George L. Cowgill

Ancient Teotihuacan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive English-language book on Teotihuacan, the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9780521690447
• ISBN-10: 0521690447
• Artikelnr.: 41886064

Autorenporträt

George L. Cowgill is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the director of the ASU-managed archaeological laboratory at Teotihuacan, Mexico. His work on Teotihuacan, anthropological theory, and quantitative methods in archaeology has been published in numerous major peer-reviewed journals. He is co-author, with René Millon and R. Bruce Drewitt, of Urbanization at Teotihuacan, Mexico, Volume 1: The Teotihuacan Map, Part 2: Maps (1973) and co-editor, with Norman Yoffee, of The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations (1988). He was the keynote speaker at the fifth Round Table on Teotihuacan at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preliminaries
2. Situating Teotihuacan
3. Urbanism begins in central Mexico: 500-100 BCE
4. Teotihuacan takes off: 100-1 BCE
5. Teotihuacan supremacy in the basin of Mexico: 1-100 CE
6. Great pyramids and early grandeur: 100-250 CE
7. Teotihuacan at its height: 250-550 CE
8. Teotihuacan ideation and religion: imagery, meanings, and uses
9. 'Interesting times': Teotihuacan comes apart and a new story begins: after 550 CE
10. Teotihuacan in a wider perspective.