Greater Mesoamerica : the archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico

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Greater Mesoamerica : the archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico

edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley Gorenstein

University of Utah Press, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-296) and index

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Edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley Gorenstein Archaeology Mesoamerican studies, as they are still practiced today, are framed by the Spanish colonial intrusion into Mexico from the east, and subsequent involvement with the Aztec Empire. Greater Mesoamerica expands the definition of "Mesoamerica" beyond the more traditionally accepted central Mexican areas to both western and northwestern Mexico where sophisticated cultures were flourishing outside the realm of Spanish influence. It is the first comprehensive overview of both regions since the Handbook of Middle American Indians was published in the early 1970s. Based on recent archaeological surveys and excavations, the chapters in this volume provide current, comprehensive, area-by-area summaries of the region's Precolumbian past, noting the discovery of new cultural configurations, new connections, and new complexities.

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Table of Contents:Figures and Tables Foreword Preface 1. West and Northwest Mexico: The Ins and Outs of Mesoamerica - Shirley Gorenstein and Michael S. Foster 2. The Late and Terminal Preclassic in Southeastern Guanajuato: Heartland or Periphery? - Charles A. Florance 3. A Summary of the Archaeology of North-Central Mesoamerica: Guanajuato, GuerEtaro, and San Luis PotosI - Beatriz Braniff C. 4. The Evolution and Decline of a Core of Civilization: The TeuchitlAn Tradition and the Archaeology of Jalisco - Phil C. Weigand 5. Tarascans and Their Ancestors: Prehistory of MichoacAn - Helen Perlstein Pollard 6. Tarascan External Relationships - Helen Perlstein Pollard 7. Prehispanic Cultural Development along the Southern Coast of West Mexico - Joseph B. Mountjoy 8. The Prehistory of Mexico's Northwest Coast: A View from the Marismas Nacionales of Sinaloa and Nayarit - Stuart D. Scott and Michael S. Foster 9. The AztatlAn Mercantile System: Mobile Traders and the Northwestward Expansion of Mesoamerican Civilization - J. Charles Kelley 10. Archaeology of Southern Zacatecas: The Malapaso, Juchipila, and Valparaiso-BolaNos Valleys - Peter F. JimEnez Betts and J. Andrew Darling 11. The Archaeoastronomical System in the RIo Colorado Chalchihuites Polity, Zacatecas: An Interpretation of the ChapIn I Pecked Cross-Circle - J. Charles Kelley and Ellen Abbott Kelley 12. The Archaeology of Durango - Michael S. Foster 13. Recent Advances in Chihuahuan Archaeology - Ronna Jane Bradley 14. The Archaeological Traditions of Sonora - MarIa Elisa Villalpando 15. From Tzintzuntzan to PaquimE: Peers or Peripheries in Greater Mesoamerica? - Michael W. Spence References Contributors Index

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