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Format: 1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-316-28736-X , 1-316-30817-0 , 1-139-04681-0

Series Statement: Case studies in early societies

Content: First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions of tourists every year. The book begins with Cuicuilco, a predecessor that arose around 400 BCE, then traces Teotihuacan from its founding in approximately 150 BCE to its collapse around 600 CE. It describes the city's immense pyramids and other elite structures. It also discusses the dwellings and daily lives of commoners, including men, women, and children, and the craft activities of artisans. George L. Cowgill discusses politics, economics, technology, art, religion, and possible reasons for Teotihuacan's rise and fall. Long before the Aztecs and 800 miles from Classic Maya centers, Teotihuacan was part of a broad Mesoamerican tradition but had a distinctive personality that invites comparison with other states and empires of the ancient world.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Preliminaries -- Situating Teotihuacan -- Urbanism begins in central Mexico : 500-100 BCE -- Teotihuacan takes off : 100-1 BCE -- Teotihuacan supremacy in the Basin of Mexico : 1-100 CE -- Great pyramids and early grandeur : 100-250 CE -- Teotihuacan at its height : 250-550 CE -- Teotihuacan ideation and religion : imagery, meanings, and uses -- "Interesting times" : Teotihuacan comes apart and a new story begins : 550 CE and after -- Teotihuacan in a wider perspective. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-69044-7

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-87033-X

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046817

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Format: XIII, 147 S , nur Kt , 3 Kt.-Beil.

Series Statement: Urbanization at Teotihuacán, Mexico 1,2

In: 2.

Language: English

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Format: xvi, 296 S. , Ill., Kt. , 23 cm

ISBN: 9780521870337 , 9780521690447

Series Statement: Case studies in early societies

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index , Hier auch spätere, unveränderte Nachdrucke

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Teotihuacán ; Stadtforschung ; Ausgrabung ; Funde ; Geschichte 150 v. Chr.-550

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Format: 265 S. , Ill. , 32 cm

Edition: 1. ed

ISBN: 9789680303212

Note: In memoriam Felipe Solís Olguín (1944-2009) , Includes bibliographical reference

Language: Spanish

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Format: 1 online resource (260 pages)

ISBN: 9780817383794

Content: The field data and archaeological analysis of the first controlled excavations of the vast "City of the Gods" in central Mexico. In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological expedition to Mexico under the direction of Sigvald Linné to determine the full extent of this ancient Teotihuacan occupation and to collect exhibit-quality artifacts. Of an estimated 2000-plus residential compounds at Teotihuacan, only 20 apartmentlike structures were excavated at the time. Yet Linné's work revealed residential patterns that have been confirmed later in other locations. Some of the curated objects from the Valley of Mexico and the adjacent state of Puebla are among the most rare and unique artifacts yet found. Another important aspect of this research was that, with the aid of the Museum of Natural History in Washington, Linné's team conducted ethnographic interviews with remnant native Mexican peoples whose culture had not been entirely destroyed by the Conquest, thereby collecting and preserving valuable information for later research. Sigvald Linné was Professor of Ethnography at the University of Stockholm and Director of the Swedish National Museum of Ethnography until 1969. He published several other books, including The Technique of South American Ceramics. Staffan Brunius is Curator of the Americas at the National Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm. George L. Cowgillis Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University and coeditor of The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations.

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: The Early Swedish Americanist Tradition and the Contributions of Sigvald Linné (1899-1986) / Staffan Brunius -- Introduction to the 2003 Edition: Xolalpan after Seventy Years / George L. Cowgill -- Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico -- Contents -- Preface -- Introductory Notes -- Part I -- Excursions into Mexican Antiquity -- The Archaeological City of Teotihuacan -- Part II -- Archaeological Excavation Work at Teotihuacan in 1932 -- Las Palmas -- Xolalpan -- The Xolalpan House ruin -- The earliest portion of the ruin -- The altar of the central court -- Part III -- The Finds -- Archaeological Finds of the Teotihuacan Culture -- The earliest artifacts -- The graves -- Grave I -- Grave 2 -- Grave 3 -- Grave 4 -- Grave 5 -- Graves 6 and 7 -- Part IV -- Archaeological Finds of the Mazapan Culture -- Mazapan pottery types -- Graves -- The Xipe Totec figure -- Part V -- Finds of the Aztec Culture -- Part VI -- Miscellaneous Pottery Finds from Various Sites and of Various Cultures -- The Archaeological Site between Xolalpan and Las Palmas -- Stray Finds of Teotihuacan Pottery below the Floors at Xolalpan -- Foreign Elements among the Ceramic Finds -- Vessels decorated with figures in Relief, Maya style -- The yellowish-red pottery -- Polished Red Ware -- Plumbate Ware -- Pottery with Impressed Ornamentation -- Pottery with Moulded Ornaments -- Pottery with Impressed Patterns of Textile Plant Fibres -- Earthenware Roasting Dishes -- Incense Burners -- Candeleros -- Bowls with Inner Handles -- Clay Figurines -- Ear-Plugs -- Clay-Pellets -- Discs Made from Potsherds -- Clay-Moulds -- Clay-Stamps -- Spindle-Whorls -- Musical Instruments -- Part VII -- Stone Objects -- Stone axes -- Points and blades -- Masonry implements and rubbing-stones -- Bark-beaters -- Sculptural representations -- Stone vessels.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817312930

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Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780292762565

Content: Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization. The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology and are presented in three major sections. The first of these deals with the application of theory, both anthropological and historical, to the great civilization of the Classic Maya, which flourished in the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Belize during the first millennium A.D. The structural remains of the Classic Period have impressed travelers and archaeologists for over a century, and aspects of the development and decline of this strange and brilliant tropical forest culture are examined here in the light of archaeological research. The second section presents the results of field research ranging from the Highlands of Mexico east to Honduras and north into the Lowland heart of Maya civilization, and iconographic study of excavated material. The third section covers the ethnohistoric approach to archaeology, the conjunction of material and documentary evidence. Early European documents are used to illuminate historic Maya culture. This section includes transcriptions of previously unpublished archival material. Although not formally linked beyond their common field of inquiry, the essays here offer a conspectus of late-twentieth century Maya research and a series of case histories of the work of some of the leading scholars in the field.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contributors -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , Theoretical Interpretations -- , 1 Priests, Peasants, and Ceremonial Centers: The Intellectual History of a Model -- , 2 Cropping Cash in the Protoclassic: A Cultural Impact Statement -- , 3 A New Order and the Role of the Calendar: Some Characteristics of the Middle Classic Period at Tikal by Clemency Coggins -- , 4 Teotihuacan, Internal Militaristic Competition, and the Fall of the Classic Maya -- , 5 An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count -- , Data Presentations -- , 6 Prehistoric Settlement at Copan by Gordon R. Willey -- , 7 Prehispanic Terracing in the Central Maya Lowlands: Problems of Agricultural Intensification -- , 8 The Representation of Underworld Processions in Maya Vase Painting: An Iconographic Study -- , 9 A Sequence for Palenque Painting Techniques -- , 10 The Lagartero Figurines -- , Ethnohistoric Approaches -- , 11 The Lobil Postclassic Phase in the Southern Interior of the Yucatan Peninsula -- , 12 Coapa, Chiapas: A Sixteenth-Century Coxoh Maya Village on the Camino Real -- , 13 Religious Syncretism in Colonial Yucatan: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from Tancah, Quintana Roo -- , 14 Continuity in Maya Writing: New Readings of Two Passages in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel -- , Bibliography -- , General Index -- , Author Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7560/750401

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292762565

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Format: XXI, 236 S , Ill , 24 cm

ISBN: 0817350055

Note: Originally published: Stockholm : V. Petterson, 1934 , Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index

Language: English

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Format: XXIII, 223, [6] S , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt

ISBN: 0817350063

Note: Originally published: Stockholm : Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, 1942

Language: English

Keywords: Mesoamerika ; Ausgrabung ; Geschichte

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Format: 443 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten

ISBN: 9780884011514 , 9780520296558

Content: "Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one hundred thousand, at its peak in 400 CE, it was the cultural, political, economic, and religious center of ancient Mesoamerica. A devastating fire in the city center led to a rapid decline after the middle of the sixth century, but Teotihuacan was never completely abandoned or forgotten; the Aztecs revered the city and its monuments, giving many of them the names we still use today. Teotihuacan : City of Water, City of Fire examines new discoveries from the three main pyramids at the site--the Sun Pyramid, the Moon Pyramid, and, at the center of the Ciudadela complex, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid--which have fundamentally changed our understanding of the city's history. With illustrations of the major objects from Mexico City's Museo Nacional de Antropologia and from the museums and storage facilities of the Zona de Monumentos Arqueologicos de Teotihuacan, along with selected works from US and European collections, the catalogue examines these cultural artifacts to understand the roles that offerings of objects and programs of monumental sculpture and murals throughout the city played in the lives of Teotihuacan's citizens. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco, September 30, 2017-February 11, 2018; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March-June 2018"--Provided by publisher

Note: "Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco on the occasion of the exhibition Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire at the de Young, San Francisco, September 30, 2017-February 11, 2018

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Teotihuacán ; Architektur ; Funde ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Bildband

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Format: 147 S. , Kt. , 3 Beilagen in Tasche

Series Statement: The Dan Dancinger publication series

In: Vol. 1, P. 2

Language: English