This publication sees a number of leading scholars taking an in-depth look at settlement patterns in the ancient Americas. Contents: Introduction; Regional Survey at Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World Methodologies in Old World Urban Contexts; Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Northeastern Basin of Mexico A.P.; Opting In and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula and Xaltocan; The Tunanmarca Polity of Highland Peru and its Settlement System; Early Chiefdom Communities Compared: The Settlement Pattern Record for Chifeng, the Alto Magdalena, and the Valley of Oaxaca; Past Lives in Different Places: The Origins and Relationships of Teotihuacan's Foreign Residents; Men, Women, and Maguey: The Houshold Division of Labor Among Aztec Farmers; More Than Alluvial Land and Water: The Late Prehispanic Emergence of Eastern Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico; The Mesoamerican World of Goods and its Transformations.