Mexico
Subtitle: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs
By: Michael D. Coe.
Edition: 4th ed., fully rev. and expanded.
Series: Ancient peoples and places; Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson)
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities; Indians of Mexico -- History; Mexico -- History -- To 1519; Mexico -- Antiquities
Description: Michael D. Coe's Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient civilizations. Now this companion volume to Professor Coe's bestselling The Maya has been completely revised and expanded for the fourth edition. Enlarged sections are included on early village life and the rise of Olmec civilization.

Extraordinary recent discoveries - such as the stela from La Mojarra inscribed in the mysterious Isthmian script or the mass sacrifice of 200 victims at Teotihuacan - receive full coverage. A new chapter on Aztec life and society has also been added, based on fresh readings of the ethnohistorical sources

. Despite the cataclysm of the Spanish Conquest and ensuing epidemics, the native peoples of Mexico survived through the Colonial period. Describing their heroic struggle in a new Epilogue, the author makes clear just how much the character of modern Mexico derives from its Pre-Columbian past.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index.