The Oxford handbook of Mesoamerican archaeology | WorldCat.org
xv, 979 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
9780195390933, 0195390938
761538187
Introduction ; 1. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends ; Deborah L. Nichols and Christopher Pool ; Part I. Theory, Method, and Practice in Mesoamerican Archaeology ; 2. A Short History of Theory in Mesoamerican Archaeology, Manuel Gandera ; 3. Mexico's National Archaeology Programs, Nelly Robles ; 4. Archaeology in Guatemala: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos ; 5. The Archaeology of Belize in the 21st Century, Jaime J. Awe ; 6. Mesoamerica's Southern Frontier, Geoffrey McCafferty, Fabio Amador, Silvia Salgado, and Carrie Dennett ; 7. Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples, Shoshaunna Parks and Patricia McAnany ; 8. Time and Space Boundaries: Chronologies and Regions in Mesoamerica, Susan Evans ; Part II. Hunter-Gatherers and First Farmers ; 9. Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers and Colonization of Mesoamerica, Guillermo Acosta Ochoa ; 10. Archaic Period Foragers and Farmers, Douglas Kennett ; 11. The Origins of Food Production in Mesoamerica, Dolores Piperno and Bruce Smith ; Part III. Villages, Cities, States and Empires ; Formation of Early Complex Societies, Cities, and States ; 12. The Formation of Complex Societies in Mesoamerica, Christopher A. Pool ; 13. Not Carved in Stone: Building the Gulf Olmec from the Bottom Up, Philip Arnold ; 14. The Development of Complex Societies in Formative Period Pacific Guatemala and Chiapas, Michael Love ; 15. Ideology, Polity, and Social History of the Teotihuacan State, Saburo Sugiyama ; 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, Christina Elson ; 17. Archaeology of the Maya Highlands, Barbara Arroyo ; 18. Complex Societies in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Their Development and Florescence in the Archaeological Record, Arlen Chase and Diane Chase ; 19. The Rise of Formative Period Complex Societies in Northern Maya Lowlands, Travis Stanton ; 20. Interaction among the Complex Societies of Classic Period Mesoamerica, Sergio Gomez and Michael Spence ; Developmental Cycles: Collapse and Regeneration ; 21. Concepts of Collapse and Regeneration in Human History, George Cowgill ; 22. Teotihuacan and the Epiclassic in Central Mexico, Jeffrey Parsons and Yoko Sugiura ; 23. The Classic Maya Collapse, David Webster ; 24. Searching for Tollan: Authority and Urbanism in Oaxaca after Monte Alban, Jeffrey Blomster ; 25. Developmental Cycles in the Gulf Lowlands: Collapse and Regeneration, Annick Daneels ; 26. Tula and the Toltecs, Dan Healan and Robert Cobean ; 27. Chichen Itza, Mayapan, and the Postclassic Transition among the Maya of Northern Yucatan, George Bey and William Ringle ; 28. Late Postclassic Maya Highlands, Greg Borgstede and Eugenia Robinson ; 29. Southern Pacific Coastal Region of Mesoamerica: A Corridor of Interaction from Olmec to Aztec Times, Robert M. Rosenswig ; 30. The Tarascan Empire: Postclassic Social Complexity in West Mexico, Helen Pearlstein Pollard ; 31. The Aztec Empire, Michael Smith and Maelle Sergheraert ; 32. The Conquest of Mexico, Michel Oudijk ; Peripheries and Frontiers ; 33. Networks, Cores, and Peripheries: New Frontiers in Interaction Studies, Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban ; 34. The Southeastern Fringe of Mesoamerica, John Henderson and Kathryn Hudson ; 35. Current Views on Power, Economics and Subsistence in Ancient West Mexico, Christopher Beekman ; 36. Mesoamerica and the Southwest/Northwest, Randall McGuire ; 37. Aztec Boundary Interactions, Michael Ohnersorgen and Marcie Venter ; Part IV. Institutions, Beliefs, and Practices: Topical and Comparative Perspectives ; Economies and Economic Relations ; 38. Agricultural Landuse and Intensification, Vernon Scarborough ; 39. Searching out Prehispanic Landscapes in Mesoamerica, Alfred Siemens ; 40. Ecological Approaches to Archaeological Research in Central Mexico: New Directions, Emily McClung ; 41. Sources and Sourcing, Ronald Bishop ; 42. Crafting and Manufacturing in Mesoamerica: Critical Engagements in Theory and Method, E. Christian Wells ; 43. The Domestication of Stone in Mesoamerica, John Clark ; 44. Ceramic Technology and Production, Prudence Rice ; 45. Mesoamerican Metallurgical Technology and Production, Blanca Maldonado ; 46. As the Whorl Turns: Function and Meaning in Mesoamerican Textile Production, Geoffery McCafferty and Sherisse MaCafferty ; 47. Markets, Merchants, and Systems of Exchange, Kenneth Hirth ; 48. Central Mexican States and Imperial Tribute Systems, Frances Berdan ; Social and Political Relations ; 49. Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerican Societies, Rosemary Joyce ; 50. Class and Ethnicity, Elizabeth Brumfiel and Cynthia Robin ; 51. Households in Ancient Mesoamerica: Domestic Social Organization, Status, Economies, and Rituals, David Carballo ; 52. "Community", Marcello Canuto and Jason Yaeger ; 53. Cities and Urbanism in Prehispanic Mesoamerica, Richard Blanton ; 54. Mesoamerican States and Empires, Gary Feinman ; Beliefs and Rituals ; 55. Creation and Cosmology: Gods and Mythic Origins in Ancient Mesoamerica, Karl Taube ; 56. Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes, Katheryn Reese-Taylor ; 57. Practices and Practitioners, Keith Reilly ; 58. The Living and the Dead, James Fitzsimmons ; Art and Iconography, Calendars, Writing, and Literature ; 59. Mesoamerican Calendars and Archaeoastronomy, Anthony Aveni ; 60. Themes in the Art of the Preclassic Period, Mary Pye ; 61. Art of the Classic Period, Rex Koontz ; 62. Art in the Aztec Empire, Emily Umberger ; 63. Early Mesoamerican Writing Systems, John Justeson ; 64. Maya Writing, Nikolai Grube ; 65. Scribal Traditions from Highland Mesoamerica (A.D. 300-1000), Javier Urcid ; 66. Nahua and Mixtec Pictorial Books: Religion and History Through Visual Text, Lori Boornazian Diel ; 67. Colonial Documents, Eduardo de Jesus Douglas ; 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, John Pohl ; 69. Population Decline During and After Conquest, Rebecca Storey ; 70. Historical Archaeology in Central and Western Mesoamerica, Patricia Fournier and Thomas Charlton ; 71. Landscape Change in the Maya Region, AD 1450-1910, Rani Alexander