La acrópolis de Cantona
Subtitle: procesco de desarrollo de su estructura urbana
By: Yadira Martínez Calleja
Contributors: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Colección Arqueología. Serie Logos; Científica; Colección Arqueología; Colección científica (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico))
Publisher: INAH
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9786075392028
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); History
Description: The Acropolis of Cantona is the first book that explains the development process of the urban structure of one of the largest and most complex prehispanic cities of northeastern region of the Central Altiplano of Mexico, from the first evidence of settelments to its abandonment, taking as an example the most important civic-religious center of the city. For this, the author analyzes the urban-architectonic characteristics as well as the natural environment, from which derive the production of food, litica and ceramic artifacts, and compares them with those of other contemporary societies, mainly from the Bajío region, to build interesting hypotheses about the ethnico-cultural identity of the inhabitants and builders of Cantona, in the state of Puebla, Mexico. After more than ten centuries of the abandonment of this great metropolis (and 30 years of its uninterrupted exploration) this work leads us to understand it as the tacit and highly emblematic demonstration of the indomitable spirit of the inhabitants of one of the most aggressive and reluctant natural spaces, transforming it into extraordinary cultural center and one of the most representative Prehispanic sites of Mesoamerica.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducción; title: Primera Parte. Planteamientos generales y postulados teóricos; title: I. Cantona y su entorno natural; title: II. La investigación de la ciudad arqueológica de Cantona; title: III. Problemática general; title: Segunda Parte. El centro cívico-religioso principal de Cantona. Hipótesis explicativa del proceso de desarrollo urbano; title: IV. Metodología de la investigación. Fases y objetivos; title: V. La formación social cantonesa y el proceso e urbanización; title: V. La formación social y su manifestación urbana; title: Conclusiones generales.