What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history,
could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the
remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls?
Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his
comprehensive summary of the ancient cities where Latin America's
peoples lived before the Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth
century. Because Aztec Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City, and Inca
Cuzco represent the culmination of the two most advanced
civilizations encountered by the Spainsh conquistadors, the author
explores these cities end-to-end. He also studies such older civic
memorial centers as Teotichuacan, Tula, Monte Alban, Uxmal, Chichen
Itza, Tikal, Palenque, Tiahuanaco, Chan Chan, Pachacamac, Machu
Picchu, and lesser know sites, most virtually, if not totally,
abandoned centuries before the Conquest. Such inclusive coverage
makes for a lively discussion of some fifteen hundred years of
urban life as immortalized in the architecture, art, and crafts of
long vanished civilizations. There is an extensive bibliography,
many photographs, maps, charts and city plans showing urban layouts
of temples, which tell much about the life of the inhabitants. His
book shows that while new findings come to light each year, so much
buried history lies waiting to be found that archaology will always
be an ever unfolding drama. This book was first published in 1973.
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