Politics and economics: theoretical perspectives of the Motul de San Jose project / Antonia E. Foias and Kitty F. Emery -- Lords of windy water: the royal court of Motul de San Jose in classic Maya inscriptions / Alexander Tokovinine and Marc Zender -- Identity and interaction: ceramic styles and social history of the Ik Polity, Guatemala / Dorie Reents-Budet, Stanley Guenter, Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman -- Architecture, volumetrics, and social stratification at Motul de San Jose during the late and terminal classic / Antonia E. Foias, Christina T. Halperin, Elly Spensley, and Jeanette Castellanos -- Figurine economies at Motul de San Jose: multiple and shifting modes of valuation / Christina T. Halperin -- Motul de San Jose palace pottery production: reconstructions from wasters and debris / Christina T. Halperin and Antonia E. Foias -- History, politics, and ceramics: the ceramic sequence of Trinidad de Nosotros, El Peten, Guatemala / Matthew D. Moriarty -- Wealth, status, and stucco: micromorphology studies at La Trinidad, a secondary center in the Motul de San Jose periphery / Ellen Spensley -- Akte: small secondary center to the northeast of Motul de San Jose / Suzanna Yorgey and Matthew D. Moriarty -- Preliminary investigations in macro and microbotany at Motul de San Jose / Andrew Wyatt, David Jarzen, Lizzy Hare, and Kitty F. Emery -- Zooarchaeology of Motul de San Jose: animals in environmental and economic perspective / Kitty F. Emery -- Animal resource use and exchange at an inland Maya port: zooarchaeological investigations at Trinidad de Nosotros / Erin Kennedy Thornton -- In search of markets and fields: soil chemical investigations at Motul de San Jose / Daniel A. Bair and Richard E. Terry -- Stable carbon isotope evidence of ancient maize cultivation on the soils of Motul de San Jose / Elizabeth A. Webb and Henry P. Schwarcz -- Landscape, economies, and the politics of power in the Motul de San Jose zone / Kitty F. Emery and Antonia E. Foias -- Control without controlling: Motul de San Jose and its environs from an outsider's perspective / Elizabeth Graham.