The archaeology of Mesoamerica
Subtitle: Mexican and European perspectives
By: editors, Warwick Bray and Linda Manzanilla.
Contributors: Bray, Warwick.; Manzanilla, Linda.
Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Central America -- Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Congresses.; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from the conference "Mesoamerican studies : Mexican and European perspectives" held in February, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Mexico in the British Museum / John Mack and Colin McEwan; value: The first urban development in the central highlands of Mesoamerica / Linda Manzanilla; value: Water and fire : archaeology in the capital of the Mexica empire / Leonardo López Luján; value: Place signs in Mesoamerican inscriptions and codices / Gordon Brotherston; value: The indigenous past in the Mexican present / John Gledhill; value: Ritual and economy of the preclassic Maya : recent evidence from Cuello, Belize / Norman Hammond; value: The Gulf Coast cultures and the recent archaeological discoveries at El Manatí, Veracruz / Ponciano Ortíz Ceballos and Ma. del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez; value: Observations on the late classic interregnum at Yaxchilán / Nikolai Grube.