Book contents
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Oaxaca’s Formative Period Cities and Their Implications for Early Urbanism in Mesoamerica
- Chapter Three Early Urbanization in the Formative Gulf Lowlands, Mexico
- Chapter Four Patterns of Early Urbanism in the Southern Maya Lowlands
- Chapter Five The Role of Middle Preclassic Placemaking in the Creation of Late Preclassic Yucatecan Cities
- Chapter Six The City over the City
- Chapter Seven The New Normal
- Chapter Eight The Nature of Early Urbanism at Teotihuacan
- Chapter Nine Art and Urbanity in Late Formative Mesoamerica
- Chapter Ten Landscape and Leadership in Mesoamerican Cities
- Chapter Eleven Experimental Cities?
- References
- Index
Chapter Eleven - Experimental Cities?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
Book contents
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Early Mesoamerican Cities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Introduction
- Chapter Two Oaxaca’s Formative Period Cities and Their Implications for Early Urbanism in Mesoamerica
- Chapter Three Early Urbanization in the Formative Gulf Lowlands, Mexico
- Chapter Four Patterns of Early Urbanism in the Southern Maya Lowlands
- Chapter Five The Role of Middle Preclassic Placemaking in the Creation of Late Preclassic Yucatecan Cities
- Chapter Six The City over the City
- Chapter Seven The New Normal
- Chapter Eight The Nature of Early Urbanism at Teotihuacan
- Chapter Nine Art and Urbanity in Late Formative Mesoamerica
- Chapter Ten Landscape and Leadership in Mesoamerican Cities
- Chapter Eleven Experimental Cities?
- References
- Index
Summary
Although this was not the first symposium for which I discussed papers whose topics are remote from any pretended expertise of mine – I once discussed at the AAA (Australian Archaeological Association) a panel on “Trends towards social complexity in Prehistoric Australia and Papua New Guinea” – the resulting chapters in this volume present special challenges. That is, I’ve been thinking a lot about early cities in connection with a book that I’ve recently edited, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CE (Yoffee 2015).
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- Early Mesoamerican CitiesUrbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period, pp. 238 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022