The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology (Oxford Handbooks)

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. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends / Deborah L. Nichols, Christopher A. Pool -- A Short History Of Theory In Mesoamerican Archaeology / Manuel Gándara -- Mexico's National Archaeology Programs / Nelly M. Robles García -- Archaeology In Guatemala: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos -- The Archaeology Of Belize In The Twenty-first Century / Jaime J. Awe -- Archaeology On Mesoamerica's Southern Frontier / Geoffrey Mccafferty, Fabio Esteban Amador, Silvia Salgado Gonzalez, Carrie Dennett -- Archaeology And Indigenous Peoples / Shoshaunna Parks, Patricia A. Mcanany -- Time And Space Boundaries: Chronologies And Regions In Mesoamerica / Susan Toby Evans -- Ice Age Hunter-gatherers And The Colonization Of Mesoamerica / Guillermo Acosta Ochoa -- Archaic-period Foragers And Farmers In Mesoamerica / Douglas J. Kennett -- The Origins Of Food Production In Mesoamerica / Dolores R. Piperno, Bruce D. Smith --^ The Formation Of Complex Societies In Mesoamerica / Christopher A. Pool -- Not Carved In Stone: Building The Gulf Olmec From The Bottom Up / Philip J. Arnold Iii -- The Development Of Complex Societies In Formative-period Pacific Guatemala And Chiapas / Michael Love -- Ideology, Polity, And Social History Of The Teotihuacan State / Saburo Sugiyama -- Cultural Evolution In The Southern Highlands Of Mexico: From The Emergence Of Social Inequality And Urban Society To The Decline Of Classic-period States / Christina Elson -- Archaeology Of The Maya Highlands / Bárbara Arroyo -- Complex Societies In The Southern Maya Lowlands: Their Development And Florescence In The Archaeological Record / Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase -- The Rise Of Formative-period Complex Societies In The Northern Maya Lowlands / Travis W. Stanton -- Interaction Among The Complex Societies Of Classic-period Mesoamerica / Sergio Gómez Chávez, Michael W. Spence --^ Concepts Of Collapse And Regeneration In Human History / George L. Cowgill -- Teotihuacan And The Epiclassic In Central Mexico / Jeffrey R. Parsons, Yoko Sugiura Y. -- The Classic Maya Collapse / David Webster -- Searching For Tollan: Authority And Urbanism In Oaxaca After Monte Albán / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Developmental Cycles In The Gulf Lowlands / Annick Daneels -- Tula And The Toltecs / Dan M. Healan, Robert H. Cobean -- The Late Classic To Postclassic Transition Among The Maya Of Northern Yucatán / William M. Ringle, George J. Bey Iii -- The Archaeology Of The Last Postclassic Maya Highlands / Greg Borgstede, Eubenia Robinson -- The Southern Pacific Coastal Region Of Mesoamerica: A Corridor Of Interaction From Olmec To Aztec Times / Robert M. Rosenswig -- The Tarascan Empire: Postclassic Social Complexity In Western Mexico / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- The Aztec Empire / Michael E. Smith, Maëlle Sergheraert -- The Conquest Of Mexico / Michel R. Oudijk --^ Networks, Cores, And Peripheries: New Frontiers In Interaction Studies / Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban -- The Southeastern Fringe Of Mesoamerica / John S. Henderson, Kathryn M. Hudson -- Current Views On Power, Economics, And Subsistence In Ancient Western Mexico / Christopher S. Beekman -- Mesoamerica And The Southwest/northwest / Randall Mcguire -- Aztec Boundary Interactions / Michael A. Ohnersorgen, Marcie L. Venter -- Agricultural Land Use And Intensification / Vernon L. Scarborough -- Searching Out Prehispanic Landscapes In Mesoamerica By Means Of Aerial Reconnaissance / Alfred H. Siemens -- Ecological Approaches To Archaeological Research In Central Mexico: New Directions / Emily Mcclung De Tapia -- Sources And Sourcing / Ronald L. Bishop -- Crafting And Manufacturing In Mesoamerica: Critical Engagements With Theory And Method / E. Christian Wells -- The Domestication Of Stone In Mesoamerica / John Clark -- Ceramic Technology And Production / Prudence M. Rice --^ Mesoamerican Metallurgical Technology And Production / Blanca Maldonado -- As The Whorl Turns: Function And Meaning In Mesoamerican Textile Production / Geoffrey Mccafferty, Sharisse Mccafferty -- Markets, Merchants, And Systems Of Exchange / Kenneth Hirth -- Central Mexican States And Imperial Tribute Systems / Frances F. Berdan -- Archaeology Of Gender In Mesoamerican Societies / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Class And Ethnicity In Ancient Mesoamerica / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Cynthia Robin -- Households In Ancient Mesoamerica: Domestic Social Organization, Status, Economies, And Rituals / David M. Carballo -- Communities In Ancient Mesoamerica / Marcello A. Canuto, Jason Yaeger -- Cities And Urbanism In Prehispanic Mesoamerica / Richard E. Blanton -- Mesoamerican States And Empires / Gary M. Feinman -- Creation And Cosmology: Gods And Mythic Origins In Ancient Mesoamerica / Karl A. Taube -- Sacred Places And Sacred Landscapes / Kathryn Reese-taylor --^ Mesoamerican Religious Beliefs: The Practices And Practitioners / F. Kent Reilly Iii -- The Living And The Dead / James L. Fitzsimmons -- Mesoamerican Calendars And Archaeoastronomy / Anthony F. Aveni -- Themes In The Art Of The Preclassic Period / Mary E. Pye -- Art Of The Classic Period / Rex Koontz -- Art In The Aztec Empire / Emily Umberger -- Early Mesoamerican Writing Systems / John Justeson -- Maya Writing / Nikolai Grube -- Scribal Traditions From Highland Mesoamerica (300-1000 Ad) / Javier Urcid -- Nahua And Mixtec Pictorial Books: Religion And History Through Visual Text / Lori Boornazian Diel -- Colonial Documents / Eduardo De Jesús Douglas -- The Spanish Conquest And The Archaeology Of The Colonial And Republican Periods / John M.d. Pohl -- Population Decline During And After Conquest / Rebecca Storey -- Historical Archaeology In Central And Western Mesoamerica / Patricia Fournier G., Thomas H. Charlton --^ Landscape Change In The Maya Region, 1450-1910 Ad / Rani T. Alexander. Edited By Deborah L. Nichols And Christopher A. Pool. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.