Palaces and power in the Americas : from Peru to the northwest coast

Körperschaft: Society for American Archaeology Meeting
Weitere Verfasser: Christie, Jessica Joyce 1956-
Sarro, Patricia Joan
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: x, 414 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Nordamerika
Südamerika
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Publisher description
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Jessica Joyce Christie
  • Looking for Moche palaces in the elite residences of the Huacas of Moche Site / Claude Chapdelaine
  • Landscape of power : a network of palaces in middle horizon Peru / William H. Isbell
  • Lords of the great house : Pueblo Bonito as a palace / Stephen H. Lekson
  • Sacred and profane mountains of the Pasión : contrasting architectural paths to power / Arthur A. Demarest
  • Political dimensions of monumental residences on the northwest coast of North America / Colin Grier
  • Rising above : the elite acropolis of El Tajín / Patricia Joan Sarro
  • The residence of power at Paso de la Amada, Mexico / Michael Blake ... [et al.]
  • When is a house a palace? : elite residences in the Valley of Oaxaca / Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce
  • Rulership and palaces at Teotihuacan / William T. Sanders and Susan Toby Evans
  • Antecedents of the Aztec palace : palaces and political power in classic and postclassic Mexico / Susan Toby Evans
  • Elite residences at Farfán : a comparison of the Chimú and Inka occupations / Carol Mackey
  • Houses of political power among the ancient Maya and Inka / Jessica Joyce Christie
  • Conclusions / William T. Sanders.