The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan.
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"This is an impressive two-part overview of the history of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica from earliest times to the present...the contributions vary in depth and quality, but fortunately the variation is between good and excellent...these books are extremely useful...The authors and editors are to be commended." American Historical Review
"This is an impressive two-part overview of the history of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica from earliest times to the present...the contributions vary in depth and quality, but fortunately the variation is between good and excellent...these books are extremely useful...The authors and editors are to be commended." American Historical Review
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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan.
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Mystified about the origins and cultural development of the strange people they called los indios, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Mesoamerica could do little more than speculate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
northern subregion, polity capitals, southern subregion, settlement pattern studies, ceramic complex, lithic artifacts, obsidian source, ceramic sequence, incipient agriculture, ethnohistorical sources, ceramic chronology, ceremonial precinct, sunken patio, apartment compounds, carved monuments, obsidian flakes, drained fields, highland sites, southern lowlands, stratigraphic excavation, public architecture, iconographic motifs, maize agriculture, projectile points, southern centers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Basin of Mexico, New York, Gulf Coast, New World, Late Classic, Middle Preclassic, Monte Albin, American Antiquity, Late Postclassic, Early Classic, Early Preclassic, University of Texas Press, Handbook of Middle American Indians, Dumbarton Oaks, Intermediate Area, Valley of Mexico, Mexico City, Department of Anthropology, Middle Formative, San Lorenzo, Garcia Cook, Academic Press, South America, Sun Pyramid, University of California New!
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Mystified about the origins and cultural development of the strange people they called los indios, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Mesoamerica could do little more than speculate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
northern subregion, polity capitals, southern subregion, settlement pattern studies, ceramic complex, lithic artifacts, obsidian source, ceramic sequence, incipient agriculture, ethnohistorical sources, ceramic chronology, ceremonial precinct, sunken patio, apartment compounds, carved monuments, obsidian flakes, drained fields, highland sites, southern lowlands, stratigraphic excavation, public architecture, iconographic motifs, maize agriculture, projectile points, southern centers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Basin of Mexico, New York, Gulf Coast, New World, Late Classic, Middle Preclassic, Monte Albin, American Antiquity, Late Postclassic, Early Classic, Early Preclassic, University of Texas Press, Handbook of Middle American Indians, Dumbarton Oaks, Intermediate Area, Valley of Mexico, Mexico City, Department of Anthropology, Middle Formative, San Lorenzo, Garcia Cook, Academic Press, South America, Sun Pyramid, University of California New!
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- The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization (Studies in archaeology) by William T. Sanders on 13 pages
- Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm (Studies on Culture and Society, No 6) by Mary G. Hodge on 9 pages
- Handbook of Middle American Indians. Volume Nine: Physical Anthropology (v. 9) by T. Dale Stewart on 7 pages
- Regional Perspectives on the Olmec (School of American Research Advanced Seminars) by Robert J. Sharer on 7 pages
- Tula of the Toltecs: Excavations and Survey by Dan M. Healan on 5 pages
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- Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Julia A. Hendon on page 71, page 72, and page 287
- First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Indian Women of Early Mexico by Susan Schroeder in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Les Mayas Guide Belle Lettres Des Civilisations by Claude-Francois Baudez in Back Matter
- Prehispanic Domestic Units in Western Mesoamerica: Studies of the Household, Compound, and Residence by Robert S. Santley on page 168
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