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Names: Hendon, Julia A. (Julia Ann), editor. | Overholtzer, Lisa, editor. | Joyce, Rosemary A., 1956- editor. | John Wiley & Sons, publisher.
Title: Mesoamerican archaeology : theory and practice / edited by Julia A. Hendon, Lisa Overholtzer, Rosemary A Joyce.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021. Series: Wiley blackwell studies in global archaeology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020043053 (print) | LCCN 2020043054 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119160885 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119160915 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119160922 (epub) | ISBN 9781119160939 (obook) Subjects: LCSH: Mayas--Antiquities. | Indians of Mexico--Antiquities. |Indians of Central America--Antiquities.
Classification: LCC F1435 .M557 2021 (print) | LCC F1435 (ebook) | DDC 972.8/01--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043053
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Table of Contents
1 Cover
5 Preface
6 List of Figures
7 Notes on Contributors
8 1 Mesoamerica: From Culture Area to Networks of Communities of Practice
9 2 Polity and Power in the Olmec Landscape
10 3 Objects with Images: Meaning-Making in Formative Mesoamerica
11 4 Monumental Cityscape and Polity at Teotihuacan
12 5 Social and Ethnic Identity in the Classic Metropolis of Teotihuacan
13 6 Household Archaeology and the Ancient Maya
14 7 Inseparable Entities: Classic Maya Landscapes and Settlements
15 8 Monte Albán and Early Urbanism in the Valley of Oaxaca: Maize, Mountains, and Monuments
16 9 Conquests and Colonialisms in Postclassic and Early Colonial Nejapa, Oaxaca
17 10 Writing History in the Postclassic Mixteca
18 11 Resiliency and Cultural Reconstitution of the Postclassic Mayapan Confederacy and Its Aftermath
19 12 Home Is Where the Ithualli Is: Toward a Microarchaeology of Aztec Households, Family Histories, and Social Identities
20 13 Mexica Monumental Stone Sculpture: Constellations of Form, Meaning, and Change in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital
21 14 Bioarchaeological Research on Daily Life in the Emerging Colonial Society of Mexico City
22 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Summary chronological framework for MesoamericaTable 1.2 Archaeologically identifiable defining traits of Mesoamerica, organized according to social and cultural practices
2 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Postclassic and Early Colonial period radiocarbon dated contexts in NejapaTable 9.2 Ceramic and obsidian artifact densities at excavated Postclassic and Early Colonial sites in Nejapa
3 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Surviving Precolonial style codices from Central and Southern Mexico
4 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Total number of individuals included in this study divided into age and sex categories.Table 14.2 Muscle movement groups, the entheses included in each group, and the action that each group produces for the upper appendicular skeletonTable 14.3 Average entheseal change scores for the right side of the body for each of the movement groups of the upper limb divided according to groups derived from cluster analysisTable 14.4 Age and sex distribution for each of the groups derived from cluster analysis for the right sideTable 14.5 Average entheseal change scores for the left side of the body for each of the movement groups of the upper limb divided according to groups derived from cluster analysisTable 14.6 Age and sex distribution for each of the groups derived from cluster analysis for the left sideTable 14.7 Distribution of individuals among the cluster groups for the right and left upper limbTable 14.8 Correlation of the mean scores for muscle movement groups on the right side of the body and the muscle movement groups on the left side of the body
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 11.1 Map of Mesoamerica1.2 Distribution of languages within Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish conquest
2 Chapter 22.1 Maps of Olman. Top: locations of sites mentioned in the text and coverage of archaeological surveys. Dashed line indicates the approximate extent of Olman. Bottom: geological map with physiographic provinces labeled. Base maps downloaded from the Mapa Digital de México V 6.3.0, INEGI2.2 Physical landscapes of Olman. (a) Western Tabasco swamps viewed from La Venta. (b) Alluvial plain northeast of the San Lorenzo plateau (slight rise in the background). (c) View across Tuxtlas piedmont to the extinct Tuxtlas Mountains volcano of Cerro el Vigía. (d) Cinder cones in the central Tuxtlas Mountains, looking northward across Lake Catemaco. (e) Cerro Manatí viewed from Macayal. (f) Ancient sand dunes near the coast to the west of the Tuxtla Mountains2.3 Early Formative settlement patterns in three regions of Olman2.4 Map of Mesoamerica, showing exchange of products to and from Gulf Olmec sites2.5 LiDAR imagery of Tres Zapotes in high (dark gray) and low (light gray) resolution. Gray line indicates extent of Tres Zapotes Archaeological Survey (Spanish acronym RATZ)2.6 Middle Formative settlement patterns in three regions of Olman2.7 Macayal phase offering at El Manatí2.8 Some examples of Olmec monumental sculpture. (a) Colossal head (Tres Zapotes Monument A). (b) Tabletop altar–throne (La Venta Monument 4). (c) Full-round sculpture (El Azuzul) “twins.” (d) Stela (La Venta Stela 2)2.9 Plans of civic–ceremonial precincts of Formative urban centers. Clockwise from upper left: San Lorenzo, La Venta, Tres Zapotes2.10 Clockwise from left: San Martín Pajapan Monument, La Venta Monument 44, Lerdo Monument2.11 Tres Zapotes Stela A
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