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...Elizabeth Easby Origins of Religious Art and Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica . Edited by Nicholson H. B. . Los Angeles , 1976 . UCLA Latin American Center . Illustrations. Index . Pp. vii , 181 . Cloth. $17.50 . Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Though...

... University from 1975 to 1987, reported an initial series of C-14 dates that suggested the community had its beginnings more than four thousand years ago. A subsequent reinterpretation of the chronological data indicates a more recent initial occupation in the final years of the Early Preclassic period, c...

... descriptive treatment of the smaller inventory Preclassic ceramics from the site. The section is in German and dovetails to some degree with a brief discussion of Preclassic sites in the region by Spranz. The book ends with a two-page summary in Spanish that reiterates Spranz’ reasons for choosing the site...

.... The Archaeology of Santa Leticia is one of a growing number of monographs to emerge from one of the current “hot topics” in Maya archeology: the study of the area known as the “Southeast Periphery,” i.e., modern Honduras and El Salvador. This region is of particular interest to Mayanists in the Late Preclassic...

... are discussed in a summary paper by Gordon Willey. The second half of the book contains studies of the greater southeast region beyond Copan and Quirigua. These cover a time span from Middle Preclassic to the Late Postclassic times and include a revision of the early ceramic sequence from Playa de los...

... interdisciplinary array of data from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic studies to illustrate the continued importance of such pilgrimages and landscapes in Maya culture — and those Mesoamerican in general — from Preclassic to modern times. Whereas previous studies have examined either pilgrimage...

... that the Mixtecs were the bearers of the Preclassic Monte Albán I culture to the solid documentation of their power and presence in the predominantly Zapotec Valley of Oaxaca. Paddock’s long essay ties these contributions so well together that the reader will want to refer even to this most technical section...

... on the Late Preclassic and Classic Maya, and two deal with highland cultures of the Classic period at Teotihuacan and Cacaxtla. There is no discernible order to organization of essays in terms of region, chronology, or media. The volume coheres around the theme of craft production, a traditional topic...

... undergraduate students. He might even be able to employ common terms (preclassic, classic, and postclassic), when discussing cultural horizons, in both Middle and South America. ...

... Broda sifts the ethnohistoric evidence describing the Templo Mayor and its use. She also analyzes the more than 80 offering caches, and sheds important light on the cult of the rain and mountain deity Tlaloc, who had been prominent in Mesoamerica since preclassic times and whose worship still endures...

... Horizon, First Intermediate, etc. These terms are employed throughout the book, and for most Mesoamericanists familiar with the developmental terms Preclassic, Classic and Postclassic, the new scheme may prove disconcerting. Part two, which forms the core of the volume, deals with the eastern part...

...) canals of Tehuacán are actually natural features, and argues that Tehuacán’s Purrón Dam was built during the Postclassic and not the Late/Terminal Preclassic period, as reported by earlier investigators, even though the locality’s population history and the dam’s stratigraphy support the latter...

... and archaeology is a model of clarity in expression. Arte indígena de México y Centroamérica treats the subject under the customary period headings: Preclassic, Classic, and Historic (i.e. Postclassic), the last including Toltec, “Mixtec,” and Aztec. In each period Covarrubias concentrated upon essential...

... on his excavations at the Preclassic and Classic site of Altun Ha in northeastern Belize. This volume presents the findings from test excavations during the 1964-1970 field seasons in six areas or “zones” of the site map; within each zone the excavation data are discussed by each of 31 tested structures...

... the northern Maya Lowlands, spanning the Preclassic to the Postclassic periods. Jennifer Taschek’s work accomplishes three specific goals. First, it presents a comprehensive descriptive record of the artifacts, including their context, their chronological placement, and intersite comparisons. Second...

... is reasonable, it is sometimes apparent that the traditional Maya-centric trichotemy of Preclassic (Formative)- Classic-Postclassic has been too rigidly applied to other regions, thereby obscuring some important cultural change and continuity. The Andean “Classic,” for example, seems less coherent than...

..., and can speak of “the advanced six-tone scale we hear in a millenary Preclassic flute; the seven-tone scale similar to the European diatonic scale produced by a Maya flute from the Island of Jaina; the whole-tone scale produced by Tarascan flutes, and extraordinary triple and quadruple flutes from...

... that iconography, architecture, and ideology became homogeneous early on; “these features coupled with a strong centralization of ritual in public places, suggest that the Late Preclassic lowlands witnessed the development of a shared reality of government in the context of an iconographically simplified...

... of specialized weapons and fortifications beginning in the Late Preclassic era, politics and statecraft in the Classic civilizations, and Postclassic reintegration through militarily sponsored expansion, trade, and colonization. Hassig blends wide-ranging cross-cultural comparisons and theoretical...

... sociopolitical and environmental history through space and time, Corey S. Ragsdale and Heather J. H. Edgar draw from dental morphometric data to analyze populations in the Valley of Mexico from the Preclassic through the Late Postclassic era. Interrogating the idea of ancestry, they demonstrate the chronological...