TY - JOUR
T1 - New world states and empires
T2 - Economic and social organization
AU - Smith, Michael
AU - Schreiber, Katharina J.
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For Mesoamerica, Ancient Mesoamerica has emerged (alongside Latin American Antiquity) as the premier scholarly journal in English. The German periodical Mexicon, with articles in English and Spanish, seems to be changing from a newsletter into a scholarly journal. The top Mexican journals are the technical journal Arqueología (published by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) and the glossy popular magazine Arqueología Mexicana. Less visible regional journals that often have crucial articles include the Boletín de la Escuela de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad de Yucatán (Yucatán), Cuader-nos del Sur (Oaxaca), Expresión Antropológica (State of Mexico), Estudios de Cultura Otopame (north-central Mexico), and Relaciones (Michoacán and west Mexico). For Guatemalan archaeology, important journals include Revista de la Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and the annual volumes from the Simpo-sio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, published by the Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, and Mesoamérica, published in Spanish in the United States. Important European journals for New World archaeology include the Journal de la Société des Américanistes (Paris) and the Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid).
PY - 2005/9
Y1 - 2005/9
N2 - We take a critical perspective in discussing recent publications on the archaeological study of the ancient state-level societies of Latin America. For some topics, such as intensive agriculture and exchange, data are far ahead of theory, whereas for others (e.g., gender and ethnicity), theory has outstripped data. Craft production, a topic that has achieved a good balance of data and theory, is one of the success stories of recent Latin American archaeology. After a discussion of sources of data, we review these and other topics (e.g., consumption patterns, household studies, social organization) in terms of both data and theory. In a second review article, we cover the topics of politics, religion, urbanism, and the processes of change.
AB - We take a critical perspective in discussing recent publications on the archaeological study of the ancient state-level societies of Latin America. For some topics, such as intensive agriculture and exchange, data are far ahead of theory, whereas for others (e.g., gender and ethnicity), theory has outstripped data. Craft production, a topic that has achieved a good balance of data and theory, is one of the success stories of recent Latin American archaeology. After a discussion of sources of data, we review these and other topics (e.g., consumption patterns, household studies, social organization) in terms of both data and theory. In a second review article, we cover the topics of politics, religion, urbanism, and the processes of change.
KW - Archaeology
KW - Complex societies
KW - New World
KW - States
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U2 - 10.1007/s10814-005-3106-3
DO - 10.1007/s10814-005-3106-3
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:24344462685
SN - 1059-0161
VL - 13
SP - 189
EP - 229
JO - Journal of Archaeological Research
JF - Journal of Archaeological Research
IS - 3
ER -