General Editor
Merle Greene Robertson

Volume Editor
Virginia M. Fields

Originally published in 1994 as Seventh Palenque Round Table, 1989, edited by Virginia M. Fields. San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute.

CONTENTS

The Palace Intaglios: A Composite
Stairway Throne at Palenque
By James B. Porter

Ah Ts'ib: Scribal Hands and Sculpture
Workshops at Yaxchilán
By Carolyn Tate

Rewriting History at Yaxchilán:
Inaugural Art of Bird Jaguar IV
By Sandra Noble Bardsley

Enclosed Ritual Spaces and the Watery Underworld
In Formative Period Architecture: New Observations
On the Function of La Venta Complex A
By F. Kent Reilly, III

Observations on the History of Maya Hierolgyphic Writing
By Nikolai Grube