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Islands in the Lake
Thanks to creative uses of the environment, Xochimilco's residents preserved their culture and society in the face of colonial disruption.
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and raze...
Precolumbian Water Management
Among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples, water was as essential as maize for sustenance and was a driving force in the development of complex society. Control of water shaped the political, economic, and religious landscape of the ancient Americas, yet it is often overlooked in Precolumbian studies. Now one volume offers the latest thinking on water systems and their place within the ancient physical and mental language of the region. Precolumbian Water Management examines water management from both economic and symbolic perspectives. Water management facilities, settlement patterns, shrines, and water-related imagery associated with civic-ceremonial and residential architecture ...
Archaeoastronomy
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Homenaje al profesor Ángel García Cook
Usted encontrará en este libro los lugares y temas más emblemáticos en la trayectoria de más de 50 años del profesor Ángel García Cook, pues se resaltan las aportaciones de un amplio espectro que logró como investigador, funcionario y maestro de grupo en los que dejó su huella.
Coleccionismo, saqueo y peritajes arqueológicos
La protección, salvaguarda y estudio del patrimonio arqueológico de México, requiere la participación de muchas instancias, así como la definición y aplicación de planes que establezcan prioridades claras y precisas, y la puesta en práctica de estrategias técnicas, científicas y legales estrictas y fundamentadas. En este libro se aborda la situación del coleccionismo, el saqueo y los peritajes arqueológicos en México. Los autores ofrecen definiciones y delimitan las características que debe tener un perito y el dictamen que emite.
Los Primeros Mexicanos
"This book presents a synthesis of Mexican Paleoindian archaeology with an emphasis on the state of Sonora. The author uses extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and other Mexican and Sonoran Paleoindian archaeology to demonstrate the insignificance of current international borders to the earliest peoples of North America"--Provided by publisher.
Indigenous Science and Technology
Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.
The 21st Century
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The SAA Archaeological Record
The magazine of the Society for American Archaeology.
