"With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understandin ..."
"The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews w ..."
"The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and methodologies and current debates. The Handbook ..."
"Spontaneous acts of violence born of human emotions like anger or greed are probably universal, but social violence—violence resulting from social relationships within and between groups of people—is a much more complex issue with implications beyond archaeology. Recent research has generated multiple interpretations about the forms, intensity, and underlying causes of social violence in the ancient Southwest. Deborah L. Nichols and Pat ..."
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES) by DeborahL. Nichols Paperback, Published 2021 by Oxford University Press Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-19-750359-1, ISBN: 0-19-750359-4
"The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews w ..."
ARCHIT OF CITY STATES (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry) by NicholsDeborahL., DeborahNichols Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 1997 by Smithsonian ISBN-13: 978-1-56098-746-8, ISBN: 1-56098-746-4
"Pohl, Mary D. 1991 Review of Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico by William E.
Doolittle. American Antiquity 56.738–739. 1994 The Economics and Politics of ...
Pokora, Timoteus 1978 China. In The Early State, edited by Henri J. M. Claessen
and Peter Skalnik, pp. 191— 212. The Hague: Mouton. de Polignac, François
1995 Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State. Translated by Janet
Lloyd. Chicago: University of Chic ..."
"With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understandin ..."
""Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World" examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the central Andes. Civilization in each region was characterized by complex political and religious institutions, highly skilled craft production, and the long-distance movement of finished goods. Scholars have ..."
"A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide.This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Af ..."
"In this volume, 15 prominent archaeologists and historians explore the emergence, structure, and function of city-states in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Greece, Okinawa, the Maya Lowlands, Central Mexico, the coast of Peru, ..."
Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982 A Descriptive Report (Research Paper (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations, No. 39.) by DeborahL. Nichols, Francis E. Smiley Paperback, 858 Pages, Published 1985 by Southern Illinois Univ ISBN-13: 978-0-88104-016-6, ISBN: 0-88104-016-9
"These four shields are most similar in terms of the structural elements on their
posterior surfaces; thus, we begin our analysis there (table 6.1). In all cases, the
support structure consists of two layers of 2-millimeterwide rods (made of Otatea
sp.) at 90 degree angles to one another; a perimeter band of thick leather is
stitched on at regular intervals, with remains of a red pigment along the interior
border. Four upright cross ..."
"However, problem orientation started around this time, even if it was restricted to
culture-historical problems, such as the identification of Tula, Hidalgo as the “
Tollan” ofthe historical sources (Iime'nez Moreno 1941). The aim was “historical
explanation” but the real cognitive goal was description or culture-historical
narration (Binford 1972 [1968]). Only in the late 1940s cultural ecology, cultural
materialism, and British en ..."
"Unique among recent works, this title brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology."
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"Teaching and Learning Science consists of sixty-six chapters written by more than ninety leading educators and scientists. The contributions are informed by cutting-edge theory and research and address numerous issues that are central to K? 12 education. This resource will be particularly valuable for parents and teachers as schools around the country prepare students to meet the challenges presented when science is added to the No Chil ..."
"With a tranquil presence and calming purrs, cats have the ability to heal. Cats also heal through their funny antics, fierce loyalty, and the hard-won lessons they sometimes teach the humans closest to them. Rescued Volume 2 contains 12 stories of cats, the humans who healed them...and how they in turn healed their humans. As with Volume 1 of the Rescued series, the stories are told through each cat's own unique perspective. Be prepared ..."
"Contending that the city-state was a significant cross-cultural regularity that developed among geographically and historically separated civilizations, fifteen prominent archaeologists and historians explore the emergence, structure, and function of city-states in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Greece, Okinawa, the Maya Lowlands, central Mexico, the coast of Peru, and the Andes. The contributors discuss area and populatio ..."