Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1: THE RUINS OF SEIBAL

Location and Name of Site; A Brief Description of the Ruins

Terrain Aspects

Archaeological Aspects

Earlier Archaeological Explorations

Federico Artes (1892)

Teobert Maler (1895 and 1905)

S. G. Morley (1914 and 1915)

Barnum Brown (1948)

John A. Graham, Timothy Fiske, and R. E. W. Adams (1961)

Problems for the 1964-1968 Investigations

General descriptive-historical problems

The nature of the preclassic

The early classic period

The terminal late classic period and the "Mexican Influences"

Function and contexts

PART 2: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING OF SEIBAL

Introduction: The Southern Peten Region

Physiography

Geology

Hydrography

Climate

Soils

Flora

Fauna

Environmental change

The Immediate Site Environment And Resources: A Summary

PART 3: THE 1964-1968 INVESTIGATIONS: A PREVIEW

Preliminaries

The Mapping Operation In The Main Ceremonial Center

Background

Technique of mapping

Location, elevation, and orientation data

Practical procedures

Designation of structures and monuments

Graphic representation of mounds

Excavations in the Main Ceremonial Center

Group A

Group C

Structure 79

Group D

The Peripheral Survey and Excavations Ceramics and the Seibal Sequence

Real Xe phase

Escoba Mamom phase

Cantutse Chicanel phase

Junco Tzakol phase

Tepejilote Tepeu phase

Bayal Boca phase

Other Seibal Data Summaries

Monuments and inscriptions

Burials

Caches

Artifacts

Other Sites Explored in 1964-1968

Cancuen

Itzan

Anona

Addendum: The Present and Future at Seibal

Bibliography