Having assembled a sizeable dataset in Part II, we now move forward in Part III to its analysis, synthesis, and conceptualisation. Multi-faceted problems invite cross-disciplinary approaches, and Part III engages in methodological and theoretical pluralism as it seeks ways to bring anthropology and history into a closer communion. At various junctures in this volume I have emphasised the importance of looking at the Classic Maya less as a series of separate polities than as a unified political culture. We have reached the point where that assertion needs to be more fully explored and its implications fleshed out.