Introduction
1. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends
Deborah L. Nichols and Christopher Pool
Part I. Theory, Method, and Practice in Mesoamerican
Archaeology
2. A Short History of Theory in Mesoamerican Archaeology, Manuel
Gándera
3. Mexico's National Archaeology Programs, Nelly Robles
4. Archaeology in Guatemala: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist,
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
5. The Archaeology of Belize in the 21st Century, Jaime J. Awe
6. Mesoamerica's Southern Frontier, Geoffrey McCafferty, Fabio
Amador, Silvia Salgado, and Carrie Dennett
7. Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples, Shoshaunna Parks and
Patricia McAnany
8. Time and Space Boundaries: Chronologies and Regions in
Mesoamerica, Susan Evans
Part II. Hunter-Gatherers and First Farmers
9. Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers and Colonization of Mesoamerica,
Guillermo Acosta Ochoa
10. Archaic Period Foragers and Farmers, Douglas Kennett
11. The Origins of Food Production in Mesoamerica, Dolores Piperno
and Bruce Smith
Part III. Villages, Cities, States and Empires
Formation of Early Complex Societies, Cities, and States
12. The Formation of Complex Societies in Mesoamerica, Christopher
A. Pool
13. Not Carved in Stone: Building the Gulf Olmec from the Bottom
Up, Philip Arnold
14. The Development of Complex Societies in Formative Period
Pacific Guatemala and Chiapas, Michael Love
15. Ideology, Polity, and Social History of the Teotihuacan State,
Saburo Sugiyama
16. Cultural Evolution in the Southern Highlands of Mexico: From
The Emergence of Social Inequality and Urban Society to the Decline
of Classic Period States, Christina Elson
17. Archaeology of the Maya Highlands, Barbara Arroyo
18. Complex Societies in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Their
Development and Florescence in the Archaeological Record, Arlen
Chase and Diane Chase
19. The Rise of Formative Period Complex Societies in Northern Maya
Lowlands, Travis Stanton
20. Interaction among the Complex Societies of Classic Period
Mesoamerica, Sergio Gómez and Michael Spence
Developmental Cycles: Collapse and Regeneration
21. Concepts of Collapse and Regeneration in Human History, George
Cowgill
22. Teotihuacan and the Epiclassic in Central Mexico, Jeffrey
Parsons and Yoko Sugiura
23. The Classic Maya Collapse, David Webster
24. Searching for Tollan: Authority and Urbanism in Oaxaca after
Monte Albán, Jeffrey Blomster
25. Developmental Cycles in the Gulf Lowlands: Collapse and
Regeneration, Annick Daneels
26. Tula and the Toltecs, Dan Healan and Robert Cobean
27. Chichen Itza, Mayapan, and the Postclassic Transition among the
Maya of Northern Yucatan, George Bey and William Ringle
28. Late Postclassic Maya Highlands, Greg Borgstede and Eugenia
Robinson
29. Southern Pacific Coastal Region of Mesoamerica: A Corridor of
Interaction from Olmec to Aztec Times, Robert M. Rosenswig
30. The Tarascan Empire: Postclassic Social Complexity in West
Mexico, Helen Pearlstein Pollard
31. The Aztec Empire, Michael Smith and Maëlle Sergheraert
32. The Conquest of Mexico, Michel Oudijk
Peripheries and Frontiers
33. Networks, Cores, and Peripheries: New Frontiers in Interaction
Studies, Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban
34. The Southeastern Fringe of Mesoamerica, John Henderson and
Kathryn Hudson
35. Current Views on Power, Economics and Subsistence in Ancient
West Mexico, Christopher Beekman
36. Mesoamerica and the Southwest/Northwest, Randall McGuire
37. Aztec Boundary Interactions, Michael Ohnersorgen and Marcie
Venter
Part IV. Institutions, Beliefs, and Practices: Topical and
Comparative Perspectives
Economies and Economic Relations
38. Agricultural Landuse and Intensification, Vernon
Scarborough
39. Searching out Prehispanic Landscapes in Mesoamerica, Alfred
Siemens
40. Ecological Approaches to Archaeological Research in Central
Mexico: New Directions, Emily McClung
41. Sources and Sourcing, Ronald Bishop
42. Crafting and Manufacturing in Mesoamerica: Critical Engagements
in Theory and Method, E. Christian Wells
43. The Domestication of Stone in Mesoamerica, John Clark
44. Ceramic Technology and Production, Prudence Rice
45. Mesoamerican Metallurgical Technology and Production, Blanca
Maldonado
46. As the Whorl Turns: Function and Meaning in Mesoamerican
Textile Production, Geoffery McCafferty and Sherisse MaCafferty
47. Markets, Merchants, and Systems of Exchange, Kenneth Hirth
48. Central Mexican States and Imperial Tribute Systems, Frances
Berdan
Social and Political Relations
49. Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerican Societies, Rosemary
Joyce
50. Class and Ethnicity, Elizabeth Brumfiel and Cynthia Robin
51. Households in Ancient Mesoamerica: Domestic Social
Organization, Status, Economies, and Rituals, David Carballo
52. "Community", Marcello Canuto and Jason Yaeger
53. Cities and Urbanism in Prehispanic Mesoamerica, Richard
Blanton
54. Mesoamerican States and Empires, Gary Feinman
Beliefs and Rituals
55. Creation and Cosmology: Gods and Mythic Origins in Ancient
Mesoamerica, Karl Taube
56. Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes, Katheryn Reese-Taylor
57. Practices and Practitioners, Keith Reilly
58. The Living and the Dead, James Fitzsimmons
Art and Iconography, Calendars, Writing, and Literature
59. Mesoamerican Calendars and Archaeoastronomy, Anthony Aveni
60. Themes in the Art of the Preclassic Period, Mary Pye
61. Art of the Classic Period, Rex Koontz
62. Art in the Aztec Empire, Emily Umberger
63. Early Mesoamerican Writing Systems, John Justeson
64. Maya Writing, Nikolai Grube
65. Scribal Traditions from Highland Mesoamerica (A.D. 300-1000),
Javier Urcid
66. Nahua and Mixtec Pictorial Books: Religion and History Through
Visual Text, Lori Boornazian Diel
67. Colonial Documents, Eduardo de Jesus Douglas
Part V. The Spanish Conquest and Archaeology of the Colonial and
Republican Periods
68. The Spanish Conquest and the Archaeology of the Colonial and
Republican Periods, John Pohl
69. Population Decline During and After Conquest, Rebecca
Storey
70. Historical Archaeology in Central and Western Mesoamerica,
Patricia Fournier and Thomas Charlton
71. Landscape Change in the Maya Region, AD 1450-1910, Rani
Alexander
Deborah L. Nichols is William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of
Anthropology at Dartmouth College.
Christopher A. Pool is University Research Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Kentucky.
"An excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals alike: it is a realistic depiction of the discipline at the dawn of the 21st century, and of the general directions of Mesoamerican archaeology." --Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
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