Title: Migrations in late Mesoamerica /
Authors: Beekman, Christopher; Chase, Arlen F. 1953-; Chase, Diane Z.
Year: 2019
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Migrations.; Indians of Central America Migrations.; Mexico History; Central America History; Central America; Mexico
Abstract: This volume gathers scholars from different disciplines to address the role of migration during the most tumultuous centuries of Mesoamerican prehistory (A.D. 500-1500).
Contents: 1. Migrations in late Mesoamerica / Christopher S. Beekman -- I. Northern Mesoamerica. 2. How Mesoamerican are the Nahua languages? / Jane H. Hill ; 3. Three migration case studies from the Tula region / Dan M. Healan and Robert H. Cobean ; 4. Migration and the Coyotlatelco ceramic tradition : evidence from El Bajío / Christine Hernández and Dan M. Healan ; 5. El Grillo : the reestablishment of community and identity in far western Mexico / Christopher S. Beekman ; 6. "Then they pressed on" : indigenous migration in the Nahuatl annals of Chimalpahin / Susan Schroeder -- II. Southern Mesoamerica. 7. Classic period migration in the Maya area : a morphometric analysis / B. Scott Aubry ; 8. The murals of Cacaxtla : monumental art as evidence of migration / Andrew D. Turner ; 9. The Itzá Maya migration narratives : historic reality, myth, or... Weighing the idea of migrations in light of new research / Erik Boot ; 10. The Pipil migrations in Mesoamerica : history, identity, and politics / William R. Fowler ; 11. Dialectology and the history of Nahua peoples in Guatemala / Sergio Romero.