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The Postclassic Mesoamerican World (Paperback)
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The Postclassic Mesoamerican World (Paperback)
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The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on
Postclassic Mesoamerican societies. In this ambitious new volume,
the editors and contributors seek to present a complete picture of
the middle and late Postclassic period (ca. AD 1100-1500) employing
a new theoretical framework. Mesoamerican societies after the
collapse of the great city-states of Tula and Chichen Itza stand
out from earlier societies in a number of ways. They had larger
regional populations, smaller polities, a higher volume of
long-distance trade, greater diversity of trade goods, a more
commercialized economy, and new standardized forms of pictorial
writing and iconography. The emerging archaeological record reveals
larger quantities of imported goods in Postclassic contexts, and
ethnohistoric accounts describe marketplaces, professional
merchants, and the use of money throughout Mesoamerica by the time
of the Spanish conquest. The integration of this commercial economy
with new forms of visual communication produced a dynamic world
system that reached every corner of Mesoamerica. Thirty-six focused
articles by twelve authors describe and analyze the complexity of
Postclassic Mesoamerica. After an initial theoretical section,
chapters are organized by key themes: polities, economic networks,
information networks, case studies, and comparisons. Covering a
region from western Mexico to Yucatan and the southwestern Maya
highlands, this volume should be in the library of anyone with a
serious interest in ancient Mexico.
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