Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica

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Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica

Author	: Julie Nehammer Knub
File Size	: 40,7 Mb
Publisher	: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 January 2014
ISBN	: 9781784910518
Pages	: 138 pages

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Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica by Julie Nehammer Knub Book PDF Summary

This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies spanning the breadth of Mesoamerica, from the Early Classic metropolis of Teotihuacan, to Tenochtitlan, the Late Postclassic capital of the Aztec, and from the arid central Mexican highlands in the west to the humid Maya lowlands in the east.

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