What happened at the flashpoint? Conjectures on chiefdom formation at the very moment of conception / Robert L. Carneiro Less than meets the eye: evidence for protohistoric chiefdoms in Northern New Mexico / Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas In war and peace: alternative paths to centralized leadership / Elsa M. Redmond Investigating the development of Venezuelan chiefdoms / Charles S. Spencer Tupinambá chiefdoms? / William C. Sturtevant Colonial chieftains of the Lower Orinoco and Guayana Coast / Neil L. Whitehead War and theocracy / Pita Kelekna The Muisca: chiefdoms in transition / Doris Kurella Social foundations of Taino Caciques / William Keegan, Morgan Maclachlan, and Bryan Byrne Native chiefdoms and the exercise of complexity in sixteen-century Florida / Jerald T. Milanich The evolution of the Powhatan paramount chiefdom in Virginia / Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III