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Aztec Archaeology: A Bibliography

A Select Bibliography on the Archaeology of the Aztec Civilization

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Berdan, Frances F. 1982 The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Berger, Uta 2004 Miclantecuhtli, the Mexican deity of death, and associated human organs. Mexicon 26:106-111.

Berres, Thomas E. 2000 Climatic change and lacustrine resources at the period of initial Aztec development. Ancient Mesoamerica 11:27-38.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. 1987 Consumption and politics at Aztec Huexotla. American Anthropologist 89:676-686.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth M.1987 Elite and utilitarian crafts in the Aztec state. In Specialization, Exchange, and Complex Societies. Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Timothy K. Earle, eds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. 1998 Huitzilopochtli's conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8(1):3-13.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. 1996 The quality of tribute cloth: The place of evidence in archaeological argument. American Antiquity 61(3):453-462.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth M.1991 Weaving and cooking: Women's production in Aztec Mexico. In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory. Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, eds. Pp. 224-251. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Chance, John K. 2000 The Noble House in Colonial Puebla, Mexico: Descent, Inheritance, and the Nahua Tradition. American Anthropologist 102(3):485-502.

Charlton, Cynthia L. O. 1993 Obsidian as jewelry: Lapidary production in Aztec Otumba, Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 4:231-243.

Charlton, Thomas H. 1972 Population trends in the Teotihuacan Valley, AD 1400-1969. World Archaeology 4(1):106-123.

Charlton, Thomas H. and Deborah L. Nichols1989 Late Post-Classic and colonial period elites at Otumba, Mexico: The archaeological dimensions. In Mesoamerican Elites: An Archaeological Assessment. Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase, eds. in press.

Hodge, Mary G. 1998 Archaeological views of Aztec culture. Journal of Archaeological Research 6(3):197-238.

Hodge, Mary G. and Leah D. Minc 1990 The spatial patterning of Aztec ceramics; Implications for prehispanic exchange systems in the Valley of Mexico. Journal of Field Archaeology 17(4):415-437.

Isaac, Barry L. 2005 Aztec Cannibalism: Nahua versus Spanish and mestizo accounts in the Valley of Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica 16(1):1-10.

Isaac, Barry L. 2002 Cannibalism among Aztecs and their neighbors: Analysis of the 1577-1586 Relaciones Geographicas for Nueva Espana and Nueva Galicia provinces. Journal of Anthropological Research 58:203-224.

Jones, Lindsay 1997 Conquests of the imagination: Maya-Mexican polarity and the story of Chichen Itza. American Anthropologist 99(2):275-290.

LeCount, Lisa J. 2001 Like water for chocolate: Feasting and political ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize. American Anthropologist 103(4):935-953.

Sanders, William T. 1992 Ecology and cultural syncretism in 16th century Mesoamerica. Antiquity 66:172-190.

Smith, Michael E. 1990 Long-distance trade under the Aztec Empire. Ancient Mesoamerica 1(2):153-169.

Smith, Michael E. and Frances F. Berdan 1992 Archaeology and the Aztec empire. World Archaeology 23(3):353-367.

Soustelle, Jacques 1970 Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. Stanford. Originally published 1955. Paris.: Reprinted. Stanford University Press.

Spitler, Susan 1997 Mythic homelands: Aztlan and Aztlan. Mosaic 31(2):34-45.

Tsirk, Are and William J. Parry 2000 Fractographic evidence for liquid on obsidian tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:987-997.

Vaillant, George Clapp. 1941 Aztecs of Mexico. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co.

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