Mesoamerican Archaeology

Preface vii

List of Figures xi

Notes on Contributors xvii

1 Mesoamerica: From Culture Area to Networks of Communities of Practice 1
Rosemary A. Joyce

2 Polity and Power in the Olmec Landscape 32
Christopher A. Pool

3 Objects with Images: Meaning-Making in Formative Mesoamerica 71
Rosemary A. Joyce

4 Monumental Cityscape and Polity at Teotihuacan 98
Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama

5 Social and Ethnic Identity in the Classic Metropolis of Teotihuacan 129
Linda R. Manzanilla

6 Household Archaeology and the Ancient Maya 156
Julia A. Hendon

7 Inseparable Entities: Classic Maya Landscapes and Settlements 179
Wendy Ashmore and Cynthia Robin

8 Monte Alban and Early Urbanism in the Valley of Oaxaca: Maize, Mountains, and Monuments 203
Arthur A. Joyce

9 Conquests and Colonialisms in Postclassic and Early Colonial Nejapa, Oaxaca 229
Stacie King

10 Writing History in the Postclassic Mixteca 257
Ludo Snijders

11 Resiliency and Cultural Reconstitution of the Postclassic Mayapan Confederacy and Its Aftermath 278
Marilyn A. Masson

12 Home Is Where the Ithualli Is: Toward a Microarchaeology of Aztec Households, Family Histories, and Social Identities 315
Lisa Overholtzer

13 Mexica Monumental Stone Sculpture: Constellations of Form, Meaning, and Change in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital 350
Angel Gonzalez Lopez

14 Bioarchaeological Research on Daily Life in the Emerging Colonial Society of Mexico City 374
Julie K. Wesp

Index 398

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Mesoamericanarchaeology textbook; Mesoamerican archaeology intro; Mesoamerican culture; Mesoamerican household archaeology; prehispanic Mesoamerica; colonial Mesoamerica; postclassic Mesoamerica; Mesoamerican history; Mesoamerican bioarchaeology