Situating Teotihuacan

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Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2015

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Cambridge University Press

The region of ancient complex civilizations in Mexico and Central America does not correspond neatly to modern political boundaries, so it is useful to label it by a special term. “Mesoamerica” is the word introduced by ethnohistorian Paul Kirchhoff (1943). Although its boundaries shifted somewhat over time, Mesoamerica includes all but far northern Mexico, and the northern parts of Central America covered by the countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras and Nicaragua, and the northwestern tip of Costa Rica (Figure 1.2). North of Mesoamerica there were farming towns and villages whose cultures were generally related to those of the southwestern United States, and, in the more arid areas, bands of mobile hunter-gatherers. South of Mesoamerica, in southern Central America and northern South America, politically somewhat less complex societies occupied a large region that stretched southward to the states and empires of the central Andes – the Inka s and their numerous predecessors.

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