Ancient Mesoamerica

Ancient Mesoamérica

Overview

  • The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors, 3rd ed. (1993)
  • Mesoamerica: The Evolution of a Civilization (1968)
  • Prehistoric Mesoamerica (Adams 1991)
  • Historical Atlas of Ancient America (2001)

Bibliographies

(see also Epigraphy, Maya, Mexica)

  • The Ancient Americas: A Brief History and Guide to Research (1989)
  • Art and Archaeology of Pre-Columbian Middle America: Annotated Bibliography of Works in English (1977)
  • The Art of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica: An Annotated Bibliography (1985)
  • Bibliografia Mesoamericana (kawil.saiph.com:5000/)
  • Mesoamerican Archaeology: A Guide to the Literature and Other Information Resources (1981)
  • Codices (see Epigraphy)

Cultures, major

Maya

– Modern geographic locations: Chiapas State & Yucatan (Mexico), Guatemala, Honduras

  • An Album of Maya Architecture (1946 and later ed.)
  • Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art (1986)
  • Lexicon for Maya Architecture (1984)
  • The Maya (Coe 1999)
  • Maya Civilization [bibliography] (1993)
  • Maya Civilization 1990-1995: A Bibliographic Guide (2) (1997)
  • The Mayas: A Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles (1991) o Study of Maya Art (1913; 1975)

Mexica (Aztec)

– Modern geographic location: Central Highlands of Mexico o Aztec Art (Pasztory 1981)

  • The Aztecs (Smith 1996)
  • The Aztecs: A Bibliography of Books and Periodical Articles (1987)
  • Aztecs: An Interpretation (1991)
  • Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society (1982)

Mixtec / Zapotec

– Modern geographic location: Oaxaca State (Mexico)

  • Cloud People: The Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (1983)
  • Vanished Mesoamerican Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs (2001)
  • Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley (1996)

Olmec

– Modern geographic location: Veracruz State (Mexico)

  • Olmec: Mother Culture of Mesoamerica (1989)
  • Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico (1996)
  • Olmec World: Ritual and Rulership (1995)

Teotihuacan

– Modern geographic location: Mexico City

  • Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living (1997)
  • Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods (1993)

Toltec

– Modern geographic location: Hidalgo State (Mexico)

  • The Toltecs, Until the Fall of Tula (1977)

Encyclopedias

  • Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America: An Encyclopedia (2001)
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures (2001)

Epigraphy, Writing, & the Mesoamerican Codex

  • The Art of the Maya Scribe (1998)
  • Bibliografia de Codices, Mapas, y Lienzos (1979)
  • Breaking the Maya Code (1999)
  • Los Codices de Mexico: Historias Extraordinarias (1999)
  • Maya Scribe and His World (1973)
  • Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations (1992)
  • Symbolic Notation of Teotihuacan: Elements of Writing in a Mesoamerican Culture… (1986)

Handbooks

  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/)
  • Handbook of Middle American Indians (16 volumes; 1964-1976)
  • Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians (currently in 6 volumes; 1981- )

Journals

  • American Anthropologist
  • American Antiquity
  • American Indian Quarterly
  • Anales de Antropologia
  • Ancient Mesoamerica
  • Antropologia y Historia
  • Antropologia y Historia de Guatemala
  • Archaeology
  • Arqueologia Mexicana
  • Estudios de Cultura Maya
  • Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl
  • Historia Mexicana
  • Katunob
  • Latin American Antiquity
  • Maya Research
  • Mesoamerica [CIRMA]
  • Mexicon
  • Notas Mesoamericanos
  • PARI Journal

Library of Congress Subject Headings

(profitably search the online catalog)

  • Name of culture, followed by subheading (e.g. Aztecs-History; Mayas-Art)
  • Indians of Mexico-Antiquities; Indians of Mexico-Writing, etc.
  • Indians of Central America-History; Indians of Central America-Architecture, etc.

Series

  • Civilization of the American Indian Series (University of Oklahoma)
  • Palenque Round Table Series (Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute)
  • Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology (Dumbarton Oaks)
  • Warfare Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control (1988)
  • War and Society in Ancient Mesoamerica (1992)

Resources

Further Reading

  • Herrera, José Israel, “Unveiling the face of diversity: Interlegality and legal pluralism in the Mayan area of the Yucatan Peninsula”, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law. Ámsterdam
  • Parmenter, Ross, “D. H. Lawrence’s third visit to Casa Alvarado”, Chalchihuitl in Quetzalli: Precious Greenstone, Precious Quetzal Feather: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of Doris Heyden. Eloise Quiñones Keber, ed. pp. 205-209, Labyrinthos, Lancaster

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