Research Guides: Selected Resources on Ancient Mesoamerica: Additional Sources: The Valley of Mexico

Books on Cuicuilco, Teotihuacan, and the Toltec city-states

Aztec City-State Capitals by Michael E. Smith; foreword by Marilyn A. Masson and John W. Janusek
Call Number: F 1219.76 .U74 S56 2008
ISBN: 0813032458
The Aztec Arrangement: The Social History of Pre-Spanish Mexico by Rudolph van Zantwijk; foreword by Miguel León-Portilla
Call Number: F 1219.76 .S63 Z36 1985
ISBN: 0806116773
The Aztec Image of Self and Society: An Introduction to Nahua Culture by Miguel Leon-Portilla; edited, with an introduction, by J. Jorge Klor de Alva
Call Number: F 1219.73 .L4513 1992
ISBN: 0874803608
The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History by Susan D. Gillespie
Call Number: F 1219.73 .G55 1989 c.2
ISBN: 0816510954
Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition by Bernard R. Ortiz de Montellano
Call Number: F 1219.76 .M43 O78 1990 c.2
ISBN: 0813515637
Aztecs : An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
Call Number: F 1219.76 .S64 C44 1991
ISBN: 0521400937
The Aztec Empire: The Toltec Resurgence by Nigel Davies
Call Number: F 1219.73 .D38 1987
ISBN: 0806120983
The Aztec Image of Self and Society: An Introduction to Nahua Culture by Miguel Leon-Portilla ; edited, with an introduction, by J. Jorge Klor de Alva
Call Number: F 1219.73 .L4513 1992
ISBN: 0874803608
The Aztec Period Occupation of the Valley by Edited by William T. Sanders and Susan Toby Evans
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 A98 2000 pt. 1, 2, and 3
Publication Date: 2000
Pt.1. Natural environment, 20th century occupation, survey methodology, and site descriptions

Pt. 2. Excavations at T.A. 40 and related projects

Pt.3. Syntheses and general bibliography
Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control by Ross Hassig
Call Number: F 1219.76 .P75 H37 1988
ISBN: 0806121211
The Aztecs by Richard F. Townsend
Call Number: F 1219.73 .T68 2000
ISBN: 0500281327
The Aztecs by Michael E. Smith
Call Number: F 1219.73 .S58 1996
ISBN: 1557864969
The Aztecs by Brian M. Fagan
Call Number: F 1219.73 .F33 1984 c.2
ISBN: 0716715848
The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society by Frances F. Berdan
Call Number: F 1219.73 .B47
ISBN: 0030557364
Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture by Caroline Dodds Pennock
Call Number: F 1219.76 .S64 D63 2008
ISBN: 0230003303
Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth by David Carrasco with Scott Sessions
Call Number: F 1219.73 .C355 2008
ISBN: 0872209334
The Essential Codex Mendoza by Edited by Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Call Number: Spec Coll & Univ Archives F 1219.56 .C625 C64 1997
ISBN: 0520204549
Everyday Life of the Aztecs by Warwick Bray; drawings by Eva Wilson
Call Number: F 1219.76 .S64 B72 1987
ISBN: 0880291435
Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror" by Guilhem Olivier; translated by Michel Besson
Call Number: F 1219.76 .R45 O55 2003
ISBN: 0870817450
Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World by David Carrasco and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; Scott Sessions
Call Number: F 1219.73 .C36 1992
ISBN: 0870812637
Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire: Myths and Prophecies in the Aztec Tradition by Davíd Carrasco
Call Number: F 1219.76 .R45 C37 2000
ISBN: 087081558X
Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism / by Geoffrey W. Conrad, Arthur A. Demarest
Call Number: F 1219.73 .C66 1984
ISBN: 0521318963
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos by Kay Almere Read
Call Number: F 1219.76 .R45 R43 1998
ISBN: 0253334004
We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico by James Lockhart, editor and translator
Call Number: F 1219.73 .W4 1993
ISBN: 0520078756
War and society in ancient MesoAmerica by Ross Hassig
Call Number: F 1219.3 .W37 H37 1992 c.2
ISBN: 0520077342
The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico [electronic resource] : the triple alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan by Pedro Carrasco
Call Number: Electronic Book F1219.76.P75 C36 1999eb
ISBN: 0585170738

Books on the Valley of Mexico

Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Cuautitlan, Temascalapa, and Teotihuacan Regions of Mexico by L.J. Gorenflo, William T. Sanders
Call Number: GN 799 .S43 G67 2007
ISBN: 1881968111
Publication Date: 2007
Archaeological researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico by Sigvald Linné
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 L55 2003
ISBN: 0817350055
Publication Date: 2003
Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th and 9th October 1988 by Edited by / Janet Catherine Berlo
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 A73 1992
ISBN: 0884022056
Publication Date: 1992
A Ceramic Sequence from the Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico by Robert Eliot Smith
Call Number: E 51 .H337 v.75
ISBN: 0873652010
Publication Date: 1987
Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, v. 75
Chichen Itza and its Cenote of Sacrifice: A Comparative Study of Contemporaneous Maya and Toltec by Alfred A. Tozzer
Call Number: Spec Coll & Univ Archives - E 51 .H336 v.11-12
Publication Date: 1957
Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, v.11-12
The Cultural Ecology of the Teotihuacán Valley; A Preliminary Report of the Results of the Teotihuacán Valley Project by William T. Sanders
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 S3
Publication Date: 1965
Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A Modern Paleodemographic Synthesis by Rebecca Storey
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 S76 1992
ISBN: 0817305599
Publication Date: 1992
Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Ixtapalapa Peninsula Region, Mexico by Richard Edward Blanton. Edited by William T. Sanders [and others]
Call Number: F 1219.1 .I9 B57
Publication Date: 1972
Pennsylvania State University Occasional papers in anthropology, no. 6
Studies of Ancient Tollan: A Report of the University of Missouri Tula Archaeological Project by Edited by Richard A. Diehl
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T8 S78
Publication Date: 1974
University of Missouri monographs in anthropology, no. 1
The Teotihuacan Period Occupation of the Valley. Part 1, Excavations by Edited by William T. Sanders
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 T46 pt.1
ISBN: 1881968014
Publication Date: 1994
The Teotihuacan Valley Project Final Report by William T. Sanders
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 P4 v.1
The Toltec Heritage: From the Fall of Tula to the Rise of Tenochtitlán by Nigel Davies
Call Number: F 1219 .D2782
ISBN: 080611505X
Publication Date: 1980
The Toltec Period Occupation of the Valley by Edited and compiled by William T. Sanders
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T27 T65 1986 pt.1
Publication Date: 1986-1987
Tula, The Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico by Richard A. Diehl
Call Number: F 1219.1 .T8 D54 1983
ISBN: 0500390185
Publication Date: 1983

Dissertations on the Valley of Mexico

The Adaptive Origins of Prehispanic Markets in Central Mexico: The Role of Maize-Grinding Tools and Related Staple Products in Early State Economics
Doctoral Dissertation
Martin Francis Biskowski, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
601 page
Art, rulership and the Mesoamerican body politic at Tula and Chichen Itza
Doctoral Dissertation
Cynthia Beth Kristan-Graham, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
494 pages
Before the Eagle's Nest: The Formative Period Archaeology of Cuauhtinchan Viejo, Puebla, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Ann Clair Seiferle-Valencia, Ph.D.
Harvard University, 2007
406 pages
Classic Teotihuacan Period Settlement Patterns in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Charles Chester Kolb, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 1979
583 pages
Commercialization in Early State Economies: Craft Production and Market Exchange in Classic Period Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Kristin Susan Sullivan, Ph.D.
Arizona State University, 2007
336 pages
Conquest Polities of the Mesoamerican Epiclassic: Circum-Basin Regionalism, A.D. 550-850
Doctoral Dissertation
Ruben G. Mendoza, Ph.D.
The University of Arizona, 1992
377 pages
Craft Production and Socio-Economic Marginality: Living on the Periphery of Urban Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Mercedes Oralia Cabrera Cortes, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2011
399 pages
Dynasts and Revolutionists: A Synthesis of Toltec Chronology and History
Doctoral Dissertation
John Patrick Molloy, Ph.D.
The University of Arizona, 1983
334 pages
Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Interaction in Central Mexico As Evidenced by Decorated Pottery
Doctoral Dissertation
Destiny Lynn Crider, Ph.D.
Arizona State University, 2011
637 pages
Figurines from Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Terrance Lynn Stocker, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
339 pages
Irrigation and Agriculture in the Valley of Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Robert Bruce Drewitt, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, 1967
304 pages
Late Classic and Epiclassic Obsidian Procurement and Consumption in the Southeastern Toluca Valley, Central Highland Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Alexander Villa Benitez, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, 2006
205 pages
Late Preclassic Cultures in the Valley of Mexico: Pre-Urban Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Darlena Kathleen Blucher, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, 1970
595 pages;
Mapping the Social Landscape of an Early Urban Center: Socio-spatial Variation in Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Ian Gordon Robertson, Ph.D.
Arizona State University, 2001
290 page
Mortuary Practices at Teotihuacan, Mexico: Their Implications for Social Status
Doctoral Dissertation
Martha Lou Sempowski, Ph.D.
The University of Rochester, 1983
797 pages
The Material Culture of Postclassic Cholula, Puebla: Contextual Interpretations of the UA-1 Domestic Compounds
Doctoral Dissertation
Geoffrey Gene McCafferty, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Binghamton, 1992
716 pages
A Regional Analysis of Toltec Ceramics, Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
George James Bey III, Ph.D.
Tulane University, 1986
718 pages
The Middle Classic of Western Yucatan
Doctoral Dissertation
Stan W. Freer, Ph.D.
University of Toronto, 1986
779 pages
A Settlement System Analysis of the Teotihuacan Region, Mexico, A.D. 1350-1520
Doctoral Dissertation
Susan Toby Evans, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 1980
439 pages
A Study of Status and Function in the Xolalpan-Metepec Community in Teotihuacan, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Rebecca S. Sload, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, 1982
406 pages
The Paleodemography of Tlajinga 33: An Apartment Compound of the Pre-Columbian City of Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Rebecca Storey, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 1983
433 pages
Plants and Subsistence in the Teotihuacan Valley, A.D. 100-750
Doctoral Dissertation
Emily Seitz McClung de Tapia, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, 1979
508 pages
Power Relations and Urban Landscape Formation: A Study of Construction Labor and Resources at Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Tatsuya Murakami, Ph.D.
Arizona State University, 2010
615 pages
Prehispanic Exchange Networks and the Development of Social Complexity in Western Mexico: The Aztatlan Interaction Sphere
Doctoral Dissertation
Helmut Publ, Ph.D.
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1986
227 pages
Proyecto Arqueologico Los Horcones: Investigating the Teotihuacan Presence on the Pacific Coast of Chiapas, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Claudia Gracia-Des Lauriers, Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside, 2007
298 pages
Ritual Diversity and Social Identities: A Study of Mortuary Behaviors at Teotihuacan
Doctoral Dissertation
Sarah C. Clayton, Ph.D.
Arizona State University, 2009
476 pages
Spatial and Statistical Evidence for Social Groupings at Teotihuacan, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Jeffrey Hanna Altschul, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, 1982
342 pages
Stone Trees Transplanted? Central Mexican Stelae of the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic and the Question of Maya "influence"
Doctoral Dissertation
Keith Jordan, Ph.D.
City University of New York, 2008
537 pages
Teotihuacan and the Gulf Coast: Ceramic Evidence for Contact and Interactional Relationships
Doctoral Dissertation
Clare McJimsey Yarborough, Ph.D.
The University of Arizona, 1992
422 pages
Teotihuacan Imperialism in the Yautepec Valley, Morelos
Doctoral Dissertation
Lisa M. Montie, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Albany, 2010
495 pages
Toltec Settlement Patterns in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Joseph Don Marino, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 1975
569 page
Unit 1: A Toltec Architectural Complex at Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Margaret Dickerman Mandeville, Ph.D.
University of Missouri - Columbia, 1985
340 pages

Articles on the Valley of Mexico

Excavation and Preliminary Analysis of an Obsidian Workshop in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
Dan M. Healan, Janet M. Kerley and George J. Bey III
Journal of Field Archaeology
Vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer, 1983)
(pp. 127-145)
From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: The Early Period Revisited
Thomas H. Charlton
American Antiquity
Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr., 1975)
(pp. 231-235)
In the Aftermath of Teotihuacan: Epiclassic Pottery Production and Distribution in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Destiny Crider, Deborah L. Nichols, Hector Neff and Michael D. Glascock
Latin American Antiquity
Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 2007)
(pp. 123-143)
Local versus Non-Local Obsidian Exchange at Tula and Its Implications for Post-Formative Mesoamerica
Dan M. Healan
World Archaeology
Vol. 24, No. 3, Ancient Trade: New Perspectives (Feb., 1993)
(pp. 449-466)
Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica
Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond
Annual Review of Anthropology
Vol. 33, (2004)
(pp. 173-199)
Settlement Hierarchies and Political Complexity in Nonmarket Societies: The Formative Period of the Valley of Mexico
Vincas P. Steponaitis
American Anthropologist
New Series, Vol. 83, No. 2 (Jun., 1981)
(pp. 320-363)
Teotihuacan Regional Population Administration in Eastern Morelos
Kenneth G. Hirth
World Archaeology
Vol. 9, No. 3, Landscape Archaeology (Feb., 1978)
(pp. 320-333)
Texcoco Region Archaeology
Richard E. Blanton
American Antiquity
Vol. 40, No. 2 (Apr., 1975)
(pp. 227-230)
The Business of Narrative at Tula: An Analysis of the Vestibule Frieze, Trade, and Ritual
Cynthia Kristan-Graham
Latin American Antiquity
Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar., 1993)
(pp. 3-21)
The Development of a Prehistoric Complex Society: A Regional Perspective from the Valley of Mexico
Jeffrey R. Parsons
Journal of Field Archaeology
Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (1974)
(pp. 81-108)
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
William T. Sanders and David Webster
American Anthropologist New Series
Vol. 90, No. 3 (Sep., 1988)
(pp. 521-546)
Trilobal Eccentrics at Teotihuacan and Tula
Terrance L. Stocker and Michael W. Spence
American Antiquity
Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1973)
(pp. 195-199)

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