Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-356) and index.
Contents:
Migration and its close linkages / Dominique Michelet. 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 Mélanie Forné -- 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 / Grégory Pereira, Marion Forest, Elsa Jadot, and Véronique 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.
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. "A discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region, presenting case studies on population movement in and among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies and polities within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization. Looking beyond the conceptual dichotomy of sedentism versus mobility, the contributors show that mobility and migration reveal a great deal about the formation, development, and decline of town- and city-based societies in the ancient world. In a series of data-rich chapters that address specific evidence for movement in their respective study areas, an international group of scholars assesses mobility through the isotopic and demographic analysis of human remains, stratigraphic identification of gaps in occupation, and local intensification of water capture in the Maya lowlands. Others examine migration through the integration of historic and archaeological evidence in Michoacán and Yucatán and by registering how daily life changed in response to the influx of new people in the Basin of Mexico. Offering a range of critical insights into the vital and under-studied role that mobility and migration played in complex agrarian societies, Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities will be of value to Mesoamericanist archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and bioarchaeologists and to any scholars working on complex societies."-- Provided by publisher.
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