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Ancient West Mexicos

Name: Ancient West Mexicos
Author: Joshua D. Englehardt
ISBN: 9780813066349

Time, Space, and Diversity

Edited by Joshua D. Englehardt, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza and Christopher S. Beekman

Published by: University Press of Florida

This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of western Mexico’s pre-Hispanic cultures and argues that the region was more similar than many researchers have believed to the rest of the Mesoamerican world.

394 Pages6.13 × 9.2595 b/w illus, 15 tables

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The ancient societies of western Mexico have long been understudied and misunderstood. Focusing on recent archaeological data, Ancient West Mexicos highlights the diversity and complexity of the region’s pre-Columbian cultures and argues that western Mexico was more similar to the rest of the Mesoamerican world than many researchers have believed.

Chapters that treat investigations in Durango, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, and Michoacán draw on new evidence dating from across millennia, spanning different periods in Mesoamerican history. Contributors analyze materials including ceramics, architectural remains, textiles, and weaving tools to discern the settlement patterns, political structures, and cosmologies of the people who lived at these sites.

Featuring intriguing case studies that point to unexpected pathways to sociopolitical complexity in ancient societies, these essays illustrate that the region’s archaeological record can contribute meaningfully to a more nuanced picture of Mesoamerica as a whole.

Joshua D. Englehardt, research professor at the Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos at El Colegio de Michoacán, is coeditor of Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica. Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, research professor at the Centro de Estudios Arqueológicos at El Colegio de Michoacán, is coeditor of Alternative Pathways to Complexity: A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis. Christopher S. Beekman, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver, is the editor of Migrations in Late Mesoamerica.

“This volume highlights the new theoretical and methodological approaches being used by researchers in the large Mesoamerican territory considered to be western Mexico. Not focused on a single area, the chapters cover most parts of the region and range temporally from the Formative to the Late Postclassic periods.”—Helen Perlstein Pollard, author of Taríacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State

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Introduction
Christopher S. Beekman, Joshua D. Englehardt, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza

Time: Revised Regional Chronologies

Chapter 1. The Cultural Sequence during the Formative Period in the Valley of Colima
Laura Almendros López

Chapter 2. The Early Segment of the Chronological Sequence at Los Guachimontones
Christopher S. Beekman

Chapter 3. Revisiting the Archaeology of the Huetamo area, South–Eastern Michoacán, Mexico
José Luis Punzo Díaz, Diego Rangel, Erika Ibarra, Jesús Zarco, and Mijaely Castañón

Chapter 4. The Early Postclassic Aztatlán Colonization of the Pacific Coast of Jalisco
Joseph B. Mountjoy, Fabio Germán Cupul–Magaña, Rafael García de Quevedo–Machain, and Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos

Space: Old Questions, New Methods

Chapter 5. Architectural Discourse and Sociocultural Structure at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco
Kimberly Sumano Ortega and Joshua D. Englehardt

Chapter 6. Constructing the pre–Hispanic landscape in the Santiago Bayacora Basin, Durango
David Arturo Muñiz García and Kimberly Sumano Ortega

Diversity: Refined Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 7. What the Teuchitlan Tradition is, and what the Teuchitlán Tradition is Not
Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza

Chapter 8. Cerro de Santiago: An Epiclassic Site within the World System of Central–Northern Mexico
M. Nicolás Caretta and Manuel Dueñas García

Chapter 9. Weaving our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico
Michael Mathiowetz

Chapter 10. Conclusions
Stephen A. Kowalewski

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Time, Space, and Diversity

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Time, Space, and Diversity

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