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Preceramic Mesoamerica delivers cutting-edge research on the
Mesoamerican Paleoindian and Archaic periods. The chapters address
a series of fundamental questions in American archaeology including
the peopling of the Americas, human adaptations to late glacial
landscapes, the Neolithic transition, and the origins of sedentism
and early village life. This volume presents innovative and
previously unpublished research on the Paleoindian and Archaic
periods and evaluates current models in light of new findings.
Examples include breakthroughs in dating Mesoamerica's earliest
sites and their implications for models of hemispheric
colonization; the transition to postglacial patterns of settlement
and subsistence; divergent pathways to initial sedentism; the
possibility of Archaic-period monumentality; changing patterns of
interregional exchange and interaction; and debates surrounding the
origins of agriculture, ceramics, and full-time village life. The
volume provides a new perspective on the Mesoamerican Preceramic
for students and scholars in archaeology, anthropology, and
history. Readers will come to understand how the Preceramic
contributed to the emergence of the cultural traditions that
anthropologists recognize as Mesoamerica.
Preceramic Mesoamerica delivers cutting-edge research on the
Mesoamerican Paleoindian and Archaic periods. The chapters address
a series of fundamental questions in American archaeology including
the peopling of the Americas, human adaptations to late glacial
landscapes, the Neolithic transition, and the origins of sedentism
and early village life. This volume presents innovative and
previously unpublished research on the Paleoindian and Archaic
periods and evaluates current models in light of new findings.
Examples include breakthroughs in dating Mesoamerica's earliest
sites and their implications for models of hemispheric
colonization; the transition to postglacial patterns of settlement
and subsistence; divergent pathways to initial sedentism; the
possibility of Archaic-period monumentality; changing patterns of
interregional exchange and interaction; and debates surrounding the
origins of agriculture, ceramics, and full-time village life. The
volume provides a new perspective on the Mesoamerican Preceramic
for students and scholars in archaeology, anthropology, and
history. Readers will come to understand how the Preceramic
contributed to the emergence of the cultural traditions that
anthropologists recognize as Mesoamerica.
The toil of several million peasant farmers in Aztec Mexico
transformed lakebeds and mountainsides into a checkerboard of
highly productive fields. This book charts the changing fortunes of
one Aztec settlement and its terraced landscapes from the twelfth
to the twenty-first century. It also follows the progress and
missteps of a team of archaeologists as they pieced together this
story. Working at a settlement in the Toluca Valley of central
Mexico, the authors used fieldwalking, excavation, soil and
artifact analyses, maps, aerial photos, land deeds, and litigation
records to reconstruct the changing landscape through time.
Exploiting the methodologies and techniques of several disciplines,
they bring context to eight centuries of the region's agrarian
history, exploring the effects of the Aztec and Spanish Empires,
reform, and revolution on the physical shape of the Mexican
countryside and the livelihoods of its people. Accessible to
specialists and nonspecialists alike, this well-illustrated and
well-organized volume provides a step-by-step guide that can be
applied to the study of terraced landscapes anywhere in the world.
The four authors share an interest in terraced landscapes and have
worked together and on their own on a variety of archaeological
projects in Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean, Poland, and the United
Kingdom.
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