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  • Beyond Collapse

    Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies

    by J. Heath Anderson, Christina Conlee, Thomas Emerson, Kristin Hedman, Gary Feinman, Julie Hoggarth, Scott Hutson, Gyles Iannone, T. R. Kidder, Michael Loughlin0, Katie Lantzas1, Maureen Meyers2, Christopher Pool3, Christopher Rodning4, Jakob Sedig5, Nicola Sharratt6, Rebecca Storey7, Glenn Storey8, Joseph Tainter9, Joseph Tainter0, Victor Thompson1, Victor Thompson2, Andrea Torvinen3, Andrea Torvinen4, Kari Zobler5, Kari Zobler6, Richard Sutter7, Richard Sutter8 ...
    The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

    by Deborah L. Nichols, Christopher A. Pool ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs

    Edited by Christopher A. Pool, Carl J. Wendt ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Olmecs provides an up-to-date overview of research on this most elaborate of Mesoamerica's foundational cultures (ca. 1450-400 BCE). Few objects of study have sparked more debate in Mesoamerican studies than the role of Olmec culture in the origins of that region's civilizations, with some seeing it as the mother from which all significant cultural developments sprang ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

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  • Ancient People of the Andes

    by Michael A. Malpass ...
    In Ancient People of the Andes**, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest**. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Amazonia in the Anthropocene

    People, Soils, Plants, Forests

    by Nicholas C. Kawa ...
    Widespread human alteration of the planet has led many scholars to claim that we have entered a new epoch in geological time: the Anthropocene, an age dominated by humanity. This ethnography is the first to directly engage the Anthropocene, tackling its problems and paradoxes from the vantage point of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.Drawing from extensive ethnographic research, Nicholas ... Read more

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  • Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca

    Edited by Arthur A. Joyce ...
    Encapsulating two decades of research, Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of human presence to the collapse of Río Viejo (the region's first centralized polity), the volume ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico

    Mixing Epistemologies

    by Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría ...
    This is an archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the early years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire in 1521. The study of households excavated in Mexico City and the probate inventories of 39 colonizers provide a vivid view of the material and social lives of the Spanish in what was once the capital of the Aztec empire. Decades of archaeological ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty ...
    Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology—a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of ... Read more

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Read more

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edited by Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Read more

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  • New Mexico and the Pimería Alta

    The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

    Edited by John G. Douglass, William Graves ...
    Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through archaeological, ... Read more

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  • Rituals of the Past

    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Edited by Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... Read more

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