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The morphological study of architectural features, the building arrangement within urban spaces, and multiscalar variation are critical for understanding urbanism as a process. Building types and architectural typologies form the... more
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      West Mexico (Archaeology)LiDAR for ArchaeologyTarascan State
El presente trabajo es en gran medida una síntesis de mi investigación para obtener el grado de Licenciado en Historia, hace ya más de tres años. En algunos puntos la información ha sido revisada y actualizada. En especial, sobre la... more
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      Boundaries (Archaeology)West Mexico (Archaeology)TarascanArqueología
Contactos exteriores del Estado Tarasco (2 vols) Autor: ALBIEZ-WIECK, Sarah Tamaño: 720 p / 23 x 16 cm Año: 2013 ISBN: 978-607-8257-42-3 Precio: $ 400 $ 320 US 22 US 17 Descripción Durante mucho tiempo el Estado... more
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      TarascanMichoacanTarascan empireMéxico prehispánico
This publication presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the residential and civic-ceremonial structures realized between 1983 and 1996 within the framework of the Projects Michoacán and III led by the researchers... more
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      ArchaeologyMesoamerican ArchaeologyMesoamericaTarascan
Resumen La tradición cultural purépecha duró por lo menos 3000 años durante los cuales se produjeron importantes transformaciones sociales, políticas y económicas que culminaron en el poderoso y centralizado reino que encontraron los... more
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      Early state societiesAmérica PrehispánicaHeterarchyTarascan State
Los bienes estratégicos son los recursos más básicos e imponderables disponibles para las entidades socioculturales (Weigand 1982; Williams y Weigand 1994). En Mesoamérica prehispánica existían muchos tipos de recursos o bienes... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyMesoamerican EthnohistoryTarascan State
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and... more
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      EthnohistoryMesoamerican ArchaeologyTarascan empireWestern Mexico
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      Michoacan ArchaeologyTarascan State
Los asentamientos del Posclásico Medio (1250 - 1450 d.C. ) ubicados sobre el Malpaís de Zacapu, en la región Centro-norte de Michoacán, revelan el profundo cambio de organización espacial de las sociedades locales en vísperas de la... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyUrbanismGeo-spatial analysis with GIS and GPSSettlement archaeology
The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) and its seeds have a long and varied history of use in Mesoamerica, reaching back at least as far as the Formative period in the Gulf and Pacific coast regions. This paper considers the use of cacao in... more
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      CacaoPrehistoric ceramic vessel function(s)Etnohistoria, Purépechas, MichoacánLengua purépecha
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      West Mexico (Archaeology)TarascanWarfareAmérica Prehispánica
in El Palacio. Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of Northern Michoacán, Mexico (Forest M. ed.), pp. 17–42, Paris Monograph in American Archaeology 53, Access Archaeology, Archaeopress Oxford, 2020.
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      West Mexico (Archaeology)Postclassical archaeologyMichoacan ArchaeologyLiDAR for Archaeology
in El Palacio. Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of Northern Michoacán, Mexico (Forest M. ed.), pp. 17–42, Paris Monograph in American Archaeology 53, Access Archaeology, Archaeopress Oxford, 2020.
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      HistoriographyWest Mexico (Archaeology)Postclassical archaeologyTarascan State
in El Palacio. Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of Northern Michoacán, Mexico (Forest M. ed.), pp. 43–78, Paris Monograph in American Archaeology 53, Access Archaeology, Archaeopress Oxford, 2020.
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      West Mexico (Archaeology)Postclassical archaeologyMichoacan ArchaeologyTarascan State
In the last centuries before the Spanish conquest, the Northern and Central Mexican highlands experienced a major political, economic, demographical, and social transformation. At that time, state entities emerged, including the Aztec... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologyUrbanismSettlement archaeologyMichoacan Archaeology
Review of the book ANCIENT WEST MEXICO IN THE MESOAMERICAN ECUMENE, BY EDUARDO WILLIAMS. Reviewer: Anthony de Luca, University of Texas.
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      Mesoamerican EthnohistoryWest Mexico (Archaeology)Tarascan empireMesoamerican Studies
The pre-Tarascan urban complex of the Malpaís of Zacapu (1250-1500 A. D.), located in the actual state of Michoacán, Mexico, presents numerous civic-ceremonial areas, formed by diagnostic structures like pyramidal-bases, places, altars... more
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      Mesoamerican ArchaeologySettlement PatternsUrbanismRitual Space
Pottery is one of the most important inventions of humankind. It is thousands of years old, and it is fair to say that without pottery the development of civilization as we know it would have been impossible. Food preparation and storage,... more
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      EthnoarchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Tarascan empireWestern Mexico