Truth, Propaganda, and Noble Speech -- The Evolutionary Context of Early Writing -- Mesoamerica's Four Major Writing Systems: The Ethnohistoric Background -- Not One Calendar, but Many -- Rewriting History -- Place Names and the Establishment of Political Territories -- The Naming of Nobles -- Royal Marriages -- Euhemerism and Royal Ancestors -- Accession to the Throne -- Raiding and Warfare -- An Anthropological Theory of Mesoamerican Writing
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487) and index
