| Contents |
West and Northwest Mexico: the ins and outs of Mesoamerica / Shirley Gorenstein and Michael S. Foster -- The Late and Terminal Preclassic in Southeastern Guanajuato: heartland or periphery? / Charles A. Florance -- A summary of the archaeology of North-Central Mesoamerica: Guanajuato, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí / Beatriz Braniff C. -- The evolution and decline of a core of civilization: the Teuchitlán tradition and the archaeology of Jalisco / Phil C. Weigand -- Tarascans and their ancestors: prehistory of Michoacán / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- Tarascan external relationships / Helen Perlstein Pollard -- Prehispanic cultural development along the Southern coast of West Mexico / Joseph B. Mountjoy -- The prehistory of Mexico's Northwest coast: a view from the Marismas Nacionales of Sinaloa and Nayarit / Stuart D. Scott and Michael S. Foster -- The Aztatlán mercantile system: mobile traders and the northwestward expansion of Mesoamerican civilization / J. Charles Kelley -- Archaeology of Southern Zacatecas: the Malpaso, Juchipila, and Valparaiso-Bolaños Valleys / Peter F. Jiménez Betts and J. Andrew Darling -- The archaeoastronomical system in the Río Colorado Chalchihuites polity, Zacatecas: an interpretation of the Chapín I Pecked Cross-Circle / J. Charles Kelley and Ellen Abbott Kelley -- The archaeology of Durango / Michael S. Foster -- Recent advances in Chihuahuan archaeology / Ronna Jane Bradley -- The archaeological traditions of Sonora / María Elisa Villalpando -- From Tzintzuntzan to Paquimé: peers or peripheries in Greater Mesoamerica? / Michael W. Spence. |
| General note | A selection of 15 revised papers originally presented at the Center for Indigenous Studies in the Americas (CISA) first round table, "Cultural Dynamics of Precolumbian West and Northwest Mexico," held February 1992 in Phoenix. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-296) and index. |
| LCCN | 00012315 |
| ISBN | 0874806550 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
