Introduction / Dean Arnold, Yumi Park Huntington, Johanna Minich
Revealing natural and supernatural concepts through formal analysis
Ceramic wares and water spirits: identifying religious sodalities in the lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
Naturalism and "contrapposto" in the ceramics of ancient Ecuador: ideology and the humanistic trend in ancient American art / James Farmer
Investigating identity and social narrative through iconographic analysis and intertextuality
Exploring the technology and meaning behind early ceramic figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru / Shelia Pozorski & Thomas Pozorski
Emblems of cultural identity in early Andean art: engraved head motifs on Cupisnique ceramics / Yumi Park Huntington
Bodies in both worlds: a preliminary comparison of human and supernatural dress in Moche art / Sarahh E.H. Scher
Intertextuality in classic Maya ceramic art and writing: the interplay of myth and history on the Regal Rabbit Vase / Michael D. Carrasco & Robert F. Wald
Symmetry patterns and their social dimensions
Symmetry analysis of step fret patterns on ceramics and other media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest: continuities and changes in a shared pattern system / Dorothy K. Washburn
The importance of symmetry in defining Caddo relationships: a synthesis of perspective / Johanna Minich and Jeff Price
Charting innovation through diachronic studies
"Ceramic sets" in Maya and Toltec ceramics: the search for innovation and competition in ancient Mesoamerican pottery system / George J. Bey III
A diachronic perspective on the Prehispanic ceramic tradition of the Valley of Oaxaca / Gary M. Feinman
Product continuity and change in persistent household ceramic production: the Tarascan case / Amy J. Hirshman.