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Article: Mesoamerican archaeology.(Book Review)

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HENDON JULIA A. & ROSEMARY A. JOYCE (eds). Mesoamerican archaeology. xvi, 352 pp., maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Oxford, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. [pounds sterling]60.00 (cloth), [pounds sterling]19.99 (paper)

This volume is the first in a series of textbooks designed to introduce undergraduate students to advanced theoretical concepts applied by active field researchers to the archaeology of a major world region. Juxtaposing chapters written by multiple authors with varying approaches (although most embrace practice theories), each explaining a different archaeological problem in the interpretation of Mesoamerican data, is an admitted ...

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