Table of Contents:
Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
1. West and Northwest Mexico: The Ins and Outs of Mesoamerica -
Shirley Gorenstein and Michael S. Foster
2. The Late and Terminal Preclassic in Southeastern Guanajuato:
Heartland or Periphery? - Charles A. Florance
3. A Summary of the Archaeology of North-Central Mesoamerica:
Guanajuato, GuerÉtaro, and San Luis PotosÍ - Beatriz Braniff C.
4. The Evolution and Decline of a Core of Civilization: The
TeuchitlÁn Tradition and the Archaeology of Jalisco - Phil C.
Weigand
5. Tarascans and Their Ancestors: Prehistory of MichoacÁn - Helen
Perlstein Pollard
6. Tarascan External Relationships - Helen Perlstein Pollard
7. Prehispanic Cultural Development along the Southern Coast of
West Mexico - Joseph B. Mountjoy
8. The Prehistory of Mexico's Northwest Coast: A View from the
Marismas Nacionales of Sinaloa and Nayarit - Stuart D. Scott and
Michael S. Foster
9. The AztatlÁn Mercantile System: Mobile Traders and the
Northwestward Expansion of Mesoamerican Civilization - J. Charles
Kelley
10. Archaeology of Southern Zacatecas: The Malapaso, Juchipila, and
Valparaiso-BolaÑos Valleys - Peter F. JimÉnez Betts and J. Andrew
Darling
11. The Archaeoastronomical System in the RÍo Colorado
Chalchihuites Polity, Zacatecas: An Interpretation of the ChapÍn I
Pecked Cross-Circle - J. Charles Kelley and Ellen Abbott Kelley
12. The Archaeology of Durango - Michael S. Foster
13. Recent Advances in Chihuahuan Archaeology - Ronna Jane
Bradley
14. The Archaeological Traditions of Sonora - MarÍa Elisa
Villalpando
15. From Tzintzuntzan to PaquimÉ: Peers or Peripheries in Greater
Mesoamerica? - Michael W. Spence
References
Contributors
Index
Michael Foster is a senior archaeologist and senior
project director for the cultural resources division at Logan
Simpson Design in Tempe, Arizona. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Shirley Gorenstein is a professor emerita of anthropology,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She lives in New York City.
"This volume is the first comprehensive, serious look at the west
and north in decades...[It] challenges some old paradigms that have
stunted research and proposes some exciting new ideas."
—Robert Pickering, Denver Museum of Natural History
"The most important and comprehensive treatment published so
far on western-northwestern Mexico. With the book's broad coverage
and extensive bibliography, it is instantly the major resource and
reference work for the up-to-date prehistory of that region."
—New Mexico Historical Review "An extremely important
contribution to the archaeology of an area previously referred to
as the Mesoamerican periphery and until the past 20 years little
known. This book is substantive, critical, well written,
illustrated, and produced. A most important work and one that
should find its way to the libraries of serious Mesoamerican
students and scholars."
—Journal of the West "This volume is a significant contribution to
our understanding of west and northwest Mexico and the
relationships with central Mexico."
—H-Net "Both Mesoamerican and Southwestern archaelogists
should read it to understand the lines that channel their
efforts."
—Latin American Antiquity "The first comprehensive
overview of both regions since the Handbook of Middle American
Indians was published in the early 1970s."
—KIVA
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