Papers presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium on Palaces of the Ancient New World.

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Palaces of the ancient new world : an introduction / Joanne Pillsbury and Susan Toby Evans -- Aztec palaces and other elite residential architecture / Susan Toby Evans -- Elite residences in west Mexico / Ben A. Nelson -- Royal palaces and painted tombs : state and society in the valley of Oaxaca / Ernesto González Licón -- Palaces of Tikal and Copán / Peter D. Harrison and E. Wyllys Andrews -- Identifying subroyal elite palaces at Copán and Aguateca / David Webster and Takeshi Inomata -- The concept of the palace in the Andes / Joanne Pillsbury -- Palaces and politics in the Andean middle horizon / William H. Isbell -- Identifying Chimú palaces : elite residential architecture in the late intermediate period / Joanne Pillsbury and Banks L. Leonard -- Enclosures of power : the multiple spaces of Inca administrative palaces / Craig Morris -- Lifestyles of the rich and famous : luxury and daily life in the households of Machu Picchu's elite / Lucy C. Salazar and Richard L. Burger -- Body, presence, and space in Andean and Mesoamerican rulership / Stephen D. Houston and Tom Cummins.