The Maya inhabited an extremely diverse region that included not only tropical lowlands but also highland volcanic pine forrests. It was the interchange between the types of goods that could be grown in cold, mountainous terrain verses the types of goods produced in the lowland rain forrests that allowed the Maya to build impressive monumental cities. We know more about the lowland peoples because we have been able to decipher their writing to such a degree that we now have a dynastic and political history of their exploits, especially in the Classic period. We know less about the highlanders yet we take most of the mythology of the K'iche', a highland Maya people, and adapt it to the lowlands. What about Q'umarkaj, Ixiim Che, and Zuculeu, highland Maya kingdoms that did not have the impressive monumental stelae and shared more in common, architecturally and artistically, with central Mexico and the Mixteca, Puebla region? All of these kingdoms are post-classic, a period that has been little studied by archaeologists, historians, and art historians.