Mexico : from the Olmecs to the Aztecs

Mexico : from the Olmecs to the Aztecs / Michael D. Coe & Rex Koontz.

"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....

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Main Authors: Coe, Michael D. (Author), Koontz, Rex (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Thames & Hudson, 2013.
Edition:Seventh edition, rev. and expanded.
Series:Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) ; v. 29.
Subjects:
To 1519
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico > History.
Antiquities
Civilization
Indians of Mexico
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
Mexico > Antiquities.
Mexico > Civilization.
Mexico > History > To 1519.
Mexico
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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