640 Pages
by
Routledge
640 Pages
by
Routledge
640 Pages
by
Routledge
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What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient cities where Latin America's peoples lived before the Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century.... Read more
Introduction
Preface
1. The origins of American civilizations
2. The urban evolution of Teotihuacan
3. Mesoamerican cities after the fall of Teotihuacan
4. The Aztecs
5. Tenochtitlan
6. The Maya
7. Did the Maya build cities?
8. The first stages of urban evolution in South America
9. Tiahuanaco and the urbanistic period
10. The Chimu Kingdon
11. The Inca
12. The Inca society - Cuzco
13. The Inca city
14. North and south Andean cities in South America
15. General conclusions on pre-Colombian city planning and design
Biography
Jorge Enrique Hardoy
