Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World

Name: Ancient Road Networks and Settlement Hierarchies in the New World
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ISBN: 9780521189804

ISBN-10: 0521189802

ISBN-13: 9780521189804

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles D. Trombold

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List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of contributors


List of tables


List of figures


Acknowledgements


Editor's preface



Theoretical Considerations:



An introduction to the study of ancient New World road networks




Paths and roads in evolutionary perspective




Roads, routes and ties that bind




Observations about research on prehistoric roads in South America



Section II. Methodological Considerations:



Photointerpretation of Chaco Roads




Analysis of prehistoric roadways in Chaco Canyon using remotely sensed digital data




Prehistoric footpaths in Costa Rica: transportation and communication in a tropical rainforest




Cross-cutting relationships: the relative dating of ancient roads on the north coast of Peru




Network analysis and the study of past regional organisation




Regional Studies:



Political, economic, and demographic implications of the Chaco road network




The prehistoric road network at Pueblo Alto, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico




The Sonoran connection: road and trail networks in the prehistoric period




Causeways in the context of strategic planning in the La Quemada region, Zacatecas, Mexico




Xanhari: protohistoric Tarascan routes




The influence and legacy of Teotihuacan on regional routes and urban planning




The structure of the Aztec transport network




Roads, thoroughfares and avenues of power at Xochicalco, Mexico




Sacbes of the northern Maya




Prehistoric roads and causeways of lowland tropical America




The association between roads and polities: evidence for a Wari road system in Peru




The Chincha roads: economics and symbolism