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Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco Linda R. Manzanilla

Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco By Linda R. Manzanilla

Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco by Linda R. Manzanilla


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The ancient city of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico was built by a flood of immigrants who created a complex and diverse urban landscape. This detailed volume analyses 116 burials in Teopancazco, a powerful neighbourhood that controlled most of the city's intake and distribution of foreign raw materials. It gives life to the population of the earliest known multiethnic metropolis.

Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco Summary

Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco: Investigations of a Teotihuacan Neighborhood Center by Linda R. Manzanilla

Like modern-day New York City, the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico was built by a flood of immigrants who created a complex and diverse urban landscape. This detailed volume analyzes 116 burials in Teopancazco, a powerful neighborhood that controlled most of the citys intake and distribution of foreign raw materials. Applying sophisticated bioarchaeological techniques such as isotope analysis, trace elements, and DNA profiling, this holistic study gives life to the population of the earliest known multiethnic metropolis.

Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco Reviews

Illuminates a multiethnic neighborhood within one of the worlds greatest urban developments of ancient times. Presents some of the most sophisticated new scientific techniques that are allowing scholars to see the details of life in the ancient world in a vivid dimension that has not before been possible.Cynthia Robin, author of Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan

Manzanilla has been, and still is, a pioneer in the application of recent technology to aid in the interpretation of archaeological remains.Rebecca Storey, author of Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A Modern Paleodemographic Synthesis

Vital for scholars of Mesoamerican archaeology and the Classic period in particular.Ian Farrington, author of Cusco: Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World

About Linda R. Manzanilla

Linda R. Manzanilla, professor and researcher at the Institute of Anthropological Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is editor or coeditor of several books including The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities.

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NPB9780813054285
9780813054285
0813054281
Multiethnicity and Migration at Teopancazco: Investigations of a Teotihuacan Neighborhood Center by Linda R. Manzanilla
New
Hardback
University Press of Florida
2016-12-30
256
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