Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Michael D. Coe was professor emeritus of anthropology at Yale University and curator emeritus for the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. His books include The Maya, Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, and Breaking the Maya Code.

Javier Urcid is the Jane's Chair Professor of Latin American Studies at Brandeis University, where he teaches archaeology, material culture, and Mesoamerican civilizations.

Rex Koontz is Moores Professor of Art History at the University of Houston and Consulting Curator of Ancient American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has studied the public sculpture of Ancient Mexico for more than two decades, and published articles, book chapters, and the books Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents; Blood and Beauty: Organized Violence in the Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica (with Heather Orr); Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica, edited with Kathryn Reese-Taylor and Annabeth Headrick; and Mexico, with Michael Coe and Javier Urcid.

Dr. Koontz wrote chapters on the art of the Americas, from early South America and Mesoamerica and North America, to the art of North, South, and Mesoamerica from 1300 onward.