Greater Mesoamerica
The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Utah Press,U.S.
Published:30th Apr '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
"This volume is the first comprehensive, serious look at the west and north in decades...[It] challenges some old paradigms that have stunted research and proposes some exciting new ideas."
—Robert Pickering, Denver Museum of Natural History "The most important and comprehensive treatment published so far on western-northwestern Mexico. With the book's broad coverage and extensive bibliography, it is instantly the major resource and reference work for the up-to-date prehistory of that region."
—New Mexico Historical Review "An extremely important contribution to the archaeology of an area previously referred to as the Mesoamerican periphery and until the past 20 years little known. This book is substantive, critical, well written, illustrated, and produced. A most important work and one that should find its way to the libraries of serious Mesoamerican students and scholars."
—Journal of the West "This volume is a significant contribution to our understanding of west and northwest Mexico and the relationships with central Mexico."
—H-Net "Both Mesoamerican and Southwestern archaelogists should read it to understand the lines that channel their efforts."
—Latin American Antiquity "The first comprehensive overview of both regions since the Handbook of Middle American Indians was published in the early 1970s."
—KIVA
ISBN: 9780874809503
Dimensions: 279mm x 216mm x 25mm
Weight: 925g
324 pages