Research Catalog

Title

Ancient Mexico & Central America : archaeology and culture history / Susan Toby Evans.

Author

Evans, Susan Toby, 1945-

Publication

London : Thames & Hudson, 2008.

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Details

Description

608 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 23 cm.

Alternative Title

• Ancient Mexico and Central America
• Archaeology and culture history

Subjects

• History
• Indians of Central America > History
• Indians of Mexico > History
• Central America > Civilization
• Mexico > Civilization
• Central America > Antiquities
• Mexico > Antiquities
• Archaeology and history > Central America
• Archaeoloy and history > Mexico
• Indians of Central America > Antiquities
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "First published in 2004 in hardcover in the United States of America by Thames & Hudson ... New York"--T.p. verso.
• "with 462 illustrations, 80 in color."
• "College edition" -- Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [573]-587) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• Winner of the Society of American Archaeology Book Award, 2005.

Contents

• pt. I, Mesoamerica, Middle America, and its people : -- 1. Ancient Mesoamerica, the civilization and its antecedents : -- Ancient Mexico and Central America in geographical, cultural, and global context -- Middle American and Mesoamerican culture history -- 2. Ecology and culture: Mesoamerican beginnings : -- Mesoamerica's major geophysical and biotic features -- Mesoamerican and cultural ecology -- Cultural regions -- Mesoamerica's first inhabitants: hunter-foragers to 8000 BC -- 3. Archaic forgers, collectors, and farmers (8000-2000 BC) : -- Archaic transformations: changes toward domestication of plants, and settled life -- From early archaic to middle archaic and beyond -- The middle archaic, c. 5500-3500 BC, and late archaic, c. 3500-2000 BC -- 4. The initial formative (c. 2000-1200 BC) : -- Cultural trends of the formative period -- Isthmian region -- Highlands west of the isthmus.
• pt. II, Complex societies of the formative : -- 5. The Olmecs: early formative (c. 1200-900/800 BC) : -- Early and formative and initial Olmec -- Early Olmecs and their neighbors -- Highland developments, west of the isthmus -- 6. The Olmecs: middle formative (c. 900-600 BC) : -- Developments in the southwestern highlands -- Isthmus and east -- 7. Middle to late formative cultures (c. 600-300 BC) : -- West of the isthmus: rise of Monte Alban -- Elsewhere in the highlands and west Mexico -- Last years of the Olmecs in the isthmus and east -- 8. The emergence of states in the late formative (300 BC-AD 1) : -- Proto-states in the highlands west of the isthmus -- Isthmus and east -- 9. The terminal formative (AD 1-300) : -- Early Maya centers -- West of the isthmus -- Teotihuacan, the place where time began.
• pt. III, Cultures of the Early Classic : -- 10. Teotihuacan and its international influence (AD 250/300-600) : -- Teotihuacan: pyramids and palaces -- Teotihuacan presence west of the isthmus -- 11. The Maya in the early classic (AD 250-600) : -- Maya lowlands -- Southeastern Mesoamerica and the intermediate area -- Isthmus, coastal plain, chiapas, and Guatemala highlands.
• pt. IV, Late Classic, Classic collapse, and Epiclassic : -- 12. The lowland Maya: Apogee and collapse (AD 600-900) : -- Late classic Maya culture -- Maya of the southern lowlands -- Elsewhere among the Maya -- 13. The late classic and epiclassic in the west (AD 600-1000/1100) : -- The Basin of Mexico and regions to its north and west -- Gulf lowlands -- Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Morelos -- Mixtec regions and Oaxaca -- 14. Maya collapse and survival (AD 800-1200) : -- Northwestern Yucatan: the Puuc region -- Northeastern Yucatan: Coba and its region -- Vectors of change: Chichen Itza and the Putun Maya -- Southern Pacific coast and southeastern Mesoamerica -- 15. The rise of Tula and other epiclassic transformations : -- Tula and Toltec culture -- Tula's neighboring regions -- Puebla/Tlaxcala and the southwestern highlands.
• pt. V, The Postclassic and the rise of the Aztecs : -- 16. The middle postclassic (1200s-1430) : -- East of the isthmus and the gulf lowlands -- West Mexico: the rise of the Tarascans of Michoacan -- The Basin of Mexico -- 17. The Aztecs: an empire is born (1325-1440) : -- Basin of Mexico -- 18. The Aztec empire develops (1440-1481) : -- The reign of Motecuzoma Ilhuicamina, 1440-1469 -- The reign of Axayacatl, 1469-1481 -- 19. The Aztec empire at its height (1481-1519) : -- Tizoc, 1481-1486 -- Ahuitzotl, 1486-1502 -- Motecuzoma Xocoyotzin, 1502-1520 -- 20. The conquest of Mexico and its aftermath : -- The Spaniards collect allies -- Motecuzoma, prisoner of fear -- Early colonial New Spain.

ISBN

• 9780500287149 (pbk.)
• 0500287147 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2007904501
• 9780500287149

OCLC

• 181139906
• SCSB-10360001

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library