Mesoamerican Archaeology (eBook)

Julia A. Hendon is Professor of Anthropology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. Her current research focuses on the connections between particular forms of technology, the production of goods, and social identity. She is author of Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica, which was awarded the Linda S. Cordell Book Award in Archaeology in 2015, and is co-author of Material Relations: The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras. Lisa Overholtzer is Assistant Professor and William Dawson Chair in the Department of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her research examines the everyday material practices of ordinary people in Postclassic and colonial central Mexico. She has published widely with work appearing in American Anthropologist and Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Rosemary A. Joyce is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, USA. She served as a curator and faculty member at Harvard University and as Director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley. She is the author of ten books including Painted Pottery of Honduras: Object Lives and Itineraries; Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives; The Languages of Archaeology; and Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica.

Preface vii

List of Figures xi

Notes on Contributors xvii

1 Mesoamerica: From Culture Area to Networks of Communities of Practice 1
Rosemary A. Joyce

2 Polity and Power in the Olmec Landscape 32
Christopher A. Pool

3 Objects with Images: Meaning-Making in Formative Mesoamerica 71
Rosemary A. Joyce

4 Monumental Cityscape and Polity at Teotihuacan 98
Saburo Sugiyama and Nawa Sugiyama

5 Social and Ethnic Identity in the Classic Metropolis of Teotihuacan 129
Linda R. Manzanilla

6 Household Archaeology and the Ancient Maya 156
Julia A. Hendon

7 Inseparable Entities: Classic Maya Landscapes and Settlements 179
Wendy Ashmore and Cynthia Robin

8 Monte Albán and Early Urbanism in the Valley of Oaxaca: Maize, Mountains, and Monuments 203
Arthur A. Joyce

9 Conquests and Colonialisms in Postclassic and Early Colonial Nejapa, Oaxaca 229
Stacie King

10 Writing History in the Postclassic Mixteca 257
Ludo Snijders

11 Resiliency and Cultural Reconstitution of the Postclassic Mayapan Confederacy and Its Aftermath 278
Marilyn A. Masson

12 Home Is Where the Ithuallí Is: Toward a Microarchaeology of Aztec Households, Family Histories, and Social Identities 315
Lisa Overholtzer

13 Mexica Monumental Stone Sculpture: Constellations of Form, Meaning, and Change in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital 350
Ángel González López

14 Bioarchaeological Research on Daily Life in the Emerging Colonial Society of Mexico City 374
Julie K. Wesp

Index 398