Ancient Mexico was one of the great independent hearth of civilization. Out of varied landscapes grew some of the richest culture of the early historic world _ Olmecs,Zapotec, Maya, Toltecand Aztec...

The cities of ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a lost world

Politics & Social Sciences

Sabloff, Jeremy A.

Archaeology

Thames&Hudson

In a series of vignettes, Professor Sabloff describes what it would have been like to have lived during the heyday of Mexico's greatest cities. Through the eyes of astronomers and ballplayers, merchants and priests, we see the temples, palaces, and tombs of a civilization obsessed with ritual and death. 152 illustrations.

Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World

History

Americas

Ancient Mexico was one of the great independent hearths of civilization. Out of a varied landscape grew some of the richest cultures of the early historic world - Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec. Standard histories tend to focus on the individual societies, but Jeremy Sabloff's popular study takes an original approach, emphasizing the unity of Mexican civilization. In a series of fascinating vignettes, Professor Sabloff describes what it would have been like to have lived during the heyday of Mexico's greatest cities. Through the eyes of astronomers and ballplayers, merchants and priests, we see the temples, palaces, and tombs of a civilization obsessed with ritual and death. But who built these cities and how do we know? Sabloff explains convincingly just why archaeologists believe in the indigenous origins of Mexican civilization. This updated edition includes the latest archaeological research on the ancient cities of Mexico: incorporates breakthroughs in the decipherment of the Maya script; and draws on fresh readings of Aztec ethnohistorical sources. Throughout the author reveals the new ideas and techniques revolutionizing archaeological fieldwork and shows how the latest evidence is being used to reconstruct a fuller picture of life in these ancient cities.

The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World

A history of American archaeology

A History of American Archaeology

Willey, Gordon R.

W.H.Freeman and Company

The articles included here address the major problems of this prehistoric past... First, who were the first representatives of humankind in the New World? Where did they come from, and when did they arrive? What kind of lives did they arrive? What kind of lives did they lead? Second, when, where, and how did the descendants of these first immigrants establish an agricultural mode of existence? Third, from these beginnings of farming and settled life, how were more complex societies and orders fashioned? And, fourth, how did these societies produce the civilizations and Pre-Columbian American states that confronted the first European explorers when they landed on the shores of the New World? An excellent text or supplement for courses in introductory archaeology and world prehistory. Pre-Columbian Archaeology gives readers insight into the cultural history of the New World form its initial human habitation until the first contact with Europeans more than 20,000 years later. The introductions by Gordon R. Willey and Jeremy A. Sabloff tie the Scientific American perspective and background on the subject.

Pre-Columbian archaeology: Readings from Scientific American

Willey, Gordon Randolph

W.H.Freeman

Illustrations and maps. Index. 101p. Readings on Archaeology. Articles on the changing nature of anthropological archaeoloy (Prufer), Stonehendge (Hawkes, Renfrew, Daniel), Lines in the Peruvian Desert (Isbell), and Pyramids (Emery, Million). Bibliographies.

Archaeology: Myth and Reality

Book by Willey, Gordon Randolph, Sabloff, Jeremy A.

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Book by Willey, Gordon R., Sabloff, Jeremy A.

Using high-tech equipment, chemical analyses and sampling strategies, archaeologists are learning more about how and why cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, this book shows how the transformation of archaeology has brought new understanding of past civilizations.

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya (Scientific American Library, #30)

Science & Math

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya

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The cities of ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a lost world

Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World

The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World

A History of American Archaeology

Pre-Columbian archaeology: Readings from Scientific American

Archaeology: Myth and Reality

A History of American Archaeology

A History of American Archaeology

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya (Scientific American Library, #30)

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya