This volume reports excavations by Peter D. Harrison in Tikal's West Plaza during the early 1960s. Complementing Tikal Report No. 14 by William R. Coe, it describes the West Plaza's development, providing valuable data no longer available in the field. Of interest to those studying Tikal's epicenter.

William A. Haviland is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. His original archaeological research in Guatemala has been the basis of numerous publications, including an earlier technical volume from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Excavations in Small Residential Groups of Tikal, Groups 4F-1 and 4F-2: Tikal Report 19.