Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 and 11 : : Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica / / Robert Wauchope; ed. by Ignacio Bernal, Gordon F. Ekholm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wauchope, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Betty,; Brand, Donald D.,; Caleti, Agustín Villagra,; Carrasco, Pedro,; Caso, Alfonso,; Chadwick, Robert,; Chan, Román Piña,; Dibble, Charles E.,; Gibson, Charles,; Harvey, Herbert R.,; Johnson, Irmgard Weitlaner,; Kelley, J. Charles,; Leonard, Carmen Cook de,; León-Portilla, Miguel,; Lister, Robert H.,; MacNeish, Richard S.,; Margain, Carlos R.,; Meighan, Clement W.,; Nicholson, Henry B.,; Noguera, Eduardo,; Payón, José García,; Proskouriakoff, Tatiana,; Sanders, William T.,; Stresser-Péan, Guy,; Tolstoy, Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Bernal, Ignacio,; Ekholm, Gordon F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (946 p.)

Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica comprises the tenth and eleventh volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). Volume editors of Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica are Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal. Gordon F. Ekholm (1909–1987) was curator of anthropology at The American Museum of Natural History, New York, and a former president of the Society for American Archaeology. Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992), former director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, was director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico and also a past president of the Society for American Archaeology. Volumes 10 and 11 describe the pre-Aztec and Aztec cultures of Mexico, from central Veracruz and the Gulf Coast, through the Valley of Mexico, to western Mexico and the northern frontiers of these ancient American civilizations. The thirty-two articles, lavishly illustrated and accompanied by bibliography and index, were prepared by authorities on prehistoric settlement patterns, architecture, sculpture, mural painting, ceramics and minor arts and crafts, ancient writing and calendars, social and political organization, religion, philosophy, and literature. There are also special articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of selected regions within northern Mesoamerica. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- HANDBOOK OF MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIANS, VOLUME 10. Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica, Part 1 -- 1. Settlement Patterns in Central Mexico -- 2. Pre-Columbian Architecture of Central Mexico -- 3. Major Sculpture in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico -- 4. Mural Painting in Central Mexico -- 5. Preclassic or Formative Pottery and Minor Arts of the Valley of Mexico -- 6. Ceramics of the Classic Period in Central Mexico -- 7. Minor Arts of the Classic Period in Central Mexico -- 8. Postclassic Pottery of the Central Valleys -- 9. Minor Arts in the Central Valleys -- 10. Utilitarian Artifacts of Central Mexico -- 11. Basketry and Textiles -- 12. Writing in Central Mexico -- 13. Calendrical Systems of Central Mexico -- 14. Social Organization of Ancient Mexico -- 15. Structure of the Aztec Empire -- 16. Religion in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico -- 17. Philosophy in Ancient Mexico -- 18. Pre-Hispanic Literature -- HANDBOOK OF MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIANS, VOLUME 11 Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica, Part 2 -- 19. The Peoples of Central Mexico and Their Historical Traditions -- 20. Native Pre-Aztec History of Central Mexico -- 21. Archaeology of Central Veracruz -- 22. Cultural Ecology and Settlement Patterns of the Gulf Coast -- 23. Classic Art of Central Veracruz -- 24. Archaeological Synthesis of the Sierra -- 25. Ancient Sources on the Huasteca -- 26. Ethnohistory of Guerrero -- 27. Archaeological Synthesis of Guerrero -- 28. Ethnohistoric Synthesis of Western Mexico -- 29. Archaeological Synthesis of Michoacan and Adjacent Regions -- 30. Archaeology of Nayarit, Jalisco, and Colima -- 31. Archaeology of Sinaloa -- 32. Archaeology of the Northern Frontier: Zacatecas and Durango -- References -- Index