Mobility and migration in ancient Mesoamerican cities / edited by M. Charlotte Arnauld, Christopher Beekman and Grégory Pereira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beekman, Christopher, editor.

Pereira, Grégory, editor.

Arnauld, Marie-Charlotte, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Migration, Internal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps ;

Place of Publication:

Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2021]

Summary:

"Studies on population migration in central Mexico and the Maya region among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization showing that mobility and migration reveals about the formation, development, and decline of town- and city-based societies in the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mobility and migration in ancient Mesoamerican cities : an introduction / M. Charlotte Arnauld, Christopher Beekman, and Gregory Pereira

Urban and rural population movement patterns during the late and Terminal Classic in the Belize River Valley, Belize / Carolyn Freiwald

Classic and Postclassic population movement and cultural change in the Belize Valley, Belize / Julie A. Hoggarth, Carolyn Freiwald, and Jaime J. Awe

The bioarchaeology of Maya population mobility, trade, and settlement growth during the Classic Maya period : a view from the Yucatecan coastal port of Xcambo, Mexico / Andrea Cucina, Thelma N. Sierra Sosa, and Vera Tiesler

Immigrant lives : mobility and migration in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico / Meggan Bullock

Mobility as resilience : a perspective on coastal to inland migration in the eastern Maya lowlands / Elizabeth Graham and Linda Howie

Maya on the move : mobility and migration in the Classic Maya Kingdom of Copan, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin and Kristin V. Landau

Water, land, and ancient Maya population dynamics in the Puuc Hills, Mexico / Nicholas P. Dunning, Eric Weaver, Michael P. Smyth, and David Ortegón Zapata

Maya residential architecture, mobility and the Terminal Classic abandonment of lowland urban settlements / M. Charlotte Arnauld, Eva Lemonnier, and Melanie Forne

Coalescence at Chicoloapan, Mexico : migration and the making of a post-collapse community / Sarah C. Clayton

Ephemeral cities? The longevity of the Postclassic Tarascan urban sites of the Zacapu Malpaís, Mexico, and its consequences for the migration process / Gregory Pereira, Marion Forest, Elsa Jadot, and Veronique Darras

Itza Maya migration and mobility : a tale of two (or more) cities / Prudence M. Rice

Cohesive social groups and the formation of enclaves in west-central Mexico / Christopher S. Beekman

Migration and its close linkages / Dominique Michelet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646420735

164642073X

OCLC:

1178868569