Research Catalog

Title

The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mesoamerica / edited by Michael S. Foster and Phil C. Weigand.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1985.

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Additional Authors

• Weigand, Phil C.
• Foster, Michael S. (Michael Stewart), 1947-

Description

xxii, 487 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
• Mexico > Antiquities

Note

• "A Westview special study."
• Papers derived from a symposium held during the 45th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Philadelphia, in 1980.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 439-473.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Rio Lerma and highland valleys of Western Mexico. Recent work in the Chupicuaro region -- Evidence for complex societies during the Western Mesoamerican Classic Period -- The Teecuexes : ethnohistory and archaeology -- Settlements of the protohistoric Tarascan core -- The coastal zones of Western Mesoamerica -- Some gold and silver artifacts from Colima -- Core versus marginal Mesoamerica : a coastal west Mexican perspective -- Cultural implications of artificially modified human remains from Northwestern Mexico -- The northwestern Mesoamerican frontier. A synopsis of the archaeology of the central portion of the northern frontier of Mesoamerica -- A summary of the archaeology in the La Quemada region -- The chronology of the Chalchihuites Culture -- Human osteological remains from Alta Vista, Zacatecas : an analysis of the isolated bone -- The Loma San Gabriel occupation of Zacatecas and Durango, Mexico -- Colonial exchange systems and the decline of Paquime -- Archaeological , ethnological and historical implications of the game "Cuatro" in Northwestern Mexico -- The northwestern Mesoamerican periphery. The Bolson de Mapimi Archaological project : a research design -- Investigations of archaeological variability in Northeastern Baja California Sur, Mexico -- Spanish contact and the collapse of the Sonoran statelets -- Displaced Native Americans of the Gran Chichimeca.

ISBN

0813302013 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^85051380^

OCLC

• 12789305
• SCSB-10726412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library