This is a critical review of regional settlement pattern archaeology published in the last
decade. The regional approach proves to be highly productive of new ideas and lasting …

Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico examines the origins,
history, and interrelationships of the civilizations that arose and flourished in Oaxaca …

Among the linguistic lineages of Mesoamerica, the Otomanguean family is the most diverse
and most widely spread. Long occupying a central position in one of the cradles of human …

Examinations of the variation and duration of past large‐scale societies have long involved
a conceptual struggle between efforts at generalization and the unraveling of specific …

This article assembles archaeological and documentary evidence on the sizes of cities in
Mesoamerica on the eve of Spanish conquest. Out of several hundred documented Late …

Mesoamerica was the most urbanised landscape of the precolonial Western Hemisphere,
and urban dwellers there shared many cultural commonalities. They also varied significantly …

This is the second of two articles that survey and assess progress and prospects in the
historical linguistics of the Otomanguean language family, which is the most widely …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts Page 3 The Early Americas: History
and Culture General Editor Alexander Geurds, Leiden University Editorial Board Nikolai Grube …

Arguing from the overall settlement plan and the form of buildings, the authors present a
persuasive case that the Late Postclassic city of Tlaxcallan and its near neighbour Tizatlan …

Some 600 years ago, Arab historian Ibn Khaldūn wrote a theory of history in which he
suggested a cyclical model of state formation and dissolution linked to 'aṣabīyah, translated …