An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of …
S Sugiyama, RC Castro - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2007 - cambridge.org
The Moon Pyramid is the second largest monument at Teotihuacan and represents a key source of information regarding the state polity and its underlying ideology. It was little …
JJ Aimers, PM Rice - Ancient Mesoamerica, 2006 - cambridge.org
E-group architectural assemblages, constructed and used for more than a millennium in the Maya Lowlands, are among the most distinctive and enduring forms in Mesoamerican …
When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet …
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal 'world tour'of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of …
AF Aveni - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2003 - Springer
Since its popular resurgence in the 1960s, the interdisciplinary field of archaeoastronomy, which seeks evidence from the written as well as the unwritten record to shed light on the …
Teotihuacan was the first urban civilization of Mesoamerica and one of the largest of the ancient world. Following a tradition in archaeology to equate social complexity with …
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its …
P Plunket, G Uruñuela - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Mexico's Central Highlands form one of Mesoamerica's fundamental cultural seams, a point of overlap between two traditions, one to the east and the other to the west …