Zapotec civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley (New Aspects of Antiquity) - Softcover

Marcus, Joyce & Flann

 
9780500050781: Zapotec civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley (New Aspects of Antiquity)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500050783 ISBN 13: 9780500050781
Verlag: THAMES HUDSON, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

A description of the work of Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus and their colleagues in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley where the Zapotecs created one of the world's original civilizations. At its peak 1500 years ago, the Zapotec capital of Monte Alban - with its magnificent temples, tombs, ballcourts and hieroglyphic inscriptions - dominated a society of over 100,000 people with farflung territorial outposts. Yet a millennium earlier Monte Alban had been uninhabited and the valley's population less than one tenth its later size. The authors of the book go back to the beginnings of the settlement in Oaxaca 10,000 years ago to provide the answers to what caused this sudden cultural flowering.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joyce Marcus is currently Curator of Latin American Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Professor of Anthropology in the university.

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Verlag
THAMES HUDSON
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500050783
ISBN 13 
9780500050781
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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