Settlement, Subsistence And Social Complexity

by Blanton, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9781931745239
• ISBN10: 1931745234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Cotsen Inst of Archaeology

Summary

This publication sees a number of leading scholars taking an in-depth look at settlement patterns in the ancient Americas. Contents: Introduction; Regional Survey at Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World Methodologies in Old World Urban Contexts; Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the Northeastern Basin of Mexico A.P.; Opting In and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula and Xaltocan; The Tunanmarca Polity of Highland Peru and its Settlement System; Early Chiefdom Communities Compared: The Settlement Pattern Record for Chifeng, the Alto Magdalena, and the Valley of Oaxaca; Past Lives in Different Places: The Origins and Relationships of Teotihuacan's Foreign Residents; Men, Women, and Maguey: The Houshold Division of Labor Among Aztec Farmers; More Than Alluvial Land and Water: The Late Prehispanic Emergence of Eastern Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico; The Mesoamerican World of Goods and its Transformations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Regional survey at Vijayanagara, South Asia : new world methodologies in old world urban contexts	p. 19
Settlement pattern archaeology in the Teotihuacan Valley and the adjacent northeastern basin of Mexico A.P. (after Parsons)	p. 43
Opting in and opting out : Tula, Cholula and Xaltocan	p. 63
The Tunanmarca polity of highland Peru and its settlement system (A.D. 1350-1450)	p. 89
Early chiefdom communities compared : the settlement pattern record for Chifeng, the Alto Magdalena, and the valley of Oaxaca	p. 119
Past lives in different places : the origins and relationships of Teotihuacan's foreign residents	p. 155
Men, women, and Maguey : the household division of labor among Aztec farmers	p. 198
More than alluvial land and water : the late pre-Hispanic emergence of Eastern Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico	p. 229
The Mesoamerican world of goods and its transformations	p. 260
The achievements of and prospects for survey archaeology	p. 295
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