Comprehensive study of the maguey plant and its role in cultural adaptation and cultural change in highland Mesoamerica; includes chapters on maguey cultivation and pulque production, maguey fiber processing and spinning, and the archaeological implications of the available ethnographic and historic information about maguey utilization.

Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography (Anthropological Papers Series) (Volume 82)

History

Parsons, Jeffrey R.

Parsons, Mary H.

Americas

U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

An archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru's rugged and diverse central highlands. The data derive from occupations between 500 B.C. and the mid-16th century A.D. Introductory chapters cover methodology, environmental context, ethnographic analogies for agriculture and pastoralism, and ethnohistory. Substantive chapters consider long-term trends in population, land use, settlement configuration, public architecture, and polity and economy at the local and regional levels. Two appendices provide detailed site and ceramic descriptions, including over 400 photos.

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru: The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2 (Volume 34) (Memoirs)

Hastings, Charles M.

M., Ramiro Matos

Based on his study of the nearly vanished aquatic economy of Chimalhuacán in the Valley of Mexico, Parsons describes the surviving vestiges of aquatic insect collection and fishing, and considers their developmental and archaeological implications within a broad context of historical, ethnographic, biological, ecological, and archaeological information from Mexico, North and South America, the Near East, and Africa. Activities, implements, artifacts, and landscapes are richly illustrated, in many cases with the author's own photos and a number of vintage photographs. The study concludes that aquatic resources were fully complementary with agricultural products during prehispanic times in Mesoamerica where a pastoral economy was absent.

The Last Pescadores of Chimalhuacán, Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography (Volume 96) (Anthropological Papers Series)

This monograph presents data from a systematic regional archaeological survey carried out over an area of ca. 600 square kilometers during May through December 1973 by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. Six principal occupational cycles are identified: (1) a very sparsely settled Formative era (ca. 500 BC-100 AD), (2) substantial growth during the subsequent Classic period (ca. 100-600 AD), (3) settlement contraction dominated by a single major hilltop center during the Epiclassic (ca. 600-900 AD), (4) explosive growth during the Early Postclassic (ca. 900-1100 AD), (5) near depopulation during the Middle Postclassic (ca. 1100-1300 AD), and (6) extensive reoccupation during the Late Postclassic into early Colonial times (ca. 1300-1600 AD). Numerous photographs illustrate details of a landscape that has been radically altered by urban sprawl and commercial agriculture since the time of the fieldwork. Color plates illustrate pottery.

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico: The Zumpango Region (Memoirs) (Volume 45)

Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he studied were on the brink of destruction. The rural landscapes through which he traveled were, in many cases, destined to be plowed under and paved over. In Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961–2003, Parsons offers readers a chance to see archaeological sites that were hundreds or thousands of years old and have since vanished or been irrevocably altered. Hundreds of photographs, accompanied by descriptions, illustrate the sites, the people, and the landscapes that Parsons encountered during four decades of research in these regions. Parsons is now emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and has published many archaeological monographs as well as ethnographic research on salt, fish, and other items used for traditional subsistence in Mexico. Foreword by Richard I. Ford.

Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Photographic Essay (Volume 3) (special publication series UMMAA)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Site descriptions and analysis of the Texcoco Region in the Valley of Mexico. Includes ceramic markers and tlatel descriptions.

Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Texcoco Region, Mexico (Memoirs) (Volume 3)

Extensive description and analysis of the archaeological settlement data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Chalco-Xochimilco Region in the Valley of Mexico.

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region (Volume 14) (Memoirs)

Wilson, David J.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth

Descriptive tabulation of settlement pattern data collected by University of Michigan projects in the Valley of Mexico between 1967 and 1973.

Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco and Zumpango Regions, Mexico (Volume 14) (Technical Reports)

Kintigh, Keith W.

Gregg, Susan A.

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