Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico

by Sigvald Linné

Other authorsGeorge L. Cowgill (Introduction), Staffan Brunius (Foreword)
Paperback, 2003

Status

Available

Call number

972.52

Collection

Publication

University Alabama Press (2003), Edition: large type edition, 263 pages

Description

The field data and archaeological analysis of the first controlled excavations of the vast ""City of the Gods"" in central Mexico. In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological expedition to Mexico under the direction of Sigvald Linne to determine the full extent of this ancient Teotihuacan occupation and to collect exhibit-quality artifacts. Of an estimated 2000-plus residential compounds at Teotihuacan, only 20 apartmentlike structures were excavated at the time. Yet Linne 's work revealed residential patterns that have been confirmed later in ot

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

263 p.; 6.13 inches

ISBN

0817350055 / 9780817350055
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