Author: Richard E. BlantonPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0932206913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I
Author: Richard E. BlantonPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0932206913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II
Author: Stephen KowalewskiPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703750
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Monte Alban's Hinterland
Author: Richard E. BlantonMonte Alban's Hinterland, Part I
Author: Claude Earle SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Monte Alban's Hinterland
Author: Monte Alban's Hinterland
Author: Stephen A. KowalewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Debating Oaxaca Archaeology
Author: Joyce MarcusPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 091570322X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies
Author: Linda ManzanillaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306454943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Overviews factors involved in change in early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt, pre-Shang China, Classic Horizon Central Mexico and the Maya Area, and Middle Horizon societies in the Andean Region. An introduction discusses various developmental processes in early urban societies. Chapters on regions and societies look at factors such as interregional exchange networks, conflict and demographic pressures, and the transformation of theocratic leadership in military administrators. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Casas Grandes and Its Hinterlands
Author: Michael E. WhalenPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816543895
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Casas Grandes, or Paquimé, is one of the most important settlements in the prehistoric North American Southwest. The largest and most complex community in the Puebloan world, it was characterized by its principal excavator, Charles Di Peso, as an outpost of the Toltec empire, which used it as a trade link between Mesoamerican and southwestern cultures. Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis have worked extensively in the Casas Grandes area and now offer new research arguing that it was not as similar to the highly developed complex societies of Mesoamerica as has been thought. In the first book of its kind in 25 years, the authors analyze settlement pattern data from more than 300 communities in the area surrounding Casas Grandes to show that its Medio period culture was a local development. Whalen and Minnis propose that Casas Grandes lacked extensive stratification, well-established decision-making hierarchies, and formalized positions of authority. They suggest instead that emerging elites used bribes, promises, and threats to build factions and extend their power. The communities at the periphery are shown to have had varying levels of social and economic interaction with Casas Grandes. This innovative study offers a new model for the rise and fall of Casas Grandes that departs considerably from the view most scholars have come to accept and will be of interest to all concerned with the comparative study of emergent complexity. It clearly shows that the idea of extensive regional centralization by Casas Grandes is no longer tenable and merits reconsideration by the archaeological community.
Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica
Author: Rex KoontzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429979045
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and centrality of these urban configurations in Ancient Mesoamerican history. In Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica, Rex Koontz, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, and Annabeth Headrick explore the cultural logic that structured and generated these centers.Through case studies of specific urban spaces and their meanings, the authors examine the general principles by which the Ancient Mesoamericans created meaningful urban space. In a profoundly interdisciplinary exchange involving both archaeologists and art historians, this volume connects the symbolism of those landscapes, the performances that activated this symbolism, and the cultural poetics of these ensembles.