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Introducing war in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes / Andrew K. Scherer and John W. Verano -- War, violence, and society in the Maya lowlands / Takeshi Inomata -- War in the west : history, landscape, and classic Maya conflict / Andrew K. Scherer and Charles Golden -- Invasion : the Maya at war, 1520s-1540s / Matthew Restall -- Warfare in late/terminal formative period Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce -- Aztec battlefields of eastern Guerrero : an archaeological and ethnohistorical analysis of the operational theater of the Tlapanec War / Gerardo Gutierrez -- Sacrifice at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan and its role in regard to warfare / Ximena Chavez Balderas -- "I against my brother" : warfare, segmentation, and confederation in the south-central Andes in late prehistory / Elizabeth Arkush -- Making warriors, making war : violence and militarism in the Wari empire / Tiffiny A. Tung -- Taming the Moche / Luis Jaime Castillo Butters -- Warfare and captive sacrifice in the Moche culture : the battle continues / John W. Verano -- A materiality of opposition : on ancient Andean conflict and organization in northern Peru / George F. Lau -- The fall of Kuelap : bioarchaeological analysis of death and destruction on the eastern slopes of the Andes / J. Marla Toyne and L. Alfredo Narvaez Vargas -- The scope of Inca warfare as an imperial strategy of conquest and control / Dennis E. Ogburn -- Some concluding remarks : the view from outside / John Haldon.