Early new world monumentality

Collection of writings exploring the sophisticated political and logistical organizations that were required to plan and complete new world architectural marvels. Contributors discuss the long-term political, social, and military impacts these projects had on their respective civilizations and illuminate the significance of monumentality among early complex societies in the Americas. --From publisher description.

Considering early New World monumentality / Robert M. Rosenswig and Richard L. Burger -- Early mounds in the lower Mississippi Valley / Joe Saunders -- Shell mounds of the middle St. Johns Basin, northeast Florida / Kenneth E. Sassaman and Asa R. Randall -- Monumentality in eastern North America during the Mississippian period / David G. Anderson -- Agriculture and monumentality in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico / Robert M. Rosenswig -- Early Olmec wetland mounds : investing energy to produce energy / Ann Cyphers and Judith Zurita-Noguera -- The origins of monumentality in ancient Guerrero, Mexico / Louise I. Paradis -- Early civilization in the Maya lowlands, monumentality, and place-making : a view from the Holmul region / Francisco Estrada-Belli -- Monumental architecture and social complexity in the intermediate area / R. Jeffrey Frost and Jeffrey Quilter -- Early mounds and monumental art in ancient Amazonia : history, scale, function, and social ecology / Anna C. Roosevelt [and others] -- Why do people build monuments? : late archaic platform mounds in the Norte Chico / Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer -- Monumental architecture arising from an early astronomical-…