Ancient West Mexico In The Mesoamerican Ecumene
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Author | : Eduardo Williams |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789693543 |
This volume presents a long-overdue synthesis and update on West Mexican archaeology. Ancient West Mexico has often been portrayed as a ‘marginal’ or ‘underdeveloped’ area of Mesoamerica. This book shows that the opposite is true and that it played a critical role in the cultural and historical development of the Mesoamerican ecumene.
Author | : Joshua D. Englehardt |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-04-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813057450 |
The ancient societies of western Mexico have long been understudied and misunderstood. Focusing on recent archaeological data, Ancient West Mexicos highlights the diversity and complexity of the region’s pre-Columbian cultures and argues that western Mexico was more similar to the rest of the Mesoamerican world than many researchers have believed. Chapters that treat investigations in Durango, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, and Michoacán draw on new evidence dating from across millennia, spanning different periods in Mesoamerican history. Contributors analyze materials including ceramics, architectural remains, textiles, and weaving tools to discern the settlement patterns, political structures, and cosmologies of the people who lived at these sites. Featuring intriguing case studies that point to unexpected pathways to sociopolitical complexity in ancient societies, these essays illustrate that the region’s archaeological record can contribute meaningfully to a more nuanced picture of Mesoamerica as a whole. Contributors: Laura Almendros López | Christopher S. Beekman | Mijaely Castañón | Fabio Germán Cupul-Magaña | Manuel Dueñas García | Joshua D. Englehardt | Rafael García de Quevedo-Machain | Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza | Erika Ibarra | Stephen A. Kowalewski | Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos | Michael Mathiowetz | Joseph B. Mountjoy | David Muñiz García | M. Nicolás Caretta | José Luis Punzo Díaz | Diego Rangel | Kimberly Sumano Ortega | Jesús Zarco
Author | : Peter F. Jimenez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108481124 |
This is the first application of the comparative approach of world-systems analysis in Mesoamerican archaeology.
Author | : Eduardo Williams |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2024-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1803278102 |
This book explores material culture and human adaptations to nature over time, with a focus on ceramics. The author also explores the role of ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory as key elements of a broad research strategy that seeks to understand human interaction with nature over time.
Author | : Eduardo Williams |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | : 9781784913557 |
This book presents a collection of papers from the Symposium on Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico, held at the Center for Archaeological Research of the Colegio de Michoacan on September 18-19, 2014. While these thought-provoking essays on key topics in Western Mexican archaeology will spark debate among scholars interested in this cultural area, they will also be of interest to students of ancient Mesoamerica as a whole. The time is ripe for insightful discussions and new syntheses of archaeological research in Western Mesoamerica, and this volume represents, undoubtedly, a valuable contribution to this urgent task. These papers are grouped into three thematic areas. The first, Cultural dynamics in Western Mexico, includes essays on: The challenges of archaeology in flood-prone areas; Exploitation of local resources and imported products; Settlement systems of the Tarascan state; and Stone tools as indicators of task specialization. The second section, Production of strategic resources, analyzes the following topics: The obsidian jewelry of the Teuchitlan Tradition; Differing obsidian economies in Teuchitlan culture; Source areas and obsidian exploitation in Michoacan; The history of pottery production in Capula, Michoacan; Ethnoarchaeology of Tarascan pottery: domestic production and decoration styles; Ceramics, social status, and the Tarascan state economy; and Copper as a strategic resource in pre-Hispanic Western Mexico; while part three focuses on Trade and exchange: Circulation of goods and communication routes between Western and Central Mexico; Contrasting models of ceramic production in the Tarascan state; and Ceramic evidence of contact between Teotihuacan, the Bajio, and southern Hidalgo.
Author | : Eduardo Williams |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2022-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789699126 |
This book explores the subsistence strategies that ancient Mesoamericans implemented to survive and thrive in their environments. It discusses the natural settings, production sites, techniques, artifacts, cultural landscapes, traditional knowledge, and other features linked to human subsistence in aquatic environments.
Author | : Richard F. Townsend |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Art, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780865591714 |
Presents over 200 of the finest known examples of ancient West Mexican sculptural art. This is the first publication to fully analyze this tradition, which has never before been as thoroughly documented as that of other early Mesoamerican civilizations. The examples represent a wide range of subjects in a variety of styles from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 800, & constitute the artistic canon of a region encompassing the modern states of Colima, Jalisco, & Nayarit.
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Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Joel W. Palka |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810875667 |
Ancient Mesoamerica drew world interest in the 19th century when photographs, drawings, and descriptions of discoveries of ruined cities in exotic locations in Mexico and Central America were published. These accounts from early explorers, archaeologists, and travelers made the cultures and archaeological sites of ancient Mesoamerica including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, Tarascan, Toltec, Zapotec, and other civilizations a major focus of intensive research, public and private funding, and lay interest. The A to Z of Ancient Mesoamerica covers some of the major discoveries throughout ancient Mesoamerica from the last 100 years. The results of previous and continuing research and explorations, plus recent interpretations of ancient cultures and new work at archaeological sites in Mesoamerica are summarized here. Included in this volume are information and insights on archaeological sites, material culture, social and economic organization, religion and belief systems, and the social history of ancient Mesoamerica. The entries contain geographical, chronological, historical, and interpretive data that serve as a condensed and accessible resource of reference material. Also presented here are select historical personages of ancient times and some brief notes on their lives and accomplishments taken from hieroglyphic texts, painted books or codices, and written documents and oral histories from the colonial period. With a bibliography and chronology, this text will be the perfect starting point for high school or undergraduate research, and a helpful ready-reference for more experienced scholars.
Author | : Michael S Foster |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2019-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000314715 |
Based on recent archaeological surveys and excavations, the chapters in this volume provide current, comprehensive, area-by-area summaries of the region's Precolumbian past. Research in the last two decades has indicated that the evolution and adaptations of the indigenous cultures of the region parallel those found elsewhere in Mesoamerica, from the simple Formative groups to the complex states of the North. The topics discussed in the book--areal and cultural syntheses and specific problems such as chronology, social organization, and economic systems--present much new information crucial to the understanding of cultural variations in Mesoamerica.