Ancient Teotihuacan - Early Urbanism in Central Mexico

This is the first comprehensive English-language book on Teotihuacan, the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s.

List of contents

1. Preliminaries; 2. Situating Teotihuacan; 3. Urbanism begins in central Mexico: 500-100 BCE; 4. Teotihuacan takes off: 100-1 BCE; 5. Teotihuacan supremacy in the basin of Mexico: 1-100 CE; 6. Great pyramids and early grandeur: 100-250 CE; 7. Teotihuacan at its height: 250-550 CE; 8. Teotihuacan ideation and religion: imagery, meanings, and uses; 9. 'Interesting times': Teotihuacan comes apart and a new story begins: after 550 CE; 10. Teotihuacan in a wider perspective.

About the author

George L. Cowgill is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the director of the ASU-managed archaeological laboratory at Teotihuacan, Mexico. His work on Teotihuacan, anthropological theory, and quantitative methods in archaeology has been published in numerous major peer-reviewed journals. He is co-author, with René Millon and R. Bruce Drewitt, of Urbanization at Teotihuacan, Mexico, Volume 1: The Teotihuacan Map, Part 2: Maps (1973) and co-editor, with Norman Yoffee, of The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations (1988). He was the keynote speaker at the fifth Round Table on Teotihuacan at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico in 2011.

Summary

Long before the Aztecs and 800 miles from Classic Maya centers, Teotihuacan was part of a broad Mesoamerican tradition but had a distinctive personality. This book synthesizes a century of research, including recent finds, and covers the lives of commoners as well as elites.

Product details

• Authors: George L. Cowgill, George L. (Arizona State University) Cowgill, Cowgill George L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2015
• EAN: 9780521870337
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87033-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Case Studies in Early Societies; Case Studies in Early Societies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, The Americas, Prehistoric archaeology, BCE period – Protohistory