Introduction / Yamilette Chacon and Richard J. Chacon -- Amphibious and Aquatic Warfare in Mesoamerica: Conquest by Water and Land / Mariana Favila V zquez -- The Formation of Warrior Cultures and the "Ritualized War" in the Central Andes / Krzysztof Makowski -- Pucara VS Fortress: Defensive Arrangements during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1/ -1450) on the Coast and Sierra of the Central Andes / Vincent Chamussy and Romuald Housse -- War or Peace on the Central Coast? Questioning metanarratives of Late Intermediate Period mobocracies on the basis of Ychsma evidence from Pachacamac, Peruvian Central Coast / Peter Eeckhout and Lawrence S. Owens -- The Origins of the Inka Empire: Elite Agency in the Competition for Power / Dennis Ogburn -- Warfare and Wife Beating: What Spencer Didn't Know / Stephen Beckerman, Pamela Erickson, and James Yost -- Contemplating Domination / Nam C. Kim