Ancient West Mexicos (eBook)

Time, Space, and Diversity

Joshua D. Englehardt, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, Christopher S. Beekman (Herausgeber)

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2020
394 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5745-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of western Mexico’s pre-Hispanic cultures and argues that the region was more similar than many researchers have believed to the rest of the Mesoamerican world.

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The ancient societies of western Mexico have long been understudied and misunderstood. Focusing on recent archaeological data, Ancient West Mexicos highlights the diversity and complexity of the region’s pre-Columbian cultures and argues that western Mexico was more similar to the rest of the Mesoamerican world than many researchers have believed.



Chapters that treat investigations in Durango, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, and Michoacán draw on new evidence dating from across millennia, spanning different periods in Mesoamerican history. Contributors analyze materials including ceramics, architectural remains, textiles, and weaving tools to discern the settlement patterns, political structures, and cosmologies of the people who lived at these sites.



Featuring intriguing case studies that point to unexpected pathways to sociopolitical complexity in ancient societies, these essays illustrate that the region’s archaeological record can contribute meaningfully to a more nuanced picture of Mesoamerica as a whole.



Contributors: Laura Almendros López | Christopher S. Beekman | Mijaely Castañón | Fabio Germán Cupul-Magaña | Manuel Dueñas García | Joshua D. Englehardt | Rafael García de Quevedo-Machain | Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza | Erika Ibarra | Stephen A. Kowalewski | Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos | Michael Mathiowetz | Joseph B. Mountjoy | David Muñiz García | M. Nicolás Caretta | José Luis Punzo Díaz | Diego Rangel | Kimberly Sumano Ortega | Jesús Zarco

Autor

Joshua D. Englehardt, research professor at the Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos at El Colegio de Michoacán, is coeditor of Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, research professor at the Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos at El Colegio de Michoacán, is coeditor of Alternative Pathways to Complexity: A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis. Christopher S. Beekman, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver, is the editor of Migrations in Late Mesoamerica.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Christopher S. Beekman, Joshua D. Englehardt, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza

Time: Revised Regional Chronologies

1.The Cultural Sequence during the Formative Period in the Valley of Colima

Laura Almendros López

2.The Early Segment of the Chronological Sequence at Los Guachimontones

Christopher S. Beekman

3.Revisiting the Archaeology of the Huetamo area, South–Eastern Michoacán, Mexico

José Luis Punzo Díaz, Diego Rangel, Erika Ibarra, Jesús Zarco, and Mijaely Castañón

4.The Early Postclassic Aztatlán Colonization of the Pacific Coast of Jalisco

Joseph B. Mountjoy, Fabio Germán Cupul–Magaña, Rafael García de Quevedo–Machain, and Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos

Space: Old Questions, New Methods

5.Architectural Discourse and Sociocultural Structure at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco

Kimberly Sumano Ortega and Joshua D. Englehardt

6.Constructing the pre–Hispanic landscape in the Santiago Bayacora Basin, Durango

David Arturo Muñiz García and Kimberly Sumano Ortega

Diversity: Refined Theoretical Perspectives

7.What the Teuchitlan Tradition is, and what the Teuchitlán Tradition is Not

Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza

8.Cerro de Santiago: An Epiclassic Site within the World System of Central–Northern Mexico

M. Nicolás Caretta and Manuel Dueñas García

9.Weaving our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico

Michael Mathiowetz

10.Conclusions

Stephen A. Kowalewski

Index

Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 95 b/w illus, 15 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aguascalientes • ancient mexico • Antiquities • Architectural Discourse • Arroyo Piedras Azules • Aztatlan Expansion • Capacha • Cerro de Santiago • Colima • Epiclassic interaction spheres • Flower World complex • Indians of Mexico • Los Guachimontones • Mesoamerican • Middle Balsas Region • Prehispanic cultures • Prehispanic Durango • Prehispanic Jalisco • Space Perception • Tequila Valleys • Teuchitlán tradition • Time • Western Mesoamerica • West Mexico • World system • world systems theory
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5745-0 / 0813057450
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5745-3 / 9780813057453