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Edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley Gorenstein
Archaeology
Mesoamerican studies, as they are still practiced today, are framed by the Spanish colonial intrusion into Mexico from the east, and subsequent involvement with the Aztec Empire. Greater Mesoamerica expands the definition of "Mesoamerica" beyond the more traditionally accepted central Mexican areas to both western and northwestern Mexico where sophisticated cultures were flourishing outside the realm of Spanish influence. It is the first comprehensive overview of both regions since the Handbook of Middle American Indians was published in the early 1970s.
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, noting the discovery of new cultural configurations, new connections, and new complexities.
Contents
Table of Contents:Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
1. West and Northwest Mexico: The Ins and Outs of Mesoamerica - Shirley Gorenstein and Michael S. Foster
2. The Late and Terminal Preclassic in Southeastern Guanajuato: Heartland or Periphery? - Charles A. Florance
3. A Summary of the Archaeology of North-Central Mesoamerica: Guanajuato, GuerÉtaro, and San Luis PotosÍ - Beatriz Braniff C.
4. The Evolution and Decline of a Core of Civilization: The TeuchitlÁn Tradition and the Archaeology of Jalisco - Phil C. Weigand
5. Tarascans and Their Ancestors: Prehistory of MichoacÁn - Helen Perlstein Pollard
6. Tarascan External Relationships - Helen Perlstein Pollard
7. Prehispanic Cultural Development along the Southern Coast of West Mexico - Joseph B. Mountjoy
8. The Prehistory of Mexico's Northwest Coast: A View from the Marismas Nacionales of Sinaloa and Nayarit - Stuart D. Scott and Michael S. Foster
9. The AztatlÁn Mercantile System: Mobile Traders and the Northwestward Expansion of Mesoamerican Civilization - J. Charles Kelley
10. Archaeology of Southern Zacatecas: The Malapaso, Juchipila, and Valparaiso-BolaÑos Valleys - Peter F. JimÉnez Betts and J. Andrew Darling
11. The Archaeoastronomical System in the RÍo Colorado Chalchihuites Polity, Zacatecas: An Interpretation of the ChapÍn I Pecked Cross-Circle - J. Charles Kelley and Ellen Abbott Kelley
12. The Archaeology of Durango - Michael S. Foster
13. Recent Advances in Chihuahuan Archaeology - Ronna Jane Bradley
14. The Archaeological Traditions of Sonora - MarÍa Elisa Villalpando
15. From Tzintzuntzan to PaquimÉ: Peers or Peripheries in Greater Mesoamerica? - Michael W. Spence
References
Contributors
Index
