Mexico
Subtitle: a guide to the archaeological sites
By: Davide Domenici
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780760731277
Subjects: Guidebooks; Antiquities; History; Guides; Antiquités; Histoire
Description: This title traces the great lost civilisations that developed in what is modern-day Mexico, detailing their highly developed urban centres and the relics discovered in them.
Table of contents: title: Summary of the history and culture of Mesoamerica; title: Society; title: War; title: Religion; title: Calendar; title: Indigenous literature; title: Impact with the old world; title: Itinerary I: Empires of Central Mexico; title: Teotihuacan; title: Tula; title: History and myth of Quetzalcoatl and Tollan; title: Mexico-Tenochtitlan; title: Templo Mayor; title: Museo National; title: De antropologia; title: Itinerary II: Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala and Veracruz: sacred city of Cholula and the splendor of the epiclassic centers; title: Xochicalco; title: Cholula; title: Cacaxtla; title: El Tajin; title: Ball game; title: Itinerary III: Peoples of the clouds; title: Monte Alban; title: Dainzu', Lambyteco and Yagul; title: Mitla; title: Huijazo'o; title: Itinerary IV: Civilizations of the forest; title: La Venta: architectural site and park; title: Palenque; title: Writing; title: Yaxchila'n; title: Bonampak; title: Tikal; title: Uaxactu'n; title: Copa'n; title: Quirigua'; title: Itinerary V: Maya in the Yucata'n; title: Rio Bec and Chenes styles; title: Dzibilchaltu'n; title: Edzna'; title: Ek Balam; title: Uxmal and Puuc sites; title: Uxmal; title: Kabah; title: Sayil; title: Labna'; title: Chiche'n Itza'; title: Maya Toltechi o Zuyuani?; title: Tulum.