Origins of the Nuu : archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico / / Stephen A. Kowalewski ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (545 p.)
• Disciplina: 972/.7401
• Soggetto topico: Mixtec Indians - Origin; Mixtec Indians - History; Mixtec Indians - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Antiquities
• Altri autori: KowalewskiStephen A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-406) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Regional study of ancient societies in the Mixteca Alto -- The Western Nochixtlan Valley -- Greater Teposcolula -- Greater Huamelulpan -- The inner basin -- Greater Tlaxiaco -- The polities of the early and middle formative -- The emergence of urbanism and the state -- The classic Nuu -- The postclassic Nuu -- The Nuu in the anthropological perspective -- Resumen en Espanol.
• Sommario/riassunto: Combining older findings with new data on 1, 000 previously undescribed archaeological sites, Origins of the Ñuu presents the cultural evolution of the Mixteca Alta in an up-to-date chronological framework. The ñuu - the kingdoms of the famous Mixtec codices - are traced back through the Postclassic and Classic periods to their beginnings in the first states of the Terminal Formative, revealing their origin, evolution, and persistence through two cycles of growth and collapse. Challenging assumptions that the Mixtec were peripheral to better-known peoples such as the Aztecs or Maya, the book asserts that the ñuu were a major demographic and economic power in their own right. Older explanations of multiregional or macroregional systems often portrayed civilizations as rising in a cradle or hearth and spreading outward. New macroregional studies show that civilizations are products of more complex interactions between regions, in which peripheries are not simply shaped by cores but by their interactions with multiple societies at varying distances from major centers. Origins of the Ñuu is a significant contribution to this emerging area of archaeological research.
• Titolo autorizzato: Origins of the Nuu
• ISBN: 9780870819902; 0870819909
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972570403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II