Integrating the prehistoric natural and social landscapes of the highlands of southwest Honduras : a deep history / Alejandro J. Figueroa and Timothy Scheffler -- Evaluating the size, limits and influence of the Copán polity in western Honduras via Protoclassic to Late Classic period transformations in the Cucuyagua and Sensenti valleys of western Honduras / Erlend Johnson -- Río Amarillo : a community on the margins of ancient Copán / Cameron L. McNeil, Edy Barrios, Walter Burgos, Antolín Velásquez, and Mauricio Díaz García -- The archaeology of Jesú︢s de Otoro and inter-valley variation in central Honduras / William J. McFarlane and Miranda Stockett Suri -- Archaeological research in southeastern Honduras : the case of the Jamastrán Valley / Eva L. Martínez -- Ancient Mosquito Coast : why only certain material culture was adopted from outsiders / Christopher Begley -- The royalization of Roatán : colonial encounters with the Pech and Miskitu / Lorena D. Mihok, E. Christian Wells, and Whitney A. Goodwin -- Historical archaeology in Honduras / Russell Sheptak -- The politics of ethnic identity in the context of the "frontier" : ethnohistory of the Lenca, Chortí and Nahua peoples of Honduras / Gloria Lara-Pinto -- Honduran Lenca chiefdoms of the Contact period (1502-1550) / Pastor Rodolfo Gómez Zúñiga -- Sixteenth-century mobility and interaction in southeastern Mesoamerica : clues from conquistador routes / William R. Fowler -- An alternative framework for Honduran archaeology / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Sociopolitical dynamism, fluidity, and fragmentation in southeast Mesoamerica / Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban