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| Preface to the revised edition | |
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| Copan and Classic Maya civilization | |
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| The Mystery of the Maya | |
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| Mesoamerica and the Maya | |
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| Archaeological Periods | |
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| Copan as a Classic Maya Center | |
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| The Copan Valley | |
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| Piecing Together History | |
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| The Copan Valley and its environment | |
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| Incentives for Settlement | |
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| The Copan River and its Works | |
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| Geological History and Distribution of Arable Land | |
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| History of Land-Use in the Valley | |
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| Circumscription Theory and Agriculture | |
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| Maya archaeology comes of age | |
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| Earliest Archaeological Adventures in Central America | |
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| Maudslay, the Peabody Museum, and the First Scientific Investigations | |
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| The Carnegie Era | |
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| Recent Investigations | |
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| From Preclassic to Classic in the Copan Valley | |
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| The Preclassic Period in Mesoamerica | |
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| The Search for the Copan Preclassic | |
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| The 'Olmec Horizon' Materials from Group 9N-8 | |
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| The Protoclassic to Early Classic | |
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| The Early Classic | |
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| The path to statehood | |
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| Political Evolution and the Case of the Maya | |
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| The Rise of Copan Chiefdom | |
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| K'Inich Yax K'Uk' Mo', The Founder of The Copan Dynasty | |
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| Early Successors of the Founder | |
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| Perspectives from the Valley | |
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| Early Classic Burials from the Principal Group | |
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| Dynastic History in the 5th and 6th Centuries | |
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| The Long Reign of Ruler 12 | |
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| Waxaklajun Ub'Ah K'Awil-Statesman and Monarch | |
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| The Copan mosaic: reconstructing architecture, religion, and history | |
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| The Architectural Sculpture of Copan | |
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| Theory and Method of Analysis | |
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| The Monuments of Waxaklajun Ub'Ah K'Awil | |
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| The Named Buildings or 'Houses' of the Acropolis | |
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| Political Strategies of the Last Copan Kings | |
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| Copan Scribes and Warriors | |
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| The Great Dynastic Encyclical: the Hieroglyphic Stairway | |
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| The Hieroglyphic Stairway Project | |
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| Inscriptions and Imagery | |
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| The Archaeological Evidence | |
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| Perspectives from Copan and Quirigua on Classic Maya Warfare | |
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| Life under Yax Pahsaj Chan Yopat | |
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| Settlement Patterns During the Reign of Yax Pahsaj | |
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| Internal Organization of the Ancient City | |
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| Economic Specialization in the Urban Wards | |
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| Political Patronage in the Copan Valley | |
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| Relations with the Hinterland | |
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| The Acropolis Under Yax Pahsaj | |
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| Preamble to the Collapse | |
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| The Legacy of Yax Pahsaj | |
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| The political collapse and its aftermath | |
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| The Question of the 'Classic Maya Collapse' at Copan | |
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| The Nobles' Revolt | |
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| The Last Inscribed Monuments in the Principal Group | |
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| Perspectives from the Valley | |
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| Urbanization and the Classic Maya Order | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Notes to the text | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |