The Oxford handbook of Mesoamerican archaeology /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. |
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| Description: | xv, 979 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8933190 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- 1. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends
- Part I. Theory, Method, and Practice in Mesoamerican Archaeology
- 2. A Short History of Theory in Mesoamerican Archaeology
- 3. Mexico's National Archaeology Programs
- 4. Archaeology in Guatemala: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist
- 5. The Archaeology of Belize in the Twenty-First Century
- 6. Archaeology on Mesoamerica's Southern Frontier
- 7. Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples
- 8. Time and Space Boundaries: Chronologies and Regions in Mesoamerica
- Part II. Hunter-Gatherers and First Farmers
- 9. Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers and the Colonization of Mesoamerica
- 10. Archaic-Period Foragers and Farmers in Mesoamerica
- 11. The Origins of Food Production in Mesoamerica
- Part III. Villages, Cities, States, and Empires
- Formation of Early Complex Societies, Cities, and States
- 12. The Formation of Complex Societies in Mesoamerica
- 13. Not Carved in Stone: Building the Gulf Olmec from the Bottom Up
- 14. The Development of Complex Societies in Formative-Period Pacific Guatemala and Chiapas
- 15. Ideology, Polity, and Social History of the Teotihuacan State
- 16. Cultural Evolution in the Southern Highlands of Mexico: From the Emergence of Social Inequality and Urban Society to the Decline of Classic-Period States 230 Christina Elson
- 17. Archaeology of the Maya Highlands
- 18. Complex Societies in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Their Development and Florescence in the Archaeological Record
- 19. The Rise of Formative-Period Complex Societies in the Northern Maya Lowlands
- 20. Interaction among the Complex Societies of Classic-Period Mesoamerica
- Developmental Cycles: Collapse and Regeneration
- 21. Concepts of Collapse and Regeneration in Human History
- 22. Teotihuacan and the Epiclassic in Central Mexico
- 23. The Classic Maya Collapse
- 24. Searching for Tollan: Authority and Urbanism in Oaxaca after Monte Alban
- 25. Developmental Cycles in the Gulf Lowlands
- 26. Tula and the Toltecs
- 27. The Late Classic to Postclassic Transition among the Maya of Northern Yucatán
- 28. The Archaeology of the Late Postclassic Maya Highlands
- 29. The Southern Pacific Coastal Region of Mesoamerica: A Corridor of Interaction from Olmec to Aztec Times
- 30. The Tarascan Empire: Postclassic Social Complexity in Western Mexico
- 31. The Aztec Empire
- 32. The Conquest of Mexico
- Peripheries and Frontiers
- 33. Networks, Cores, and Peripheries: New Frontiers in Interaction Studies
- 34. The Southeastern Fringe of Mesoamerica
- 35. Current Views on Power, Economics, and Subsistence in Ancient Western Mexico
- 36. Mesoamerica and the Southwest/Northwest
- 37. Aztec Boundary Interactions
- Part IV. Institutions, Beliefs, and Practices: Topical and Comparative Perspectives
- Economies and Economic Relations
- 38. Agricultural Land Use and Intensification
- 39. Searching Out Prehispanic Landscapes in Mesoamerica by Means of Aerial Reconnaissance
- 40. Ecological Approaches to Archaeological Research in Central Mexico: New Directions
- 41. Sources and Sourcing
- 42. Crafting and Manufacturing in Mesoamerica: Critical Engagements with Theory and Method
- 43. The Domestication of Stone in Mesoamerica
- 44. Ceramic Technology and Production
- 45. Mesoamerican Metallurgical Technology and Production
- 46. As the Whorl Turns: Function and Meaning in Mesoamerican Textile Production
- 47. Markets, Merchants, and Systems of Exchange
- 48. Central Mexican States and Imperial Tribute Systems
- Social and Political Relations
- 49. Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerican Societies
- 50. Class and Ethnicity in Ancient Mesoamerica
- 51. Households in Ancient Mesoamerica: Domestic Social Organization, Status, Economies, and Rituals
- 52. Communities in Ancient Mesoamerica
- 53. Cities and Urbanism in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
- 54. Mesoamerican States and Empires
- Beliefs and Rituals
- 55. Creation and Cosmology: Gods and Mythic Origins in Ancient Mesoamerica
- 56. Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes
- 57. Mesoamerican Religious Beliefs: The Practices and Practitioners
- 58. The Living and the Dead 776 James L. Fitzsimmons
- Art and Iconography, Calendars, Writing, and Literature
- 59. Mesoamerican Calendars and Archaeoastronomy
- 60. Themes in the Art of the Preclassic Period
- 61. Art of the Classic Period
- 62. Art in the Aztec Empire
- 63. Early Mesoamerican Writing Systems
- 64. Maya Writing
- 65. Scribal Traditions from Highland Mesoamerica (300-1000 AD)
- 66. Nahua and Mixtec Pictorial Books: Religion and History through Visual Text
- 67. Colonial Documents
- Part V. The Spanish Conquest and Archaeology of the Colonial and Republican Periods
- 68. The Spanish Conquest and the Archaeology of the Colonial and Republican Periods
- 69. Population Decline during and after Conquest
- 70. Historical Archaeology in Central and Western Mesoamerica
- 71. Landscape Change in the Maya Region, 1450-1910 AD
- Index
