"Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were…
The Olmec who anciently inhabited Mexico's southern Gulf Coast organized their once-egalitarian society into chiefdoms during the Formative period (1400 BC to AD 300). This increase in political complexity coincided with the development of village agriculture, which has led scho…
Prehispanic settlement patterns in the northwestern Valley of Mexico: the Zumpango region
by University of Michigan., Museum of Anthropology, Parsons, Jeffrey R., Parsons, Mary Hrones, Gorenflo, L. J., (Larry J.), Wilson, David J., (David John)
fromMemoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michig…
Prehispanic settlement patterns in the northwestern Valley of Mexico: the Zumpango region
by University of Michigan., Museum of Anthropology, Parsons, Jeffrey R., Parsons, Mary Hrones, Gorenflo, L. J., (Larry J.), Wilson, David J., (David John)
fromMemoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michig…
Although questions of form and style are fundamental to art history, the issue of scale has been surprisingly neglected. Yet, scale and scaled relationships are essential to the visual cultures of many societies from around the world, especially in the Andes. In Scale and the In…