Customer Reviews

Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture History

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With one look at this book its easy to say it was written in a textbook fashion for high school or maybe introductory college, one might assume the depth of the information discussed is only an overview or an introduction. This is deceiving. The second edition of this wonderful book is packed with clear and crisp illustrations, 426 to be exact, and covers central American culture from Mesoamerica to Motecuzoma in detail. At nearly 600 pages this is a behemoth read with tiny side notes and explanations woven into the tightly knit text that fits neatly into 5 separate sections. I would recommend this book for anyone into central American studies and would think it makes a great course textbook for upper college instructors.

We used this in an Anthro class as a textbook, It was horrible. Information is so extremely scattered around the book finding specific information about a particular point or topic is almost impossible. The class would have been so much better had this book been more organized.

I thought I was alone in this until one day before class a group of about 6 of us were talking about the book; everybody had the same problem! I don't know how many publishers get student feedback about textbooks but I bet this one had absolutely zero feedback from any student!

However the book is very "pretty," it is full of pretty pictures and glossy pages! I love the look of the this book! It is very good looking and has tons of pictures! Believe me it is beautiful! Just look at the cover, you will not be disappointed with the pictures inside of this thing.

If you don't have to have this for a class I would have to say that it is a very confusing place to start to look for straight forward information about Mesoamerica.

Great book, no markings that I've seen. Should have been under super awesome condition. :D