By Gordon F. Ekholm,Ignacio Bernal
Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica contains the 10th and 11th volumes within the Handbook of heart American Indians, released in cooperation with the center American study Institute of Tulane collage less than the final editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). quantity editors of Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica are Gordon F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal. Gordon F. Ekholm (1909–1987) used to be curator of anthropology on the American Museum of typical background, manhattan, and a former president of the Society for American Archaeology. Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992), former director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, was once director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico and likewise a prior president of the Society for American Archaeology.
Volumes 10 and eleven describe the pre-Aztec and Aztec cultures of Mexico, from valuable Veracruz and the Gulf Coast, throughout the Valley of Mexico, to western Mexico and the northern frontiers of those historic American civilizations.
The thirty-two articles, lavishly illustrated and followed through bibliography and index, have been ready by way of specialists on prehistoric payment styles, structure, sculpture, mural portray, ceramics and minor arts and crafts, old writing and calendars, social and political association, faith, philosophy, and literature. There also are precise articles at the archaeology and ethnohistory of chosen areas inside northern Mesoamerica.
The instruction manual of center American Indians used to be assembled and edited on the heart American examine Institute of Tulane college with the help of promises from the nationwide technology origin and below the sponsorship of the nationwide study Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
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