...William R. Fowler Hassig’s book addresses warfare, society, and politics in ancient Mesoamerica. Organized chronologically, his study documents the rise of warfare during the Olmec horizon, the development of specialized weapons and fortifications beginning in the Late Preclassic era, politics...

... . Photographs by Bravo Manuel Alvarez . Austin , 1966 . University of Texas Press . The Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series . Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiii , 306 . $15.00 . Arts of Ancient Mexico . By Soustelle Jacques . Photographs by Arthaud Claude...

...John F. Scott Ancient Peruvian Ceramics. The Nathan Cummings Collection . By Sawyer Alan R. . Greenwich , 1966 . New York Graphic Society . A Metropolitan Museum of Art Publication . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 144 . $8.50 . The Ceramic Sculptures...

...José Carlos Chiaramonte Abstract The expression antigua constitución was frequently used in the Hispanic world at least since the second half of the eighteenth century in a manner similar to the British use of the terms “ancient constitution” or “fundamental law.” Scarcely studied, this political...

... to record dedication events and replete with names, dates, places, and oblique references to martial conflict, royal alliance, and dance. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Ancient Maya Political Dynamics . By Foias Antonia E. . Maya Studies . Gainesville : University Press...

...Thomas B. F. Cummins The Two Faces of Inca History: Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco . By Yaya Isabel . The Early Americas: History and Culture . Boston : Brill , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. xii, 296 pp. Cloth , $144.00...

...Julia Gaffield Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations . By Mintz Sidney W. . The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii, 257 pp. Paper , $16.95 . © 2014 by Duke...

...Styliane Philippou Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space . By Wagner Logan , Box Hal , and Morehead Susan Kline . Roger Fullington Series in Architecture . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2013 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps...

... 2000 Florida’s Indians from Ancient Times to the Present . By Milanich Jerald T. . Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the Southeastern United States . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1998 . Plates. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. xi, 194 pp. Paper...

...Bernard R. Ortiz De Montellano Alcohol in Ancient Mexico . By Bruman Henry J. . Foreword by Furst Peter . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 2000 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xii , 158 pp. Cloth...

... on his interdisciplinary approach and detailed reporting of data. These constitute a major contribution to the archaeological literature on the Incas. Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca . By Bauer Brian S. . Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture...

...Bernard Ortiz De Montellano The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations: The Pipil-Nicarao of Central America . By Fowler William R. Jr . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1989 . Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. Tables. References. Index . xv , 331 pp. Cloth...

...Kevin Gosner The Human Body and Ideology: Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas . 2 vols. By Austin Alfredo López . Translated by de Montellano Thelma Ortiz and de Montellano Bernard Ortiz . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1988 . (Vol. I) Figures. Maps. Photographs...

...Byron Hamann Myths of Ancient Mexico . By Graulich Michel . Translated by Ortiz De Montellano Bernard R. and De Montellano Thelma Ortiz . The Civilization of the American Indian Series , vol. 222. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1997 . Photographs. Illustrations...

...John F. Scott Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art . By Kubler George . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1991 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii , 276 pp. Cloth . $32.50 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 George...

... and the Ancient Maya . By Fash William L. . New York : Thames and Hudson , 1991 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 192 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 These books report on two of the most important projects conducted...

..., and still improperly understood, role in it. For, as Erasmus observed as early as 1517, if the ancient geographers were wrong in assuming that there were only three continents, might they not have been wrong in other respects, too? Once the hitherto unquestionable authority of one part of the canon had...

...James Lockhart Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations . By Marcus Joyce . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . Illustrations. Tables. Index . xxii, 495 pp. Cloth. $45.00 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press...

... of Amerindian civilization is impressive (see, for example, the essays of Earle and Hyslop). Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World . Edited by Trombold Charles D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1991...

...Gary M. Feinman Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society. By Mcanany Patricia A. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1995 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xvi , 213 pp. Cloth . $27.50 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University...