Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica / / edited by Joshua D. Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco.

• TeilnehmendeR: Englehardt, Joshua,; Carrasco, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Louisville, Colorado : : University Press of Colorado,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018; 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"Explores the role of interregional interaction in dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the Pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary scholars examine linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of case studies drawn from multiple spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Interaction and the making of ancient Mesoamerica / Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco -- The prehispanic Mesoamerican world : framing interaction / Gary M. Feinman -- Interaction and exchange in early formative western and central Mesoamerica : new data from coastal Oaxaca / Guy David Hepp -- The role of interregional interaction in Mesoamerican script development / Joshua D. Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco -- Hieroglyphic Ch'olan to Ch'orti' : tracing linguistic and social interactions into eastern Ch'olan / Kerry M. Hull -- Reframing the tripod : a foreign form adopted by the early classic Maya / Bryan Schaeffer -- Across the hills, towards the ocean : Teotihuacan/style monuments in Guerrero, Mexico / Jesper Nielsen, Elizabeth Jimenez García, and Iván Rivera -- A sprinkling of culture : contact and connections between the Tuxtlas Region and the coastal Maya / Philip J. Arnold III and Lourdes Budar -- Variation and similarity in obsidian tool styles and technologies at the Zaragoza/Oyameles source area, Puebla, Mexico / Charles L.F. Knight -- Interregional interaction in northwest Mesoamerica during the Classic and Postclassic periods / Jose Luis Punzo Díaz -- Round and round we go : Cholula, rotating power structures, social stability, and trade in Mesoamerica / Timothy J. Knab and John M.D. Pohl -- The movement of metal goods in the Mesoamerican late Postclassic period : a case study from the Templo mayor in Tenochtitlan / Niklas Schulze and Blanca E. Maldonado -- Competitive vs. peaceful interaction / Joyce Marcus -- Conclusion : the world as they knew it : the interaction sphere concept in current Mesoamerican archaeology / David Freidel.