Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Studying Janaab' Pakal and reconstructing Maya dynastic history / Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina
  • Life and death of the ruler : recent bioarchaeological findings / Vera Tiesler
  • Janaab' Pakal : the age-at-death controversy revisited / Jane E. Buikstra, George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen
  • A histomorphometric analysis of the cortical bone of Janaab' Pakal's rib / Sam D. Stout and Margaret Streeter
  • Pakal's age in the demographic context of late classic Palenque society / Lourdes Márquez, Patricia Hernández, and Carlos Serrano
  • Did Pakal suffer from deforming diseases? : true facts and iconographic myths / Arturo Romano
  • Geographic origin of Janaab' Pakal and the "red queen" : evidence from strontium isotopes / T. Douglas Price [and others]
  • The companions of Janaab' Pakal and the "red queen" from Palenque, Chiapas : meanings of human companion sacrifice in classic Maya society / Andrea Cucina and Vera Tiesler
  • Longevity of Maya rulers of Yaxchilán : the reigns of shield jaguar and bird jaguar / Patricia Hernández and Lourdes Márquez
  • Ancient Maya royal biographies in a comparative perspective / Nikolai Grube
  • Discussion / John W. Verano.