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| Author | : Thomas W. Killion |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 1992-09-30 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0817305653 |
Gardens of Prehistory details the social developments that were created by the prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World.
| Author | : Richard E. W. Adams |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806137025 |
An up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec Empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.
| Author | : Jeffrey P. Blomster |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2017-03-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107107679 |
Breaking new ground in Olmec studies, this book reveals the complexity and diversity of 'America's first civilization'.
| Author | : William M. Ferguson |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780826328014 |
William Ferguson's classic photographic portrayal of the major pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras is now available from UNM Press in a completely revised edition. Magnificent aerial and ground photographs give both armchair and actual visitors unparalleled views of fifty-one ancient cities. The restored areas of each site and their interesting and exotic features are shown within each group of ruins. The authors have thoroughly revised the text for this new edition, and they have added over 30 new photographs and illustrations as well as a completely new chapter by Richard E. W. Adams on regional states and empires in ancient Mesoamerica. Over a span of three thousand years between 1500 B.C. and A.D. 1500 great civilizations, including the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Toltec, Zapotec, and Aztec, flourished, waned, and died in Mesoamerica. These indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America are brought to life in Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities through stunning color photographs. The authors include the most recent research and most widely accepted theoretical perspectives on Mesoamerican civilizations. Ideal for the general reader as well as scholars of Mesoamerica, this volume makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Americas.
| Author | : Walter Robert Thurmond Witschey |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 447 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081087167X |
Mesoamerica is one of six major areas of the world where humans independently changed their culture from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle into settled communities, cities, and civilization. In addition to China (twice), the Indus Valley, the Fertile Crescent of southwest Asia, Egypt, and Peru, Mesoamerica was home to exciting and irreversible changes in human culture called the "Neolithic Revolution." The changes included domestication of plants and animals, leading to agriculture, husbandry, and eventually sedentary village life. These developments set the stage for the growth of cities, social stratification, craft specialization, warfare, writing, mathematics, and astronomy, or what we call the rise of civilization. These changes forever transformed humankind. The Historical Dictionary of Mesoamerica covers the history of Mesoamerica through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 900 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering the major peoples, places, ideas, and events related to Mesoamerica. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mesoamerica.
| Author | : Ross Hassig |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1992-08-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520077342 |
In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.
| Author | : William J. Folan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The essays in this book present the integrated application of prehistoric, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic data centering on the interpretation of past and present peoples residing in Greater Mesoamerica. These groups, at some time in their existence, had much in common: a corn-, bean-, and squash-farming base; permanent villages with plazas; public religious structures; and well-developed ceremonialism involving astronomical-ceremonial concepts including calendrics. They form an area designated by scholars as the Continental Core of North/Central America. Each essay offers a methodological approach or the documentation leading to a better understanding of such aspects of Greater Mesoamerica as climate, cultural history and sociopolitical organization. Contributors include Roman Piña Chan, William J. Folan, Basil C. Hedrick, J. Charles Kelley, Burma H. Hyde, Gabriel DeCicco, Michael W. Spence, Phil C. Weigand, Jay K. Johnson, Charles D. Trombold, Jr., Joseph B. Mountjoy, Dale P. Smith, Harold Franklin McGee, Jr., and Jonathan E. Reyman.
| Author | : Richard E. Blanton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 1993-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521446068 |
In this revised and updated 1993 edition the authors synthesize recent research to provide a comprehensive survey of Mesoamerica.
| Author | : Robert M. Carmack |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : 2016-01-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317346793 |
The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization through 20th century and their influence in the world community. For courses on Mesoamerica (Middle America) taught in departments of anthropology, history, and Latin American Studies.
| Author | : Aaron N. Shugar |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2013-01-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1607322102 |
Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field. These contributors analyze data from a variety of sites, examining current approaches to the study of archaeometallurgy in the region as well as new perspectives on the significance metallurgy and metal objects had in the lives of its ancient peoples. The chapters are organized following the cyclical nature of metals--beginning with extracting and mining ore, moving to smelting and casting of finished objects, and ending with recycling and deterioration back to the original state once the object is no longer in use. Data obtained from archaeological investigations, ethnohistoric sources, ethnographic studies, along with materials science analyses, are brought to bear on questions related to the integration of metallurgy into local and regional economies, the sacred connotations of copper objects, metallurgy as specialized crafting, and the nature of mining, alloy technology, and metal fabrication.
