Late Classic Belize.- Food and Feasting in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo.- All Maize Is Not Equal: Maize Variety Choices and Mayan Foodways in Rural Yucatan, Mexico.- Maya Foodways: A Reflection of Gender and Ideology.- Food as Metaphor: Mythology and Iconography.- The Axolotl as Food and Symbol in the Basin of Mexico, from 1200 BC to today.- Topophilia: A Tool for the Demarcation of Cultural Microregions: The Case of the Huaxteca.- This World and Beyond: Food Practices and the Social Order in Mayan Religion.- Maize Was Their Flesh: Ritual Feasting in the Maya Highlands.- From Field to Hearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya and Other Mesoamerican Creation Myths.- The Flesh of God: Cosmology, Food, and the Origins of Political Power in Ancient Southeastern Mesoamerica.- Agriculture and Social Complexity: The Roles of Feasting and Ritual Economies.- Pre-Columbian Foodways in Mesoamerica.- Ethnohistoric Sources on Foodways, Feasts, and Festivals in Mesoamerica.- Development of Agriculture in Prehistoric Mesoamerica: The Linguistic Evidence.- The Pastoral Niche in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica.- The Drink Mescal: Its Origin and Ritual Uses.- Forming Mesoamerican Taste: Cacao Consumption in Formative Period Contexts.- Salt Production and Trade in Ancient Mesoamerica.- The Dirt on Food: Ancient Feasts and Markets Among the Lowland Maya.