Screen LibraryEarly Mesoamerican cities : urbanism and urbanization in the Formative period /
"Ancient Mesoamerica was a land of cities (Fig 1.1.). Above all, it was the number and the density of cities that distinguished Mesoamerica from the complex societies in neighboring areas of North America and lower Central America. Further, although ancient Mesoamerican cities interacted to var...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Ancient Mesoamerica was a land of cities (Fig 1.1.). Above all, it was the number and the density of cities that distinguished Mesoamerica from the complex societies in neighboring areas of North America and lower Central America. Further, although ancient Mesoamerican cities interacted to varying degrees with those cultures to the north and south, they interacted most intensively with one another. It was the shared cultural practices produced by those relationships that define Mesoamerica (Kirchoff 1943; R. Joyce 2004a)"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-296) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108838511 1108838510 9781108971539 1108971539 |
| Index Number: | F1435 |
| CLC: |
K887.318.3 K731.9 |
| Call Number: | K731.9/E126 |
| Contents: |
Early Mesoamerican cities, urbanism, and urbanization in the formative period / Oaxaca's formative period cities and their implications for early urbanism in Mesoamerica / Early urbanization in the formative Gulf lowlands, Mexico / Patterns of early urbanism in the Southern Maya lowlands / The role of Middle Preclassic placemaking in the creation of Late Preclassic Yucatean cities : the foundations of Yaxuna? / The city over the city : Kaminaljuyu and urbanism / The new normal : formative period cities on the Pacific Coase of Southern Mesoamerica / The nature of early urbanism at Teotihuacan / Art and urbanity in Late Formative Mesoamerica / Landscape and leadership in Mesoamerican cities : a comparative view / Experimental cities? / |