Ancient road networks and settlement hierarchies in the New World / edited by Charles D. Trombold.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Description
xvi, 277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

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    New directions in archaeology [More in this series]
    Summary note
    The presence of ancient road networks in the New World is a puzzle, because they predate the use of wheeled transport vehicles. But whatever their diverse functions may have been, they remain the only tangible indication of how extinct American societies were regionally organised. Contributors to this volume describe recent studies of prehispanic roads in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, paying special attention to their significance for economic and political organisation, as well as regional communication.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • List of illustrations
    • Lists of tables
    • List of contributors
    • Editor's preface
    • Part I: Theoretical considerations (An introduction to the study of ancient New Worlds roads / Charles D. Trombold ; Paths and roads in evolutionary perspective / Timothy Earle ; Roads, routes, and ties that bind / Ross Hassig ; Observations about research on prehistoric roads in South America / John Hyslop) Part II: Methodological considerations (Photointerpretation of Chacoan roads / Margaret S. Obenauf ; Analysis of prehistoric roadways in Chaco Canyon using remotely sensed digital data / Thomas L. Sever and David W. Wagner ; Prehistoric footpaths in Costa Rica: transportation and communication in a tropical rainforest / Payson Sheets and Thomas L. Sever ; Cross-cutting relationships: the relative dating of ancient roads in the north coast of Peru / Colleen M. Beck ; Network analysis and the study of past regional organization / Larry J. Gorenflo and Thomas L. Bell)
    • Part III: Regional Studies (Political, economic, and demographic implications of the Chaco road network / Frances Joan Mathien ; The prehistoric road network at Pueblo Alto, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / Thomas C. Windes ; The Sonoran connection: road and trail networks in the Protohistoric period / Carroll L. Riley and Joni L. Manson ; Causeways in the context of strategic planning in the La Quemada region, Zacatecas, Mexico / Charles D. Trombold ; Xanhari: Protohistoric Tarascan routes / Shirley Gorenstein and Helen Perlstein Pollard ; The influence and legacy of Teotihuacan on regional routes and urban planning / Thomas H. Charlton ; The structure of the Aztec transport network / Robert S. Sandley ; Roads, thoroughfares, and avenues of power at Xochicalco, Mexico / Kenneth Hirth ; Sacbes of the northern Maya / William J. Folan ; Prehistoric roads and causeways of lowland tropical America / William M. Denevan ; The association between roads and policies: evidence for Wari roads in Peru / Katharina J. Schreiber / The Chincha roads: economics and symbolism / Dwight T. Wallace)
    • Index
    ISBN
    • 0521383374
    • 9780521383370
    LCCN
    90033080
    OCLC
    21295671
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