Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Approaching the City
• Chapter 2. The Invisible Kings
• Chapter 3. Ancestral Foundations
• Chapter 4. Animals, Cannibals, and the Military
• Chapter 5. A Marriage of Convenience: The King and the Military
• Chapter 6. The Gods Did It: The Divine Sanction of Power
• Chapter 7. Teotihuacan Jihad
• Chapter 8. Fiesta Teotihuacan Style
• Chapter 9. Continuities and Power
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

A grand overview of the New World's most recognizable but least understood ancient city--Teotihuacan, in the Valley of Mexico--which proposes a new model for the city's social and political structure.

About the Author

Annabeth Headrick is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Denver.