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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Moteuczoma, the last king who ruled the Aztec Empire, was rarely seen or heard by his subjects, yet his presence was felt throughout the capital city of Tenochtitlan, where his deeds were recorded in hieroglyphic ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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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, ...
AFANADOR-PUJOL, ANGÉLICA JIMENEZ
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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By examining the stunning stone buildings and dynamic spaces of the royal estate of Chinchero, Nair brings to light the rich complexity of Inca architecture. This investigation ranges from the paradigms of Inca scholarship and ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the ...
ARCHAEOPRESS (2015)
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Metallurgical activity was present in Ecuador from at least 1500 BC; by around the beginning of the Common Era metallurgical manufacture and use had extended to most of the Costa and Sierra. Regional styles soon ...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS (2015)
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Westerners think of time as a measure of duration, a metric quantity that is continuous, homogeneous, unchangeable, and never ending-a reality that lies outside of human existence. How did the people of Mesoamerica and the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs-all were created within ...
ROUTLEDGE (2015)
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The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern ...
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2015)
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Tlacuachero is the site of an Archaic-period shellmound located in the wetlands of the outer coast of southwest Mexico. This book presents investigations of several floors that are within the site's shell deposits that formed ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation of personal and communal identities in the Maya world. Using new primary data from her ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2015)
pvp.114,00 €
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This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2015)
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This book is the second volume of the report on excavations at the Aztec-period sites of Cuexcomate and Capilco, carried out in 1986. This book is the first complete report of the entire range of ...
MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, JOAQUÍN JOSÉ
UNIVERSIDAD D' ALICANT (2015)
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He aquí el resultado de más de veinte años de investigación sobre el tu'un savi: la lengua mixteca, 'Lengua de la Lluvia'. Comenzó por un trabajo de campo en la Montaña de Guerrero, México, durante ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a 'god' (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2015)
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The decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs has enabled scholars to better understand Classic society, but many aspects of this civilization remain shrouded in mystery, particularly its economies and social structures. How did farmers, artisans, and rulers ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the walls of their most important sacred and public spaces with dazzling murals of gods, historical figures, and supernatural creatures. ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2015)
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Elaborately decorated monumental architecture, royal tombs, and ritual human sacrifice have established the Moche of ancient Peru (AD 200-800) as a culturally rich and ideologically complex civilization. Because the Moche did not have a text-based ...
ARCHAEOPRESS (2015)
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Mesoamerica is one of the cradles of early civilizations in the ancient world, featuring a wide diversity of cultures exhibiting a high degree of social inequality and stratification. At the pinnacle of the society was ...
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORTS (2015)
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Prehispanic Maya architecture features a large variety of artistic expression, from reliefs and sculptures made of stone or stucco to mural paintings and graffiti found on the plastered surfaces of their walls and façades. All ...