By Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban

Little is understood approximately how past due Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica equipped their political kinfolk. Networks of strength fills gaps within the wisdom of this little-studied zone, reconstructing the process political historical past within the Naco Valley from the fourteenth via early 16th centuries. Describing the fabric and behavioral styles bearing on the past due Postclassic interval utilizing elements of 3 settlements within the Naco Valley of northwestern Honduras, the e-book specializes in how contests for strength formed political buildings. Power-seeking members, together with yet no longer limited to ruling elites, trusted networks of allies to aid their political targets. Ongoing and in part profitable competitions waged inside of networks ended in the incorporation of unique principles and imported goods into the day-by-day practices of all Naco Valley occupants. the outcome was once a delicate hierarchical constitution eternally at risk of the projects of brokers working on neighborhood and far away stages.Networks of energy describes who used to be desirous about those competitions and during which networks they participated; what assets have been mustered inside of those webs; which initiatives have been fueled by means of those resources; and the way, and to what volume, they contributed to the success of political goals.