Early Mesoamerican Cities: Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period

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Michael Love (California State University, Northridge) Julia Guernsey (University of Texas, Austin)

Early Mesoamerican Cities

Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period

Michael Love (California State University, Northridge), Julia Guernsey (University of Texas, Austin)

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Cambridge University Press
06 January 2022

History of the Americas; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Archaeology by period & region; Environmental archaeology; Social & cultural anthropology

Urbanization is a phenomenon that brings into focus a range of topics of broad interest to scholars. It is one of the central, enduring interests of anthropological archaeology. Because urbanization is a transformational process, it changes the relationships between social and cultural variables such as demography, economy, politics, and ideology. As one of a handful of cases in the ancient world where cities developed independently, Mesoamerica should play a major role in the global, comparative analysis of first-generation cities and urbanism in general. Yet most research focuses on later manifestations of urbanism in Mesoamerica, thereby perpetuating the fallacy that Mesoamerican cities developed relatively late in comparison to urban centers in the rest of the world. This volume presents new data, case studies, and models for approaching the subject of early Mesoamerican cities. It demonstrates how the study of urbanism in Mesoamerica, and all ancient civilizations, is entering a new and dynamic phase of scholarship.

Edited by: Michael Love (California State University Northridge), Julia Guernsey (University of Texas, Austin)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 264mm, Width: 186mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9781108838511
ISBN 10: 1108838510
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 06 January 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Love is Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of Early Complex Society in Pacific Guatemala and editor of The Southern Maya in the Late Preclassic. Julia Guernsey is the D.J. Sibley Family Centennial Faculty Fellow in Prehistoric Art at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica and Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica.