Before Teotihuacan: The Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico
Author(s): Deborah Nichols; Wesley Stoner
Year: 2016
Summary
Teotihuacan grew explosively ca. 100 BC to become the most influential city in Mesoamerica. For several decades little research has been directed toward understanding the origins of complex society in the Teotihuacan Valley. Recent archaeological investigations at the Early-Middle Formative site of Altica provide a fresh perspective on dating the initial establishment of agricultural villages, early social and economic differentiation, and the development of intra-and inter-regional exchange networks to test comparative models of political economy.
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Before Teotihuacan: The Origins of Complex Society in the Northeast Basin of Mexico. Deborah Nichols, Wesley Stoner. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 402958)
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Keywords
General
Alitca
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Complex society
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Exchange
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;