With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understanding society and economy in the Aztec empire.
The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 synthesizes our current understanding of the Aztec...
With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of...
Presents the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of wealth distribution often used by economists to measure contemporary inequality, and applied it to house-size distributions over time and around the world.
Presents the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini ...
This edited volume integrates a remarkable body of new data representing current issues and methodologies in the archaeology of hilltop sites, known as cerros de trincheras, in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
This edited volume integrates a remarkable body of new data representing current issues and methodologies in the archaeology of hilltop sites, known a...
