Mexico : from the Olmecs to the Aztecs /
"This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Updates begin with the earliest periods: one of the enduring puzzles surrounding Mexican prehistory, the origins of maize farming, has at last been solved....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London :
Thames & Hudson,
2013.
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Edición: | Seventh edition, rev. and expanded. |
Colección: | Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) ;
v. 29. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Geographic setting
- Languages and peoples
- Periods
- 2. Early hunters
- 3. The Archaic period
- The Desert Culture in North America
- Origins of Mexican cultivated plants
- Importance of maize
- Other cultigens
- Caves and rockshelters of northeastern Mexico
- Santa Marta rockshelter
- The Tehuacan Valley
- The other Archaic sites
- The Archaic period and the origins of settled life
- 4. The Preclassic period : early villagers
- The early Preclassic in Chiapas
- Early Preclassic villagers in Oaxaca
- The site of Tlatilco
- Established villages of the middle Preclassic
- Late Preclassic cultures of the central highlands
- The Mezcala puzzle
- The shaft-tomb art of western Mexico and the Teuchitlan Tradition
- 5. The Preclassic period : early civilizations
- Background of civilized life
- The Olmec civilization
- The San Lorenzo Olmecs
- El Manatí
- The Olmecs of La Venta
- Chiapa de Corzo: a La Venta outlier?
- Tres Zapotes and the Long Count calendar
- The Olmecs beyond the heartland
- Early Zapotec civilization
- Izapan civilization
- La Mojarra and the Isthmian script
- 6. The Classic period
- Rise of the great civilizations
- The urban civilization of Teotihuacan
- The Great Pyramid of Cholula
- Cerro de las Mesas
- Classic Monte Albán and Classic Veracruz civilization
- The Classic downfall.
- 7. The Epiclassic period
- The Maya connection : Cacaxtla and Xochicalco
- Cholula
- Cantona
- El Tajín
- Central Veracruz
- Valley of Oaxaca
- Northwestern Mexico
- The end of the Epiclassic
- 8. The Post-Classic period : the Toltec state
- A time of troubles
- The Chichimeca of northern Mexico
- Tula and the Toltecs
- The Toltec annals
- Archaeological Tula
- Tula and Chich'en Itza
- 9. The Post-Classic period : rival states
- Late Zapotec culture at Mitla
- The Mixtecs
- The Huastec
- The Tarascan kingdom
- Casas Grandes and the northern trade route
- The rise of the Aztec state
- The consolidation of Aztec power
- 10. The Aztecs in 1519
- The island city
- Aztec society
- The long-distance merchants
- Becoming an Aztec
- Marriage
- The Triple Alliance and the Empire
- The emperor and the palace
- Food and agriculture
- War and human sacrifice
- Aztec religion
- Aztec art and architecture
- Aztec thought and literature
- Epilogue
- The Spanish Conquest
- New Spain and the Colonial world
- The "ladinoization" of Mexico
- Aftermath
- Visiting Mexico
- Chronological table
- Reigning monarchs of the Aztec state.