Migrations in Late Mesoamerica (eBook)

Christopher S. Beekman (Herausgeber)

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2019
400 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5723-1 (ISBN)

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Bringing the often-neglected topic of migration to the forefront of ancient Mesoamerican studies, this volume uses an illuminating multidisciplinary approach to address the role of population movements in Mexico and Central America from AD 500 to 1500, the tumultuous centuries before European contact.



Clarifying what has to date been chiefly speculation, researchers from the fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, ethnohistory, and art history delve deeply into the causes and impacts of prehistoric migration in the region. They draw on evidence including records of the Nahuatl language, murals painted at the Cacaxtla polity, ceramics in the style known as Coyotlatelco, skeletal samples from multiple sites, and conquest-era accounts of the origins of the Chichén Itzá Maya from both Native and Spanish scribes.



The diverse datasets in this volume help reveal the choices and priorities of migrants during times of political, economic, and social changes that unmoored populations from ancestral lands. Migrations in Late Mesoamerica shows how migration patterns are vitally important to study due to their connection to environmental and political disruption in both ancient societies and today’s world.



A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Autor

Christopher S. Beekman, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver, is coeditor of Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Migrations in Late Mesoamerica

Christopher S. Beekman

I Northern Mesoamerica

1. How Mesoamerican are the Nahua Languages?

Jane H. Hill

2. Three Migration Case Studies from the Tula Region

Dan M. Healan and Robert H. Cobean

3. Migration and the Coyotlatelco Ceramic Tradition: Evidence from the Bajío

Christine Hernández and Dan M. Healan

4. El Grillo - The Reestablishment of Community and Identity in Far Western Mexico

Christopher S. Beekman

5. “Then They Pressed On”: Indigenous Migration in the Nahuatl Annals of Chimalpahin

Susan Schroeder

II Southern Mesoamerica

6. Classic Period Migration in the Maya Area: A Morphometric Analysis

B. Scott Aubry

7. The Murals of Cacaxtla: Monumental Art as Evidence of Migration

Andrew D. Turner

8. The Itza Maya Migration Narratives: Historic Reality, Myth, or... Weighing the Idea of Migrations in Light of New Research

Erik Boot

9. The Pipil Migrations in Mesoamerica: History, Identity, and Politics

William R. Fowler

10. Dialectology and the History of Nahua peoples in Guatemala

Sergio Romero

List of Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Maya and Mesoamerican Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: archaeology • Art History • Bioarchaeology • Demography • Environmental change • ethnohistory • Indians of Central America • Indians of Mexico • Linguistics • Mesoamerica • mexican history • Migration • Mobility • political collapse • Prehistory • Protohistory
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5723-X / 081305723X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5723-1 / 9780813057231