Aztecs, Maya, and their Predecessors

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I -- Introduction: Humans Find Mesoamerica -- A Geographic Area of Cultural Unity -- Early Human Evidence -- Summary -- CHAPTER 2 -- Humans Become Farmers -- Tehuacan Valley -- Basin of Mexico -- Tamaulipas -- Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, and Coastal Sites -- Summary -- CHAPIER 3 -- Setting the Mesoamerican Pattern and the Role of the Olmec -- West Mexico -- Central Highlands -- Guerrero -- Oaxaca -- The Olmec -- Great Preclassic Ceramic Traditions -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4 -- Monuments, Wealth, and Complex Societies -- The Basin of Mexico -- Teotihuacan -- West Mexico -- Tlaxcala and Puebla Oaxaca -- The Maya Region -- The Southeast Periphery -- The Southeastern Highlands -- Southern Maya Lowlands -- Tikal -- Belize -- The Northern Region from the Gulf to the Caribbean -- Summary -- CHAPTER 5 -- Codices, Calendrics, and Maya Writing -- Books, Calendrics, and Writing -- The Codices -- Other Early Maya Books -- Time-Keeping: The Calendar Round -- The Maya "Zero," Numbers, and Counting -- The Maya Long Count (Initial Series) -- Deciphering Maya Hieroglyphs -- A Roster of Early Mesoamerican Dates -- CHAPTER 6 -- Teotihuacan and Its Neighbors: The Maya Kings and a New Order -- Teotihuacan -- Puebla-Tlaxcala -- Xochicalco -- The Nufne -- Oaxaca -- El Tajm and the Ball Game -- Central and Southern Veracruz -- El Salvador -- Guatemala Valley -- The Lowland Maya: a.d.300-1200 -- Tikal -- Belize -- Copan -- Quirigua -- The Southeast Periphery -- The West -- The Usumacinta Sites -- The "Collapse" in the Southern Lowlands -- Southern Campeche and Central Yucatan -- Northern Yucatan -- The Putun (Chontal-Maya) and the Itza -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7 -- Tula and the Toltecs -- Tollan, Tula, and the Toltecs -- The Postclassic in Oaxaca -- Chichen Itza and the Toltecs -- CHAPTER 8 -- Final Scenes: The Maya, the Tarascans, and the Aztecs -- The Maya -- The Tarascans -- The Aztecs -- Summary. -- CHAPTER 9 -- Mesoamerica in Perspective -- The Southern Classic Lowland Maya -- Teotihuacan -- The Maya of Northern Yucatan -- The Mexica -- The Tarascans -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX

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• Arqueologia

Feathered Serpent;Maya hieroglyphs;El Mirador;ritual sacrifices;Chilam Balam;royal tomb;Ix Chel;La Venta;Abaj Takalik;Los Naranjos;Late Preclassic;Dos Pilas;Piedras Negras;Altar De Sacrificios;Heye Foundation;Emblem Glyphs;Tres Zapotes;North Acropolis;Gulf Coast Olmec;Central Highland Mexico;Late Postclassic;Museo Nacional De;Milling Stones;Middle Preclassic;La Quemada;El Riego;Mundo Perdido;Ball Court