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In the Río Bec region, archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic data indicate that kingship has been weakly articulated from AD 550 to 950. Sub-royal elites were active, creating highly visible houses with land domains that served factional strategies and, late in time, diffused architectural ideas over a wide area. The picture is one of a highly fragmented society consisting of many economically autonomous agents, each pursuing corporate interests that combined intensive staple production and auto-construction of stable residences on their land, with minimal insertion in craft production and regional exchanges.