The earliest complex societies and a distinctive set of pan-regional social, political, and
economic institutions appeared in the southern Maya lowlands during the Preclassic period�…

Examinations of the variation and duration of past large‐scale societies have long involved
a conceptual struggle between efforts at generalization and the unraveling of specific�…

The episodic formation, consolidation and breakdown of preindustrial states occurred in
multiple contexts worldwide during the last 5000 years and are contingent upon interacting�…

This paper classifies the karst landscapes of the Pet�n Plateau and defines the Mirador-
Calakmul Karst Basin by illustrating the distribution of its karst hydrologic features�…

In recent years, archaeological studies of long-term change and transformation in the human
past have often been dominated by the discussion of dichotomous processes of�…

Examinations of the variation and relative successes or failures of past large-scale societies
have long involved attempts to reconcile efforts at generalization and the identification of�…

Paracas was an autochthonous sociocultural tradition that emerged on the south coast of
Peru during the early first millennium BCE. Beginning as a constellation of independent�…

Harman's own object-oriented philosophy is a radicalization of weak correlation. his article
will follow in Harman's footsteps, but the roots of the prevailing gender discourse need to be�…

Research focusing on the emergence and collapse of ancient Maya polities is abundant,
with many studies detailing these sociopolitical transformations from the perspective of�…

The years I worked on the thesis, on which this book is based, have felt like an odessey of
sorts, shifting from one radically different context to another. It goes without saying that this�…