Introduction / Christopher S. Beekman, Joshua D. Englehardt, and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- Time: Revised Regional Chronologies -- The Cultural Sequence during the Formative Period in the Valley of Colima / Laura Almendros López -- The Early Segment of the Chronological Sequence at Los Guachimontones / Christopher S. Beekman -- Revisiting the Archaeology of the Huetamo area, South-Eastern Michoacán, Mexico / José Luis Punzo Díaz, Diego Rangel, Erika Ibarra, Jesús Zarco, and Mijaely Castañón -- The Early Postclassic Aztatlán Colonization of the Pacific Coast of Jalisco / Joseph B. Mountjoy, Fabio Germ n Cupul-Magaña, Rafael García de Quevedo-Machain, and Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos -- Space: Old Questions, New Methods -- Architectural Discourse and Sociocultural Structure at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco / Kimberly Sumano Ortega and Joshua D. Englehardt -- Constructing the pre-Hispanic landscape in the Santiago Bayacora Basin, Durango / David Arturo Muñiz García and Kimberly Sumano Ortega -- Diversity: Refined Theoretical Perspectives -- What the Teuchitlan Tradition is, and what the Teuchitlán Tradition is Not / Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza -- Cerro de Santiago: An Epiclassic Site within the World System of Central-Northern Mexico / M. Nicols Caretta and Manuel Dueñas García -- Weaving our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico / Michael Mathiowetz -- Conclusions / Stephen A. Kowalewski
Summary:
"This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of western Mexico's pre-Hispanic cultures and argues that the region was more similar than many researchers have believed to the rest of the Mesoamerican world"-- Provided by publisher.
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