The archaeology of political organization : urbanism in classic period Veracruz, Mexico /

The archaeology of political organization : urbanism in classic period Veracruz, Mexico /

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Author / Creator:	Stark, Barbara L., author.
Imprint:	[Los Angeles] : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2020] ©2021
Description:	xxiii, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Monograph / UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology ; 72 Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ; 72.
Subject:	Human settlements -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Social archaeology -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Urban Indians -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) -- Antiquities. Urban Indians. Antiquities. Human settlements. Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities. Social archaeology. Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities. Mexico. Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12760001

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Varying Form of Title:	Urbanism in classic period Veracruz, Mexico
ISBN:	9781950446148 195044614X 9781950446193
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-402) and index.
Summary:	"'The Archaeology of Political Organization' is an examination of settlement in the rich coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, which was wealthy by Mesoamerican values with fertile soil and tropical commodities such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and cotton. The book provides basic archaeological data about regional settlement from three decades of survey research in south-central Veracruz in the western lower Papaloapan basin, a region with low density urbanism. The data reveals political and social change, with consolidation of wealth by elite families during the Late Classic period. The political analysis considers archaeological evidence related to several organizational principles : collective versus autocratic, corporate versus exclusionary / network, and segmentary (unspecialized versus specialized). Many variables related to these principles used by other scholars are either suited to historically documented states, not archaeological ones, or ambiguous. Many published studies either focus on a particular city or use documents or other evidence drawn from the top of the settlement hierarchy, characterizing the whole society politically from a biased sample. This political analysis is regional in scope and attentive to variation in the settlement hierarchy, providing a guidepost to analysis of political principles with archaeological data"--
Other form:	Online version: Stark, Barbara L. Archaeology of political organization. Los Angeles, CA : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2021] 9781950446193
Standard no.:	40031252508

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