The urban questions : interdisciplinary and multiscalar approaches to investigating the ancient Mesoamerican city /

"A collection of leading Mesoamerican archaeologists address the many facets of urbanism in the region at a variety of scales, addressing questions regarding the details of life in the city, collective action, and spatial organization"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Johnson, Lisa M. (Lisa Marie) (Editor), Campiani, Arianna (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2025.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : interdisciplinary and multiscalar approaches to Mesoamerican urbanism / Arianna Campiani and Lisa M.Johnson
  • City life : Cerro Palenque as an urban place / Rosemary A. Joyce
  • Shaping urban identities in the Maya city of Palenque / Lisa M. Johnson, Éloi Bérubé, Felipe Trabanino, and Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo
  • Production in urban spaces : lithic production and economic organization at La Corona, Guatemala / Rachel A. Horowitz, Marcello A. Canuto, Tomás Barrientos, and Jocelyne M. Ponce
  • Examining flaked stone from Caracol, Belize, at the urban scale / Lucas R.M. Johnson and Adrian S.Z. Chase
  • Artisanal diversification or "multicrafting" as economic strategy among upper-class extra household groups at Cotzumalhuapa / David McCormick, Gilberto Cruz, Erika Gómez, Oswaldo Chinchilla
  • Collective action, households, neighborhoods, and urban landscapes : a multiscalar perspective on late Postclassic urbanism at Tlaxcallan / Marc D. Marino, Lane F. Fargher, and Angelica N. Costa, Wesley D. Stoner
  • Function of urban design inferred from circulation patterns : the accessibility of ballcourts in Classic Period South-Central Veracruz / Aarón David Piña Martínez and Annick Daneels
  • Urbanizing forces at the Classic Maya city of Palenque : urban form, neighborhoods and infrastructure / Arianna Campiani
  • Living in the city of Naachtun (Guatemala) : a perspective from urban neighborhoods / Eva Lemmonier, Julien Hiquet, Julien Sion
  • Urbanization and clustering in the Maya area and beyond / Scott Hutson
  • Land systems architecture and ecology as infrastructure in cities and regions across the Maya lowlands / Timothy Murtha and Whittaker Schroder.