Archaeological Mexico 2 Ed: A Guide to Ancient Cities and Sacred Sites [Paperback]

Andrew Coe (Author)

Book Description

Series: Archaeological Mexico | Publication Date: November 9, 2001

This guide is a must for anyone interested in personally exploring Mexico's prehistoric ruins. Author Andrew Coe takes an in-depth look at Mesoamerican culture, from the early mammoth hunters to the magnificent civilizations encountered by Cortes, and explores the newest and most exciting scientific theories on each site.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 2nd edition (November 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566913217
• ISBN-13: 978-1566913218
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,142,024 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #25 in Books > Travel > Latin America > Mexico > Mexico City

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best guide book to Mexico's archaeological sites, April 17, 1999

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Richard A. Diehl ([e-mail]) (Tuscaloosa, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon Handbooks: Archaeological Mexico (1st Ed.) (Paperback)

This is the best guide book to Mexico's archaeological sites written in the 20th century. As a professional archaeologist who has worked in Mexico since 1961, I have visited virtually every archaeological site he describes and read almost every guide book published in English or Spanish. Coe is accurate, informative, and interesting. This book will be in my backpack on every trip to Mexico in the future.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, December 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Archaeological Mexico 2 Ed: A Guide to Ancient Cities and Sacred Sites (Paperback)

I really looked forward to this book and took it with me on my tour of mayan sites in the Yucatan. However, I found that this book offered very little more than was available on the posted signage at the sites. Also, many of the maps are inadequate. I often found myself going to my Lonely Planet guide (Belize, Guatemala & Yucatan) for more detailed maps and decriptions of archeological sites.

Although the author presents the sites in a "tour" format, in practice it is hard to follow, and since the descriptions lack photos, it's very difficult to compare what you're seeing with what's written in the book. Although there are photos of the sites, but not of the specific items that the author is describing.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is this book up to date?, January 3, 2004

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Andrew Simpkins (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Archaeological Mexico 2 Ed: A Guide to Ancient Cities and Sacred Sites (Paperback)

I know it's hard to keep up to date, but that's why new editions are published. What got my attention was the fact that this book's description of getting to Yaxchilan clearly pre-dates the construction of a paved road from Palenque all the way along the Guatemala border to Lagunas de Montebello. The publication date of the book is September 2001, yet the road was opened in 2000 and must have been under construction for some time before then. I hate it when something I know is wrongly described in a book; it makes me mistrust the rest of it.