Foreword / Christopher C. Taylor
Introduction / Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake
Cross-cultural perspectives on the scapegoat king: the anatomy of a model / Gyles Iannone
Killing the "Kings of Stone": the defacement of classic Maya monuments / Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Concepts of legitimacy and social dynamics: termination ritual and the last king of Aguateca, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata
The life and afterlife of the classic period Piedras Negras Kingdom / Charles Golden, Andrew K. Scherer, Melanie Kingsley, Stephen D. Houston, and Héctor Escobedo
Destruction events and political truncation at the little kingdom of Minanha, Belize / Sonja A. Schwake and Gyles Iannone
The collapses in the West and the violent ritual termination of the classic Maya capital center of Cancuen: causes and consequences / Arthur A. Demarest, Claudia Quintanilla, and José Samuel Suasnavar
Social-political manifestations of the terminal classic: Colha, Northern Belize as a case study
Palma J. Buttles and Fred Valdez Jr
Signs of the times: terminal classic surface deposits and the fates of Maya kingdoms in Northwestern Belize / Brett A. Houk
Events and processes leading to the abandonment of the Maya city of Blue Creek, Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan and C. Colleen Hanratty
Dynamic transitions at El Perú-Wakaʹ: late terminal classic ritual repurposing of a monumental shrine / Olivia C. Navarro-Farr
Lords of the life force and their people: reflections on ritual violence and reverence in the Maya Archaeological record / David Freidel.