InhaltsangabeChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Sedimenting Social Identity: The Practice of Pre-Columbian Maya Body Partibility.- Chapter 3: Cueva del Lazo: Child Sacrifice or Special Funerary Treatment? Discussion of a Late Classic Context from the Zoque region of Western Chiapas (Mexico).- Chapter 4: A Case Study of Reverential Cave Use from Je'reftheel, Central Belize.- Chapter 5: Isotopic Insights into Mortuary Treatment and Origin at Xunantunich, Belize.- Chapter 6: Odontometric Investigation of the Origin of Freestanding Shrine Ossuaries at Mayapan.- Chapter 7: Human Dedicatory Burials from Altun Ha, Belize: Exploring Residential History Through Enamel Microwear and Tissue Isotopic Compositions.- Chapter 8: Danse Macabre: Death, Community and Kingdom at El Kinel, Guatemala.- Chapter 9: Mortuary Pathways and Ritual Meanings Related to Maya Human Bone Deposits in Subterranean Contexts.- Chapter 10: Mortuary Sealing Among the Maya.