Ancient southeast Mesoamerica : political economies without the state /
"Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica explores the distinctive development and political history of the region from its earliest inhabitants up to the Spanish conquest. It was composed of a matrix of social networks rather than divided by distinct cultures and domains. Making use of the area's ri...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Case studies in early societies.
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Table of Contents:
- Ways of understanding southeast Mesoamerica
- Power, hierarchy, and social differentiation
- Early arrivals, domestication, and emerging sociopolitical complexity in southeast Mesoamerica (10,000 (?)-400 BCE)
- Reformulating social networks through the novel uses of things (400 BCE-CE 200)
- The arrival of divine lords : early classic southeast Mesoamerica (CE 200-600)
- The Copán realm, its colonies and allies (CE 600-800)
- The end of days : political decentralization and its aftermath among members of the Copán-centered network (CE 820-1000)
- Concentrating power and building hierarchy beyond the Copán-centered network (CE 600-800)
- Concentrating power in the terminal classic beyond Copán (CE 800-1000)
- Power and political economy in the late classic Naco and Middle Chamelecón Valleys (CE 600-800)
- Hierarchy to heterarchy in the terminal classic Naco and Middle Chamelecón Valleys (800-1000)
- Contrasting forms of complexity : the postclassic (CE 1000-1550) in southeast Mesoamerica
- Contesting for power, challenging hierarchy, making history.