Product Description: The Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica: A Reader brings together twenty-three of the most influential essays by leading scholars to reveal the rich variety of cultures and societies that existed in ancient Mesoamerica.

Mesoamerica has become one of the world's most important areas for research into the emergence of complex human societies. Between 10,000 years ago and the arrival of the Spanish in 1521, some of the most significant changes in the evolution of human societies occurred. These included the emergence of agriculture and sedentary villages, the growth of centralized governments (chiefdoms and states), and the rise of market systems, cities, and highly stratified social systems. In the 1970s and 1980s a number of ambitious research efforts produced exciting data on culture change in Mesoamerica. In this revised and updated 1993 edition of a book first published in 1981, the authors present a synthesis of Mesoamerican prehistory, focusing on three of its most intensively studied regions, the Valleys of Oaxaca and Mexico and the Maya lowlands. An original framework of ideas is developed to explain long-term change in complex societies. (view table of contents)

A thorough study of the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs, Maya, Olmecs, and others, complemented by information from the very latest research in the field, is presented in a chronological framework to better illustrate the fascinating history of the region.

Product Description: Book by LATHROP JACQUELINE P

'Updated and expanded version of introductory text that devotes a chapter to each major time period: Paleo-Indian/Archaic, preclassic,classic, and postclassic. The Spanish conquest is discussed in the conclusion. Most useful for students and those unfamiliar with Mesoamerican archaeology'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

More than four hundred full-color illustrations and fourteen specially commissioned archaeological reconstructions add a visual dimension to a lavish overview of the civilizations of the ancient peoples of Mexico and Central America and their remains. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Reproductions of the Boston Public Library Manuscript and the Carlos Maria de Bustamante 1840 Eddition. From the book's Introduction: "In 1585, the Franciscan Friar Bernardino de Sahagun finished the revision of his narrative entitled ( English translation), "Account of the Conquest of New Spain, as the Indian Soldiers who were Present Told It...read more

Product Description: The essays in this book present the inte­grated application of prehistoric, ethno­historic, and ethnographic data center­ing on the interpretation of past and present peoples residing in Greater Meso­america. These groups, at some time in their existence, had much in common: a corn-, bean-, and squash-farming base; permanent villages with plazas; public religious structures; and well-developed ceremonialism involving astronomical-ceremonial concepts including calen­drics...read more

'In addition to biographical contributions, this festschrift includes papers focusing on the North American Southwest and northern and western Mexico. Topical focus on patterns and mechanisms of interaction among these regions'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: A highly accessible and authoritative popular history of Mesoamerica and its ancient peoples, fully illustrated with over 500 photographs.

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Product Description: Provides a history of the people of Mexico, from the Olmecs, the first to leave a record of their culture, to the natives and mestizos, those of mixed-blood, who live in the cities and rural areas today.

Tells how the Aztecs established an empire in Mexico and what happened when they, led by Montezuma, encountered Cortes and the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century

Tells how the Aztecs established an empire in Mexico and what happened when they, led by Montezuma, encountered Cortes and the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century