Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare

Description

Editors: Brown, M. Kathryn and Stanton, Travis W.

Publisher: AltaMira Press

Pub Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  One small bump to spine head.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes:  Warfare?  Pottery?  The juxtaposition of the two is the heart of the first part of this book.  How did warfare impact ceramic production?  In one case,  the domestic pottery of Yaxuná in the Yucatan was superseded by the pottery of Coba, their conquerors.  In a second case, internal warfare in an area of Guatemala caused pottery production to become much more localized, due to the destruction of trade networks.  Warfare and ritual, the iconography and epigraphy of warfare, ethnic conflict, and a comparison between conflict in the American Southwest and conflict in Mesoamerica by Stephen LeBlanc (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/deadly-landscapes-case-studies-in-prehistoric-southwestern-warfare/)  round out the essays.  Not a book of strategy, tactics, famous leaders or big battles.  Out of print in hardcover.