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A vivid and comprehensive account of the Aztecs, the best-known people of pre-Columbian America. It examines their origins, civilization, and the dist...
The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, vario...
Excavations and Architecture
Life in the provinces of the Aztec empire as revealed through excavations of elite and non-elite residential zones at Capilco and Cuexcomate. Special ...
In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the u...
Using field reports, data sets and -grey- literature on the many excavated sites, Houk provides a synthesis of archaeological data on the ancient citi...
Ancient Urbanism in the Andes
Through analysis of the excavation sites and material culture of the major urban center of the Inka Casma polity, El Purgatorio, Vogel explores a tran...
From Aztec Matlatzinco to Modern Calixtlahuaca
"This manuscript uses geoarchaeology and the study of landscapes to look at the agrarian history of a settlement in the Toluca Valley, central Mexico,...
Neighborhoods, Inequality, and Built Form
Hutson examines the Mesoamerican lowland cities of the empire and asks, "Why did people choose to live in cities?" Offering a synthesis of previous re...
An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life
At Home with the Aztecsprovides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids, and human sacrifice....