Casas Grandes and Its Hinterland
Subtitle: Prehistoric Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780816520978
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Population; Chihuahua (State); Archaeology / Anthropology; Mexico; History: World; Latin America - Mexico; Archaeology; Antiquities; Casas Grandes Site (Mexico); Casas Grandes culture
Description: "Casas Grandes, or Paquime, is one of the most important settlements in the prehistoric North American Southwest. The largest and most complex community in the Puebloan world, it was characterized by its principal excavator, Charles Di Peso, as an outpost of the Toltec empire, which used it as a trade link between Mesoamerican and southwestern cultures.".

"Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis have worked extensively in the Casas Grandes area and now offer new research arguing that it was not as similar to the highly developed complex societies of Mesoamerica as has been thought. In the first book of its kind in 25 years, the authors analyze settlement pattern data from more than 300 communities in the area surrounding Casas Grandes to show that its Medio period culture was a local development."--BOOK JACKET.