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Zusatztext An excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals alike: it is a realistic depiction of the discipline at the dawn of the 21st century, and of the general directions of Mesoamerican archaeology. Informationen zum Autor Deborah L. Nichols is William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College.Christopher A. Pool is University Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology.The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica. Zusammenfassung Unique among recent works,The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Mesoamerican Archaeology: Recent Trends Deborah L. Nichols and Christopher Pool Part I. Theory, Method, and Practice in Mesoamerican Archaeology 2. A Short History of Theory in Mesoamerican Archaeology, Manuel Gándera 3. Mexico's National Archaeology Programs, Nelly Robles 4. Archaeology in Guatemala: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos 5. The Archaeology of Belize in the 21st Century, Jaime J. Awe 6. Mesoamerica's Southern Frontier, Geoffrey McCafferty, Fabio Amador, Silvia Salgado, and Carrie Dennett 7. Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples, Shoshaunna Parks and Patricia McAnany 8. Time and Space Boundaries: Chronologies and Regions in Mesoamerica, Susan Evans Part II. Hunter-Gatherers and First Farmers 9. Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers and Colonization of Mesoamerica, Guillermo Acosta Ochoa 10. Archaic Period Foragers and Farmers, Douglas Kennett 11. The Origins of Food Production in Mesoamerica, Dolores Piperno and Bruce Smith Part III. Villages, Cities, States and Empires Formation of Early Complex Societies, Cities, and States 12. The Formation of Complex Societies in Mesoamerica, Christopher A. Pool 13. Not Carved in Stone: Building the Gulf Olmec from the Bottom Up, Philip Arnold 14. The Development of Complex Societies in Formative Period Pacific Guatemala and Chiapas, Michael Love 15. Ideology, Polity, and Social History of...
