Abstract
Archaeological settlement evidence from the Late/Terminal Classic (A.D. 700-950) Rosario Valley is analyzed for what it reveals about land tenure and its relation to politics. Concerning the degrees of private versus communal versus state control over land, the distribution of settlement over different land types indicates that control over land was localized more at the community than at the individual household level. State control over land is indicated by the political capital's distorting effect on the distribution of settlement in relation to arable land within its vicinity. Finally, the distributions of residential groupings do not suggest a dispersed estate (or feudal) type of settlement pattern for elite residents, since most of these resided in relatively large and hierarchically superior sites.
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