The Zapotec writing system / Gordon Whittaker -- Mixtec pictography : conventions and contents / Maarten Jansen -- The annals of the Tlapanecs / Constanza Vega Sosa -- Aztec writing / Hanns J. Prem -- Noun and verb morphology in the Maya script / Victoria R. Bricker -- A new look at the dynastic history of Palenque / Linda Schele -- Classic Maya history and politics at Dos Pilas, Guatemala / Stephen D. Houston -- The Copan Dynasty / Berthold Riese -- The Middle American Calendar Round / Munro S. Edmonson.