Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Preface to the New Edition -- Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Studying Maya Burials -- Part 2. Osteological Studies -- 2. Southern Lowland Maya Archaeology and Human Skeletal Remains: Interpretations from Caracol (Belize), Santa Rita Corozal (Belize), and Tayasal (Guatemala) -- 3. The Preclassic Skeletons from Cuello -- 4. Height among Prehispanic Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula: A Reconsideration -- 5. A Maya Skull Pit from the Terminal Classic Period, Colha, Belize -- 6. Archaeology and Osteology of the Tipu Site -- Part 3. Dental Studies -- 7. Late Postclassic Tooth Filing at Chau Hiix and Tipu, Belize -- 8. Cultural Odontology: Dental Alterations from Petén, Guatemala -- 9. Individual Frailty, Children of Privilege, and Stress in Late Classic Copán -- 10. Late Classic Maya Health Patterns: Evidence from Enamel Microdefects -- 11. Dental Genetic Structuring of a Colonial Maya Cemetery, Tipu, Belize -- Part 4. Stable Isotope and DNA Studies -- 12. Commoner Diet at Copán: Insights from Stable Isotopes and Porotic Hyperostosis -- 13. Ancient Diet at Lamanai and Pacbitun: Implications for the Ecological Model of Collapse -- 14. Ecology or Society? Paleodiet and the Collapse of the Pasión Maya Lowlands -- 15. Regional Diversity in Classic Maya Diets -- 16. Ancient and Contemporary Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Maya -- Part 5. Conclusion -- 17. Studying Maya Bioarchaeology -- Appendix. An Indexed Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology: 1839-1994 -- References Cited -- Index.