Mobility and migration in ancient Mesoamerican cities / edited by M. Charlotte Arnauld, Christopher Beekman, and Grégory Pereira.

Contents Mobility and migration in ancient Mesoamerican cities : an introduction / M. Charlotte Arnauld, Christopher Beekman, and Grégory Pereira -- Urban and rural population movement patterns during the late and Terminal Classic in the Belize River Valley, Belize / Carolyn Freiwald -- Classic and Postclassic population movement and cultural change in the Belize Valley, Belize / Julie A. Hoggarth, Carolyn Freiwald, and Jaime J. Awe -- The bioarchaeology of Maya population mobility, trade, and settlement growth during the Classic Maya period : a view from the Yucatecan coastal port of Xcambo, Mexico / Andrea Cucina, Thelma N. Sierra Sosa, and Vera Tiesler -- Immigrant lives : mobility and migration in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico / Meggan Bullock -- Mobility as resilience : a perspective on coastal to inland migration in the eastern Maya lowlands / Elizabeth Graham and Linda Howie -- Maya on the move : mobility and migration in the Classic Maya Kingdom of Copan, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin and Kristin V. Landau -- Water, land, and ancient Maya population dynamics in the Puuc Hills, Mexico / Nicholas P. Dunning, Eric Weaver, Michael P. Smyth, and David Ortegón Zapata -- Maya residential architecture, mobility and the Terminal Classic abandonment of lowland urban settlements / M. Charlotte Arnauld, Eva Lemonnier, and Mélanie Forné -- Coalescence at Chicoloapan, Mexico : migration and the making of a post-collapse community / Sarah C. Clayton -- Ephemeral cities? The longevity of the Postclassic Tarascan urban sites of the Zacapu Malpaís, Mexico, and its consequences for the migration process / Grégory Pereira, Marion Forest, Elsa Jadot, and Véronique Darras -- Itza Maya migration and mobility : a tale of two (or more) cities / Prudence M. Rice -- Cohesive social groups and the formation of enclaves in west-central Mexico / Christopher S. Beekman -- Migration and its close linkages / Dominique Michelet.
Abstract "Studies on population migration in central Mexico and the Maya region among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization showing that mobility and migration reveals about the formation, development, and decline of town- and city-based societies in the ancient world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-356) and index.
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